100 Days of Happiness and the Restoration

This is part two of three parts of the July Messenger message from President Pulsipher entitiled: Experience the Master Teacher

***July 2004: Messenger: President Pulispher's Message: Experience - The Master Teacher - pt2
The Wilkinsons are serving on Palau.  When they first came Sister Wilkinson got very sick and they had to return home.  She was able to get her health squared away and they have returned.  She told me, "before I got sick I thought I understood prayer, I now understand on a whole new level."  How would we really learn the value of prayer if all our times were good time?  Experience - The Master Teacher.

19 January 2014

Yesterday Tiffany P. posted this: http://100happydays.com/ the site explains:

We live in times when super-busy schedules have become something to boast about. While the speed of life increases, there is less and less time to enjoy the moment that you are in. The ability to appreciate the moment, the environment and yourself in it, isthe base for the bridge towards long term happiness of any human being.

The challenge is to post a picture a day of something that made you happy for 100 days.

I'm not tried a picture challenge, even though I've been on instagram for a while, so I decided to try this one. I like that it's not too specific and focuses on happiness.

I started yesterday 18 January 2014 and should finish 27 April 2014 if I have counted 100 days properly (definitely check my math!)  Yesterday we attended a baptism and that made me happy:

Elder Clawson gave a really good analogy of the restoration in their missionary presentation of the Message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He talked about how a 1961 Camaro Convertible (he used a '64 Mustang, but the Camaro is better!)  is an old car.  To be a true restoration you cannot use parts produced now, they have to be the authentic parts made in 9161.  So it is with the church.  After Christ and his apostles died, Christ's church with the gospel and God's power was no longer on the earth.  In the Latter-Days Joseph Smith restored Christ's church with Christ's gospel, God's power and all the same parts.

I know the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is that same church that Christ himself, organized

while he was on the earth.  I know that God is the same yesterday, today and forever and that the church and the gospel are unchanging regardless of the beliefs of society at any given time.  I know that there are true and real, tangible and spiritual blessings and gifts that Heavenly Father gives to us when we live His gospel and worship him.