Day 4.

Day 4 and I'm excited as ever for a mission that I won't be going on for a YEAR. This preparation time is a blessing, however. I am challenging myself, in the next year, to finish reading what I can of my scriptures and blog at the end of the day about that (as you may or may not have read in the past few blogs). Today I was pretty lazy in that I did not read my scriptures until tonight. I left off at the beginning of Omni. I read through Omni and landed myself in Mosiah Chapter 7. As I pray before every time I read scripture, I ask that Heavenly Father stand out what He wants me to read and that He speak to me through my scriptures. Tonight I found a couple verses that particularly caught my eye in the Words of Mormon, this is verse 7 and 8, "And I do this for a wise purpose; for thus it whispereth me, according to the working of the Spirit of the Lord which is in me. And now, I do not know all things, which are to come; but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh in me to do according to His will. And my prayer to God is concerning my brethren, that they may once again come to the knowledge of God, yea, the redemption of Christ; that they may once again be a delightsome people."
        Not only concerning my mission, but concerning my entire life, Heavenly Father knows what is to come, I do not but one thing I do know is that He will always be with me, guiding me and directing me to do the things which shall glorify Him. Heavenly Father is so amazing! As I read through the scriptures I notice the phrase "keep my commandments" in everything that I read. Heavenly Father wants us to keep His commandments, He wants to bless us in all that we do. Following the commandments can be very tough but this I say to you; we need to have faith. We need to have faith that Heavenly Father WILL provide, that Heavenly Father does hear our prayers and we need to have faith that He will answer. Without faith, I cannot tell you where I would be right now. 
I love my Heavenly Father, I love His faith in me and I have true faith in Him. I know that the scriptures are true, I know that they are Heavenly Father's words and I know that He loves us! 
I say all these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.