Matt’s Not Dead

Clean Hands and a Pure Heart Elder David A. Bednar "The purpose of our mortal journey is not merely to see the sights on earth or to expend our allotment of time on self-centered pursuits; rather, we are to 'walk in newness of life', to become sanctif...

Elder Michael J. Teh Of the Seventy Talk Audio  "We need to enlarge the circle of our influence" - This reminds me to break free from any cliques that we can quite easily establish and seek to include all. "To some degree we all depend on each ot...

I wrote not long ago about my journey to find out the truth of the Book of Mormon for myself. It was intensely powerful and I used to think that because I felt the passion and drive the Book brings that I would always feel it. I've since learned that's...

This started as a comment I posted on the imported Facebook Note of my blog post Simplifying Stuff that I felt deserved it's own showing on the floor room of my blog. So, during this last conference I had an interesting experience. I hadn't felt s...

After All We Can Do by Elder Claudio D. Zivic I heard a friend ask this last week, "how long must I continue trying so hard?" and quickly thought, well, that's easy to answer; we should do all that we can do for the WHOLE of our mortal lives. That's w...

Storms & struggles Sadness & strife These are but gifts Blessings of life We ride the cycles of happiness and sorrow. With every rotation we learn more of what it is to be human, to have strains, to have challenges, to have difficul...

I'd like to dedicate this post to my friend Charles. It's been a little while since I took some time to get out of myself. The other week I stepped out of my usual self-absorbed role to wear the hat of a missionary again. Our ward mission leader had a...