change.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have to life that is waiting for us.
-Joseph Campell

Change.
Sometimes it's a pretty scary word.

But you know what word makes all of the change in the world not scary?
Atonement.
[the reconciliation of man with God though Christ.]

President Boyd K. Packer taught,

“There is no habit, no addiction, no rebellion, no transgression, no apostasy, no crime exempted from the promise of complete forgiveness. That is the promise of the atonement of Christ”

Through our Savior, Jesus Christ, all change is possible.

"The Atonement of Jesus Christ is available to each of us. His Atonement is infinite. It applies to everyone, even you. It can clean, reclaim, and sanctify even you. That is what infinite means—total, complete, all, forever."  -Elder Shane M. Bowen

He has faith in us. He will help us do the things that we think we can't do. He will guide us by the hand if we but follow Him.
He enabled the way for us to change from our "lost and fallen state" [Mosiah 16:4] and it's only though Him and His teachings that we can change and become the person that our loving Heavenly Father wants and needs us to be.
I know that we don't have to go back to who we were or what we did. With the help of our Savior, we can change.

enterrar a sus armas de guerra. [bury your weapons of war.]

"Y asi vemos que cuandos estos lamanitas llegaron a conocer y la verdad de ellas, se mantuvieron firmes, y prefirieron, padecer hasta la muerte antes de pecar; y asi vemos que enterraron sus armas de paz, o sea, enterraron sus armas de guerra en bien de la paz."

[Alma 24:19]

Siempre me ha gustado este versiculo.
Siempre pense que es tan interesante como evidente el cambio que el Evangelio de Jesucristo trae a la vida de alguien.

Como pueblo, las lamanitas eran personas violentes y enojadas. Gente que causo una gran cantidad de la guerra. Pero cuando Ammon y sus hermanos les traeron el Evangelio, los lamanitas aprendieron la verdad y eoncontraron una luz. Cristo. Descubrieron lo increible que es que se arrepientan. Para dejarlo todo a nuestro Padre Celestial y, a traves de su Hijo Jesucristo, ser libres.

Es a traves de este arrepentimiento que este grupo de lamanitas cambiado sus puntos de vista de la vida completemente.

Antes, sus armas eran lo que pensaban mantenerse a salvo y en paz. Si ellos podian luchar, ellos se defienden y que no importa cuantos muertos o heridos habia en el camino. Tal vez podria ser mejor si eso paso, porque de lo que habia sucedido en el pasado y el rencor que no habia soltado.
Pero despues, sus armas no eran las cosas mas largo de paz, sino de la guerra. Y a traves del arrepentimiento, se dieron cuenta de que la verdadera paz vino de la aceptacion de su Salvador y vivir como El lo haria.

Hemos tambien hecho todo lo posible para enterrar las armas de guerra?

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"And thus we did see that, when these Lamanites were brought to believe and to know the truth, they were firm, and would suffer even unto death rather than commit sin; and thus we see that they buried their weapons of peace, or they buried their weapons of war, for peace."

[Alma 24:19]

I've always loved this verse.
I've just always thought that it's so interesting how evident the change the Gospel of Jesus Christ brings into someone's life is.

The Lamanites, as a whole, were a really violent, angry people. People who caused a lot of war. But once Ammon and his brotheren brought the Gospel to them, they learned the truth and they found a light. Christ. They found how amazing it is to repent. To give everything up to our Heavenly Father and, through His son Jesus Christ, be free.

It is through repentance that this group of Lamanites changed their views of life completely.

Before, their weapons were what they thought kept them safe and at peace. If they could fight, they would defend themselves and it wouldn't matter how many others they killed or hurt in the way. It might even be better if that happened because of things that had happened in the past and grudges they hadn't let go.

But after, their weapons were no longer things of peace, but of war. And through repentance, they realized that the real peace came from accepting their Savior and living like He would.

Have we also done everything we can to bury our weapons of war?