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For those who don't know me very well, one of the things that I have learned is accepting change. I have moved a lot in my life, but every move has brought me with a new perspective in a different environment. I am comfortable with change because that is what I've always grown up to go through. Although, can I just say, there are still a lot of things in my life that I struggle to accept in change.
When I graduated, I wanted to change; I wanted to go on a teaching mission, move out, go to college, get a job I enjoy, all of that. Well, that didn't necessarily happen. What I wanted to change was not what God wanted me to change to. I had this moment of heavy fog after I found out I could not serve a teaching mission. I thought I could just skip my list of plans and go straight to college, but I wasn't sure. This was the hard part of this change that I didn't understand, and that hard part was not knowing what I needed to change into. College? Marriage? Job? Even after I found out about the service mission opportunity I was so confused, that's not what I wanted to do. No. That is what the Lord wanted me to do. Every move was because of a change in career in my family, I just got to tag along for the ride. That change I was dependent with my family. This change after graduation was a moment in my life where I had to make my own independent choices, but at the same time, I also needed to depend on the Lord. I did not choose to move, my family did. The Lord wanted me to serve a mission, I had to choose to follow what he wanted me to do. This change is what needed to be done, even if it was something I wasn't expecting. The reason why I am talking about this particular subject is because I am still going through a moment of change right now. When I first began, I stepped into training and was guided through that process. Now I am coming to the point where I need to choose where I need to go next. Temple Square Campus has a lot of options and I need to ask the Lord where I need to go. Where I need to change to. This week I had the chance to go on a Global Service Center Blitz, where a group of us traveled to the GSC and got to see what they do there. It was some interesting work, but I didn't think I could be over there. Although it was merely a week, a change in my schedule threw me off. Both Monday and Tuesday I just felt awful, like something wasn't right. I felt like I was being pulled away from my social life from the COB and placed in a desk in a dark building. It didn't hit me until yesterday when I realized how much I actually enjoyed the work at the GSC, I just needed to open my eyes to see it. Right now, I would probably say the GSC isn't for me, but it isn't because of the lack of social life or the darker building, it's because I feel it's still right to stay at the COB. It was the change of perspective I needed to learn from the GSC. That was also the change in General Conference. That is why this point is so important. Us as members were all expecting the church would announce some big change during General Conference only to hear nothing. I was reminded by one of the Elders that it wasn't a change in plans, it was a change in attitude. My attitude at the GSC was sour at first, it was strange, but after watching some of the talks, I realized that no matter where I was, I needed to serve the Lord. My perspective changed and now I wish I can be at the GSC just a little bit longer so I could have a better attitude for a longer amount of time there. So there are two important elements in change that should always be remembered; a change in perspective, and a change in attitude. As we go through our lives, things will change even if it is a temporary moment of time or a big change that will influence the rest of your life. These changes are all part of the plan God has planned for us, our job is to accept them with a full heart of gratitude and both our perspective and our attitude will change with it.
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Kaylee CasuttI have been writing for over eight years now and have been both building to publish my first book and serve as a service-missionary of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Everything I write will contribute to the journey destined I have been striving to find and build. Archives
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