"'And now, my beloved brethren after ye have gotten into this straight and narrow path, I would ask if it is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.'
'Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ having a perfect brightness of hope and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.'
I was looking through my journal and at some pages I had had for later on (when I would return home). They were pages filled with movies or tv shows I'd like to watch or artists I wanted to listen too. I was then talking to Elder Cook about different things. After a bit I made a decision. I ripped them out of my Journal and threw them in the garbage. Why? Not because they were very evil things, nor because I couldn't watch or listen to them in the future. No, but because they were distracting me from the Lord, right here and right now. Sometimes it is only through giving up the worldly things we cherish that we can truly see our potential. I had to hand my life over to the Lord. And this is the type of people we need to be. We need to be able to say to the Lord, "Lord, I don't know why I think I might need to give it up, but you do. So I will do it. And I will trust in you that you will make me into the person that I need to be." That is where my trust is. I know that either way, in 2 years, I will be who He needs me to be, and I will stick with that. Because I know that in the end, I need to be what He needs me to be, or I simply will not be as happy as I want."
