It may be dark and gloomy outside today but for me the sun has never been brighter than it is right now. I'll tell you why. I got up this morning just like any other day. I didn't have to be to work till 11 so I got to sleep in for a while, which was nice. My plan was to get up and take a shower before I had to leave but I went to let the water get warm...and there was no water. Super weird I know. So obviously the shower was out. I made sure that nothing had happened with Logan City (cuz the utilities are in my name) and everything was fine there, I still don't know why we didn't have water this morning. Anyway, back on track...focus! I left for work early cuz I was ready early. Nothing out of the ordinary there. I was lunch coverage today so I was off at 4. (Come in late, leave early...so great!) So at about 3:50 I start balancing my drawer so I can leave on time. I count my cash, which didn't take long since I didn't have much in my drawer at the time, and then move on to my checks. Checks: balance, easy. Cash: short 10 cents, not so easy. I recount my coin...it all matches what I have in the system. I have my manager count my coin and he gets what I got. So after a quick glance through my work for the day, with nothing popping out as to what would cause such an outage, I leave work with an outage on my stats for the month. Now I know what you're probably thinking at this point: "No water this morning, an outage at work...how can this be a fabulous day?" Well I'll tell you, today was my ward's temple day. I went and did baptisms for the dead for the first time in too long. Also for the first time at the Logan temple, and the first time ever going by myself. I've always gone with a YW group or with friends from my ward. Not this time, just me, and it was the best thing ever! Going with friends isn't a bad thing but going alone I wasn't distracted in any way from the Spirit that you feel there. It had been so long since I'd done baptisms that I forgot just how wonderful that feeling is. After I got done I sat in the lobby area and read 3 Nephi 11 there was one verse in there that said something about after being baptized how we must become like little children. I know I wasn't being baptized for me, but I still need to be like a little child. Humble, submissive, teachable.
I came home after that and sat in my room thinking about that and I realized that my focus has been on the wrong things. I've been dwelling on things that I don't have that I want and everything I've given up in the past. I was forgetting about everything that I have right now. I have a family that loves me, I have friends that care about me, I have a job (and a good, stable one at that), I have a roof over my head, I have a car that gets me where I need to be, I'm getting an education, and the most important of all of them, I have a Heavenly Father that loves me more than I can comprehend and He's always there for me when I need Him, and I ALWAYS need Him. It doesn't matter that I haven't been dating anyone in the last year and a half. It doesn't matter that I haven't been on very many dates in that time either. As long as I know I have the love of my family and my Heavenly Father the rest is just filler and everything will fall into place.
And that knowledge is what made my day so great.
