Lyssa's inspirational thoughts for the day!

Well friends! I made it through this week! I woke up with the flu Sunday, which made it so that I couldn’t speak in church. Unlike most people, I love speaking in church, and was very disappointed when I found out that wasn’t going to happen. I prayed and prayed that I would feel better.  Monday, I was going to start teaching seminary and I needed all my strength. Monday comes and I still don’t feel amazing, but luckily it was just a little ish bug, and I was able to go to seminary. Throughout the week, I felt so sick. I had so much on my mind- stress (the main cause of most of my sickness this week), where I am going in life, feeling sick and tired about feeling sick, and honestly feeling a little frustrated with my life. Why weren’t things happening that I wanted to happen when I wanted them to happen?  I was going over this last week what’s been happening in my life: teaching seminary, pushing through those trials in life, and what I’ve learned this week about my Savior Jes

The plan that God has for you is better: ☀️☺️♥️🙏🏻😏 Well friends! I can now make this official. I just got called to be the new relief society president in my singles ward! I am beyond grateful for this opportunity and am excited to see what God wants me to learn through this. This wasn’t the plan I had for where I was going and what I was going to be when I was 26, almost 27. I had it all mapped out and then it changed- And it continues to change, but I am so GRATEFUL for my loving Heavenly Father who cares so much for me (and for you) to give us different opportunities to serve and to become the person He wants us to become. He has so much trust in us and we are HIS hands! It’s humbling and I have lots of emotions, but I am so excited! President Thomas S. Monson said “the future is as bright as your faith” and boy isn’t that the truth! The future really is bright. With Heavenly Father leading the way, and as long as we are choosing Him and His path and doing what we’re supp

I am not good enough Words that hold a deep and hurtful meaning to most every single person on this earth. Words that we have all let sink into our hearts and actually let have power over us at one point or another in our lives. I’m not good enough. I’m not pretty enough. I’m not skinny enough. I’m not... this I’m not... that or the other. That’s why I’m single or that’s why things haven’t worked the way I wanted them to or whatever. We give these words permission to seep into our souls, to trade our self confidence for, and to actually stop us from reaching our potential. The potential that God sees in us. We think of everything we don’t have and everything we aren’t and base our worth off of those things we lack.  WHY? Why do we do this? Why do we compare ourselves? Why do we always wish we were something different? Why do we spend so much time comparing ourselves on social media? Or compare our weaknesses to others strengths? NEWSFLASH: There are always going to be