Putting it all together

John 7:24 I can judge if I judge righteously.

A lot of people think that they should avoid judging anything like the plague. I have heard many times where I would say something about someone and they would say "don't judge her/him!" but I feel like it is ok to judge things. I think the scriptures just mention that we can't make a final judgment. there was a missionary on the mission where I served who would always yell at people and say "Terrestrial!" if we did anything wrong. It was quite annoying. And in his case, he was condemning people to a final judgment. He should not do that. But if I had a guy that had tattoos, cuts on their arms, obscene language and pictures on their clothes apply to babysit my kid compared to a girl who is a child development major, then I would choose the girl. Most likely she would be the better candidate to babysit kids. But I can't know for sure who would be a better babysitter. The guy with the tattoos might have grown up with 12 other siblings and might be a great babysitter while the girl in the child development class might have homicidal tendencies.  But chances are those would not be the case. I appreciate that our church is not a stickler for judging. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I feel like we are pretty reasonable and logical people and just want to do the best we can. I don't ever hear from people in the church I attend that "I shouldn't judge them." But I also don't judge people out loud very often either. 

I feel like that we are left to judge for ourselves many things. But the final judgment of someone should be left to only God. I feel like the blessings of my church (LDS) giving us the ability to judge had helped me a lot in my life. I can judge what restaurants would be better, what friends I should hang out with, and schools that I should attend. 

The Family FAML 100

Blog post on finding an Eternal Companion.
First off, you have to understand that no one is perfect. That you have to be able to understand that people all come with their own skeletons in the closet. some of those skeletons might be a little too much to handle or they might be ok to handle. It depends on you and what you can deal with. I remember thinking to myself that no one would want to marry me because of some mistakes that I made in my life. I would go on these dates and I would tell the girl the 2nd date about some struggles I had had in my life. Almost every one of those girls never talked to me again. Except for one girl. She was ok with my struggle and decided to marry me. It was the best thing that I ever did. She saw the potential in me and knew that I was a hard worker and that I wasn't going to let my flaws bring me down. Marry potential not perfection.