Story.

I don't usually tell stories like this but this story has came back into my mind at the least once a day since it happened. So here it is..

It was a Sunday morning and I was driving with my two best friends to Mesquite from Cedar. We were running late for my cousins baby blessing. Lynden and I took Larena to her home and then drove back out to Beaver Dam for the blessing. By the time we got there we were a good fifteen minutes late and had missed the blessing. We got there in time for the sacrament. Not right in time though.. we had to sit outside in the foyer. There was an old lady sitting across the hall just starring at us the whole time and I was pretty scared. Old people have been scarring me lately and i'm not sure why because I usually love them. But old people aren't the point of this. So, we were sitting there and I was just thinking about everything that I could jam into my little brain but my mind kept taking me back to this one thought. The thought was; "I want to see my family." 

So anyone who really knows me knows that I LOVE my family. They are my best friends and I would do anything for them. 

Well it so happens that all my brothers and sisters and in-laws and nieces and nephews were all inside the meeting already. I wanted to see them SO bad. I'm not exactly sure why. I wanted to see my nephews and nieces making silly faces. I wanted to see my parents looking at all their kids and grandchildren and just having the biggest smiles on their faces. I wanted to make jokes with my brothers and sisters. I wanted to know what they were doing. I wanted to be in that meeting soooo bad. I wanted more than anything to be with them at that moment. I started to cry. (Yes, I am aware that I am such a baby lately.) 

My mind started thinking a lot. I thought "I want to go in there but I can't." "Maybe one of them will come out here to go the bathroom and I will get to see them." "I just want to see them." Thoughts like this kept coming and coming. I was sad. I hated feeling so distant. I hated it so much.

Then I thought.....

 This is a ton like eternal life. What if I am the only one in my family to not able to make it to the Celestial Kingdom. What if they can only see me? What if they didn't wanna see me? What if this is how it feels. I know that if it was then I would feel like that. What if I couldn't see or talk to them all I want? And whenever I want? My thoughts were endless.

Right then I decided for the first time in my life that I would do whatever it takes to get there. I will go to the Celestial Kingdom. And I will love it. :) The end.