Surrender it all

These past few months have been a crazy roller coaster. What I have realized is that I haven't given it all to Him. Him being our savior. You can't do this thing called life alone. You may think you're strong enough, but you will be shoved to the ground and feel utterly exhausted. You need Him to guide you, to help you, to lead you to where you need to be. I'm learning this just like some of you are too. 

It's hard for me to give up total control of my life. After years of me learning how to gain control back, I need to re-teach myself on how to lay my life out and hand it to our Lord. 
      
       To surrender  means to give everything up to the Lord. Lay it all down. Lose the right over yourself, both the "bad" self and the "good" self. Surrender means to lose your right to handle yourself on your own. In the middle of everything, lose and forfeit your rights to the Lord. Do not move. Freeze right where you are. Do not do anything. Surrender yourself just the way you are. By all means, do not fix yourself. Do not try in yourself to get it together. If you get it together, that means you are the Savior. Do not try to work what is dead back up into life, like trying to massage a heart that has stopped beating. You cannot squeeze life out of the region of death inside you. Life must come from the outside. We must let Christ inject life into our dead condition. We must receive the life. We must allow resurrection life to give life to our mortal bodies.
    
       Surrendering is not a once-and-for-all experience. It is continuous, day by day. when we are struggling to live, to keep pushing, that means it is time to fellowship with the Lord. It means to be more open with Him. Let Him in your life. Interact more with Him in Spirit. Our soul only exists for Christ, to contain him, to be filled with Him. Surrender means coming to Christ just as you are.
   Stop right where you are, and let The Lord have it all. Give up and turn everything over to Him.
We are just an organization. But the church is Christ alive in us. And that is why, through experience, only one thing is necessary, and that is to give Him first place. Let Him be the one who is doing everything. Let Him unravel the Knots in your life. Don't be afraid to put your life in the right hands. The ONLY hands who can fix anything and everything.
We need resurrection. Just call the name "Jesus." You will get His person. When we call "Jesus," He gets into our mind, He gets into our emotion, and He gets into our will and transmits Himself. What can we say but Hallelujah! What a Christ! Do not go anywhere else. There is no other humanity. Even the best perfected humanity will never make it.
How could you say no to that? To The perfect Savior?  Let Him take over and guide you to where you need to be.

     The church is true. This is what happens When we are connected to our Savior. We stand up, we testify, we sing, we are beside ourselves. We are filled. sing praise to our Lord, Share His life, His love with those around you. 
on the last days I will be judged, as so will you. and  on that day I will know that I surrendered myself to our Lord and Confessed to the world that His church is true. The Book of Mormon is true. The Bible is true. His Church, This church, is undeniably true.
Take a leap of faith. Put our Lord First in everything that you do. and i promise you will be changed. You will be happier. You will become closer to the savior. surrender yourself and become new.


"Faith cometh not by signs, but signs follow those that believe." (Doctrine and Covenants 63:9)

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Every Member a Missionary

unexpected changes can take you by surprise.
Last year I made the decision to serve a mission. I started studying like crazy and learning more about the church, figuring out dates and making appointments to finish my mission papers.

But our Lovely Lord decided something different.
I'm not going to be serving a mission. yet.
A lot of prayer went in to the decision. A lot of "whys" and " are you sure"
But I know this is the right choice for me.
I don't think I'm quite ready to serve a mission. I have decided to go back to school and get my career started. 18 months is a long time, and in those 18 months I would be serving our Lord 24/7 but why cant I do that here while working on my career?
oh wait! I can! and I will! The gospel is an amazing thing and you don't need to be labeled as a missionary to do your Lords work. I realized  that a mission can and will happen. whether its this year, next year, or even when I'm married and I go with my husband. either way I'm ecstatic. I know while I'm working on my career I can also work in serving our lord as well. We have to remember every member a missionary.

Every member is a missionary. We have the responsibility of bringing somebody: a mother, a father, a neighbor, a fellow worker, an associate, somebody in touch with the messengers of the gospel. If every member will carry that responsibility and if the arrangement to have that mother or that father or somebody meet the authorized representatives of the Church, no power on earth can stop this church from growing. And personal contact is what will influence those investigators. That personal contact, the nature of it, its effect depends upon you. And that’s one thing that I wish to emphasize. There’s one responsibility which no man can evade, that’s the responsibility of personal influence. … It’s what you are, not what you pretend to be that will bring people to investigate.

