Sweet Home Ellabama : Week 57: "What you think about you bring about"

I found the absolute BEST quote this week that I must share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a being of power, intelligence, and the master of his own thoughts,

a man holds the key to every situation, to make his life

what he chooses it to be. When he discovers the divine power within his soul, he can lead his life to a God-like nature.

If one dreams lofty dreams, so shall he become.

There is magic in the way one thinks. If we expect the worst, we will get the worst. If we expect the best, we will receive the best.

If we train our minds to have faith in God and ourselves, we are using one of the great laws of life.

If we think and live righteously, happiness will find its place in our lives.

It is amazing when we expect the best how forces are set in motion which cause the best to materialize.

Our thoughts more than circumstances determine the course of our lives.

Outward circumstances do not determine the course of our lives

as much as the thoughts that habitually occupy our minds.

These thoughts carve their impression on our faces, in our hearts,

and on the tablet of our eternal souls.

Teachings of Howard W. Hunter

THIS IS SO TRUE!!! Happiness is a choice!!! And we are in control of our own destiny!!!

Just last week a friend emailed me and said, "wow, it seems like your mission is perfect!" He is so right!!! My mission is the best ever!!! And I realized it is because I made up my mind before I got here that it would be. Before I opened my call I had already decided to LOVE wherever I was assigned. Therefore, when I opened and read "Alabama Birmingham Mission speaking English" I was ecstatic! I knew this was where God needed me to go.

I know attitude determines altitude. I know we bring about what we think about, so we must be productive not only in body but also in mind! Focus on the positives and life with be sunny no matter what!!

So go make this week what you want it to be! Dream big and work hard!

All my love,

Sister Ella Rae Madsen

reunited with Sister Downs at Zone Conference!!! love her!

we attempted to do free nail art for the IRON BOWL but no one would let us.....sad day!!! at least Alabama won! roll tide!

we found a random lake and gazebo thing!! so fun!

memorie :) she is 23 and just joined the church in may!! such a stellar person!

we made homemade cinnamon rolls of thanksgiving morning!!!!!!!!!! most heavenly delicious thing I've ever tasted!!!

thanksgiving with Charity and her family!!

Charity and I! Best young women ever!!

Thanksgiving dinner with the Ellis family!!! SO delicious!!!

tracting with little Tilman!!! He just got his mission call to Portugal and hasn't even graduated high school yet! hhahah it was the best thing of my life!!!

in the middle of this cookie cutter brick house neighborhood lives our friend Ovy from Puerto Rico! In his hot pink house with butterflies on it!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahhahahha too funny!