As being a 16 year old I have had to go through some extraordinary things most people haven't. Within a two year span my dad got deployed came home and my mom got deployed. Had one of my closest friends move to a different country. I also got a new brother. However each trial and challenge has brought me closer to my heavenly father and has taught me something I didn't know before and know I am happy to share these things with you guys.
On a recent trip over Christmas we went to upstate new york to meet my mom who is coming back from deployment and to go to my grandparents house. My mom had to go back overseas for three days. While coming back from New York going to Salt Lake we ran into a lot of trouble in the airports. We were suppose to go from New York to Chicago then to Salt Lake while are plane from New York to Chicago got delayed when we made it to Chicago we got on the plane and taxied to the runway for twenty minutes for our pilots to time out. They put us on a flight two days later we went to the hotel and I called my real dad and my step mom who live an hour away from the midway airport. They said they would come out for dinner tomorrow with my half brother and get a room at the hotel across the street from where we were staying. They brought us bathing suits and we all ended up being able to go swimming at the indoor pool at the hotel. It was a really nice mini vacation considering I only get to see my half brother once a month in the summer because of the distance and my school schedule. This was the first lesson of this incident I learned sometimes things happen for a reason when you trust in the lord he makes it happen. This was a really special gift to me I will cherish forever you see recently I have been feeling like a bad big sister because I wasn't able to be there for him. I believe this was Heavenly Father's way of saying see I will guide you if you give me your trust. A battle I have been struggling with for a long time I hate having to let go and trust. because of my past.
Lesson 2 happened later which my dear friends mom who is like a second mom to me taught me. See our flight the next day out of Chicago was delayed when we landed in Denver we discovered we had miss our connection by 5 minutes. They put us on another one later that night that ended up being delayed an hour. while we were sitting in the Denver airport her and I had been texting back and forth because she works for Jet Blue and was telling me how bad the airports was and everything. Anyway one of the texts she sent me said Maybe start looking at how can I make this better. Make it fun even if it sucks!!No point in letting the sukiness win!! This taught me know matter how bad the situation your attitude decides weather its going to be stressful or you can make it fun. This made me have a new outlook on life when theres nothing you can do to change the situation change your attitude. Thanks to her I have been able to have a positive outlook on life. I have found myself happier and a conference talk a friend hand wrote for me on letting yourself be happy I always read and found a struggle. When I finally read it the other day I felt satisfied I had finally mastered that skill a skill I once longed for I know possessed. Boy has it changed my life for the better try to always look at the positive instead of the negative it will make your life 100% better. Also find friends you can relay on and talk to and just rant to them I find it helps a ton just to email my friend and tell her everything I don't have to keep it bottled up and because of it we have a bond of friendship that stretches to another country and cannot be broken.
