How have I applied agency in my life?

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I have often asked myself "How have I applied agency in my life?" It gets me thinking about the many choices that I have made throughout my life. I would like to share some of those examples about how I have applied agency throughout my life. 

~ I am very grateful for my parents allowing me to attend schooling from when I was in Preschool until I was grade 12 (senior). Duration of my schooling years; I have chosen to allow my parents, most of my teachers and my teacher aides to help me with my studies. Sometimes I would just encouraged myself to feel motivated to get assignments to be completed and submitted on the due dates. 

I remembered when there was some afternoons and evenings after school when I did not feel like focusing my time on doing homework, assignments, and studying for exams; and I have allowed some distractions to stop me from doing homework, assignments, and studying for exams. Those distractions was spending too much time on one of my family's computer with playing online games and spending too much time on Facebook

~ When I was fourteen years old, I have chosen to do seminary. I am so grateful that I was able to do seminary from when I was fourteen years old to when I was seventeen years old. I have been able to learn so much about the scriptures. It has helped me to gain spiritual knowledge while I was in high school. I am very grateful that I was able to graduate seminary when I was seventeen years old. 

~ I remembered making the choices of attending EFY when I was fifteen years old and SMYC when I was seventeen years old. I am very grateful for attending because I was able to meet and make a lot of new friends. Some of the friends that I have met and made during EFY and SMYC, I was able to see them and catch up with them during my YSA years. It has been a small amount of friends that I still stay in touch these days. 

~ The year that I was turning eighteen years old, I have made the decision to start attending institute. I have made several commitments to make myself available on the same evenings when institute was held because I wanted to continue gaining spiritual knowledge after graduating from seminary. I was able to graduate institute when I was twenty-one years old. 

~ When I was nineteen years old, I have made the decision to move away from my family for temporary. I have been able to stay in Perth for six weeks, I have made some new friendships, and I have made the decisions to go on dates about getting to know other guys. I had more dating opportunities while I was in Perth than I was living in Queensland. 

~ I remembered when I have made the decision and felt right for me to start filling out my full-time mission papers online because I had a very strong desire to serve a full-time mission when I was eighteen years old. I have completed and submitted all the full-time mission papers to the bishop, followed by he passed it onto the stake president. I had both interviews with the bishop and the stake president. 

I have made my decision to feel very upset, and very disappointed when I was twenty-two years old that my full-time mission papers did not got submitted to Salt Lake City Church Headquarters by the stake president who interviewed me. 

I ended up finding out by a phone call that I received from a new stake secretary of the new ward that I was in. Jacob and I had a dream about me leaving to go and serve a full-time mission. Prior to speaking with my new bishop, I have made the decision to get a priesthood blessing for guidance. I felt very strongly and knew from then what Heavenly Father would like me to do. I am very grateful for the priesthood holders to be worthy to give me a blessing. 

I have been guided to take a different path to take and that was not to serve a mission. I went ahead with my plans to fly to visit Jacob, meet his family, Jacob purposed to me, and I felt so happy for being engaged. Of course that engagement ended and turned into Jacob and I to be married. 

~ After graduating institute, I have made the decision to apply BYU (Brigham Young University) Pathways program that was run by the church. I am grateful for getting an email for acceptance into the BYU Pathways program, and I was able to start in the first spring semester. I am grateful for studying BYU Pathways program because I was able to learn so much about things that I did not know before, and it has helped me to continue gaining spiritual knowledge after graduating institute. 

~ When I was twenty years old, I have made the decision to receive my endowments on my twenty-first birthday. I am very grateful for receiving my endowments when I was twenty-one years old because within a few weeks after I have received my endowments, I felt privileged to attend a sealing session with my Mom's parents. My Nanna was able to get SEALED to her parents, my Poppy was the proxy for Nanna's father and I was being the proxy for my Nanna's mother. 

~ When I was twenty-three years old, I have made the decision to get sealed for all time and throughout all eternity with Jacob. I am very grateful for making that decision because I always have been excited and looking forward to be sealed to my eternal companion since during my teenage years. 

I have shared with those examples because it has helped me how I have applied agency in my life that has helped me to become for who I am today, and I have learned so much. Agency can teach us a lot of things that we did not know before but also remembering that whatever decisions that we go with, we can not go back to the past and change our minds to find out what our choices would have been like if we made a different decision and path that we have taken. 

Stay tuned until next time.