lessons.

after an amazing talk with one of my great friends from school the other day, i realized how much in my life i need to change. she is getting married in a week and a half in the mesa arizona temple. we talked about the temple and how excited we both are to be sealed to our future husbands and families there, and how much of a blessing it is. we cried, and honestly, everything we talked about was exactly what i needed to here, the push that i needed to change my ways. i'm not saying i have done horrible things, i haven't at all, i just have been struggling a little bit. tonight i starting reading general conference talks, i just needed some guidance. i have been struggling with friends lately, being hurt by friends and boys i have dated, and truly trying to find me, and figure God's plan for me.

lesson #1: have charity. President Monson teaches: “Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.”

lesson #2:  "An acceptable sacrifice is when we give up something good for something of far greater worth." -President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

lesson #3: "Never stop striving for the best that is within you. Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don’t close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day’s ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life." -President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

lesson #4: President Dieter F. Uchtdorf taught five valuable lessons in his Forget Me Not talk in the last general conference, they are; 1: forget not to be patient with yourself, 2: forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice, 3: forget not to be happy now, 4: forget not the “why” of the gospel, 5: forget not that the Lord loves you.