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I had a blog post go viral last year so we turned it into a video! Love EVERYONE - You Are Not a Bad Person!! [4k] I don’t care if you’re covered in tattoos, I don’t care what age or race or gender you are, I don’t care if you grew up and stayed in the church, if you grew up and left the church, or if you never heard of the church until now— EVERYONE is welcome and invited to partake of forgiveness. EVERY SINGLE PERSON is welcome and invited to partake of salvation. Of change

there's several reason why I didn't start one yet, but regardless of how I feel about vlogging, it IS a reoccurring thought. And I have learned way too many times to listen to my reoccurring thoughts, because that's usually how the spirit speaks to me and exciting things can happen! VLOG: video blog. A behind the scenes look of my week by week personal life. I will not be uploading natively to FaceBook, so be sure to subscribe to my YouTube to catch these videos and follow a

When I was living in Arizona, missionaries invited me to join in on a lesson they were having with an investigator through video chat. This man’s journey started a bit ago with the desire to know what to do with his life, what to do with God and what church he should attend. I felt the spirit so strongly and my testimony strengthen this whole lesson as I saw the elders teach with the spirit with such perfect responses to this man’s questions. Yet regardless of our best effort

I cried today because I didn’t feel pretty. I tried to take a picture with Ben to post on Instagram and it ended with me crying in our room with a mental list of things I wish were different about me. [If you don't feel like reading, scroll to the bottom & hit play on my Youtube version of this] I overall don’t feel this way about myself, but it does come in waves randomly. It’s the all too familiar dance we all do with the adversary that we’re so used to doing we don’t even

First off, YOU GUYS, YOU CAN DO NEW & SCARY THINGS! YOU CAN REACH AMAZING GOALS. YOU REALLY CAN ACCOMPLISH THE INCREDIBLE! WEAKNESSES REALLY WILL BECOME STRENGTHS. GOD REALLY WILL HELP YOU! That's one of my favorite things about the gospel— is doing things you never thought you could do! And progressing into someone better than you thought you ever could be. Today is my 1-year anniversary of my book and it's the perfect example of stretching yourself to accomplish the crazy a

GET THIS BLOG POST AS AN MP3! Click HERE to listen to my Voice Recording of this post & Download for FREE November 2, 2012, I went to the the Provo Temple and got endowed. It wasn't because I was going on a mission, and it wasn't because I was getting married, (not saying those aren't awesome and just as important reasons, just as long as you're going for you and for the right reasons). I went because I wanted to go on my own, I went because I wanted to be closer to God and s

I think it’s funny there are so many people that didn’t realize I’m from New York, haha. I grew up in Rochester and stayed there up until I prayed about going on a mission shortly after baptism when I was 21—but got the answer to move to Utah instead. I would have lessons with the missionaries in the Sacred Grove, that’s where I said my very first prayer and where I eventually got my testimony. I haven’t been back in years. Long enough to where no one in my family has met eit

Don't feel like reading? Click HERE to listen to my voice recording of this post & even Download the MP3 for free. 2016: We’re expecting our second child any day now! I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t counting down the days looking forward to this pregnancy being over. I can’t count all the different parts of my body that ache so badly, I’ve lost count how many nights it’s been that I have barely slept at all and had to force myself to function at work the next day—exhausted, p

God doesn’t always tell us what is right. Annoying, right? How difficult it is sometimes to move forward with decision making because of this. Especially when you want so badly just to follow His will for you, but you aren’t exactly sure what His will is. Although we can receive from God all the time very specific answers that are very clear, there are also times when we just can’t figure it out. How can we discern between our thoughts from the spirit? We are told that all go

“I have two wolves barking inside of me. The first wolf is filled with anger, hatred, bitterness, and mostly revenge. The second wolf inside of me is filled with love, kindness, compassion, and mostly forgiveness.‘Which wolf do you think will win?’ the young boy inquired. The grandfather responded, ‘Whichever one I feed.’” (—Wayne Dyer) I looked in the mirror the other day and do you know what I saw? A double chin. A double chin that never used to be there, and my arms that l

GET THIS BLOG POST AS AN MP3! Click HERE to listen to my Voice Recording of this post & Download for FREE Towards the end of 2013, John Bytheway and I flew together to Temecula, CA and both spoke at a Mid Single's Conference. He told me a story that I will never forget, and by 'never forget' I mean, I mostly forgot the story, but not the message, haha (My apologies to John for butchering your story). He told me of when he was younger and he was having a particularly hard time

I am no longer a Fox, but fully and completely a Carraway! Al Carraway- here's to happiness with a companion! Still will be blogging. Still making videos. Recording audio this week for our newest video that we've been trying to get done for a while now. It's coming, I promise! I'm really excited for many reasons. One being, the topic. Any guess what it is? Two- being, did any of you noticed that I said "our" and "we"? I definitely married above myself. I strive to have as m

I was asked a very general question a few weeks ago, general questions are usually hardest to answer. I was asked, with all of the experiences I've had with speaking and blogging and whatever else it is that I do, what have I learned? I thought, holy cow, I've learned something new everyday that I consider vital to know how can I answer that? With all the places I travel to in just 1 week alone- all of the opportunities that arise in just 1 week alone- and in just one week