Gratitude

This month's Home Teaching message is on gratitude, which is perfect because that's what I intend to practice more this month!  So I taught the message to my girls and my guys (interesting how I don't say gals and guys, which are equivalent terms, or alternatively girls and boys), and then my home teachers came over to teach me.  Here's what I learned.

As my home teacher was teaching me, he said he wanted to ask me a question and he wanted me to give the first answer that came to my head.  He asked "how do you feel today?"  The first thing that came to my mind was "fine" and then "fat."  A minute or two later, he instructed me to write down five things I was grateful for that day (this last Sunday) and why I was grateful for those things.  I wrote down five things, one of which was air conditioning because it makes summer great.   After doing that, he asked me how I was feeling, and I felt happy!  What a change!

What happened was that I had counted my blessings, and as a result, I felt happier.  How about that?!  Because this month is on gratitude, I think I'm going to have a happier month!