Lets Flip a Coin

This... Is Elder Coles.  First off I have to say sorry to the billions of people who are following my blog, and I will be coming out with an official apology in the near future for my lack of posts.  I hope you all got your daily laugh and spiritual thought in some other way during these past weeks.  But now I'm back, and I'm in a new area of the Tennessee Nashville mission, Green Hills!  For those of you who are just tuning in, I'm a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  The message that we share will bring anyone who listens (or reads) so much happiness!  I know that to be true.  But what is happiness?  I am reminded of a story that will help me illistrate what happiness is..............

Sometimes when there was a decision to be made by my friends and I back home, we would flip a coin. 
"Hey should we eat here or should we eat there?"
"Lets flip a coin."

" Hey should we do nothing today or should we do something?"
"Umm... lets flip a coin."

"Hey should we be good today or should we be bad?"
"Lets flip a coin to find out."

 "Should we play with hot wheels or should we play with barbies?"
"Flip it."

"Should we watch High School Musical one... or Three?"
"Lets flip it... and hope it says Three"

"Justin Beiber or Nsync?"
"Either one will do... but lets flip because that is too hard of a decision to make on our own."

It was great fun, because no matter what the coin said, we would do what it told us to do.  And 10 times out of 10, it would make the right decision for us.  If we said that if the coin lands on heads we go jump off a bridge or if it lands on tails we will go get ice cream, and it lands on heads... you better beleive we would be going to jump off a bridge, because something good was bound happen if we listened.  We knew there were special powers in the decision making of the coin.  It always made the right decision. 

This one day we decided that we would do what we thought was the better option and didnt listen to the coin.  We were trying to decide where we were going to eat out that night and everyone wanted to go to this one place that was super good.  But, we decided to flip a coin just to make sure we were doing the right thing.  We said if it landed on heads, we would go eat there.  To our surprise, the coin landed on tails!  We thought "woa no way, there must be a glitch or something"  We decided to go eat at that place anyways.  When we got there... It was closed for no reason!  We should have listened......

The coin is like the commandments that our savior Jesus Christ has given us.  We can choose to follow his council, or to do what we think is best and do what we want.  I can promise you 10 times out of 10 that following the commandments that we have been given will lead to happiness.  Its not always easy, but I know that that is where true happieness lies.  We often think that a new car, a makeover or a sweet party will make us happy.  And they often do... for a time.  True and ever lasting happiness comes from keeping the commandments, and living the way God wants us to.  It doesnt matter what we do have or dont have in this life.  Our deepest and everlasting happiness will come from following Gods commandments for us.

"And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it."

-Mosiah 2:41