Home Teachers

Hey again, everybody. I'm feeling a little better this week, not as down about everything. I've been trying hard to try to help other people with their problems instead of focusing on my own, as per the advice of my home teachers when they came to visit recently. They came the Sunday night of a really really hard weekend, and I was just gritting my teeth during the "How are you?" "Oh, everything's fine, etc etc etc..." portion of the evening, you know the part where you're like "Do you actually care about how I'm doing or are you just doing your duty so you can report to the elder's quorum president and feel good about yourself?" Dark viewpoint, I know. But I've had both kinds of home teachers, and it was the first time they'd come (they didn't come in January), so I wasn't sure how good they were going to be. It takes awhile to earn my trust and have me tell you things about me that are personal (and yet, I seem to have no problem blogging about it where the world can see...Interesting, isn't it?)

Sorry, got off on a tangent there. Anyways, back to home teachers. So I was like "okay, it's the last Sunday of the month, they need to do their priesthood duty, blah blah blah", so when they asked if they could come over, I wasn't really feeling it but they need to do their stuff, so I said okay. And thank goodness I did, because they ended up giving a really good lesson, one that I needed to hear. They didn't know anything about my current situation, or why I haven't been having the greatest day/week, but they were in tune enough with the Spirit to be able to tell me something I needed to hear. One of them looked at me straight in the eye and said, "I don't know why, I probably need to hear this too, but I feel impressed to tell you that when you feel sad, or when you feel like your life is really hard, I encourage you to reach out to others and to serve them." Which of course, everyone's heard before, but it actually hit me this time. So as of late, I've been trying to focus more on others instead of having pity parties about myself. Not just because of my dad, I've been having personal struggles in my personal life lately as well, so I've been looking for extra ways to help people or somehow serve them, especially when I start feeling really down about myself, or sad about how things have worked out. And if you're reading this and you feel like you just can't stand your own hardships anymore, I encourage you to reach out to others and see who you can lift up. It seems to be working out okay for me so far.

Later,

-K

[PS, this week is National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week. And March is MS Awareness Month. What does this mean? I'm not quite sure. What do people do for this kind of thing?]