The End of the Semester...

Is coming.

It's not far away.

We're all getting tired and worn out from all the work.

But we can't give up just yet.

We can never give up.

We must keep fighting until it's over.

No matter how hard the fight.

We never know how much good we could do if we just keep trying,

and all the opportunities we could miss if we give up.

What would have happened if Christ had given up and taken it easy during the last two weeks he was on earth? What if He had said, "it's almost over, I don't need to ___(make friends, help others, do service, work hard, etc)____.

We'd all be in trouble!

I'm so grateful to Christ, for enduring to the end and finishing out strong.

"Saints are sinners who kept on going."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."

~ Brian Tracy

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

~ Unknown

NT - Printing Museum

This week our class visited the Crandall Printing Museum (on Center Street between 2nd and 3rd East in Provo). This was the second time I have been, and it was amazing to see what the Lord does in preparation for events that need to come about.

The Printing Press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around the 1430s as a way to print the Bible faster than having monks hand write it. For 400 years the press stayed about the same, then a few alterations were made to it, and finally technology improved and improvements were made until we reached the typewriter and then the modern keyboard.

It's just fascinating to me how the Lord prepared the way for Joseph Smith to receive his First Vision. Joseph got the idea from reading the Bible, which was printed from a press. Furthermore, the printing press played a major role in the first editions of the Book of Mormon (5,000 copies).

I believe the Lord planned it all, and inspired the inventors with the ideas and the methods to making a printing press that works.

Makes me wonder, and look for, what the Lord has prepared for me and what He is preparing for others through me.

Who thought a wheelchair was limiting?

Can you do this?

I think the moral of the story here, is never except limits just because society or someone tells you it's impossible.