"Forget Yourself and Go to Work"

Lately life has seemed like a roller coaster of sorts. A few months ago while I was feeling especially low, a story popped in my mind I haven't stopped thinking about. It was about Gordon B. Hinckley writing a letter to his father on his mission...here is a snip-it of it off of lds.org...

A pivotal spiritual experience soon followed. President Hinckley would refer to it again and again as “my day of decision. … Everything good that has happened to me since then I can trace back to [it].” Discouraged over preaching to uninterested audiences and knocking on unopened doors, Gordon wrote his father: “I am wasting my time and your money. I don’t see any point in my staying here.”
Bryant Hinckley, ever the educator and wise disciplinarian, replied: “Dear Gordon. I have your letter. … I have only one suggestion. Forget yourself and go to work. With love, Your Father.” Letter in hand, Gordon returned to his apartment contemplating the verse he had studied in scripture study that morning: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it” (Mark 8:35). “I got on my knees,” he recalled, “and made a covenant with the Lord that I would try to forget myself and go to work.”

The first day this came to me was one of my BEST days! I forgot about myself, and started off by serving Paul! It worked wonders for my broken spirit. Spending money and having the material things were only a quick fix. I realized I am at my best when I serve. I guess you should say I finally found my calling in life. =) Last night was another one of those days...feeling sorry for myself...yada, yada, yada! I started wrapping all of our Christmas presents for our family (I'm excited to give them away now). It melted all of my worry and sadness away. I felt like a million bucks afterwards. I realized it doesn't have to be BIG things to serve one another, and I get more out of it than the person I'm helping. I'm on a new path, and it feels good...you wanna come?