Faith

I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I work with the Young Women (12-18) in my Ward. We have a program called Personal Progress where the girls work on a value. Our values are:Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity, and Virtue. I've started doing Personal Progress again. We as a leadership in the YW program thought it would be good for us to do Personal Progress again (we did it as youth). I have started on Faith. For three weeks I am to focus on praying morning and night. Of course I do that anyway, but it's much harder to forget when you are challenging yourself. I also have been reading some articles and scriptures to better understand faith. Just by focusing on that, I have learned so much. There are still those challenging days where I have not been so good about having faith. When I really think about it, in life we need to have faith. Faith is what keeps us going each day. Without faith I believe we would be lost. I wrote this down in my journel, Elder Hales says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Just because we can't see something does not mean it isn't there. We do not see Christ, but through faith we know he is there. I have a testimony of faith. Faith is what gets us through this life and gets us through the trials we face. Faith is what helps us know that Christ is there and that we have a Father in heaven who wants us to live with Him again. We are so blessed to have the knowledge to have faith in all we do. Faith will keep us strong as long as we work at it. Always remember to ask in faith when in doubt to know what is true. I am gratful for faith.