Boating

Alright, this week I´ve been thinking a lot about being yoked with Christ and the Gospel and as companions (Matt 11:28-30).

I came up with an analogy that is a little more modern that I love. 

Life is life tubing. It´s way fun. It´s a little bumpy. Sometimes it´s hard to hold on and our arms and hands get a little sore. 

It´s not as fun to ride with people that get thrown off a lot, or don´t like to go fast. You have to stop a lot, brush them off and get them back on the tube.

Then you have those people that hold you on when you go out over the wake and help you out. 

And then you have the feet draggers who drag their feet in the water because they want to go slower and they are scared. 

And last you have the crazies who like to go crazy fast and do dumb things and crash hard core. When you ride with them you get water in your nose, loose your swim shorts and have a head-ache. 

It´s basically the same with life. We want to be the companion or spouse or friend that helps out when our friends are out over the wake and struggling to hold on. We don´t want to be the feet draggers that complain and make the ride not as fun. We don´t want to be a burden or bad-example and help our friends crash. And when we are strong in the gospel, it´s so much easier to hold on. We all have moments when we are being whipped around and out on our side of the wake and it´s super hard to hold on, but with good friends, spouses or companions, they hold us on, tell the driver to let up and keep laughing. 

Super random. Not sure if that makes any sense. No one be offended if in real life you're a feet dragger or don´t like going fast or fall off easy.  Hahaha!

Anyway. It´s super important to have good friends and to be a good friend. I was reading in Mosiah about Abinadi and King Noah this week. I kind of feel bad for King Noah a little bit because to me it seemed like he didn´t really want to kill Abinadi at first, but because he had bad priest friends who encouraged him to kill Abinadi, eventually he crashed and burned. (Mosiah 17:11-12)

Love you guys like crazy. Have the best week ever. Be good people. Read your scriptures. Say your prayers. 

Hermana Peterson