Keep moving forward

I draw my blog topic from two sources today; The first is from the movie meet the robinsons, and the other is from my own personal experience! I'll start off with meet the robinsons, and then i'll move on to my own personal experience.

In the movie meet the robinsons, a young man named Lewis, a brilliant young inventor; who is unwittingly met by his son from the future, who has taken the time machine in order to look for the stolen time machine, that he was the cause of being stolen. He accidentally left the garage door open. So in order to make up for his mistake he goes back in time, only to discover that the time machine he is looking for is in the time frame that his dad was a child in. Upon this discovery he tries to use his dad, with out his knowlege, so that he can hopefully get the time machine back which his father invented. (Confused yet, hopefully not because we've got a ways to go. Ok not really, but metaphorically speaking.) So, Lewis, and his son from the future, end up in the future, now upon reaching the future, he learns of this amazing slogagn, which ofcourse in the future, he'll be the creator of. The slogan is, "Keep moving forward".

So I wanted to talk a little bit on what might keep us from moving forward. What might keep us from moving forward? Fighting with our siblings, failing to be obedient to the commandments, things like that. Our sins, the appostle paul taught "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of god". So, how do we move forward? How do we get beyond these little ruts in our lives that keep us pinned to one spot in our life? Through the atonement of Jesus christ; only in and through his atoneing life blood may we move forward, with the assurance that we are clean from our sins, made only conditional on us asking for this.

I'm a martial artist, I've been a black belt for about 2 years or so, and so every morning as a missionary I have the chance to exercise; well what do you suppose I do with my excercise time? Well I go straight outside and I practice martial arts. Well, our here in New York, for those of you who live out here, you know it can get cold around this time of the year. So as I was out their practicing martial arts one morning, I began to think to myself; 'What the heck am I doing out here'? But then this line went through my head from meat the robinsons, 'Keep moving forward'. As I thought of this, my arms, my legs, and my fingers are cold and frozen, I realized that by just moving forward, and continueing on the same path, I was actually getting warmer. That pretty soon, the cold didn't bother me, because I was moving. Then I thought, how many people can't feel the warmth, and love of Jesus christ, or our heavenly Father, because they don't understand this simple statement. "Keep, moving, forward" Just do it, promise you, that when you trust in your heavenly Father, and rely on the atonement of your elder Brother Jesus christ, that you will be cleansed, you don't need to fall back, or be down on yourself. He loves you and wants you to come unto him, and be healed! Just as Lewis, from meet the robinsons discovered that he had decided in the future, that he would "KEEP MOVING FORWARD"! so can you keep moving forward. By reading your scriptures, and praying daily for guidance from our heavenly Father! its true, I know these things for myself, because I do them! I've tested my heavenly Father time and again, and he never fails me! And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen.

-Elder White