My favorite song is from Man of La Mancha, yes I like those musicals. To Dream the Impossible Dream, my dad would sing it a lot so it is embedded in my head with him singing it. Before he died I wanted to sing it with him and get it recorded, but it didn’t happen. He simply ran out of time here. However, the memory of even talking about that makes me smile. Now onto the subject. Those seemingly endless days filled with discouragement and doubt that wash over like a wave taking all the wind out of your sails, I have had many! I read scriptures and conference talks every morning and every evening, I have put in my time to uplift myself. One might think that I should be set, feeling very little discouragement or doubt. They would be wrong. A few years ago I had chosen to get a degree and I was doing all those things that a good college student does. Reading, studying, getting assignments done and reading my scriptures every day. Yet, here would come a class that was tough. Mostly chemistry and math come to mind. I would faithfully prepare and study and then take a test. I remember the first one was easy, so it would give you a false sense of security!! Then came the second and the third one and before you know it I got some ridiculously low score. The inclination was to drop out of the class before it really killed your grade point average. However, I knew what I needed to do was finish what I started. A lot of times I felt alone, scared, stupid, and generally discouraged and depressed. So essentially I was humbled. Now, I could have taken those feelings of despair and discouragement and walked away from it all. I could have gotten an excuse that I was having depressive episodes, which was fairly accurate. But as impossible as some of those classes were to me at the time, I knew that I hadn’t come this far to fail or drop out. So I trudged along doing the best I could with what I was learning. Overcoming obstacles with the help that is readily available to us all. I chose to humble myself and looked to God in every thought. When I felt those feelings of discouragement I would look to God. Eventually I did earn my degree with honors, regardless of those classes that I thought would kill me. Was it difficult to do, yes! But it was never impossible. Even now that I am going through something that feels impossible, I know that it is merely just difficult and I need to stay humble and looking to God for the peace that I so desperately need. I know that Heavenly Father never asks us to do the impossible, I am a living witness of that!