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"It is important to Do good, but we need to focus more on the Being good. We all need to make that inner change" 
-A quote from my aunt who posted on my facebook the other day. 

Today let us look at why this quote means so much to me!!! the other day I got in a car accident... That's new news ain't it!!! Well this is something very valuable I learned. You see I had always lived my life that "Image is everything, If I look good then it doesn't matter what I'm like on the inside.

View the image of this room which used to be exactly how I lived my life. You see I figured "No one saw the inside of my apartment so I didn't really care what it looked like. While this was the inside I made sure the outside looks flawless. I mean just look at this beauty!!!


But since the accident I've learned a very valuable lesson, It doesn't really matter what it looks like on the outside at all, what matters is whats on the inside! So to relate this back to the initial quote, we must remember that no matter how much we focus on the desire to "do good" we must never forget that we must BE GOOD. There is a fine line between showing that you are good and knowing within that you are Christlike. Strive in all things to be as Christ was!!!!

I've always lived my life "eat till your full then keep eating cus it's yummy." To be honest with you this rule has always worked for me or so I thought. There I sat at breakfast, yesterday morning, and ready to gulf up what I thought would be a good size meal. Not too big, not too small. I mean the description was just 2 sentences "eggs, bacon, sausage, some kind of meat I don't remember, and bisquits and gravy." I figured it was like a sample platter with a little bit of everything. My initial thought was reassured by those who was taking me out to breakfast when they insisted my companion and I also try the pankakes. They swore that "they were to die for," and would not take NO for an answer, so 2 pancakes were on the way as well! Elder Corbridge and I were still in this state of "This will be a good hearty meal." To give you a visual of what we expected take a look at this LumberJack ready to demolish his good decent sized meal



He's even got my glasses

It didn't take us long to realize that this picture was pretty close to accurate but in a totally different sense then I had initially imagined. You see the Lumberjack is actually a GIANT and the meal if propertional. Since that didn't make the most sense, I'll put this into more simple terms, The meal came out on four plates... all of them full! Soon after the meal Proverbs 23:2 took on a whole new meaning "And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite." I knew after that meal I'd never have to worry about appetite again. Nothing sounded good to Elder Corbridge or myself, but life had to go on and sure enough that night the same family insisted on taking us out to dinner!<--- Not sure if that should be an exclamation mark, but you see I'm super greatful for the dinner and I love this family, but my belly just didn't feel like anything at the moment. 5 hours passed, stomach is just getting better from our nice "hearty" meal when it's dinner time. We head out to dinner and are happy to have some entertaining company!! We order something small, but like I said before there is no such thing as small, so the grandma orders us more food. Out comes a huge BBQ sandwich, cole slaw, macaroni and cheese, onion rings and a soda for me, and another sandwich, more coleslaw, and more onion rings for Elder Corbridge. Within seconds we had more food than our bellies could handle, but somehow an hour latter the food was gone and we were back to that point where we had to waddle to walk. They always say pictures speak 1000 words so here I'll just put a picture of me here so you can see how much I waddled.


You see I can barely stand up straight. Plus I look like a penguin in the picture, but you get the point. I was so fat I waddled around just like a penguin so it only makes sense I'd look like a penguin right... well back to my point. Soon our dinner was finished and we were once again over filled with food. Yet I wish I could tell you that that macaroni and cheese was the last thing I ate that night, but the grandma insisted on taking us to "Dairy Bell" as she called Dairy Queen, so since NO was not an option off to "Dairy Bell we went. Trying to order a mini chocoholic blizzard just didn't work either as I heard "make it a large" come from the grandma in the background. With a full stomach a large blizzard was now on it's way. I don't know how but I finished the entire thing, which still confuzzles my mind, but more importantly confuzed my belly. Luckily for us it was insisted that we get some icecream to take home with us as well. So to say the least we now have a box of ice-cream sitting in our fridge. I can promise you I'll be eating it, but I sure hope it's latter than sooner. I'm done for food for quite sometime.

So now what does this story and this penguin have to do with the gospel? You see the scriptures teach us “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”(1 Cor. 6:19–20) The wrong way to treat God's temple is to fill it up with junk and over work it. The nice way to treat this temple God has blessed us with is truly live as God wants you to. He's given us clues to treat our body the best possible, so forget my initial rule and live by "when your full, your full, don't abuse and overuse the temple God gave you"