5/17/12

Dear Future,

Warning:  The following is spiritual and lacks my sense of humor.

I remember looking back on my mission and working with the members.  Many would say that it was hard to fit in times for spirituality because life gets busy.  Some would tell me to just wait and I would see.  I thought to myself that my life could never get too busy for me to have personal prayer and gospel study. A week or two ago it hit me hard that I was falling into that excuse.  I would be laying in bed at night realizing that I haven't been reading scriptures or the words of our modern leaders.  Recently I have tried my best to find ways to incorporate gospel study into my life.  I went to our book case and realized we have a whole shelf dedicated to the gospel.  I picked up a little book called to draw closer to God by Elder Eyring.  I looked in the front cover and saw that this was a christmas gift to me from 2005.  It was from one of my young men leaders.  I figured it was about time for me to see what this book was about.  I have done my best to read from this book every day.  I can not tell you the wonders that it has done on my past days.  I just feel a peace, I feel like that by taking a few minutes to study and pray I am putting on the armor of God and that nothing can touch me.  One of the best things about this book is that it is small and I can fit it in any of my school bags.  I think that will be the key to my success is to have small gospel books for me to carry around so that I can pull it out whenever I have a few moments to read.  I am glad that I noticed this hole in my life.  I am really writing this down for my future self to help me remember how to make time for the important things in life.  And this is the one of the most important things in my life.

Love,

Andrew