This Friday we celebrate 9 months of marriage. I have learned more about love in these short months than at any other time in my life. I am learning from my sweetheart. I watch him and he amazes me with his love for others and patience with me. I have seen our progression together and it's exciting to me. He is my best friend. We laugh... a lot... and I think it has blessed our marriage. We have trials and disagreements. We understand our weaknesses. We talk about everything. When the day is hard he tells me that it's still a good day. We are respectful to each other. We try our best to be teachable. We have fun. What the life! I am blessed. A few months into our marriage my mom told me to always strive to be what Jon deserves in an eternal companion. As I have tried to do this I have felt my heart change. I have seen that my focus has shifted from changing myself, to just wanting to make him happy. Isn't it true... when we change our focus from ourselves to others, we automatically become more Christlike.
"Charity is, perhaps, in many ways a misunderstood word. We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more.
"Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again...
"Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other." - Elder Marvin J. Ashton
Love to you Sweetheart.
p.s. The pics are actually from our engagements, but I thought they were fun and cute ;)
