This week has been pretty interesting. There hasn't been a lot going on, but I've been thinking about who I am and the kind of person I've become. One of the girls I grew up with had something as her status that she has too many righteous desires. Now I'm not sure that can be possible, but it is hard to know which ones to pursue when, and what to do with the righteous desires that you don't have complete control over.
Since I've been home from my mission I've been floating a little bit. It's been interesting because I've always had a next big thing happening. Now I don't... School has ceased to be a 'big thing' and I've already been on a mission, the next 'big thing' is marriage and well... I only have a little control over that one. Anyway. So in institute we've been talking about what our work is-- D&C 11:20 says that my work is to keep the commandments. 1 Nephi 3:7 says that God will prepare a way for me to accomplish the things that he commands me to do. Then one day we talked about the price we pay. We must go through that which is bitter to know the sweet. And the sweet does not come easily. Thomas Paine said "These are the times that try men's souls...What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods." So there will be the things that I struggle through, the things that don't come easy, those are the things most worth having.
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