Lesson 4 Pathway Gathering

In learning about career exploration and academic planning and making observations in my trusty journal, I expanded on what it says about gifts from God in Doctrine and Covenants 46:10-12 by saying that all are given gifts and abilities by God that we can use to make the most of our time on Earth, but we have our agency to choose what we want to do about what we are given. I also analyzed Luke 14:28 and wrote that if we think something is worthwhile and will benefit us, we are more likely to do well at it than if there is not a like for it or clear benefit for us.

When it came to choosing accomplishments that I was proud of that was part of the evening's hands-on activities, I chose my mission, being able to help my family through the experience my dad had with cancer from beginning to end, and also getting both a high school diploma and also a diploma in Communication Arts: Print Journalism, which led me to self-publish a book and also publish several news articles. When it came to the experience I had with my dad, I learned many character traits by walking through fire simply because I was learning these traits as I was slowly losing my father and also helping my family deal with it; it wasn't something I could take the time away from the experience to learn, I had to learn the traits while in the experience because of how little time we had to deal with everything.

We then had to pick character traits that came from the experiences and write I am, I have, I can statements about each of the traits. After doing that, we had to write a 'Me In 30 Seconds' paragraph and some even had to present them to the class. I was not one of those that were chosen to share.

 My personal 'Me in 30 Seconds' paragraph went like this:

Hi, my name is Heather Cameron, I am 27 years old, I have a diploma in Communication Arts: Print Journalism, and I am currently a student in the BYU-Idaho Pathways program. Because of serving a local humanitarian mission and also helping my family through the time that my dad had cancer that eventually took his life, I have the ability to adapt to new situations, I have compassion for those in need of help and/or support, the ability to forgive offenses and offenders, and along with many other traits, I also have faith that hard work produces results.