I can honestly say that I love life. It is so incredible right now and being in Jerusalem doesn't hurt. This place has been the healing drug that I have needed for a very long
time. I am finally becoming whole, finally returning to my "old self". I don't know exactly when things started picking up but it was sometime during October. It is like this weight has been taken off of my shoulders and I am finally free of some of the burdens that I have been carrying around for the past couple of years. Almost like I have finally let go of stress and worry and doubt and fear and have just embraced life and who I am, trusting fully in the plan that the Lord has for me. No I still don't have a clue as to where I want to be in five years, what career to choose and all that fun stuff that life likes to throw at us but I have found that, that is ok. I don't need to know everything right this minute. As long as I am progressing forward I will be just fine.
Being here has given me so many opportunities to come to know myself and my Savior all the better. I have gained so much knowledge, understanding and faith and have experienced so many tender moments through the Spirit and love of my Heavenly Father. I have been so incredibly blest that I just want to shout out to the world my joy. I am so full of joy, of peace and of comfort that I might burst and I just pray that i will be able to maintain this feeling the rest of my life. I will do anything and everything possible to never go back to how I felt before. This place and the church are amazing. The gospel and the Holy Ghost have the ability to change lives and there is a Father in Heaven and a Savior and Redeemer whose love knows no bounds. Who has given the most amazing gift to everyone, through the most selfless act of atoning for sins and suffering affliction to be able to know perfectly each and every one of us and all that we have gone or will go through. And I am so grateful.
I know this post seems like a private journal entry but I just wanted people to know this feeling that I have been experiencing. And now I am here tearing up for absolutely no reason...ridiculous...anyway moving on.
Now that, that is out of the way I shall share more pictures: in no particular order- Dome of the Rock, Turkey, a cool tunnel that goes along the entire Western Wall, some from Jordan and just random stuff
Being here has given me so many opportunities to come to know myself and my Savior all the better. I have gained so much knowledge, understanding and faith and have experienced so many tender moments through the Spirit and love of my Heavenly Father. I have been so incredibly blest that I just want to shout out to the world my joy. I am so full of joy, of peace and of comfort that I might burst and I just pray that i will be able to maintain this feeling the rest of my life. I will do anything and everything possible to never go back to how I felt before. This place and the church are amazing. The gospel and the Holy Ghost have the ability to change lives and there is a Father in Heaven and a Savior and Redeemer whose love knows no bounds. Who has given the most amazing gift to everyone, through the most selfless act of atoning for sins and suffering affliction to be able to know perfectly each and every one of us and all that we have gone or will go through. And I am so grateful.
I know this post seems like a private journal entry but I just wanted people to know this feeling that I have been experiencing. And now I am here tearing up for absolutely no reason...ridiculous...anyway moving on.
Now that, that is out of the way I shall share more pictures: in no particular order- Dome of the Rock, Turkey, a cool tunnel that goes along the entire Western Wall, some from Jordan and just random stuff
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