Team USA

TEAM USA

I simply cannot explain how awesome this picture is.

So there it is. Me and my freshmen roomies. All called to serve in the United States. Kentucky, Washington, and North Carolina. I honestly don't think it could get any better than this. 

One, had it not been for these girls, my freshmen year in college would have been horrible. I'm so lucky to have had them as my roommates. They set examples for me in ways they may not even know. They kept me laughing constantly and we could act like fools together. Although we would laugh like crazy at times, those nights spent talking having our little life discussions were some of the best. If you really think about it, these girls were with me in a turning point in my life. In the point when I decided I would now live my life from this time forward, dedicated to the Gospel and obedience to God's laws. I am so proud to say we will all be Sisters spread out across the nation preaching what we each, in probably completely different ways, came to know was the right thing for us to do. I know both Kristen and Jenna will be so successful, each touching the hearts of the people they teach through their individual awesome personalities. I hope that we can continue our journey together, even if by letters because we will always be able to say we were Team USA.

Two, I have a testimony that the United States is truly a nation that was founded through the help of God. Through my American Heritage class this semester I have really come to realize all the many miracles that have helped establish this nation. There needed to be a land of free before the restoration of the true gospel could come upon the earth again. I believe the honorable and incredibly intelligent men who helped form our nation with its Declaration of Independence and Constitution were surely filled with the Light of Christ. Our nation was established on a premise of virtue and Christianity. The various Christian views that emerged caused a boy to ask which church was true. That question lead to the restoration of Christ's true church upon the earth in these Latter-Days. It is no coincidence. I am proud to be serving in my homeland to teach my brothers and sisters of the hope that Christ can give us. Although, our nation was established upon just ideas, the original views of the Founders have been blurred over time as we have departed from virtue and adapted to the pollution and filth of the world; however, as long as the Lord is our focus we can participate and spread an influence in hope to give power to those documents and principles that our nation was originally designed to uphold.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

I am proud to say that I have found how we can obtain Life, Liberty, and Happiness. Each is found through Christ and His gospel. The Plan of Salvation promises not just life, but eternal life. Our free agency to choose good over evil gives us liberty. And obedience to the Lord's commandments gives us true happiness.