Brothers and Sisters.

Friends, I am sorry I have been gone. I have been thinking of what to even say. How can I share my thoughts/views on anything if I have nothing to say? So I've been waiting it out and hoping to come up with something to say.

Today, I have something.

This weekend I had the opportunity to spend some time in the temple and I had a couple of really huge realizations. Today I will only share one, but it's my favorite one. Let me start by saying that I am so grateful for the temple and for the things that I have been able to learn there. I have never felt the Lord's presence as strongly as I have there.

Because the Lord knows me, he knew exactly what I needed to hear this weekend.

As most of us do, I have had my fair share of bad moments. Lately, though, I have been having a real struggle in trying to get along with others. But the most beautiful impression came to me in the temple.

We are all brothers and sisters.

I realized that I'm not always perfectly nice to my siblings, but in the end I will do anything and everything to be close to them. I try my hardest to maintain a good relationship with my family, no matter what the cost. But with strangers, I'm not quite so nice.

The Lord wants us to love all of His children, because they are all our brothers and sisters.

Because of my experience in the temple, I am making an honest effort to be more like the Savior and to love all of God's children, regardless of my individual relationships with each of them. I am striving to be more charitable. To be more loving. To immerse myself in His gospel. And to help others to come unto Him.

When we choose to love others and to see them as our siblings, we become more like Him.