Every member of the Church should be a missionary. we're not authorized to go from house to house, but we are authorized, by virtue of our membership, to set a proper example as a good neighbor. Neighbors are watching us. Neighbors are watching your children. You are a light, and it is our duty not to have that light hidden under a bushel, but it should be set up on a hill that all men may be guided thereby.

I am Convinced that missionary work is not east because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth. and He is our Great Eternal Father. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never easy for Him?

 

Use what you know for good. Share the gospel whenever you can. Share the teachings of our Heavenly Father to bring people closer to Him. Talk to the less actives in your ward. invite them to come back to church. Its hard to come out of you comfort zone, but if its to help others come unto our Lord, it shouldn't really matter now should it? Think about the stories of or savior and how everyday He would help others He just met, and help them find truth.
He wasn't selfish. He was constantly reaching out. He was always inviting and focusing on others. No one can name a time where he focused on himself and his own pains or issues. when reading the story of the atonement and how He went through such agony and absolute pain and horror I wonder how, as He was hanging from the cross, He was able to still take a moment and make sure his mother was going to be looked after, be able to tell the two thieves he was hanging between that they would join him in heaven and pray to the Father to forgive the people who were doing this to him because they " Know not what they do" Every part of the saviors life had to do with others! His entire  purpose was to change others for the better.
 
Take a minute and pray. ask for a chance this week, this month, to Help share the gospel with someone who needs to hear it.
I promise a chance will arise and present itself. you just have to have open eyes and take advantage of every chance you see and go for it. Share His love with others.

Pray always. Find the truth. Find Jesus.

Coming unto Him

You wanna know something?

Life is hard.

But that doesn't mean you have to give up. Sometimes we get to worn out and we just can't go on anymore, but do you really think our Heavenly Father would put us through these trials if He thought we couldn't make it?

Absolutely not. One trial gets us ready for the next, each step we take gets us closer to returning to Heaven. 

Live a Christ centered life. "Talk of Christ, rejoice in Christ, preach of Christ." (2 Ne. 24:26). Take every opportunity you can to share the gospel with those who surround you, so they too can have a Christ centered life.

I was lucky to get a second chance at life. After all the trials I went through, my slate got washed clean, I became new. All my sins were washed away. I will never forget that day. 

I was filled with joy, happiness, the light of Christ, that "secret" all my friends had, I was filled with. And that is what I want to give to others. As you all should too. Share what you have experienced. Help them come unto Christ. Let them know that Jesus loves them how they are. He doesn't care about your past. He doesn't care where you are right now, He wants you as you are. He loves you no matter what.

In order to come unto Christ you have to be converted. Everyone at least once will be converted, whether it's early in life or later, it will happen. Sometimes more then once, but that's okay. That's the power of the Atonement,  Once you have been converted you know what is right, and what is true. Each person needs to receive a testimony of the Lords word. Read the scriptures daily. Read them with an open mind, come ready to listen with a sincere heart. 

Elder Neil L. Anderson of the quorum of the twelve apostles speaks of the invitations of Christ in the April 2012 general conference. He says;

"His invitation is a call to daily duty. Jesus said : If ye love me, keep my commandments." "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." We may not be at our very best every day, but if we are trying, Jesus' bidding is full of encouragement and hope: "come into me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Learning of him, coming into him, and abiding in him take daily effort. Small and simple things that bring about great things.

Our savior is a loving and forgiving savior.

Come into him " for he stands with open arms" (Mormon 6:17)

Come unto him "and offer your whole souls as an offering into him" (omni 1:26)

My friend who is serving his mission right now told me this;

CPR, just like it can save your physical life it saves your spirituality.

C- going to Church and being actively engaged in it. Optioning callings, and knowing that The Lord has called you specifically.

P- Praying. God commands us to pray to Him. Through not praying you are breaking the commandments, and therefore distancing yourself from Christ.

R- Reading the scriptures, the Book of Mormon specifically. If you gain a testimony of that, you can gain a testimony of Joseph smith, the restored gospel, and any other part of the gospel since the translation of the record.

Doing these things bring you closer to Christ, and bringing others into Christ is as simple as inviting them. invite others to come unto Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. No effort is wasted when trying to share the gospel even if people don't accept it right away. You've planted the seed for the next person that comes along.

