{"id":6105,"date":"2012-09-18T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2012-09-18T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:01:29","slug":"a-letter-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/a-letter-to-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter To Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest post comes from Joyce Barrett Stephenson.<\/p>\n<p>When I was fifteen I was inspired to write a letter to myself at age twenty-five. I read this idea in a book, and thought it was a good one. So, on July 16, 1939, I wrote my letter and sealed it up. Managing to take this unopened letter with me everywhere I went, I actually remembered to read it on the very day it was meant to finally be read.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes-And-Dreams-creativity-10892536-604-504.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6109\" title=\"Hopes-And-Dreams-creativity-10892536-604-504\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes-And-Dreams-creativity-10892536-604-504-150x150.jpeg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes-And-Dreams-creativity-10892536-604-504.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes-And-Dreams-creativity-10892536-604-504.jpeg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes-And-Dreams-creativity-10892536-604-504.jpeg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Me,<\/p>\n<p>Are you happy? Real happiness is the only thing worth having, isn\u2019t it? You are the year when all my dreams come true, so to speak\u2014the year when my practical education is to finish. Have you been on that mission? Have you grown to love God and depend on Him as you promised? Just how many friends, I mean real friends, have you got? Have you learned to be a real friend to those you love? Do you count nine stars for nine nights so that on the ninth night you will dream of the man you are going to marry? I do. Are you a registered nurse? I have wanted ever since I can remember for you to be that. To learn to care for man\u2019s mental ills and worries is very valuable. Have you been to Canada again? Now, here is the big question\u2014Are you married? Who is he? Is he clean? Can you trust him? Is he a \u201cMormon\u201d? Is he a Man? Does he love you? Do you ever write anything such as stories or anything? That\u2019s another one of my ambitions for you. I just finished reading \u201cThe Harvester\u201d by Gene Stratton Porter. Don\u2019t you <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/logan-mormon-temple.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6107\" title=\"logan-mormon-temple\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/logan-mormon-temple-150x150.jpeg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/logan-mormon-temple.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/logan-mormon-temple.jpeg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/logan-mormon-temple.jpeg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>dare get married to a man who does not love and is not loved the way he was in the end of that book. Whatever you do don\u2019t marry for anything but love. Don\u2019t marry out of the Church. Don\u2019t marry out of the Temple. If you don\u2019t love him enough to be with him for time and eternity then don\u2019t marry him at all.<\/p>\n<p>Are your brothers fine, strong, clean men? Mine are lovely boys and I have high hopes for them. Are your mother and daddy well and happy? Mine are and they are so wonderful. How is the world getting along? Right now things look pretty black. Hitler and Mussolini have everyone on pins and needles. The last war was supposed to be a war to end all wars. Now, surely there will be another clash unless things take a radical change. F.D. Roosevelt is President now\u2014and a fine man he is\u2014may God bless him.<\/p>\n<p>Is Barbara a famous designer? Is Dorothea a famous singer? Are you a plain, simple, but very happy farmer\u2019s wife? Are your eyes still funny colored? Is your hair still red? Are you still plump? Do you still like books? Do you read all you can? You know, every once in a while I get all cold for fear you won\u2019t be what you ought. Then I get warm again because I know you will be strong, true, honest, friendly, and kind\u2014Remember when I wrote this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHave you really lived through a Spring? \u2026scented the fragrance of the newly awakened trees and felt the velvety softness or the <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes_and_Dreams_Wallpaper_hmre0.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6108\" title=\"Hopes_and_Dreams_Wallpaper_hmre0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes_and_Dreams_Wallpaper_hmre0-150x150.jpeg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes_and_Dreams_Wallpaper_hmre0.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hopes_and_Dreams_Wallpaper_hmre0.jpeg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>satiny smoothness of their leaves? Have you buried your nose into a beautiful flower and marveled at its perfume? Have you felt the softness and freshness of the newly green grass between bare toes? Have you waded over the cool smooth pebbles of a brook of fresh mountain water, and then laid and dreamed under a big shade tree with buttercups all around? Have you marveled at the purple majesty of the great Rockies with their snowcaps? Have you smelled the rich brown furrows of newly turned earth? Have you looked from a hill on the acres of young, waving green wheat? Have you witnessed the divine wonderment of the heavens when the sun tips the mountaintops and rises in majestic glory over the sky? Have you felt the peace and rest of a velvety purple sunset? Have you loved the whole world and all that\u2019s in it at night under the pearly moon and the silvery stars? If you have, you have seen, felt, and heard the glory of God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope it still goes. I also hope this letter has brought joy, laughter and sweetness of accomplishment\u2014not bitterness or discouragement. Always remember\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A pretty good firm is, \u201cWatch and Wait\u201d\u2014<br \/>\nAnother is, \u201cAt it early and late\u201d\u2014<br \/>\nStill another is, \u201cDo and Dare it\u201d\u2014<br \/>\nBut the best of all is, \u201cGrin and Barrett\u201d.<br \/>\n(Dad\u2019s motto)<\/p>\n<p>Love, Joyce\u2014age 15, 1939<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the time came, I opened this letter in the presence of my new husband. I didn\u2019t remember everything I had written, but I was happy in the knowledge that I had done well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest post comes from Joyce Barrett Stephenson. When I was fifteen I was inspired to write a letter to myself at age twenty-five. I read this idea in a book, and thought it was a good one. 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