gratitude, example #4

example #4. i of course have to say i am grateful for my parents. we have been through a lot together and i really believe in what elder holland once quoted, that love is what you go through together. christmas break was hard in some ways, but i guess that is just a way to learn. i am so impressed, really, how my parents can continue to love me when i am so, i don't even know what the word is, me sometimes. in some ways i find it to be a miracle. but i guess that is the power of love and especially of the gospel. i remember on my mission we would teach people that through the restored gospel families can actually be sealed together, so that they are together even beyond the veil of death--together for eternity. and i just remember how unmoved people were by that. which i honestly don't blame though. i know there have been times when i have thought i didn't want to be sealed to my family forever. but THAT is the very miracle of the gospel and of love. that through the atonement of Jesus Christ, we receive the wonderful gift that we want to be with those people--people that we have been through a lot together and have perhaps suffered together and hurt together. i'm so grateful for that love and to learn about it with first hand experience, instead of just hearing about it reading about it. i LOVE to experience things myself. it is GREAT. :)