Fear is Not Faith~

I want to start off with sharing my status from exactly one year ago. "Wow... I regret ever wishing away my life. I want all kids to enjoy life while they can. I thought adults were lying all those years when then they said like would fly by... I'm not even 16 and I have learned not to wish my life away. Now I want to start all over. Tomorrow my brother will be gone... Two years of quiet emptiness. I will miss him, I wish you the best! Love you forever! ♥" Can you believe it? And with all the recent events, to have some of the same thoughts. Anyways, I want to give a shout out to my girl Katherine Hale. She is so sweet and an inspiration to all. Her brother is also on a Mission! I am so proud of the Faith these 19 year old boys have to give up their life for 2 years to serve the Lord.  Anyways, Yesterday my Dad and I sat down and had a chat about the future. During that talk about my future I mentioned that I was scared to go out for my future, and my dad told me this " Brianna, the Lord is always there for you, and if you have faith in him, and his plan for you, you will be blessed." Well, that surely brought peace to me, and what better a person to hear it from then your dad? and to top it off, that night I came to a scripture which reinforced this. it is in Ether chapter 12, It says
"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."
If I have faith, I will be able to get through those trials. I am not exempted from them, (although that would be SWEET) but I will have strength to get through them. To me, that brings me so much joy! Anyways, most of you know my goal for this summer was to finish the Book of Mormon, also finishing my Personal Progress. Sure enough, today I read the very last chapter of Moroni! What a wonderful feeling! This was my first time reading it, and gaining knowledge, not just doing it for a challenge.And wow, I have learned so much! More then I have from seeing pageant a million times! In personal progress, when you finish the BOM you are to share your testimony of it. I want to take this chance to do it. I am soo grateful for the inspiration and personal revelation it has given me! I have grown a stronger testimony of the gospel, and faith, and the atonement. I have become more grateful, and I have learned to have more faith in the Lord, and that having fear, isn't having faith. And I want to go through life, grateful for the guidance I have with being a member of this wonderful church <3 my Young women leaders have been a HUGE tool in this. I will never forget the challenge to do it to get Frozen Yogurt and Katherine and I went <3 I am so grateful for all my young women leaders, and Family for helping and encouraging me to finish <3