Let's just start off with a disclaimer... I do love Christmas, but I love Easter more. Last week was one of my favorite holidays! Thanksgiving! I love that holiday because it makes us all take a day to sit back and actually think about what it is we have in this world to be thankful for! For example: I am so thankful for my family! They are so amazing to me, and I'm happy that I get to spend Christmas with all of them! They mean the world to me. When no one else is there for me I know that I can always count on them! Even if it is my 7 year old niece! They are pretty much the best people in my life! Next, my friends... I must say that they are all pretty amazing and I feel so blessed to know all these wonderful people and to have had them in my life for the big parts of it! I know that at times I am a hard person to be around and my temper comes out, but I'm soo thankful that I can count on them to be there if I ever truly need them! I am ETERNALLY grateful for the opportunity that I had to grow up in Louisiana. Even though, I may never move back there I can honestly say that being born and raised there taught me loads about life and the true meanings of friendship. I will never forget the amazing times I have had in the bayou state! I am grateful for the opportunity I had to go to Brigham Young University-Idaho for an education. I feel like while there I met some of the most amazing people ever, and was able to not only grow mentally, but also physically, and spiritually! I know my Father in Heaven was guiding my every footstep while there! I am grateful for the blessings of the temple! It is the most magnificent place on earth and I am so happy that I had the opportunity this year to go and make covenants with my Father! I am grateful to HIM, my Saviour, and the Holy Ghost. Without the three of them I do not know where I'd be today! They have helped me go throughout life and I cannot wait for the day when I can kneel at the feet of my Saviour and be judged! I am grateful to be a member of His true church! To walk side by side with him.
In closing, I would like to say, many people always think of Him and the blessings He brings to each of us. I am grateful for the gifts he brought throughout His life. Not just when He was born, but also when He preached in the temple, when He got angry at those trying to sell things in the temple, when He suffered in the Garden for all of our sins, When He died to save us all, and finally when He was resurrected to signify to each of us that we may ALL live again and be glorified and live with Him forever in the Kingdom of God. May this time and always we remember the importance of family and the blessings in which He brings to each of us! In the words of Tiny Tim "God Bless us EVERYONE"
