Hello world! I'm in Edmonton now! Like, Wayne Gretzky's stomping ground Edmonton. Did you know that Canadian money has hockey players on it? Oh yeah, and Canada actually gets warm too...sometimes.
I really love being in the downtown area. I get to talk to strangers all day about the gospel of Jesus Christ and what that can mean for their lives. I'm sure to some people I just look like a peddler or a fanatic, but I actually really care about the message that I share with people because I know it's true. People can and do change when they feel God's love more abundantly in their lives. People change their actions when they know there is a plan for them and that they have a purpose in this life. People give up bad habits to addictions when they know that Jesus Christ overcame all so that they could as well overcome obstacles and challenges placed before them. I'm not the source of change for these people, but at most I hope to be an instrument to assist people in the greatest changes of their lives.
While we are on this topic of change, I read a talk by Jeffrey R. Holland about this topic. I am heavily paraphrasing, but I hope the idea is the same. People think that change takes years and eons to do. But it doesn't. Change can come quickly if we want it to. It takes as long to change as it does to say, "I'm going to change," and mean it. No one has to be stuck with excuses like, "that's just the way I am," or "I've always been like this." We have the beautiful gift of agency--the ability to make choices and to become people who "act, and are not acted upon."
I can change. You can change. Think about it.
Just a weird girl writing about sometimes funny, sometimes serious things...
