HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
in the words of Josh Groban's song "There is so much to be Thankful for" its so true I do have so much to be thankful for!
I am thankful for my family, and that I was born to such a loving and funny family!
I am thankful for the man I am with, that I found someone so wonderful!
I am thankful for the friends that I have, and the good times we share!
I am thankful for the gospel, and that I have a testimony of it!
I am so thankful for God and all he has given, me especially my life!
I am so Thankful!

~Gratitude,” True to the Faith, (2004),78–79

The Lord has promised, “He who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious” (D&C 78:19). Gratitude is an uplifting, exalting attitude. You can probably say from experience that you are happier when you have gratitude in your heart. You cannot be bitter, resentful, or mean-spirited when you are grateful.

Be thankful for the wonderful blessings that are yours. Be grateful for the tremendous opportunities you have. Be thankful to your parents. Let them know of your gratitude. Thank your friends and your teachers. Express appreciation to everyone who does you a favor or assists you in any way.

Thank your Heavenly Father for His goodness to you. You can express your gratitude to God by acknowledging His hand in all things, thanking Him for all that He gives you, keeping His commandments, and serving others. Thank Him for His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Express thanks for the Savior’s great example, for His teachings, for His outreaching hand to lift and help, for His infinite Atonement.

Thank the Lord for His restored Church. Thank Him for all that it offers you. Thank Him for friends and family. Let a spirit of thanksgiving guide and bless your days and nights. Work at being grateful. You will find that it yields wonderful results.

Additional references: Psalm 100:3–4; Luke 17:11–19; Mosiah 2:19–22; Alma 34:38; D&C 59:7

On October 1 my mom, my two sisters Kelli and Jamie and I went to Indiana and then drove to Nauvoo on the way to Nauvoo we went to the Lincoln Museum. It was the coolist Museum ever! it kinda reminded me of a disney ride. but it was way cool i saw a ghost ;) if you have been there you will know what im talking about. and i met Bruce Lindsey from channel 5 there with his family lol

Once we got to Nauvoo my sisters and my mom did a session in the temple and i was able to do baptism for the dead. I sure got the special treatment and i loved it. the missionary couples toldme about the temple and about the people i was doing the baptisms for it was such an amazing experience

The next morning we went to Carthrage. Oh my the Spirit was so strong there. I beleive he is a true prophet of God. I also beleive that Joseph and Hyrum died as marytrs. I like how Elder Jeffrey R. Holland puts it in the last Genral Confrence...............

"...May I refer to a modern “last days” testimony? When Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum started for Carthage to face what they knew would be an imminent martyrdom, Hyrum read these words to comfort the heart of his brother:

“Thou hast been faithful; wherefore . . . thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father.

“And now I, Moroni, bid farewell . . . until we shall meet before the judgment-seat of Christ.”7

A few short verses from the 12th chapter of Ether in the Book of Mormon. Before closing the book, Hyrum turned down the corner of the page from which he had read, marking it as part of the everlasting testimony for which these two brothers were about to die. I hold in my hand that book, the very copy from which Hyrum read, the same corner of the page turned down, still visible. Later, when actually incarcerated in the jail, Joseph the Prophet turned to the guards who held him captive and bore a powerful testimony of the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon.8 Shortly thereafter pistol and ball would take the lives of these two testators.

As one of a thousand elements of my own testimony of the divinity of the Book of Mormon, I submit this as yet one more evidence of its truthfulness. In this their greatest—and last—hour of need, I ask you: would these men blaspheme before God by continuing to fix their lives, their honor, and their own search for eternal salvation on a book (and by implication a church and a ministry) they had fictitiously created out of whole cloth?

Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and their children fatherless. Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be “houseless, friendless and homeless” and that their children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers and an untamed prairie floor.9 Never mind that legions will die and other legions live declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know the Book of Mormon and the Church which espouses it to be true. Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour of death these two men would enter the presence of their Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which, if not the very word of God, would brand them as imposters and charlatans until the end of time? They would not do that! They were willing to die rather than deny the divine origin and the eternal truthfulness of the Book of Mormon."
(read the whole talk at http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-28,00.html)

The origional home Joseph Smith lived in it later was added to it the cemetary is right next door
































This is a duplicate of the red brick store funny story the reason its called the red brick store is because the inside was painted red. they used ox blood and milk cream to make that color.








































this is the mansion home