Don’t Be Afraid To Get Down On Your Knees

Don’t Be Afraid To Get Down On Your Knees

The radio was blasting, kicking out a good old country tune.
We were singing along with George on that hot day in June.
We were barreling across a dry valley; living that sweet dream…
Talking about girls, school, and hunting… even our favorite football team.
Life was going good until we heard that dreaded blow.
I just sat there in my driver seat and sank extremely low…
I looked towards my 2 best friends and said, “Boy! Doesn’t that put us in a tough spot?
This here truck we have been driving just threw us into a boiling pot!”
Jason smirked and then commented “That’s the third tire! It must be a blasted sign…
We are just going to have to sit here and wait our dreaded time.”
I looked upward and saw that big, hot sun beating very high,
And if we were to sit there much longer… we could surely die.
It was a drastic situation! One I want never to repeat.
I was wishing I was at home with a pretty lady messaging my feet.
Then a thought popped into my mind, “Get down are your knees.
Pray like your mom has taught you since you were two or three.”
Well… I offered up a quick prayer, right then and there…
I asked for strength and knowledge and God’s loving care.
I did what my thoughts told me. I know it was the Holy Ghost.
He has helped me out of a number of binds, and I don’t mean to boast.
We started walking toward home with that sun blazing high…
When all of the sudden my friend, Clayton, started singing a lullaby.
We sang all the songs that we knew, until we saw a trail of dust…
We knew our prayers had been answered; it was someone we could trust.   
I’m just glad God listens to us all, from are very birth.
While we journey through our time here on this place called “Mother Earth”.
Whenever I am in a tough bind,
I can always look to that Lord of mine.
I challenge all that read this story,
To remember the Lord and all His great glory.
A prayer to our Heavenly Father is all we need…
So don’t be afraid to get down upon your knees

CHRISTMAS EVE CONVERSION

        ONE CHRISTMAS EVE, A LONG TIME AGO

AN OUTLAW WAS CAUGHT, IN HIGH WINDS AND SNOW

HE COULDN’T SEE PAST HIS PONIES TWO EARS

IT WAS THE WORST BLIZZARD TO HIT THIS COUNTRY IN YEARS 

HIS HORSE BUCKING SNOW WAS DOING HIS BEST

BUT WITH THREE FEET OF SNOW, THEY BOTH NEEDED A REST

THEY WERE FREEZING AND LOST AND THINGS SURE LOOKED DIM

SO HE DUG OUT A SNOW CAVE AND BURROWED RIGHT IN 

“I’VE REALLY MESSED UP THIS TIME”, HE SAID UNDER HIS BREATH

FOR HE KNEW THAT HE AND HIS PONY COULD SOON FREEZE TO DEATH

IF THEY DIDN’T GET HELP, AND NO HELP WAS IN SIGHT

THEN HE HEARD THE BRAY OF A DONKEY, AND THROUGH THE BLOWING SNOW

SAW A LIGHT 

THEN A SHEEPHERDER SLOWLY APPEARED THROUGH THE TREES

LEADING HIS DONKEY AND STOMPING THROUGH SNOW PAST THEIR KNEES

HE WALKED UP TO THE OUTLAW WITH A LANTERN IN HAND

THAT WAS PUTTING OUT HEAT, AND A LIGHT THAT WAS GRAND 

HE HELPED THE FREEZING OUTLAW UP ONTO HIS DONKEY’S STRONG BACK

THEN LEAD HIM AND HIS PONY TO HIS LITTLE ROCK SHACK

HE HELPED THE OLD OUTLAW IN, AND STOKED THE FIRE AT HIS FEET

THEN PUT THE HORSE AND DONKEY IN THE STABLE, WITH SOME DRY CORN TO EAT 

THE OUTLAW SAID, “I DON’T KNOW HOW YOU FOUND US, YOU WERE DIRECTED SOMEHOW

BUT I KNOW IF YOU HADN’T, I’D BE WARMING UP WITH THE DEVIL BY NOW

THAT WIND IS STILL HOWLING LIKE A MAD WOMAN’S SCREAM

AND YOUR CABIN’S AS WARM AS ANY I’VE EVER SEEN” 

AFTER SOME HOT MUTTON STEW, THE OUTLAW SETTLED IN FOR THE NIGHT

WHILE THE HERDER SAT AT THE TABLE, READING HIS BIBLE, BY THE LANTERNS WARM LIGHT

“YOU KNOW”, SAID THE OUTLAW, “I NEVER DID READ FROM THE BIBLE

IT NEVER SEEMED IMPORTANT NO HOW

BUT BEING IT IS CHRISTMAS EVE IT WOULD SURE PLEASE ME

IF YOU’D READ FROM IT NOW”

 THE HERDER SMILED AT THE OUTLAW AND TURNED TO A VERSE

HE SAID, “LET ME READ FROM ST. LUKE, ABOUT OUR DEAR SAVIORS BIRTH”

AS THE HERDER READ SCRIPTURES AND THE STORM HOWLED OUTSIDE

THE OUTLAW REFLECTED ON HIS SINFUL PAST, AND HIS COW THIEVING RIDES 

HE REMEMBERED PAST CHRISTMAS EVES, JUST DRUNKEN PARTIES ALL NIGHT

BUT THIS CHRISTMAS EVE, WELL IT JUST SEEMED TO FEEL RIGHT

THIS HERDER WHO’D SAVED HIM SEEMED SO HUMBLE AND PLAIN

HOW HE’D FOUND HIM IN THIS BLIZZARD, HE COULDN’T EXPLAIN
 

 

