Dear Friend,

I don't like how this is drawing us a part. I remember when we didn't have worries or struggles like this and I wonder where it all went wrong. I hope that my thoughts are as pure as my feelings are true because I truly care about you. I hope I am not blinded by other things in my life. I have been trying to live righteously this month so that I can better help you to see the light-but I am not perfect. Please try to understand.

I know your life didn't come easy, no life ever has. Yet I know that the struggles you have been through and will go through were made for you at that time. Heavenly Father doesn't enjoy making us suffer; rather, He loves watching us grow. I have seen you grow and change, you are not the person you were five years ago but you are still a child of God, He and I both want what's best for you.

You have always had high hopes and dreams, some I never though possible but you are working to them with such excitement and passion it makes me smile. It's not easy to balance everything in life but I know if we put The Lord first, every other good thing will fall into place and the bad will fall out entirely.

It makes me so sad when I see you make choices that cannot help you with your mission. We are not perfect or complete on earth, yet we are still able to know right from wrong. No matter how right the wrong may feel it will always be wrong. How easy it is to be deceived how easy to give up! But together we can have the strength of millions. Two people can do anything as long as one of them is God.

And now I quote from President Gordan B. Hinckley: "Thou shalt not be stupid." And I fear I have not done this myself. I can't ever start to mention the stupid things I have done, but God has forgiven me and He can, will, and wants to forgive you. Repentance is the most wonderful gift, I hope you know that you can use it anytime.

Where are the youth of yesterday? We have all changed by our hardships and trials. There have been times when you have not been what you were before, our friendship at times seemed troubled and doomed and I was not sure what I would do.

That we have had our struggles, is the least of my worries, that I have awakened out of the most glorious childhood and found life here to greet me, that is something I can master. But that our friendship might be over, intirely, decidedly, and instantly, that is something I cannot do-I cannot do it!

And I hope I never will have to. :) I am here when you need to talk and I am here to listen. I will love you for your weaknesses and hardships, you know I always have. I love you for a person and I don't want to leave that unless it is my last choice. Please don't let pride cover your eyes until you are blind, for the light is to wonderful to leave. And yet, if pride and other things pull us apart, know I will be here with open arms, never to be closed off to those who wish to come back.

And above all know that He is there, waiting, watching, wishing for both of us, along with everyone here in earth to come back to Him, to once again be loved and to be rewarded with the highest of blessings.

-Dassia