Happiness is a choice

I woke up this morning feeling like a train had run over me! I just went ugh noooo I do NOT want to feel like this the whole day. I got up and really just continued to mope about the house in a grumpy mood. Then I realized, you know what-if I don't want to feel like this the rest of the day.. I don't have to.
I know some days it's easier to do it than others but I really feel like our happiness is up to us. What we decide is the consequence of our happiness.
I talk about happiness a lot because for me if I'm not happy..I want to do whatever I can to be happy again. I do not like feeling sad or depressed or angry at all. Life is hard. Sometimes it's hard to be happy. But today I chose to be happy and honestly I've felt really good all day even though it didn't start off well.
Awhile back I read a scripture to my friend Hermana Robinson and last week she wrote me a letter and reminded me of it. It says: " For ye shall go out with ^ajoy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the ^btrees of the field shall clap their hands." (Isaiah 55:12)

That scripture just makes me happy! I decided to walk out today and envision that scripture and although cheesy and a lil odd it was cool because I just felt happy. Today I went out with joy and was lead in peace. I felt like around me the world was singing and dancing haha. I really don't have any specific reason other than I know who I am, I know why I'm here and I'm doing what God asks, and I decided today to be grateful for that.

I added this video because I chose today to be happy. I asked my Heavenly Father for His help, I read His advice for me (the scriptures) and it helped me start my day the right way. I know by choosing to serve Him today I felt His love for me and that means I felt happy : )

When I was in middle school my principal would say everyday: "Make it a great day or not, the choice is yours." Even though when I was that age I didn't agree with her, I know she was right. It is our choice everyday. We can choose to be happy. If you don't know how-ask me! I know what it feels like to be the saddest person in the world, but I also know what it also feels like to be the happiest person in the world.

It starts with ourselves. Ask yourself if you really are happy. Are you just complacent with being ok? I know true joy is just around the corner. Start with a simple prayer. Choose to follow Christ and that is choosing to have happiness.

A New Year: How to make it your best year yet!

Happy New Years!! It's time to shake off the last year..remember the good times..to grow from the bad and make this new coming year the best year yet!
There's a list of things I would like to work on for the coming year and I still haven't decided everything I'm going to focus on. But I know that it will be the best year ever! The best is always yet to come. Life always gets better and better..we are always growing and changing and evolving into something better..if we choose to.
Choose to make this year the best year of your life-it really is all up to you, no matter your circumstances. This video is about a boy that decided to change. He knew that he had to get rid of some old habits because they flat out weren't making him happy.

He was in a pretty bad place in his life-but now look at him! He is happy...he has true joy in his life! If you feel alone, if you feel like this life is too hard..turn to God. You can't make it without Him. There's a music artist who says in a song:
"You're not alone
There is more to this, I know
You can make it out
You will live to tell" 

I know he's right. We are not alone. We are never alone. I know that because I felt God's love for me when there was literally no one else there for me. I know it's true. If you doubt that-pray and ask God if He is there and if He loves you. You are worthy to talk to Him. 

"God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go." -Elder Holland's talk The Best is Yet to Be

You can talk to God anytime, no matter what you've done-who you are. I know He loves you. 

Be the person you've always wanted to be or, maybe you were before but you got off track a little.

 "No matter have far you have gone done the wrong road-TURN BACK." -Turkish Proverb

You can be that person you want to be or better, who God wants you to be. There lies true happiness. 

So start off the new year right. It may be a hard transition or even scary but I know it will be worth it. : )

Why am I a MORMON?

Many people have asked me: Why are you a Mormon? Well that's a complicated question with many different answers that I could think of..I have MANY reasons why I am a Mormon!

 Why I think I stay being of the faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is because it makes me happy.

Truly Happy.

Not that happy that you get when you get a brand new phone, or when you just ate the yummiest dinner or when your sports team just won the big game..nope not that kind. That kind of happiness just leaves. It doesn't last very long..I'm talkin about joy. The joy that I feel day in and day out. The joy that's everlasting and real. 

"Men are that they might have joy," is found in 2 Nephi 2:25 in the Book of Mormon and I firmly believe that. We are here on earth to be happy! Being a Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) makes me happy : ) Really! If it didn't-I wouldn't be a Mormon!
The other easy answer is that I prayed. I asked God if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was His true and only church on the earth today..and He answered me. I felt His love, the Holy Ghost filled my soul, and I knew it was true. It's a feeling you can't describe..a feeling that is so amazing you know it could only come from God. I know it. But that's a story for another day.
I live everyday what I am taught in this church and it makes me happy..when I didn't it made me sad. Simple. I do what makes me happy!

This video is about people who know exactly what I'm talking about. Why not do what makes us 

TRULY happy?