Becoming Me

Conference talks are now online in text! Yay! I have been waiting for these. I love to listen to the words of the prophets and I full plan on downloading the talks to put on my iPod (this is almost perfectly timed for my drive to and from work). And while hearing the words spoken invokes a certain spirit, I am so much more of a visual learner. I have been waiting for the text version all week, and it's here! Tonight I took the opportunity to re-read the talk that stuck out the most to me all of conference. I was actually in the conference center for this talk, and I loved it while I was there. I read Elder Scott's talk tonight. It is entitled, The Transforming Power of Faith and Character. This talk spoke to me for so many reasons, the simplicity of that which he spoke about was one of them. The first principle of the gospel is Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith is a topic that you can never learn enough about. But tonight there is just one quote from the talk that really stuck out to me.

"We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day."

I may have aspirations to become something or someone, but just because I think about it, doesn't mean something is going to click in my brain and I'm automatically going to become that person. It doesn't work that way. I need to put a plan in place. I need to become that person I want to be. I need to start living the life that I want to have. I had thought this before, but never so eloquently. I had never actually put words to the thought. So now, I am going to formulate a plan. I am going to start working on me. I am going to live the life of the person I want to be. I know I won't be perfect. But no one is. I do know that by striving for this ideal, I will get better everyday. I will make small improvements that slowly mold me into the person that my Heavenly Father has in store for me to be. I know He has a plan for me and I want to become the daughter that He knows I am. I want to be ready for His plan.