Thank you Hubby and Jackie T. :0

I have been very blessed to have the gospel in my life. I still remember when I first got introduced: 0 I remember being in my friend Jackie’s car and she had her scriptures and it sparked my curiosity but I did not ask much about it. Until, I started to date Brandon :) Growing up I attended school with a lot of LDS member many of them were my friends but I never once went to church with them. Then Jackie who is the nicest person I have ever met!!!! Really made an impact in my life, I saw how happy she was and never once did I ever hear her speak ill of anyone. That really showed me what type of person she was because I believe that the way you speak about others says allot about you. I could not help but to feel a sense of spirituality when I was around her and euphoria. I went through a devastating year with my grandpa passing away and Brandon and Jackie were there for me 100%. After my grandpa died I felt like I had lost my best friend. I prayed so many nights for that feeling to go away only to discover that I had gained two best friends.

Then I started to take the lessons and every night I went home it felt so un real because I had never felt that way before. The Thomas's were so inviting and I am very thankful for them allowing me to take the discussions at their home.

If I could go through every heart ache and cry again all those night I would do it in a heartbeat knowing that I would have the gospel in my life.

Now two years later, I still am very happy and I cry when I think about my hubby and Brandon but they are not tears of sadness but tears of joy.

I do have to admit when I converted I had to defend my self happiness. Especially to my mom, this made me very sad because when I converted it caused some tension between my mom and I. It took my mom a while before she could see the difference the gospel had made in my life. My mom realized the change when I started to take my sister to church and she was very happy. My sister would come home and share the stories we discussed in relief society.

This made my heart so happy because my sister had gone through a lot and my sister looked forward to Sunday's because she would be attending with me. My friend Jackie gave her two book marks one had the footprints poem and the other was sisterhood of the relief society. To this day she has them up in her room and when someone asks were she got them she shares my testimony with them.

This makes me very happy in deed but I am sad because I have been doing a lot of thinking and I wish my sister had her own testimony. I hope that my sister can be as blessed as I am and have the gospel in my life.

I think about my eternal life and I wish my parents and sister would part take of it. I have been praying a lot and I would love to invite my mom to church.... but I am not sure if she would go. I want to prove to her that all the things that people have told her are not true. I have invited her to Easter Pageant hoping that it will spark her interest in the church. I know she has her own beliefs but I would never try to impose anything on her that she would not like. Yet, I feel that it is something that she needs in her life right now more than ever. Yet, I have faith that one of these days my mom will attend church with me.