Great News!

So much has been going on since my last blog post. I would love to fill you in on all of it but quite frankly, I don't think that's possible. I will try to give you some of the highlights instead.
Don't you just love it when everyone you see asks you what your plans are? Or what you want to do with your life? I do. I have finally found the right answers. For years I dreaded those questions, especially when I my plans had just changed or I had no idea what they were. Now, I have resolved on the perfect and continually true answers. I know you are dying to hear them, so I will share them with you. My plans are to keep praying and listening to the Spirit. If I do that, I know I will stay on the best path for my life. As for what I want to do with my life, to accomplish, I want to change the world. A lofty goal perhaps, nevertheless it is the truth. I want to change the world.
I have also been blessed to realize recently how involved the Lord is in my life. The reminders He sent me of that fact were beautiful tender mercies to me. I have the ability to make choices on my own, but He as an intricate master plan that I am a part of. How great is that?! He loves me enough to let me suffer and grow, to give me trials that I can learn and come closer to Him. Then when I think I have learned the lesson, He shows me how well He knows me, how much He has been involved in the whole process and how far I still have to go. The Lord truly is merciful.
I have had a greater appreciation recently for some of the hardships I have gone through as they have helped me to better understand others' pain. With that understanding has come an increased measure of love from the Lord for those people. Inevitably, by feeling His love for them, I am reminded of how much He loves me, and how much I love them because they truly are my brothers and sisters.
The opportunity to be a missionary is one of the greatest blessings we are given as Latter-Day Saints. We have been blessed with the responsibility to share our Father in Heaven's and Savior's love with our brothers and sisters here on this earth. That means that we get to feel His love for them and for us in abundance! We get to help them come to feel and understand that love and the gospel that accompanies it. And yet, there are so many times I hesitate to open my mouth. What a sad servant I am at times.
Which is what makes the plan so much more amazing, because that was accounted for already. The Plan of Happiness was in place before we ever came to this earth and received our mortal bodies. Before we ever failed on this earth, our loving Father put in place a plan that we might be redeemed. Our elder brother, even Jesus Christ, volunteered to carry out the Atonement. As a result, I can change. I am not stuck because at some moments I am afraid to open my mouth, or I falter and stumble over another personal hurdle. The scriptures teach us that we can be white as snow again. I know that to be the truth.
When I started this post, I had intended on sharing some political thoughts and feelings, but now, I think what I have written is much more worthwhile. I will suffice to say that I love America. I truly know that she is a blessed nation of God. We live in the promised land and have been blessed with prosperity and freedoms because of it, but we must remain righteous to keep them. It is because of our God, that we have been thus blessed, and we must remember. We must praise the Lord and give thanks, recognizing His hand in our most precious blessings of freedom, liberty and family. He still cares, we just need to show him that we do too.
Remember the great news!