About me and my Alma experiment!

So to say a bit about myself. My name is Brett and I was born in Colorado. I am 30 years old and have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints my whole life. I had wonderful parents who found the balance between forcing us to do church things and letting us also have a choice. I love being a member and I know without a doubt that the church is true. I have had a ton of small experiences that have culminated to build the testimony that I have today. I learned from my father hard work and that has been my most prized attribute.

I don't attest to being some amazing guy. I am ordinary even though my patriarchal blessing said I would be extraordinary. It is always hard to see yourself accurately.  At times I find myself limiting my own potential, and then another moment I may feel like the sky is the limit but others around me are limiting me. I have a wonderful wife who see me accurately and supports me in my crazy endeavors. I just hope that at the end of my life-long experiment that I will be able to look back and be proud of my journey and know that I did my best for myself and my family.

Now to go into detail on my experiment. I read in Alma 32 about the word of God as a seed of faith.

Alma 32:28-29 : Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.

Now behold, would not this increase your faith? I say unto you, Yea; nevertheless it hath not grown up to a perfect knowledge.

This scripture is what started my desire to try this experiment. I decided to write it in a blog so that I would hopefully have a stronger pull to succeed since one day someone might read this and it might make someone choose to live a little better. 

The experiment is to follow the steps needed to plant the word of God and then follow the cultivation steps to increase my own faith in the gospel So as Alma talked about humility at the start of the chapter that shows where I need to start. So i need to humble myself so that my heart is ready to receive the word and have a soft place for the seed to be planted. I then need to read my scriptures and identify my first experiment. Once i find my experiment I need to believe the scriptures are true and that the Lord will give me results. I then read the scriptures to understand the promises and blessings linked to my experiment and so I can build a hypothesis of what my results will be. I then enter the put into practice and observe my results portion.  The hardest part of this will be remaining humble so I can see my results. I get a big head very easy and so this will be my hardest roadblock. Once I see some results I need to internalize them and draw the conclusion that the word is good and the Lord's promises are true and that is why I am seeing these results. This is the process of the experiment and I need to follow this pattern and hopefully then I will increase my faith. 

Lets the adventure begin.