HE SAID TO THE HERDER, “LIVING WAY OUT HERE, I BET YOU’VE NEVER HAD NOTHING NICE

YOU JUST NAME IT AND IT IS YOURS, FOR SAVING MY LIFE”

THE HERDER’S EYES SPARKLED AS HE GAVE THE COWBOY A LOOK

“YOU CAN REPAY ME MY FRIEND, BY READING THIS BOOK” 

THE OUTLAW SAID, “IT’S A DEAL, AS SOON AS I CAN FIND ONE”

THE HERDER RESPONDED, “YOU MAY HAVE THIS ONE, WHEN MY MISSION IS DONE”

HE THEN CONTINUED TO READ FROM THE BIBLE ONCE MORE

AND THE OUTLAW DOZED OFF AND SLEPT, LIKE NEVER BEFORE 

THE NEXT MORNING THE OUTLAW AWAKENED AND SENSED SOMETHING WAS WRONG

THE STORM, THE HERDER AND THE DONKEY WERE GONE

THERE WAS NO ROOF ON THE CABIN, JUST FOUR CRUMBLING WALLS WITH NO DOOR

NO STEW, NO FIRE AND HIS HORSE STOOD NEXT TO HIM, ON THE CABINS DIRT FLOOR 

THERE WAS NO SNOW ANYWHERE, THE GROUND WASN’T DAMP

IN FACT HE FIGURED THIS PLACE TO BE A MIGHTY FINE CHRISTMAS CAMP

BUT WHAT OF THAT BLIZZARD, HAD HE DREAMED UP THIS FABLE

THEN HE SAW A LEATHER BOUND BIBLE, ON AN OLD WOODEN TABLE 

HE TOOK THE BOOK IN HIS HANDS AND STARTED READING THE PAGES

HE HADN’T FELT THIS KIND OF JOY IN WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN AGES

HE STAYED RIGHT THERE AT THIS CAMP UNTIL HE’D FINISHED THE BOOK

THEN HE KNELT DOWN IN PRAYER AND GAVE THE HEAVENS A LOOK 

PLEASE LORD FORGIVE ME FOR THE BAD THINGS I’VE DONE

AND THANK YOU FOR SENDING YOUR WONDERFUL SON

I READ YOUR BOOK, LIKE THAT SHEEPHERDER ASKED

NOW I PROMISE TO YOU, MY SINS ARE ALL IN THE PAST 

HE SAID, THANK YOU O LORD, FOR ALL THAT IS RIGHT

AND ESPECIALLY FOR THAT DREAM THAT I HAD LAST NIGHT

THAT SHEEPHERDER YOU SENT, WELL HE MADE ME BELIEVE

AND I WAS TRULY CONVERTED, ON THIS CHRISTMAS EVE  

I want to bear  my testimony that everyone can be forgiven of there sin. That Christ came to this earth to make it possible for us all though  the atonement  to repent.  We as people living here in today world needs to take this chance and do so. We can change are life and make the best of this life we have here on earth with what little time we have left here. so be like the outlaw and change your life before you get to the point were it is to late. 

Famous last words of a coach

     Coming from a sport center town I believe every boy who has lived in Alamo NV can say they have played Football.
     They all will remember the smell of a sweat-filled locker room and senior boys trying to get everyone pumped up and talking about the great plays and tackles they have made in the previous half. They all wait for the coaches to come in and give them some advice on how to make the last half of the game the best half of the game. All of us have herd Coach Kens famous words he gives to us. It always seems like at the beginning of the season the words of encouragement are:

 "All that training you did during the 2 a days practices come down to now! This very moment, this very place. Every terrible 20 you ran, every sand wash you have sprinted, every snake you have trudged threw comes down to now!"

      Every game he says something along those lines. No matter how many times we heard his speech, it would still pump us up. Later in the season the lecture sound about the same, but he would add to his famous lecture:

     "And all the games you have won and all the pain you have endured"

      Then at the end of the season, he throws it all down:

"Senior boys, I have loved coaching you and watching you guys grow from a good team to a great team! You have 24 min left in your high school career till it's over. After that, you cant change anything. All you can do is look back and say 'We did well'. So don't hold anything back. Give 110% all the time, so you have no regrets later in life. So your able to look back and say, 'We did all we could do and played with all our heart'. Remembering the goal we made at the beginning of the year: Winning that state game. When the finial buzzer rings you know that you will come out victorious!"

     I remember hearing that speech and following it. The feeling we got from winning that state game was amazing! After it was all over, we looked back over all the great work we had accomplished.
     When I look back upon my high school football career, and Coach Ken's speech, it reminds me of how we live our lives. We should live are life like a football season. Practicing. Studying. Executing. Insuring you will preform everything flawlessly. We as Latter Day Saints should practice: keeping the commandments, Having faith, hope, charity, and love, and keeping the Sabbath Day holy. We should study The Scriptures, Ensign articles, and General Conferences talks, like we study film of another team, so we can know what lies ahead of us. With enough practice and studying we can preform with success. Giving it 110%, leaving it all here on earth like you would on a field. Having no regrets in life. So in the life to come we will have that great feeling of accomplishment, knowing we did great. Feeling complete and overjoyed. Knowing that we endured to the end and played with all are hearts.