Best of Especially For Youth

This is one of the cheesiest music videos... but I LOVE it!
The LDS mutual theme for 2012 is "Arise and Shine Forth" and yesterday I went to a best of EFY and it was great!

Here is just one quote that I really loved: "Live so others will want to know Christ because they know you."
Sometimes I struggle with what I believe in and what is really true and it is amazing what the power of prayer can do. The spirit that comes with studying scriptures, growing in becoming a better person, and "letting your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven." It is all truly amazing :)
In Young Women's today we talked about where we see ourselves in 10 to 40 years and as a laurel class, we all had the same answer. In forty years we desire to be mothers, women with their lives oriented around their families and the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wow. :) It is so weird to think about. Me being a mom? Being a wife? Meeting a worthy priesthood holder, a return missionary, a Son of God who is going to take me to the temple! When and Where am I going to meet him? Because I NEED to look cute for this one! :) Out of all three of my relationships non of those guys have been someone who strengthens me and helps me build my testimony. Instead, they have all found some awful way to tear me down... and I am done. I will go on dates with but never actually date a non return missionary ever again. It is just way to stressful. I need someone who has already given two years to the Lord and sacrificed that time so they could be and do what their Heavenly Father desired of them. And didn't come home from their mission 21 months early like my ex decided to do. GAHHH! I wish I could smack him sometimes for being so of the world and only listening to the voices of men. But back to the topic... I love The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for who I am because of the eternal principles I have learned. I love who I am and the fact that I know Why I am here, Where I came from, and Where I am going. My life experiences have shown me, taught me, built my testimony in knowing that I am a daughter of God, a daughter of a great and powerful king, and he loves me more than I can comprehend. He has sent me here for a divine purpose and If I live His gospel faithfully and fully all that my father has can be mine. So in the spirit of what the lesson was about in Young Women's today, I choose to live my life like the mother I wish to become, the wife I strive to be one day, and the kind of person I want so badly to marry. Arising, moving upward, or ascending to the temple. That is where we need to be. That is where I need to be and I pray for the guidance that I can receive through the Holy Ghost, because of my faithfulness and the beautiful power of the atonement, that every decision I make will lead me there.