My obsession.
And an instant key to happiness.
Due to the fact that my day started with such a treat yesterday, it's no surprise it turned out as amazing as it did.
A beautiful, sunny, cool morning, jamming out to some tunes with my brah Chris, we started the morning right with a trip to Krispy Kreme (complete with hats). With a trip to Ashtyn's and lots of Chris making fun of me, my songs, and my broken hat, it was a wonderful way to start a wonderful day.
Next came homework: an inevitable part of a college student holiday. Luckily for me, mine didn't take long at all.
Then, I decided to be adventurous and go to a social function some girls from my ward had put together at a local park. THERE WAS A GIANT SLIP-AND-SLIDE!!!!!!! GOING DOWN A STEEP HILL!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOO FUN! Despite the chunk the got taken out of my ankle and not knowing too many people super well, it was epic.
After coming home and getting re-dressed and laughing and joking around with Robyn and Jeff, Allison, Melissa, Kirsten, Ashlyn, Trevor, Jason, and I went up to Canyon Glen park in Provo Canyon for a picnic. Between sharing pick-up lines, discussing plants as an analogy of relationships, coming up with a system on rating dates, talking about Santa Claus, and eating food, let's just say there was a lot of laughing. A lot.
The one sad part of yesterday was one of my closest friends having a hard time with some stuff. I was really glad that she came over and we were able to get people to give her a blessing. I love her a lot and love seeing her and wish there was some way I could help the hurt to go away. She is so strong though. I know things will be okay. Heavenly Father is watching out for her and for all those who seek His will before their own.
It is so interesting that it seems to be the hardest things we go through that end up blessing our lives the most if we let them. It is the moments when we feel most alone, that we rely on the Savior, the atonement, and prayer and find a deeper, stronger relationship with our Father in Heaven than we had previously known. He would never ask us to do anything that would make us unhappy in the end. He knows what will bring us the greatest happiness and we have to trust that He will do just that.
"...when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future. Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives. So a more theological way to talk about Lot’s wife is to say that she did not have faith. She doubted the Lord’s ability to give her something better than she already had. Apparently she thought—fatally, as it turned out—that nothing that lay ahead could possibly be as good as those moments she was leaving behind." ~ Jeffrey R. Holland
The Lord knows us. He knows the past, present, and the future, and if we let Him lead us down the path that is best for us, He will do so much more with our lives than we could ever do for ourselves, and we can become the people that He needs us to be.
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