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I must've sung Colors of the Wind just enough times on the drive up to channel my inner Pocahontas. 🌿🌷🍂 This is it, I've been chosen as the next Disney Princess. [ June 26, 2017 ] Since returning home from my mission in Chile 15 months ago I've seen my fair share of doctors and specialists in an attempt to solve the health care mystery I've become. A lot of them shrug their shoulders & leave me with an "I'm sorry" as my list of ailments grows & the list of things we can do dries up. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Earlier this year we discovered a heart problem -- one that I've been thoroughly investigating ever since. After several tests and second opinions I was left with a big decision. I thought that I knew what to do, but suddenly I had so many different opinions being thrown my way & I started to doubt. I didn't know who to trust & each attempt to find clarity left me more confused. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I turned to the God I always turn to for help & guidance. I poured over this well loved Book of Mormon I've carried with me every day on this journey, & I realized that it's just as important to trust yourself as it is to trust the Lord. So, PSA, have some faith in your creator. He'll take really good care of you! He's there, He cares, & He'll answer your prayers. Trust me, I know. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I no longer have a lower resting heart rate than Usain Bolt, ⚡️but I have warm hands for the first time since I can remember, I turned the A/C on in the car instead of the heater, & I even uttered the words "It's hot". 🙈 A novelty for the girl who carries a blanket around like it's 10 below. Not all of my problems vanished overnight, but I'm focusing on the little things & letting God handle the rest. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• God is good, the gospel is true, & here's hoping this pacemaker brings me a new life. 💕 res•o•lu•tion : • the act of determining to DO or not to do something Did you know that most New Years Resolutions are abandoned by February? 🙊 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I could easily say that 2016 was the worst year of my life & it would be accurate up to this point. There were times I didn't know if I'd survive it or if I even wanted to. You can't prepare yourself for the kind of personal & private devastation I felt. But that's not the point. I don't believe in having bad years. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Now, I'm not going into this year free of heartache & healed of my ailments -- it's actually quite the opposite, but I'm not telling you this so you'll know how hard my life is. No, I'm telling you this so you can know & understand that in spite of all the terribly hard things you may be asked to go through, you'll know where to turn & that's to God. With Him we can be Happy, Healthy, & Holy. I promise He is there. He cares. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Excerpt. // More on the blog. When your life consists of seeing doctors, sometimes you can convince your mom to take the long way home. 😉🌷 & it's GORGEOUS. I think nature therapy is real because this made my heart so happy. 🌿 It blows my mind that God would provide me with so much. So much knowledge and so many insights. I've been given so much light and understanding when I've done nothing to deserve it. Absolutely nothing. That's the love of God. He will send comfort and peace and glimpses of joy and understanding anyway. I'm given knowledge anyway. Led to understand anyway; able to feel peace in my circumstances even when I'm not necessarily doing anything to deserve it. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• But instead of being left out to dry I'm led to understand the nature of God and the mission of Jesus Christ. God is kind. & He is always, always good. [ EASTER ] I truly believe Easter Sunday to be the most significant day in our calendar year, not to mention the one filled with the most peace, joy, & hope. Today is Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ was "bruised, broken, torn for us" & ultimately crucified, after a night of no sleep & suffering in Gethsemane the day before. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "On Easter Sunday we, along with other Christians, celebrate the most significant event in the history of the world--the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. He broke the "bands of death, that the grave shall have no victory, and that the sting of death should be swallowed up in the hopes of glory" (Alma 22:14). His Resurrection was the culmination of His atoning sacrifice, by which He overcame sin and death for all mankind." ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I love Easter and all that it represents. I think of Mary mourning, weeping by the tomb and how her extreme sorrow and overwhelming grief was turned to pure joy with just one word. Jesus said, "Mary", and she knew. She was overcome with peace, joy, & hope; and that is Easter to me. The word 'overcome' always comes to my mind. I think of how Christ overcame all... suffering, pain, even death and then He rose on the third day overcoming all, and because He did if we partner with Him we can as well. He will help us. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I testify that He lives. That He truly did take up His body, that He suffered beyond our comprehension, & that He is the Savior & Redeemer of my soul, as He is yours. Because of Him, guilt becomes peace, regret becomes relief, despair becomes hope, & so much more. God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine son.

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