While contemplating what I could write on this new years day, I have a tradition that I have carried out for the past few years. On the first day of each year as I am writing my first journal entry, I always end my time with looking back at the first entry of the previous year. What I found when I turned back tonight touched my heart, and while a journal is a very personal and sacred item, I wanted to share it with you.
Hope all is well.
Remember who you.
-Abby
January 1, 2014
Like I have written at the beginning of each year: man, that feels really weird to write. Anyway, a Happy New Year to you all out there (or to whomever is reading this)! Hope it will be a year to remember.
Today was wonderful. I didn't go anywhere, but today was the day that I finally got it.
Today was the day that I turned the last page in the Book of Mormon, got down on my knees and truly asked.
I asked if it is true, that these thing would be manifest unto me. I asked that if it is true that I might be able to gain a better testimony of it, that I might be able to go out there someday and teach it.
After many minutes down on my knees I got an answer. I can't tell you how powerful the feeling was that came over me. It didn't come all at once, but kept building as I got to the end of my prayer. After closing my prayer I picked up my scriptures one last time, and after reading the verses in D&C 121: 7-10, I got the strange desire that I wanted to share it. All of it. Someday I want to go out there and tell people of what the Lord has given us. We are here right now, but in every way, we are not alone. We can be with our families forever. We can live in happiness, and all because of what one man suffered 2 thousand years ago.
Oh, the things I have taken for granite in my life, the people . . . Even the words of a book.
The events of today have also led my to finish all the requirements to receive my Honor Bee.
I am so very grateful for these things in my life. I know that I have been blessed beyond measure.
-A
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