Faith Is Taking The First Step Even When You Don't See The Whole Staircase...

Have you ever thought how something so small can grow to be so BIG?

The other day we were at Sister's home in our ward. She had asked her to help her with some yard work. When we got there we found out we were going to be helping plant a small garden. I was so excited! Growing up I remember we always had a garden, but I don't remember ever helping plant it, I always just helped eat it. As we took the seeds in our hands I noticed how tiny they were! And the thought crossed my mind how incredible that was, that something so small, could turn into something much greater.

For example take a sunflower seed. It doesn't look like much does it? But after some nourishment and care, it becomes something so beautiful and magnificent. Or a catipillar... I mean come on, those things are kinda gross looking, but think that they will someday be a beautiful butterfly!

There is a process to growth. It doesn't just go BAM! Sunflower! Or butterfly... but it takes time. Just like the garden we helped plant. We didn't see anything instantaneously, but over time that seed will begin to grow and flourish.

"Compared to God, we are nothing; yet we are EVERYTHING to God." -President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Just like the seed or the catipillar we too look very small compared to the world that we live in. But just as the seed into the sunflower, we too can and will grow and develop into something magnificitantly beautiful!

"Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice—a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:28) and “Knock, and it shall be [given] you” (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbs—come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism."

There really is so much power behind the word FAITH. I'm sure you have heard the saying, "FAITH can move mountains." Well it can, and it can do and has done much more. In the Book of Mormon it teaches in Ether... "Behold it was the FAITH of Alma and Amulek that caused the prison to tumble to the earth...it was the FAITH of Nephi and Lehi that wrought the change upon the Lamanites, that they were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost...it was the FAITH of Ammon and his brethren which wrought so great a miracle among the Lamanites...and even all they who wrought miracles wrought them by FAITH, even those who were before Christ and also those who were after."

Lets CHOOSE to have faith, and then CHOOSE to act upon it. I know that Jesus is the Christ, and through having faith in him, "you shall have ^ceternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God."