"This is how to have happiness in any stage of life"

Beautiful sunset!

What is in my heart today is that I am SO BLESSED!!!! Mom, Dad, [and you can share this on the blog, I'll just be writing directly to you, but everyone should read it ;) ] THANK YOU for everything. Thank you for never letting divorce be an option. Thank you for never ever raising your voices at each other. Thank you for teaching us and showing us how to respectfully work out problems and that marriage is a thing to be worked for and that simply giving up when things "apparently weren't meant to be" ISN'T EVER AN OPTION. Thank you for working to give us every oportunidade for success in this life. Thank you for setting my sights on college and helping me succeed there. Thank you for my bed. Thank you for my clothes. Thank you for teaching us that the Spirit lives in a house of order, clean and orderly. Thank you for teaching us to love our family, and that living together forever is the thing most important in this life. Thank you for teaching me how to treat my spouse one day, to love him, and want to help him. Love is wanting to make that person happy, NOT expecting to receive everything YOU need. Love isn't living together for a year and then saying it just didn't work because you saw greener grass on the other side of the fence. Love is about service. Love is constant and steady, and FOREVER! Family is FOREVER! THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME THESE THINGS THROUGH YOUR WORDS AND EXAMPLES!!! When we have our eyes fixed on God, everything will work out. This is how to have success in a family. This is how to have a marriage that can overcome anything that this crazy, last days world can throw at it. This is how to have happiness in any stage of life we find ourselves in. 

My cute companion and I

The gospel is true. If you have difficulties in your life (and who doesn't) pray and read the scriptures. Read the book of Mormon, and pray again to know if it's true (and if you've never asked-ASK!!! God knows! Simply ask His opinion.) As one of my missionary friends said this last week, we need spiritual confirmations again and again. This is how we continue to be focused. Ask God again, and again if the gospel is true. Invite the missionaries over, PLEASE!!! Member of the church or not. PLEASE!!!! Just one time- on a 'trial basis' - invite them over, and take their challenge to ask God if you can have MORE happiness, MORE peace, MORE direction, and MORE of everything good in your life. God will answer. Just try. 

Eu sei que Cristo vive! Ele deu tudo por mim, e eu vou seguir Ele para sempre porque eu O amo! Por favor, pergunte Deus! Ele vai te responder. Eu sei. E isso é meu testemunho, e o dou em nome de Jesus Cristo, amém. 

[I know that Christ lives!  He gave everything for me, and I will follow Him forever because I love Him! Please ask God.  He will answer you.  I know.  This is my testimony, and I give it in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.]

Pretty - and mission life in a nutshell!