Three Week Photography Challenge.

Hey everyone! Anyone up for a 3 week photography challenge? I sure am! I hope that each day you will find the little things you love and be grateful! Ready, Set, Go!!!!!!

Role Models

 Most of us today have role models. What is a role model you ask? A role model is someone we look up to and admire. We want to be like them someday. The only problem with role models, is who we look up to. Today the world is full of immoral and disrespectful things, and some of us look up to them. M. Russel Ballard stated, " Immodest, immoral, intemperate women jam the airwaves, monopolize magazines, and slink across movie screens—all while being celebrated by the world... Popular culture today often makes women look silly, inconsequential, mindless, and powerless. It objectifies them and disrespects them and then suggests that they are able to leave their mark on mankind only by seduction—easily the most pervasively dangerous message the adversary sends to women about themselves." We often become who we look up to, so who better than to value our Mothers. Our mothers have stayed with us through the thick and thin, the rain and sun, and the trails in our lives. They nurture us, take care of us, and love us unconditionally.  "Choose your role models wisely because they become your heroes. You will remember what they would do, and that becomes your pattern, enabling you to make wise decisions. And before you know it, others will be looking up to you and patterning their good behavior based on a role model they admire—you." Soon enough, we will also be admired by others, and it is up to us to be good role models. Our mothers are willing to do almost anything for us, because they love us. Elder Ballard continued on saying, "And so, my dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord’s standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother. Learn from her strengths, her courage, and her faithfulness. Listen to her. She may not be a whiz at texting; she may not even have a Facebook page. But when it comes to matters of the heart and the things of the Lord, she has a wealth of knowledge. As you approach the time for marriage and young motherhood, she will be your greatest source of wisdom. No other person on earth loves you in the same way or is willing to sacrifice as much to encourage you and help you find happiness—in this life and forever." Even though we may not love them that much now, you will find that later in life they will be a beacon to us in times of need. I encourage you this month to find a good role model, and try to pattern your life after theirs. Here is a video that I believe we all should enjoy.

Be Inspired

Here is the video, please enjoy!

I watched this video today, and felt deeply inspired to share it with you. For those of you who are in the dark, who are reaching to find nothing, I encourage you to get down on your knees and ask. This video was truly inspiring, and I would ask you to watch it. You are all amazing, and worth more than your weight in gold.