The UNREAL Life

Something I have tried to do on my mission is live it to the fullest. I write home every week about my adventures and my love for the Gospel. A few weeks ago I got the response back, that said my mission was unreal.

It is true! My mission is unreal. It is something that I never thought I would have in my life. It is the best thing that has ever happened to me and the best thing that will happen for my family now and in the future. All my adventures and good times are because I choose to have the attitude to make it happen.

It is up to us to decide how our day is going to go. We decide if our lives are going to be the "real" life where we are forced to do the same things and is boring and all that, OR we can choose to make our life "UNREAL". We can choose to make an adventure out of everyday. We can choose to be happy. We can choose to do good. We can choose to be extraordinary. 

A lot of people have said that the world is an awful place and we just have to endure in it. I believe the exact opposite! We can live and LOVE our lives in this amazing place God created for us!

Think about it, how incredible is the world around us? Every time I walk outside I am amazed at what God has created for us to enjoy! Look up and around and just embrace it, soak it all in! If God wanted us to be miserable and bored all the time and live the "real" life, then he wouldn't have given us all he has given us, especially the Gospel of Jesus Christ that teaches us the essence of love!

I don't ever want to live a "real" life. I want my life to be unreal. I want it to be joyful! I want to live everyday to the fullest! I want to share the Gospel. I want to smile. I want to jump in puddles. I want to laugh. I want to embarrass myself over and over again. I want to make silly faces. I want to read my scriptures daily. I want to sing as loud and obnoxiously as possible. I want to love everyone. I want all these things because they make me happy. God wants me to have this things. But one thing I want you to notice, is that every single one of those things I listed that I want, have to do with my attitude. 

Who actually wants to be embarrassed? I do! Know why? Because it makes for a good story and laugh. It is an adventure. I want to be a total dork some days, just to lighten someone else's mood! I can't be one of those mundane people who never does anything other than the same old thing everyday. I would be MISERABLE! Because of that, I have an UNREAL life!

This is me and my  mom living our lives to the DORKIEST and having Cheetos as our smiles!!! :) Got to love the little things and laugh! 

Everyday you wake up, decide that your attitude to everything that happens that day is going to be UNREAL! Do something different than you normally would. Make your life the unreal life. Have the attitude that you are going to be the person who puts a smile on someone else's face. BE THAT CHANGE TODAY!

There is an incredible speech given by George I. Cannon about living to make good memories. Here is the link: http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=120 I love this talk so much! It truly spells out how we can live our lives to the fullest and have those good memories that we need in our lives! 

I know this post was kind of everywhere! But I just feel so passionate about living our lives to fullest so we can be happy and make others around us happy. Making the difference in our lives is the best thing we can do for everyone! Make the difference by starting it off right by saying your prayers! Read your scriptures! Go to church every week! Love the tender mercies God gives us daily! Smile! :) Have the attitude that you are going to have an unreal life starting right now.