What's Building You?

This weekend I took a trip down to Provo for a basketball game with some of my friends from my mission. It was a great trip. During this trip I was hanging out will all my friends from my mission and we were talking and it was a great  time! Then in Sunday School we were at one of my friend’s brother’s ward and they had a youth program. One of the youth was talking a lot about their friends and who we surround ourselves with and how they shape our lives. This is such a true thing I was really thinking about it and throughout my life I can easily map out when I was happiest and when I was at my lowest points according to who I was friends with. Whatever is around us makes us who we are this principle is taught in Doctrine and Covenants 50:24 it says "That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day." When we recognize the light of God we are able to get more light so if we are hanging out with people who bring light into our lives then we will gain light and more light, but it doesn't only apply to who we hang out with but also what we let into our lives. Are we letting things that have the ability to let light into our lives and uplifts us? We have to think what do I watch what do I read. Everything that we interact with changes how we are built up whether we are being built up with light or not.
 Just like light leads to more light often darkness leads to more darkness once you starting letting your bad things into your life it becomes much easier to continue to let it in even more because that is just easier then changing back to letting light into your life. There was a time in my life when I realized that I needed to do something to make more light be in my life. It was my senior year of high school and I had been hanging out with the same friends since freshman year but I was getting ready to serve my mission and I had a strong feeling that I needed to stop hanging out with my friends as much and create some distance. It was a hard thing to do I mean it was my senior year,  but I knew it was what I needed to do. At this point in my life I am through a good bit of my senior year trying to keep my distance and from doing to many things with those friends and I saw a difference in my life and even though it was a hard thing do it helped build me into a better person. We all need to be constantly analyzIng our lives to try and see what we are letting build us. What are you letting in your life?  Is it building and filling your life with light or is it building your life in a wrong direction? If it is going in a direction you don't like don't be afraid to change it!
Just find a way make a plan and do it!