Moving Forward

So, tomorrow morning I start my journey back home to Utah, where I plan on finishing school in December and then who knows what else.  To be honest I have very mixed feelings, it will be good to be around my family again, and it will be good to be done with school.  On the other hand the past few years have been amazing, and full of wonderful opportunities, and it feels weird realizing that a significant chapter of my life will be ending soon, and that I need to figure out what comes next.  In addition, it is hard to leave Scotland, and it will be hard after my internships in DC and Edinburgh to be super excited about going back to a more routine existence in Provo.
But, I guess that is what life is all about, we cannot stay in the same places forever, and life is all about changing. The real question becomes whether we really trust the Lord or not, and whether we believe that He has something better in store for us.  Elder Holland has an amazing talk on this, about how Christ has promised us that as we follow Him our paths will be guided and there will be better things ahead, which is pretty awesome.  And I think that is the test, is whether in these hard times, the times of uncertainty is whether we will trust Him.
Luckily, experience has taught me that is true.  From Jerusalem, to a mission, to DC to Edinburgh, the Lord does have wonderful things in store for us.  There is happiness and goodness ahead of us, even if we can't see it.
In short, with rambling, I guess what I am saying is that change is hard, and it should be.  We don't want to give up everything from our past, and we shouldn't.  There are friendships to strengthen, and memories to cherish.  There are lessons to learn, and experiences to help us grow.  And I think that is one reason that change is tough, is so that we seek to hold on to the important pieces of the past.  But, the trick is to take those lessons and those important things and move forward, and not seek to live in the past.  When we do that, then we can trust that there are good things to come.