Many people will try to tear you down, whether they are attacking your faith, appearance, interests, family, or whatever it may be! people can be unrelenting, but it's your faith and agency that can effectively get you through these things! what do I mean by faith AND agency, well i will tell you exactly what I mean! Agency is so important in fighting off attackers (mental ninja's) because you DECIDE how you are going to react to things, given this is definitely not easy; sometimes you just want to give that person a piece of your mind, or fist in my case, or you just can't shake the things they are saying to you. in these cases you really just need to talk yourself through it (i promise you wont look crazy), tell yourself it is not true, that you are better than that. On top of agency, faith is your number one strength in the face of contention from other people!
when people break you down & hurt you, your faith can take a beating. This is the point where you feel like your worthless, you'll never be anything, and that everything everyone is saying about you is true, you wonder how you can ever be happy with who you are ever again! and it hurts, it hurts so bad for so long, UNLESS you remember that your faith can bring you back from the hurt, that it can ease your pain. you are so loved by so many people, especially your Father in Heaven, if you keep that in mind those feelings have no possible way to take root! the reason so many people lose faith is because they forget the power it has to heal your hurt.
In my life I have forgotten the happiness that having Faith in something more than the opinions other have of me has brought my life! Others used to say horrible things to me, and about me, i got a lot of bullying from elementary school to high school and i used to get super defensive, and hurt, and it brought me into very dark places that i don't usually like to think about. it is hard to look back and think about how unhappy and hurt i used to feel on a regular basis, BUT you know what i realize now? that no matter what anyone said, thought about me, or did to me, I know who I am now, because of the Faith that i found almost two years ago, and it's been the best two years of my life, GRANTED i did mess up MANY times, but why did i mess up? because i forgot what Faith in this religion has done for me, i forgot how it had changed my life soooo drastically. If you forget what you know is true, you're not going to be nearly as happy, and i promise you that from experience. i look back and see that a lot of trial and error from the time i was baptized to this very moment and time has changed me and, I AM SUCH A DIFFERENT PERSON! (in the best way possible.)
Faith is so important, no matter what anyone says, you are an amazing person with more potential than you can even imagine, and if a single person tell you any differently they are so wrong it is not even funny. You are on this earth for a reason and if you have the Gospel in your life you are going to feel so much more happiness in your life then most people will ever feel, and it is sad to think about, but if people tell you you are nothing, tell them you have everything you need to be happy, and you can share that with them (kill them with kindness :p). but think about it .... cause i think you will find i'm right, not that im being arrogant, i just know the power the Gospel has on lives, ive seen it in my life and many other people. anyways, the church is true, Joseph Smith restored to true church on the earth, and it can change lives, i promise if you put in to the test you can feel that what im saying is true (: love you all!
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU STAND FOR (: !
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