Choices!!!!!

I'm back! Wow, it seems like forever since I have posted on this website. And it actually has. It's been a year and a half, probably a little over that. Wondering where I was? I was in Missouri, serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...And now here is where I would normally post a link under this paragraph to the blog full of mission experiences I had. But my mom never was able to set that up while I was gone and I had limited access to the internet. If you need more information on that kind of stuff, I will give you this link instead! 

Back to the main point of this blog post. 

Choices. 

Don't we love them? Why do they have to be so difficult? Were they always meant to be this way?

The reason why this blog post even happened is because I, myself, am trying to make a very difficult choice. I just returned home from serving a mission, and now my next step is education. I am thinking about transferring to BYU-Provo and I can't decide if I want to go in the spring or summer. This is such a small thing because it's only a few semesters difference. But I've made a pros and Cons list, I've been praying and fasting for it even. I just don't know what God wants for me. He knows whats best. And I want what is best for my life. So why doesn't he straight up just tell me? 

Having Faith

Which brings me to my next point. Making choices in faith. I specifically remember a time when I was trying to decide if I wanted to serve a mission. I prayed and walked around the temple a bit. 

I remember when I was trying to make the choice, I read an article or heard from someone that sometimes we have to make the choice first. Sometimes we have to take a step into the dark before we can see the light (also if that's a real quote, sorry for unintentionally plagiarizing). And then after we have made the choice, God will confirm to us if that was the right choice. It's sometimes scary to do that, though!

When I was on my mission, I served in the Independence Missouri LDS Visitor's center and I took a spanish family on a video presentation and as I was sharing my testimony, one of the other sister missionaries was there to translate for me.( Now, I am half-mexican. I SHOULD know spanish, But I only knew a little bit!) But even with the sister translating for this family, I felt the spirit tell me share my testimony in spanish. And so I did! It was scary, and I spoke mostly spanglish, but I took a step out in the dark. And God blessed me with the light I needed to tell that family in Spanish that God loves them and desires their family to be together forever. There is a scripture in Ether 12 that says it is only AFTER the trial of our faith that we receive the blessings.

Being Happy with the Outcome
Whatever our choices may be, we keep going, Some choices can help us change for the best or for the worst. But no matter what we choose, we need to be okay to fail sometimes (AKA: making the wrong choice). Our failures, most times, bring the most success out of us. In the end, I'm convinced that most things work out for our good. 
And let's be real, you know what you want to do. Your heart is the one that will tell you. 

XoXo-Alicia Soto 

P.S Sorry this one might be a little short today! College Apps... You know how it is. :)
 

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