In the Theater of Our Mind

So for my job as a student at Brigham Young University, I teach 19-24 year old men and women who are preparing to spend 18-24 months of their lives as a missionary either here in the United States or in foreign countries. To keep them safe from whatever they may encounter they have certain guidelines that they follow during this time. On Saturday we were instructing a large group of them on some principles that are integral to what they go and teach to people and were also addressing preventing possible future violations of the guidelines. One of the subjects discussed was virtue and how virtue is making sure you are doing the right thing even when you are alone.

Now I am not saying I'm any sort of sinner or that I do bad stuff when I am alone but it got me thinking, how virtuous am I, during the course of the discussion someone brought up a quote by a modern day Apostle( special witness of Jesus Christ) whose name is Boyd K. Packer. In this he is talking about bad thoughts that can come into our mind, this of course isn't bad for us, but what we do with those thoughts largely determines what happens afterwards or how virtuous we are. Elder Packer talks about how in the Theater of our mind there can only be one actor on stage at a time, he suggested that every time we have a negative thought enter our minds that we send off the bad thought with something good to fill our minds with. I thought that was a good idea. Then to go along with an analogy another teacher told the story of another missionary who had memorized a verse of scripture everyday so that anytime he had any sort of negative thought, all he had to do was focus on memorizing that scripture. I thought that was a brilliant Idea. I am on day one of that quest and I already feel the difference, especially with the drive to make myself a better person through my Savior Jesus Christ. If you want to, you should try it some time.

-Superman-