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I’ve been pondering over the past few days how to be happier. Life isn’t bad, but deadlines and projects make stressful bunkmates. At FHE we discussed Elder Uchtdorf’s talk on enduring joyfully to the end. He related his own story living as a child in post war Germany under terrible conditions. It was during this time that his family accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ which became a beacon of hope. In our group, we talked about why the gospel brings such joy. For one thing, the gospel provides an eternal perspective. The little problems faced in every day life are in the end, not of great consequence--rather how we love and serve each other and God is the ultimate goal. God will not leave us alone to grope in the dark but will aid us to become happy. He has given us agency and happiness is a choice we can make; it is possible through the enabling power of the Savior’s Atonement to be happy regardless of circumstance. Though our outward conditions may not have not changed, the inward man can still be happy.
It is with these thoughts that I realize I must rejoice for I have great cause to. I have cause to rejoice in compliments and not turn them down. I have cause to rejoice in temporal and spiritual blessings. I have cause to rejoice in school, in work, in grades, in my family and in my friends. Learning about God whose love can fill us with hope will enable us to joyfully endure to the end, not in pain or passiveness, but in marvel! Let the mountains shout for joy, and all ye valleys cry aloud; and all ye seas and dry lands tell the wonders of your Eternal King! Let ye solid rocks weep for joy! How glorious is the voice proclaiming in our ears, glory, and salvations, and honor, and immortality and eternal life! Let your hearts rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for the Lord doth reign and He is our God! (Doctrine and Covenants 128:22-23)