Small and simple things!

This past week has really taught me a lot in fact this last 6 months has and the best thing I have taken from the crazy past few months has been to find joy in the small and simple things because through these things will come great happiness! I am so grateful for the gospel in my life and the things that it has to offer I am so very blessed to have the scriptures they are such a huge blessing in my life. I love the D&C this book truly was inspired for me. There is so much in it that helps me to grow closer to my Father in Heaven! I am so thankful for my family, I was brought to this earth by amazing parents who I know love me no matter what I do and that is such a huge blessing in my life. I am grateful for my trials and that at this time in my life my Father in Heaven is teaching me a great lesson of patience. I thought I had mastered this one until he surprised me with the last few months. It defiantly helps that he is by my side and comforting me when I am learning! I am very pleased that he knows me inside and out and that I have realized this so that when I don't know what I need or want I can go to him and ask! I feel like a toddler at his side and I am so grateful he can coddle me at this time! I am so glad he has placed people in my life to help with this as well! I have amazing friends in my life and am so blessed for that. I am thankful each day for my dear friend Elizabeth who has walked the steps ahead of me and knows what I am going through and can help me make sense of it all as well and be by my side when I don't know what else to do! I am grateful for the institute program! Today as we were going through our reading I was hit with a comment from a friend sitting next to me. we were in Mosiah chapters 9 thought 17 and she made the comment of how at times in our life when we need comfort we need to turn to our father for comfort and not to the world. I loved this because I know that there are times i seek comfort from people and don't receive any, and it can feel like a slap in the face! When I seek comfort from my Father in Heaven I always receive it! Glad to have this reminder this morning! I am pretty sure my Father in Heaven has made his point that I need to turn to him and I need to have patience, every lesson I have had this past week has been on those things as well as my personal studying! I am also grateful for this beautiful world my father has created to for me to live in! I love primary songs and the one that comes to my mind as I walk out my front door each morning is My Heavenly Father Loves Me:

Whenever I hear the song of a bird

Or look at the blue, blue sky,

Whenever I feel the rain on my face

Or the wind as it rushes by,

Whenever I touch a velvet rose

Or walk by our lilac tree,

I’m glad that I live in this beautiful world

Heavenly Father created for me.

2. He gave me my eyes that I might see

The color of butterfly wings.

He gave me my ears that I might hear

The magical sound of things.

He gave me my life, my mind, my heart:

I thank him reverently

For all his creations, of which I’m a part.
Yes, I know Heavenly Father loves me

This is the simplest reminder that life is amazing and we are so loved and to remind us to live each day in pure gratitude! The thing I am most grateful fro in my life at this time is that my Savior came to earth, and died for me so that I may live with My Father again! This was a huge sacrifice he didn't have to make, but he did and for that I am forever grateful! I won't ever be able to repay him for what he did, but in all honesty he doesn't ask that we repay him he simply asks that we try our best to be like him! That is a minor request in my book! I am just very content with life at this moment in time and even though everything isn't perfect or just the way I thought it would be I don't mind because I am at peace with my Father in Heaven and I can feel his love and comfort surrounding me and protecting me from all the stress and cares of the world. I love being in this bubble of his love! I hope you all are doing wonderful, remember life is a gift and we need to be grateful for it! I love you all!