Gratitude and Adapting

Life is full of changes. Either we make the changes are our environment changes without us doing anything. Sometimes these changes are easy and sometimes they are hard. Whatever the change is, we have a promise from God that we can handle. In the Book of Mormon Nephi teaches that we never receive a commandment from God save he shall provide a way for us to obey it. That doesn´t mean that way is going to be easy. That´s means that way is possible. This has given me a lot of comfort as I´m trying to adapt to a lot changes being in Brazil. During this period of change I´ve found 2 things which help the most: gratitude and the will to adapt or change. In every moment there is always  something to be grateful about. If you ever find yourself in a less than happy mood simply write everything you can think of that your grateful for. Don´t stop writing until you´ve written at least 10 things that you´re grateful for. Our minds are constantly thinking, and it´s important to think about the good things, and how the bad things can be better in the future. When our environment changes that is an excellent opportunity for us to change and become better. We must always be open to change the way we do things. It´s ok to study other religions, just don´t belong to or be a member of two churches. By following the promptings of the Holy Ghost and seeing the blessings of this church I have found the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be the only true church on this earth. That signifies that this is truly the church of Jesus Christ, not of another person, or diety. Always be open to learn something new. Always discern if what someone tells you is of God or of something else. Always evaluate your actions and think of how you can improve. Too often people blame the surroundings for their problems and never change. Things will get better when you begin to change and learn to love your surroundings. Become the person that loves your surroundings. Becomes that person who wants to be more like savior. Forget the bad things you´ve done before and look to your potential in the future. Because of the Savior that potential is always there waiting for you. Life is an incredible journey. Go.


Added by Mom

This past week we did a service project for the family that let me use their computer for skype. I told him a couple weeks ago that I did gardening on the temple before the mission and that I would be willing to do some gardening work for him. He told me to make a list of everything I would need to build a gardern. I gave him the list of materials and this last thursday he bought everything I told him to buy. So we went to house friday and built a garden for him. It was great to do real work again. the project took about 3 and a half hours to complete. He bought about 50 flowers, a tree, and 2 bushes. They let me design the whole garden and let me do whatever I thought was best. Here are some pictures of the service project and the baptism we had this week.

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