When you meet someone who changes your life, when that someone cares for you despite all your flaws, when that someone understands and shares your faith, when that someone reminds you of your divine nature and worth, when that someone is willing to support you in all that you do, when that someone inspires you to become better and to fulfill your potential as a child of God, when that someone shows you enough maturity and willingness to be your friend....the very least you could do is cherish them with all your heart.“True love ‘beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.’ So Christ loved us, and that is how He hoped we would love each other.”—Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (source)
It isn't about making rash promises to each other.
It isn't about planning for the future.
There isn't any time to worry about how your friendship will be in the future. There isn't any time to think, "Is it worth it?". There just isn't any time for that. Because it doesn't matter.
It is about the Now. It is about what you are doing for each other Now. It is about the unconditional love and support that you can offer each other Now. It is about constantly praying that you will have all it takes to make sure you can fulfill your individual mission towards this person. Now.
Heavenly Father doesn't put people in our lives just for fun. He doesn't put people in our lives for us to make each other worse. He puts people in our lives for us to uplift one another, to pull each other through the thick of things, "to bear one another's burdens" (Mosiah 18:8), as we promise to in our baptismal covenant. He wants us to learn from one another and to love one another (John 13:34). Loving one another can take a lot of work, but it wouldn't be a commandment if it didn't have a special and specific purpose.
For us to characterize an important relationship as anything less than divine would be wrong. For us to treat it like anything less would be defiling it.
With steadfastness and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we will be able to fulfill our missions in life, we will able have better relationships. With the same principles, we will eventually be able to rejoice in eternal life (2 Nephi 31:20).
All it takes is true desire, willingness, and pure love. It takes ever-growing faith and constant prayer.
It takes a change of heart and mind:
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by therenewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. - Romans 12:2Once we have this change of heart and mind, we will be able to recognize what our Father expects of us. With a change of heart and mind, will be able to recognize how to treat certain relationships and what is best for one another.
It it my humble testimony that our Father in Heaven knows us perfectly. He listens to our needs, hears our prayer, and answers them. We have to keep a faithful and careful watch of how he is going to make those answers manifest. Once we find those answers, it is our duty to make the best of it. If our Father sees fit that the answer to our prayers should be made manifest in the form of a person in our lives, we must make sure we care for, support, and cherish that person.
It is my testimony that the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ is true. I know this because it has proven itself to be good in my life. The light of Christ has absolutely transformed everything in me, and continues to do so. I love my Savior and I will continue to cultivate my relationship with Him, by following His commandments and feasting upon His word. I share this beautiful knowledge that I've been able to acquire through Him, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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