New Home

I love my new home in Jackson. I love the people and the nature and the culture. It is where I am meant to be. I don't know where Father in Heaven will have me settle down, or if I ever will, but I want it to be in a place like Jackson.

I've changed a lot recently and I'm pursuing a path many have tried to follow but have lost heart and quite literally faith on the way. I don't want that to happen.

(This can be applied in the life of anyone who is trying to reach a goal or aspiration.)

The one thing that keeps me going, the one thing that helps me overcome temptations, is remembering why I need to overcome why I need to stay humble and submissive to the will of the Father.

I want to live in eternal happiness. True happiness with a capital T. There are many cheap copies of joy, but I believe I have found a True, untainted, perfect form and I believe that I have found the way to attain that perfection through hard work and diligence. There are many who believe this is folly, many who couldn't care less, and many who agree with me. Either way, I believe and I testify that the way to Truth and Light is through the Gospel as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I pray daily for the courage to be able to say this in any circumstance, before any audience.

It is an eternal process, having faith, but I am determined to stick with it, to always return to it when I falter. Because there is no feeling in the world that can compare with the company of the Holy Ghost and I am determined to never shun His presence.

"O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited men in so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away and my strength slacken because of mine afflictions?
And why should I yield to sin, because of my flesh? Yeah, why should I give way to temptations, that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Why am I angry because of mine enemy?
Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul."
2 Nephi 4:26-28

"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do as the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them."
1 Nephi 3:7 (italics added)

I know not many will read this, but I don't mind. I hope that those who do will do so with open minds and soft hearts that they may feel the truth in my words and be inspired to seek out more knowledge, and that they may be blessed to look in the right places for that knowledge. You don't read a physics book to prepare for a history test.