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Everything feels heavy right now. I need a rest.

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Dear anak,

Mommy misses you so much. I know we have to be separated for a time since you’re still there with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and that I have to wait for you.

I just want you to know that I am grateful to you and Heavenly Father and I feel so honored to be your mom. You don’t know how joyful I am to realized that I will be a mom through you—my angel. Oh,I can’t wait to see you! But I must!

I love you and I’m preparing myself now so I can be an effective mom for you,my darling.

I miss you and I love you.

Love,

Mommy

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So as I am currently enrolled in Furniture Design Masterclass at SOFA Design Institute and in one of our classes,our instructor/lecturer encouraged us to travel and seek for design inspiration which we can later use on our design projects,so to heed his advice,I went to Baguio yesterday(08.10.18) and yes,indeed! It was a nice trip and the weather up there was so good as well(it’s chilly!). I don’t usually share places or foods I go to or eat at but for the sake of arts and design,I’m breaking that barrier(nag,I’d still keep some to myself). :)

Anyhow,here’s some of the pictures I took! With paintings I so want to buy if I only have the money at the moment. :(

This place is at Tam-Awan Village. And look at the paintings!!! It’s really more fun in PH! 💕

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I have learned in life that it is too short to harbor negative feelings towards someone and to suppress feelings of love,compassion and mercy to everyone. One day,we’re dead and all we can do is to look at these wonderful people beyond the veil with regrets in our minds and bitterness in our hearts because we weren’t able to make someone feel loved the way we should’ve;the way they deserve. I love you.

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There is nothing more joyful than to give love. Let’s choose love. Always. I love you. :)

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September 10,2018

Dear Anak,         I just want you to know that mommy loves you so much. Today marks mommy’s one-year released from mission. I know that you know full well why mommy was released. I love being a full-time missionary and I miss every second of it but I am now looking forward to be with your dad and you for all Time and Eternity.       I have been longing to see you,hold you, wrapped your precious little body against my body and arms. Mommy is struggling right now but anak, everything is worth it. I will do everything and obey Him until there’s nothing left of me that I may at least qualify to His standards to be your guardian here on Earth. Na ipahiram ka Niya sa akin. Anak, mommy is not perfect in so many ways but I am always striving. Everything I do right now, ikaw yung nasa isip ko.        Mahal na mahal kita. And I can’t wait for that time that I will carry you in my womb and kiss you on your forehead and take care of you. Anak, I am most grateful to our Savior, even Jesus Christ, for His Atonement. Because of it, we will not only be forgiven of our sins but will also reap blessings---even an Eternal Family.         Although I’m so excited to see you and meet you, circumstances right now would not allow it. It’s not that mommy is not prepared; Heavenly Father knows that I will give up everything for you---all my comforts in life right now but I must wait---wait upon the Lord in His own timing and His own will.

        Anak, please know that mommy has prayed for you so dearly. I hope that as you look upon me from the Pre-mortal life, you would want to choose me at least to be your guardian in here. Oh how my heart aches for you, my dear child, my litol sushi.

       Mommy will teach you all the things she knows about the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. My dear anak, I hope that someday you will be proud of mommy and daddy. We will strive to do and give our best for you, my dearest anak.         Mahal na mahal ka ng mommy anak. I hope that with all the things you will learn as you grow. this Eternal Truth about my love for you being a child of God will forever retain in your heart. Anak, remember and keep His words and my words for it will teach you to walk safely back home.         I love you my dearest litol sushi, my Light Honey. <3                                        

                                                                              Love you dearest,                                                                                         Mommy

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No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, [God] will never desert us. He never has, and He never will. He cannot do it. It is not His character [to do so]. He is an unchangeable being; the same yesterday, the same today, and He will be the same throughout the eternal ages to come. We have found that God. We have made Him our friend, by obeying His Gospel; and He will stand by us. We may pass through the fiery furnace; we may pass through deep waters; but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. We shall emerge from all these trials and difficulties the better and purer for them, if we only trust in our God and keep His commandments. [“Freedom of the Saints,” in Collected Discourses, comp. and ed. Brian H. Stuy, 5 vols. (Burbank, California: B.H.S. Publishing, 1987–92), 2:185; emphasis added] —President George Q. Cannon

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MY DEAR CHILD,

How well I remember the day you left my side and ventured forth on your mission to earth. There was tears in my eyes that day as I clothed your spirit with a cloak of love and tenderly sent you off to school.

Be assured that  my thoughts are with you now and always. How I LOVE YOU. I knew the grief and pain as well as the joy and happines you experience. I’m aware of your disappointments, your unrewarded efforts and your frustrations. I know your school is full of ugliness and temptations, as well as beauty, but remember ALL I HAVE IS YOURS, if you come home again.

You went into your new adventure with talent buried inside. Realize that I placed a bit of heaven in each of my children. I love them all. Bring forth your talents, search them and use them but most of all, share them. Give what is yours and give it with all your heart. Covet no other gifts.

