Achieving Eternal Marriege

Personal Decisions for the Future

I am a daughter of our Heavenly Father and I have come to know how

much he loves me as time passes by. We have the blessing of having

prophets here on earth, our parents, teachers and church leaders that our

Father in Heaven has near us so we can learn from them and to help us.

He would never send us to this world on our own. Many decisions that I

have taken recently have been influenced by many of those people that I

just mentioned. There are many decisions and changes that I have made

in my life and that I have to keep making. This class has taught me many

new things that I didn't knew and reminded me things that I already knew

but had forgotten. I was dating a guy who was inactive at the begging of

this semester. I kept telling myself that it was alright and that he could

change as time passes by. Then everyday that I would go to this class I

would notice things that were not good in my relationship with me and

him. Whenever we would talk about having children he would say that he

was not ready to have kids and that until I finish school and he would

finish school and then have a really good job that he would like to have

kids. His priority was not the family. My priority has always been the

family but I guess being "in love" makes you forget the important things.

This class reminded me so many things and encouraged me to be better

and never lower my standards for anybody. I ended that relationship

because it was going nowhere good. I have started making better

decisions in my life and I want to continue doing that. I wont let anybody

make me lover my standards. Like president Ezra Taft Benson said; " you

are not required to lower you standard in order to get a mate." Is the

contrary we should try to be better in their presence of that person

instead of lowering our standards to be accepted. From now on whenever

I have been on a date with someone that is something that is always on

my mind. I now have been dating for a while someone. And even though

at the begging I forgot about that I now have remembered it again and it

makes me happy to say that when I am in his presence I try to do things

to be a better person everyday. And that is something I want to keep

doing for the rest of my life. I don't see the point in life without trying to

be better everyday.

Family; many decisions that I make today will affect my family

in the future. So I have to keep making good decisions. Is not just

important to whom I marry but the way I am living my life now, the

choices I am making and the things I am doing and not doing. I know

how important a family is and that having one is one of our main

purposes here on earth too. Elder Henry B. Eyring said; "Eternal life means

to become like the Father