"Men and women who turn their lives over to God discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives then they can. He will deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, comfort their souls, and pour out peace." 

As we come unto Christ, we must surrender our worldly ways, our pride, and our selfishness. As we yield to the promptings of the Holy Ghost, we should experience a mighty change in our hearts, and become willing to submit to or accept "all things which The Lord Seeth for to inflict upon us" (mosiah 3:19)

The Book of Mormon is a handbook about the process of coming unto Christ. I want to emphasize that coming into Christ is a process; it is not a single or discrete event. It is an ongoing, continuing process throughout our lives.

"Come unto Christ, and be perfected in Him, and deny yourselves if all ungodliness" (Moroni 10:32)

This is a passage from President George Q. Cannon:

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us. He never has, and He never will. He cannot do it. It is not of His character to do so. He is an un changeable being; the same yesterday, the same today, and He will he the same throughout the eternal ages to come. We have found THAT God. We have made Him our friend, by obeying His gospel; and He will stand by us. We may pass through the fiery furnace; we shall emerge from all these trials and difficulties the better and purer of them, if we only trust in out God and keep His commandments.

How true that is. He will never leave your side. When you think you are a lone, think twice. He is there, and He always will be. Because YOU gave your life to our loving Savior. He won't leave you. not once. You are worth it.

Once we have come into Christ and found his miracle of his " covenant of peace" I think we are under obligation to help others do so, just as Paul said in that verse to the Corinthians-to live as much like He lived as we possibly can and to do as much as what He did in order that other may walk in the same peace and have this same reassurance.

You shouldn't have to go on a mission to bring people unto Christ, you should strive to do that I your daily life. Like I Said before, even if it is just planting a seed, you never know when that little seed will grow into a mature tree.

If you know this church is true, don't you want to bring others into it? Don't you want them to be saved on the last day? Don't you want them to be with their families for all eternity? I know I sure do.

By helping others come unto Him, you will find that you have come unto Him yourself.

I bear you my testimony that God lives. He is your father. You want to go home. You want to be with him. The only way you can be with him in the way you want to be is to become spotless. I bear you my testimony that Jesus is the Christ. The atonement is real. I bear you that the Holy Ghost will come to you in the service of out Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ as you bear your own testimony. 

Coming into Christ, leads to everlasting life.

[The Almost] Sister Kuchler

Well i got a new calling in the church!
You are looking at the New ward missionary!
As being a ward missionary i go and visit the less active, and non-members and teach them and do missionary things to help them come back to church. 
I also get to tag along with the sister missionaries in our stake and teach with them.

needless to say, i am beyond stoked. my calling is for six months, and then i get to go on my full-time mission to wherever the Lord puts me for 18 months.
I am feeling so blessed to receive this calling.
How luck i am to serve a part-time mission before my full-time one. i get a little sneak peak at what i will be doing and I'm so excited.

This just adds to me knowing that i am doing the right thing, by serving a mission, and being on the Lords time 100%

I have two callings, missionary prep, church, Friends who have the same goals, and morals as me, and I am a member of the church. 
I am blessed. I am blessed to have a family who, though doesn't support my decisions, they are still supporting me as their daughter. 
I am blessed to have the most amazing best friends who live so far away from me, but yet both support me more then anyone who actually lives in the same state.
I am Blessed to Have Heavenly Father trust me with his children to let me go and share his gospel with them, and befriend all of them and have them come back to his church.
I am Blessed. And i am truly thankful for all He has given me.

I absolutely know this church is true. there is no doubt in my mind. I ave had blessing galore since i have given my life to Christ, and joined his true church. and  Since i decided to go on a mission, my trials have gone through the roof, but so has my testimony.
I have grown as an individual and as a Child of God. and yet i continue to grow, and learn daily.

I ask everyone  who just so happens to come along my blog, to Pray. Pray to find truth (even if you think you already found it)
Search the scriptures, come with a open heart and mind to seek the truth and to find happiness.
I know the church and the Scriptures will do just that.
I came with a opened heart, and Mind and i found truth. It may be hard to go against what your family believes, but i promise if you endure to the end, oh how it is worth it. 
 Read the stories of those who were lost, and then were found by the grace of our savior.
Pray to know the teachings of Him and follow in his footsteps.

