Arie Belle Blog

Read this blog post from Greg Trimble, I loved what he had to say about the Book of Mormon. "SO YOU THINK THE BOOK OF MORMON IS A FRAUD?" by Greg Trimble here is the original blog post I can still remember the exact spot I was sitting when I knew the Book of Mormon was true. I was in a beach chair on my balcony in Corona Del Mar, California waiting to go surfing. I had just recently started a serious investigation of the Church when I first began reading the Book of Mormon. As I began my study…I realized that the most important thing I could do is find out whether or not the Book of Mormon was true. People that oppose the Church hate when someone says, “I know the Book of Mormon is true”…but I don’t know how else to say it. I  know the Book of Mormon is true.  (Begin jeering at the cliche’) I’m not going to leave it at that though…I’ll tell you how I know it’s true. This wasn’t something that I figured out over night. For me…I wanted some evidence and it wasn’t eno...

I was sitting with my Grandfather Demetrios Kepas at the pharmacy as we waited a long while for their prescriptions to be filled which took about an hour. We sat there and watched as people came in and out of the store, at one point two young men came and sat near us and they started talking about the one guys broken arm. Eventually my Grandpa joined in on their conversation and started sharing his many years of knowledge with them. After finishing a couple different conversations he turns to me and the one guy who was left and said  If you took apart a clock, and set all of the pieces next to each other on the ground and waited, would they be able to put themselves back together without a master clock maker to put of all the pieces precisely where they needed to be in order to make the clock work. No, of course they wouldn't be able to put themselves back together, no even in a billion years. There had to be someone to put each part in its place in order for the clock to funct...

http://vimeo.com/82104871  Okay guys, if you have read my other Transgender related post you know that I am completely supportive of these people making a transition in order to feel okay with themselves and in order to love themselves. Obviously there are a lot of people out there in the world who don't understand anything about Transgender people, and there are people who do not want to even try to understand-- they would rather keep on judging and hating rather then start loving and accepting because they are afraid for some reason or another. A lot of people use the card "God hates Gay/Transgender people" which is complete and total B.S. God doesn't hate anyone at all, and if you believe that in a God that hates any type of person then I feel sorry for you, because that means he would hate you too. See the thing is, no where in the bible does it say God hates gay people or transgender people. NO WHERE, yes it does say marriage should be between a man in a women ...

Okay, I have done one blog post for all of march! And its the last day of march!! This I guess will be the second blog post I do for this month, and then I'll catch up on everything in April. Life has been so crazy! So I've been too busy to write anything for my blog lately. Not too many people actually read this blog, its more just a personal thing I do to write out my thoughts, share videos, write poetry and rant about life and things that I wouldn't share on facebook or anything like that. In a way this blog is like an online journal, and honestly having a blog is very therapeutic and is a great way to get your thoughts out there, no matter if people read it or not. So now that little rant is over! Lets talk about something really amazing and big that just happened in my life!! In my last blog post I said that I was turning in my mission papers! And I did! I sent them in like 3 weeks ago and guess what!!!! I got my mission call on Friday the 28th of  March!!! Which is...

This Sunday during church this simple statement caught my attention. "Charity Never Faileth". These three words have a lot of power, but first we need to understand what charity is. charity  is the pure  love  of Christ, and it endureth   forever ; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him. (Moroni 7:47) This scripture says that charity is the pure love of Christ. The Pure Love of Christ. How powerful. How do we have a pure love of Christ? What does that in-tell? From a 1981 General Conference talk by Gordon B. Hinkley he says, " I speak of charity in the sense of  forgiveness , of tolerance of the failings of another, of the smothering of the feelings of jealousy and unkindness toward associates."  So Charity comes in many forms, like forgiveness, tolerance, kindness, and not being jealous of others. Here is another great scripture about Charity, If so, his  a faith  and hope...