Week 70: 3/4/2019: Don't Worry. Be Happy

 Miracles just keep on happening! I love serving in this branch, and I am grateful for all the Lord is doing in this area.

This week I learned a lot about gratitude. There is so much to be grateful for, but we sometimes don't recognize the blessings that are around us. The past 10 weeks I have also learned a lot about perspective and how that changes everything. In the beginning of Come, Follow Me, it says, " What seek ye?" Whatever we seek is what we are going to find. If we only look for negatives about school, work, people, or circumstances, that is all we are going to find. Nobody wants to be around negativity, but everyone wants to be around positivity.

I believe I have become a lot more positive since the beginning of my mission. I have a long way to go, but through Jesus Christ I have become strengthened. Last night we had a lesson about our strengths and our weaknesses. We all wrote down our strengths and our weaknesses, and then shared our testimony of how we made one of our weaknesses become one of our strengths. I shared how I used to be really negative and how it was hard for me to find the good in everything. I talked about my mom and how she always finds the positive in everything and in everyone, and how I strive to be like that.

I know that the Lord wants us to be happy, but it is all up to us to choose how we react to the situations we experience. We can choose to act or be acted upon.

This week we had to move Josh's baptismal date back to April, but in the end it will be much better for him. Becoming a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a big lifestyle change, and he just needs to more time!