Loyalty for your life.

I love when my beautiful sister missionary sister writes home. Her words are so inspirational and she is just always on a spiritual high. I wish we could all be on that "high" all of the time. It's kind of like the high I would feel when I was doing EFY or even during some of these weeks where I am putting everything I have into a lesson I am teaching on Sunday. A few weeks ago she wrote home something that I loved.

"Elder Nash from the Seventy came to speak to us. He talked about being loyal to your call. I loved how he described it like that! Everyone's like 'love it, be happy, go with faith' but being LOYAL just resonated with me. Y'all know that I have about 10 friends and 7 immediate family members and that's it. That's my circle. Loyalty is something that you feel down in your soul. Your whole self, even your feet figuratively and literally have to be loyal so that you're always facing the right direction and moving forward..."

Loyal is: giving or showing firm and constant support or allegiance to a person or institution. I love that it includes the word -showing- as well. It takes action. I then was thinking of being loyal in every aspect of our lives. Being loyal to our friends and family of course, but also in our callings, to our community, to our membership in the church and to LIFE. Like Kristine said, loyalty moves us forward in life. When you are loyal in your workplace, you earn more trust and may be promoted. Loyalty in family and friends makes your bonds closer. Loyalty in your church and callings make you and your testimony grow. WE CAN NEVER FAIL WITH LOYALTY. And if we have loyalty always resinating with us .."we will always be facing the right direction and moving forward."