Does The World Need Villains?

    For the curriculum that McKenna and I are doing for school, we have an online discussion group where we can talk to other youth who are doing the curriculum with us. One of the boys posted a question that made me want to find the answer. His question was, "Does the world need villains?"
    I posted an answer that I had, or that I thought of, but I was confused about his question. I had never thought about if we need villains or not. Today, while I was looking over what I had said and what others had said I decided to think a little bit harder to come up with the answer.
    This is what I posted:

    "God created a plan for His children that included evil. There is opposition in all things, and since there is a God who can affect the hearts of men, there must also be a devil who can affect the hearts of men. God's plan includes the devil, it includes our agency to choose to follow God or the devil. For His plan to work there needed to be evil, there needed to be a devil. For us to become like God (which is what we were born to become), there has to be evil. There needs to be evil for us to choose right.
There are villains, there is evil, and they are here because we need to become like God."

This is something I think we all need to understand.

                                             

                                      Charity

“But charity is the Pure Love Of Christ and it endureth forever and who's so  possessed of it at the last day it shall be well with him.”

The love of Christ is one of the most important things in this world and in the next.  Christ wants us to all be kind and nice.

I read a book about the favorite verses from the the Book Of Mormon and this was in it I think that this is a great book and that you can get lots of good things out of this book

willie

Making Commitments To The Lord

      Commit thy way to the Lord; trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass.
                       ~ Psalm 37:5

      O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth; yea, in thy youth learn to keep the keep the commandments of God.
      Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be unto the Lord; yea, let thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.
       Counsel with the Lord in all doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy hear the full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.
            ~Alma 37:35-37

        Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.
            ~Jacob 4:10


Ideas To Help Keep Your Commitments To The Lord
-Pray every morning and night recommitting yourself to the Lord
-Create a love for the gospel e.g. Jesus, God, the prophet, the Book of Mormon, the Holy Ghost, etc.
-Search for and record the tender mercies from God from the day
-Think of the goals, end results or blessings you want to achieve and would lose, or make it harder to get if you don't keep the commitment. (Eternal life, returning to Heavenly Father, peace, etc.)