tender mercies.

I've been feeling like I'm drowning a bit lately, what with school, work, practicing, orchestra, women's chorus, tests, friends, etc. So naturally, today I was being all emo most of the day, which is a real shame cause it could have been a fantastic day all day instead of just the last few hours. But, the point is that my heart was touched today in a couple different ways. Firstly, in D&C we were talking about sections 121-123 and the purpose of suffering and trials and such. I don't wanna kill the lesson, so I won't attempt to reword it, but, take D&C from Bro. Perkins and your life will change and your testimony grow.

But basically we were talking about how we're tested and tried in life because the Lord is trying to better us. He's trying to take us from out god/goddess in embryo stage and start making us into gods and goddesses. We talked about how when you refine gold, you melt it down. All of the fake yucky gold or the dross, floats to the top. And the real stuff goes to the bottom. And that's how gold is purified and refined they melt it down and take out the bad stuff. Well, in the same way, when we are tried we have to be melted down, and some time this process hurts a lot and is just hard. but this has to happen in order to remove all the dross and grow to become more like the Savior.

So yah. That was the first big thing kinda changed my heart. Plus, I'm not even facing the tough things that the saints went through, so I was kinda just like, "wow Pono, stop whining..."

So yah, the second tender mercy that made me realize how loved I am by my Heavenly Father was the fact that I got a 93% on my D&C test after studying for only an hour. Last time I got like an 80% and I studied for 4. Basically, the point is, I was greatly blessed in a time when I felt like I was in over my head.

I'm sooo grateful to have a loving Heavenly Father and a Savior and friend who care for me. Who love me more than I can imagine and who are always there despite what we may think.

Life is great. Crazy, but great.

The Church IS True!