What A Difference 3 Years Makes

Three years ago I found truth, I found peace, I found the things I was desperately seeking. Sometimes it's crazy to think that just 3 years ago I was a recent convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 

I was baptized into a church who welcomed me with open arms, a church who never let me forget how much I was loved and how much I meant to them. For the first time I felt like I actually had a support system to lean on when things got tough, and I would soon learn just how tough things could get. 

I'd like to tell you that after my baptism everything was perfect, and while it was for a few fleeting moments that perfection didn't last long. I learned how much prayer and so many new principals that I just learned about were so easily applied into my daily life. I learned that with heartbreak and comes peace and understanding. I learned that with disappointment's come knowledge of an end goal. I learned that fasting isn't doing without, it's becoming closer to the Savior and Heavenly Father. 

Just as there was heartache there was peace. Peace brought to me by two amazing young men who without ever knowing helped make me forget and brought me back from a very dark place with just a few words and their presence. There was peace in learning how much love my heart was able to hold inside itself. 

Sometimes that dark place threatens again, but it's not so bad when I look around and see my amazing church family and the wonderful people Heavenly Father has blessed me to know. Sometimes without knowing these people come quietly and offer things that they have no idea I need, most times I don't even know I need what they bring me. 


If someone would have told me that by the time 3 years came that I would not only have a husband who held the priesthood, but also be sealed in the temple for time and eternity. I might have looked at you like you had told me that I'd become a bestselling author (just keeping expectations real). But as I think back to my sealing to my amazing husband who has done so much for me I realize that all this time, being sealed was the one thing I never knew I wanted.  

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