This is a blessing...

I went to institute this morning and we talked about the parable about a girl and a bicycle.. A little girl asks her dad for a bike and he says that if she saves all her pennies she'l be able to afford a bike. Well one day she comes to her dad and says "Daddy! I've saved all my pennies!" So they go to the store, find the perfect bike, to find the little girl Sarah only has 63 Cents, while the bike is over $100. So she starts to cry and her dad says, Lets change our deal. If you give me a hug and a kiss and all the money you have, this bike is yours.

This  is kind of how the Savior works. He asks us to build a relationship with him and then we will be saved. He will bless our lives and fulfill and let us complete ourselves through his perfection. Something we can't achieve on our own. Very important and very amazing. I love this Parable because it truly is a blessing. This is a blessing. This opportunity we have to become perfect through him is the biggest blessing we have and the only chance we have.

As I sat in institute I thought about this parable, I thought about the relationship I have with my Savior and how everyone has their own individual relationship with him. I thought specifically of my Sister and her Husband and thought they have their relationship and one with Father in Heaven and the Savior. Just them. So many people don't believe that relationship with God and the Savior aren't important. Even for me, that at one time was a last resort. But today I sat their thinking about my Sister and her Husband.

In December they came and stayed with me and thinking back, they have helped show me that the relationship with God and the Savior and the Gospel is so important. Every night they sat down and read scriptures together. It didn't matter what I was doing, what my family was doing, whether they had time to really do that or not.. Whether my selfishness wanted to come in too play, they truly taught me something. By taking time to Read together I was thinking, wow... If it's important to them, its probably important all together.

I think Highly of Them and Courtney especially. One day I had texted her, telling her my plans to do something and didn't care anymore and was ready to take the jump to a new experience. I had with this situation talked to many other people about this situation and they were all very supportive. Except of Course Courtney. I knew what i was doing would be wrong but I didn't care until she said this. "Alright you can do that, and I'll still love you, but I WON'T Approve." You know that awkward moment when you realize you might possibly be wrong? Ha ya... That text changed my mind in an instance.

Since then, I have made many changes. But without certain people, my Family, my friends and Courtney and Jason and my Dad, I wouldn't have been able to see the important role the Gospel has and the crucial and vital point it plays in our  eternity and existence. The small and simple things are shown and may even change a person. The last 5 months I have made an extraordinary change in my eyes and how I feel. For that I consider myself blessed.

Alyssa