We all have a destiny, we just have to find it
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I apologize that I took so long to make another blog post, one day I hope to have a consistent basis on writing, but right now it's when I feel inspired to share another story of finding your destiny.
This last week I made the mistake of running a little too close to the time of departure of the train. As I was rushing towards the train, I felt the clinks of materials fly from my backpack and land on the asphalt. I turned around to see my badge, my COB badge and other important materials scattered across the parking lot. I really hoped nothing else spilled out, but I shoved them back in my backpack, zipped it up and continued running until I barely got on. It was a little crazy, well apparently I still forgot something, but somehow, it ended up on the train instead of on the parking lot. I get a notification through my Facebook from someone I've never met mentioning that he found my temple recommend and not only that, but he also lives in Salem and works at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. How convenient is that? Not only convenient, but a true tender mercy. He hunted me down through Facebook, so I tried to hunt him down to get my recommend. So Sister Garrett and I came over to the Joseph Smith Memorial to try to find him, but by the time we got there and got a hold of him, we realized he was already getting on the train back home. He said he could just drop it off at my house. Now usually you don't give your address to random strangers. But I did for this special circumstance. I explained to my mother the situation so she wouldn't be approached with a stranger giving her my temple recommend. Luckily, he dropped it off later and happened to be there just as I got home so I got to meet him, he explained to me: "I was getting off before I came across a picture of Christ on the floor and thought 'hm, that looks like a temple recommend and sure enough, it was". I will say, I am truly grateful to know there are good people out there, but not only that, that the fact that a good person happened to come across my temple recommended. And this person took the effort to try to find me so he could get it to me. Our destiny doesn't just involve us, sometimes we need to help others as well. This man had done something very generous to me because he took just a half a second to reach down and pick up my recommend. He knew I needed that and tried to find a way to reach me, and the best way these days is through Facebook. I realized that anything we take even the slightest time of our day from to help someone else, it brings the world to them. That man was able to allow me to attend the temple trip the next day and serve in my Friday shifts at the temple as well. That man let me know that miracles happen when someone else chooses to serve, even if it means merely picking up a left temple recommend on the train. If he wouldn't have picked it up, it would've either ended up in the wrong hands, been caught on the bottom of someones shoe or bag, or ended up with the train Host to get lost in the UTA lost and found inconveniently out of the way for me. This man was my good Samaritan and I feel we all can be a good Samaritan if we choose to take just a few seconds or even minutes from our day to help someone else. Because that too is part of our beautiful destiny.
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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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