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Don't worry, Be Happy

Dear Readers,


That title has many, many meanings/depths to it that I'm actually proud of myself for thinking of a song that fit what I was thinking. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, don't worry. Be Happy. :)

Today I discovered that most of my muscle mass comes from helping my sister. She, living very near by where my parents' house stands, always calls for helping when moving things around her house or hefting things from the store. You may recall reading about when she bought a treadmill. Yeah, somewhere between 200 and 300 pounds of machinery she tries to spend time on every day.

Today, I helped move a bunch of things out of her front room and second bedroom for two reasons. First, she had people coming over to hang out in her house. Second, she has a friend who is moving in with her soon. She had about 10 boxes of movies, dishes, books and decorations to move in addition to two desks that weighed about 50 lbs each. Yeah, my sister makes me buff.

Sorry, that was a really long tangent that I just thought of while I was writing. The real reason for this post can be found(no pun intended) in "Our search for Happiness," by M. Russell Ballard. In this book, Elder Ballard lays out many basic points of human nature and the foundations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I highly recommend it not only because the ideas are very influential, but because after reading it, the reader will find themselves with a pretty broad sense of what the Church is/believes.

Read the book, sing many songs and never forget to love those who love you back. :) I'll leave with an idea that came to my attention today. Many apologies to the originator of this thought. I have no idea who you are.

"What is love? Well, God gave us two eyes to see, two ears to hear, two hands to hold but only one heart. That way we can find another heart and find out for ourselves what the two hearts can do together."

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