I highly recommend reading the talks of this months General conference HERE
They will answer your prayers, give you comfort, and help you understand the church just a little bit more.
Listen with and open mind, be sincere when hearing the prophets talk as a mouth piece of the Lord.
the things they have to say, are what the Lord needs us to hear.
Find Joy, Find Happiness, Find Jesus.

its raining, its pouring, the dead are walking

Tonight is the season premier of The Walking Dead.
Gosh it has been a long six months.
I have been waiting for this day for a long time and it's HERE!
lets rejoice by dancing in the rain.
 It has been raining all day  and  i love it. This weather is absolutely perfect. 

As you know my BFFFFFFl came into  town for four days, and my goodness those four days have been magical. She's more then my best friend. She is my sister. I would be so Lost without her. we have  been through EVERYTHING together. Since we were in the seventh grade we have been the best of friends. She is uhmazing and I can't wait to see her again. I miss you like crazy baby girl! To infinity and beyond.  

Late night blogging, and Halloween cupcakes

 

That' right there ^^^ is a girls best friend when her two main peeps are out of the state.

Yay for being a loner.

 

// Im a workaholic and have nothing better to do

 

//My best friend will be here in three days. im a little excited

 

//My other best friend wrote me the best letter. it was all I needed to hear

 

//My late night cravings are getting ridiculous

 

//The gospel is the center of my life

 

//general conference was uhhmazing

 

// oh and this song

Called to Serve

This is it! The time has come! I Have decided to Serve a LDS Mission! I beyond excited!
When I first got baptized I thought, oh a mission is the right thing to do. but as time past I felt like it just wasn't for me and  left it alone. Lately I haven't been able to get away from the mission topic. It has been in everything that I do, from work, scripture study, to church and my family. it keeps coming up. so I prayed. a lot.  I had a lot of people saying a little prayer for me too. and I could help but feel the spirit every time I would ask if a mission is right for me. It was hard to deny it after that point. I just knew that the tie has come, and a mission is in my future.
                         As I entered my bishops office, he had no idea what I was about to say to him. I had no idea HOW I was going to start the conversation.
we sat down, I took a deep breath and just told him "bishop, I want to serve a mission, and I know it will take a year but I want to do it I KNOW its for me and I want to share the Lords word with those who haven't had a chance to hear it"
 He was so shocked and just as excited as I was. We talked for a little bit about it and then we were figuring out all the dates,
I am going to get endowed On July 22,2014 and I'm still going to pray about it but my availability date will be July 24, 2014
 Its so amazing how things can change so fast. 6 months ago i would have never of seen myself getting baptized let alone going on a mission. I wouldn't even talk about the church! Now all i ever want to do is talk about how true and amazing the church is to everyone! The church can bring so much happiness to your life. And i want everyone to feel that joy, that excitement, that comfort that i have felt.
           Its going to be hard. and by i hard i mean EXTREMELY DIFFICULT. I don't have the support from my family like most missionaries do, so I'm on my own.I have a wonderful ward family and close friends who are being my support group. I'm so thankful for each and everyone of them!
I Know I'm supposed to serve a mission, and i know The Lord will provide in the areas that i cant. I have faith that everything will go as its supposed to.
This next year will be hard. but worth it. it wont be east, and i know the adversary is going to be watching me like a hawk, but i can get past that., i can fight for what i know i need to be doing.  I know what is true. i am here to stay and NO ONE is going to stop me. I have Christ on my side, and that's all i need.
        Just a little bit ago, i went to a Preach My Gospel ( Missionary Handbook) discussion group. I was nervous, and excited to finally get the process started. As time went by and the Spirit grew stronger i knew i had to share a small piece of my story. i didn't understand why, but i did it. I never knew how someone Else's story could impact so many others.When the discussion ended, i was greeted by many people who sat in that group. They all told me how my testimony strengthened theirs and how brave and how any peoples lives I'm going to change just by my story.
And that is why I'm serving a mission. If i can strengthen others who are already members, i know i can help those who are not come to Christ and know the true church. I can't wait to become Sister Brenda Kuchler. When i can finally hit 'submit' on my papers and have my mission call in my hand, then i will really know that this is real. this isn't a joke.
   I want to thank everyone who has helped me get to where i am now. All of you Missionaries who are serving The Lord, You are amazing. Stay strong and keep doing what your doing. I cant wait to be by  your side serving our Heavenly father and sharing his Word with those who don't know it.