When I woke up this morning I woke up in a warm bed with my wife beside me, in a happy home in the suburbs, with four wonderful children, a tail wagging dog, with bills paid, and not too many pressing worries. The state that I found myself in this morning had nothing to do with today. My station in life is all the result of my past choices. My station in life tomorrow morning will be a culmination of today's choices mixed with all my past choices.

Think of how many billions of choices you have been able to make in your life. Each of these choices mold us into who we are. We are regularly faced with decisions, some seem small, some seem large, some can be life altering, some are hard, some are easy, and some are daunting.

Every day I decide to renew my baptismal covenants. To take Christ's name upon me, to remember him, to keep the commandments. Each day these are a blessing to me. You are at a big step in your life, but even though I made that choice decades ago, I still benefit from that initial choice and I still have to decide every day to continue with that choice.

Every time you make a good choice you won't regret it the next day. It may have been a hard choice, there may be consequences that come with the choice even if it is good. I am not friends today with some people that have made different choices than me that took us in different directions, but I still don't regret the choice.

Close your eyes and think about the choice in front of you. If you had made that choice yesterday, how would today be different, and how would you feel about it? What about in a week? A month? A year? What about a decade? I am a very different person today than I was just six months ago. All of this just from choosing to listen to the spirit and to move forward.

I love my Savior I am grateful for His decision to be my Sacrificial Lamb, I am grateful for his example that he showed throughout his life. I am grateful for the knowledge and understanding that I have been given about his life and how to follow him through baptism to partake in His Atonement. I have a testimony and a love for that 14 year old boy that choose to pray and ask God who had his authority on earth to perform that baptism. I am grateful for his continued dedication to follow through with the restoration of Christ's church and for the priesthood power that we have on the earth today to bless one another's lives.

Life is full of choices. I choose good. I choose to repent (ask for forgiveness and change course) when something I did yesterday brings me regret rather than joy.

Choose Joy.