True Happiness...

The other day I ran across a book in the library that professed to know the things that would make me happy. The subtitle said something along the lines of "everything that you read in this book will shatter your deepest convictions about what will truly make you happy." I found that to be quite interesting... I think I found it most interesting to me at this point in my life because, as a missionary, that is actually my entire purpose. I go about teaching others about something that I know will make them truly happy. In fact, I profess that what I have to teach is the one thing that every person in this world needs in order to have that kind of happiness. It's not something, however, that will shatter anyone's convictions about what will make them happy. It will hopefully add to what they truly know within themselves will make them happy. As I teach people day to day, I see that light within them come to surface. Sometimes they say, "that makes sense," or "I know that's true." These are things that really seem "preprogrammed," or instinctly known within all of us that we only need to bring to remembrance.

I don't really know what things the author had to write about in that book. Maybe everything that he had to say was exactly everything that I have to say when I do missionary work. But I do know one thing… I know that it is only through the teachings of Jesus Christ, our savior, that we can truly be happy. Through His teachings, we come to find out who we are, what’s in store for us during and after this life, and ultimately, who we have the potential to be like… THAT is true happiness.