eternal friends

have you ever met someone and just knew that you would always be friends? someone with who you could share all your thoughts? all your downfalls and all your successes? someone who just understood you? i have always had a theory regarding eternal friends and on sunday during our lesson i had the opportunity to share that with the young women. being that it was my last sunday before i will be in primary it was an especially nice thing to leave them with.

i have always thought that this life can't be the only time we spend with those people who share our laughs and lives. those with whom we spend our lives with in the gospel especially! so i have always held out that we will have eternal friends. we learn the same things, marry in the same places and make the same covenants... so why would we not live alongside them in the eternities? it doesn't matter to me that we are not sealed to each other - would they not be in the same place with their eternal families? for this reason, i feel so strongly that we need to choose our friends so carefully - so that we can continue our friendships in the next life - with those who made the same choices as us.

i was looking for a picture to go with this post and came across this lovely quote from marjorie pay hinckley, who seems to believe the same as me that gives me even more hope for it!

i truly believe that friendships are eternal and choose my friends wisely to last the test of time.