Friendships, especially friendships we form when we are young, can be quite fulfilling. Friends help each other, lift each another, comfort, push us to be better, and help us to make the right choices. Friends can lead us down the right path or easily deter us to follow the wrong path.

Fortunately for me, I’ve been blessed with wonderful friends in my life. I remember feeling from a very young age that choosing the right friends would be a wonderful blessing in my life for years to come. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve seen where the choice to be friends with someone, or the harder choice to not be friends with someone, has made all the difference in my life.

I have a best friend that’s been in my life since we were five years old. Debs and I have been inseparable since that first day of Kindergarten. As I think back on our teenage years, those first few semesters of college, and then on to raising families, I see that Debs has been an influencer for good in my life. When we were in high school, we made trips to the temple. We often spent Friday nights doing baptisms for the dead or just walking on the temple grounds. Maybe that seems like a “nerdy” thing for teenagers to do, but for us it helped us to make good decisions during the crucial years of our lives.

Our friendship has been through it all. Boyfriends, high school, husbands, kids, missions, college, and careers. We’ve had our ups and downs, our tears, anger, and sadness. But through it all, the good choices we made when we were younger helped us to pull through all the drama of life.

Choosing the right friends could be the most important decision in your life. Think about those closest to you. How have your friends influenced your life? Your decisions? How will they influence your future? Choose wisely, for friends will make a big difference in your life.

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