so lately I have been thinking a lot about religion, and what exactly it means to me. now ever since i came home from my mission i haven't been as good as i should and i know i need to be at going to the temple reading my scriptures and praying, satans a douche and he knows how to hit you when your down and i had to experience that and go through all of it, but lately i really have come back to realize how important the church is and how special it is for me to have my endowments out and have the chance to go threw the temple and experience all the blessings that it provides to me. there are a couple of things that i keep coming back too. one of those is my missionary scripture that i picked, alma 34;32 for behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet god yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to preform their labors. it really is the time for us to prepare to meet god, and we will never be fully ready to meet them thats why every day we need to strive to be the best that we can be. another is a quote i got while in the MTC i didn't think about it now but it has more relevance to me these days, "coincidences are gods way of remaining anonymous" now like i said before its been ruff being back, theres still days it kills me being home cause i want to be out there so bad helping other people. and theres days where it just sucks i wonder if any of its even true. but theres always those "coincidences" that prove to me that god is there and he is looking out for us. i guess the thing that brought all of this up is all of my friends are gone on there missions or a ton of them just got them... and one of them is leaving next week and we have a temple trip set up for the salt lake temple me him and two other friends and its just really putting all of this in to prospective for me and making me really want to get everything in order