If you really love me, then help others to feel themselves and lead them to me. Show your love by serving one another, repent of your failings and humble yourself. Make yourself ever-teachable, continuing on, striving to improve.

I gave you weakness to help you become humble, do not condemn me for that. I did it because of you. Do no™t let discouragement engulf you. I’€™ll come if you need me. Be sure not to be engaged in idle contention. Be a peacemaker. It breaks my heart to see my children fail, if you could only see what I have hope. It is through you that my work must proceed. You haven’€™t much time and there is much to be done. I beg you get started.

Accomplish the mission I gave you, before you left me. There is so much I’d like to tell you. But I can’t yet. Come to me often in prayer. I love to talk to you, my beloved child. I’d love to take you in my arms, but I must to wait, wait patiently until the day comes.

You, my child of Zion, have many blessings, which other children do not have yet. You share my Holy Priesthood. You may go to the temple to learn my eternal truths. You and your children with the knowledge that they will be yours forever, if you live worthily to come to me. But remember, where much is given much expected.

With all my love,

YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN

Note: Credits to the owner. 

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Well, in reality, she is my aunt because she is my mom’s third cousin but being a month older than her and being my childhood friend ever since, I don’t call her aunt or tita. For me, she is my Eternal Bestfriend. 

She is the one of those few people I know who is “not easily provoked” and is “not puffed up”. She always remain calmed and dignified and I have learned a lot of her,not through her strength in speaking but by her living example on how to be a true Disciple of Jesus Christ.  She shares my joys and especially my sorrow. She has always been there through my ups and downs. Through my laughters and especially through my cries. She witnessed my agony, my bitterness, my happiness, my emotional and mental breakdowns and still, on those times, would often console me and reminds me to have Faith, that everything will all be alright.  She taught me how to begin with an END in MIND. She taught me how to be responsible on my actions, she taught and helped me to be patient especially when I can’t hear her voice(because she’s soft spoken).  I am grateful to a loving Heavenly father for blessing me a wonderful being like her. I am grateful to my Savior Jesus Christ for allowing me to share my burdens with her. I am grateful to have her as my sister, my aunt, my Eternal bestfriend, and for being an angel to my life. Angels don’t have wings. But they do have countenances like angels that gives me heavenly comfort through their warm hugs, soft-spoken words of comfort and reassuring touches. I am grateful for you, Gennifer. I love you. 

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I refuse to withdraw my love. My loving is a choice. And I will love more because I have more to offer.

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Always. Will always love with intensity, boldness and passion. Love is not about having it reciprocated. Love is love. =)

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He hath filled me with His love;even unto the consuming of my flesh.

2 Nephi 4:21

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Forgive and forget. Repeat. 70x7.

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“That happens in marriages, too, and in other relationships we have. I can’t tell you the number of couples I have counseled who, when they are deeply hurt or even just deeply stressed, reach farther and farther into the past to nd yet a bigger brick to throw throughthe window “pain” of their marriage. When something is over and done with, when it has been repented of as fully as it can be repented of, when life has moved on as it should and a lot of other wonderfully good things have hap- pened since then, it is not right to go back and open up some ancient wound that the Son of God Himself died trying to heal.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Is that faith? yes! Is that hope? yes! Is it charity? yes! above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. don’t keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, “Hey! do you remember this?” Splat!

Well, guess what? That is probably going to result in some ugly morsel being dug up out of your land ll with the reply, “yeah, I remember it. do you remember this?” Splat.

and soon enough everyone comes out of that exchange dirty and muddy and unhappy and hurt, when what God, our father in Heaven, pleads for is cleanliness and kindness and happiness and healing.

Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is worse than Miniver Cheevy, and in some ways worse than lot’s wife, because at least there he and she were only destroying themselves. In these cases of mar- riage and family and wards and apartments and neighborhoods, we can end up destroying so many, many others.

Perhaps at this beginning of a new year there is no greater requirement for us than to do as the Lord Himself said He does: “Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the lord, remember them no more” (d&C 58:42).” —Jeffrey R. Holland,Remember Lot’s Wife

“I would not willingly peel back the scar tissue protecting the deepest chambers of my heart and reveal the bruised hollows pooled with the blood of old wounds – the terror comes just thinking about it – but now, facing darkness I am left with no choice.

I love you, and because of that am going to try and raise the dead. “—Louise Bell Closson, How It Ends

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“Too bad, too sad, that he was again to be surrounded by a whole batch of Lot’s wives, those who thought his past was more interesting than his future.”-Remember Lot’s Wife,Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

It’s really important to see someone’s potential and trust in them that they can achieve the goal they have for themselves. We should not put a limit to someone’s capacity and willingness to change. And we should always see the good in everyone. Trust them and don’t doubt them that they can change.

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If there is someone out there reading this post,looking for a sign,then this is the sign. You can do it. 💕

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Saw this one at MPIR today! Soon enough! 💕Keep your eyes to your goals,Sister Balagtas. 🖤