It's been absolutely freezing here!!!! It's around -10 in the mornings and evenings and warming up to around 1 or 2 degrees during the day! Holy cow this country is cold!!!! I'm not sure I will miss that. Actually I'm pretty sure I won't, however it makes for fun stories. Like having to walk uphill both ways in a blizzard to church. You know, the usual stuff.
Speaking of usual stuff! Here's a cool little message I've prepared over the past couple seconds. #bearwithme! One thing I learned this week is that there are things in this life that we cannot control. Other people are an example of this. We cannot control people or what they do. However we can control our reaction. Our feelings of love and peace and happiness and joy are not just nouns. But they are verbs as well. They are actions that we can choose to do or feel. We can choose to love someone. We can choose to be happy. We can choose to be peaceful. These things are principles. They are unchanging. We have the opportunity to choose them every time and never worry about something changing. Some things in this life change without our control. When we center our lives around those things, we will completely crumble and fall, because they might change. However if we make the unchanging principles the center of our lives, then we will never have to worry about something affecting us in the negative. because we chose to be happy. We chose to have fun. We chose to love. And nothing or no one has the power to change our feelings but ourselves. Some unchanging things that we have are the scriptures, the gospel, Jesus Christ. If we center our lives around things like these, then we will never be let down. As we think proactively rather than reactively, we will find more happiness and joy.
Hope this made sense and helped! Love you all! Take care of each other and love one another!
Elder Anderson
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