Self Improvement (FDREL)

Time for another post on things that I have studied...This week as we read in the gospels I began to realize how much the Savior focuses on Faith in Him and how important that really is to see miracles.

    One of my favorite aspects of this gospel is how simple it is. This week as I have been reading the thing that has stuck out the most to me is that fact that everything important is based off of faith in the Savior. I was just looking at my other principles (we come up with three every time we read) and realized they are the same general idea as this one, in the sense that we need faith in Jesus Christ to accomplish true growth and change. As a newly wed my husband and I are relying on these miracles to get us through each month. It has been so nice to have this constant reminder of how to get through rough times and how it all take believing that the Savior and our Heavenly Father will help. As we do all that we can to follow in the Savior's footsteps we will be taken care of and we don't need to fear. Not that there is anything wrong with my marriage haha We are just like every other newly wed couple and are poor. So we are showing our faith each month by continuing to pay our tithing and keeping the commandments. We know as we do so that we will be blessed and that Heavenly Father will provide for us.

     As a missionary it was tricky to teach the importance of paying tithing and how even when we don't think that we can make it through the month when we pay it, somehow things work out. Many times it took people months to even try to pay tithing. Is it sad that the whole time I was thinking "oh ye of little faith"? As a missionary it is easy to see that things work out but as a normal human being it is so easy to forget how willing Heavenly Father really is to be there to lift us up and help us. That is something that I am trying to regain. I feel like as a missionary my faith was much stronger. I had no doubts that God would step in and take control when he needed to. I still have some of that faith but I need to get the rest of it back. That will be the project for the next little while.