Sunday, August 21, 2011

I am a young woman and I believe!

I am a young woman and I believe. I'm just one - but there are thousands of us. Young women all around the world, trying our best to live up to our potential. . . And little by little, step by step, we are CHANGING the world.



Along with each of those girls, I am proud to be an example of the believers, the hope of Israel, a light set on a hill! I know we have a loving Heavenly Father who cares for us and has our best interests in mind. He wants us to be happy and to return to live with Him again, and the way we can do so is through faithfully living the commandments. King Benjamin stated in Mosiah 2:41 :

     And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.


I now echo the words of that great leader and prophet as I have experienced in my own life that the most I have ever truly been happy is when I remember the Lord, keep His commandments and count the blessings in my life. I encourage everyone to live to your potential as best you can, working on becoming the sons and daughters that our Father in Heaven would have you be. If you stumble along the way or find yourself lost on a darker path in life as we all do at one point or another, please don't lose hope or give up! Reconnect with God again through prayer and scripture and you can find your way back to the light and truth. Jesus Christ atoned for everyone personally including you so that when you fall and find yourself in hard times He understands perfectly and will help you. If you've done wrong, repent and He'll forgive. Let us all be examples of the believers!