A Great Example of Repentance: for D&C class

My older sister Alissa is a hero to me in more ways than one.  This assignment reminded me of one thing that she did a couple of years ago that left a huge impact on me.  You have to understand something before I tell you this story though.  My sister is a spiritual giant.  No Joke.  She isn’t a molly mormon or a snob about it either.  It is just how she is.  Genuinely good, and always trying to be better.  I could seriously see her as the Relief Society General President someday and she wouldn’t aspire to be it.  She is just that great.  Also you have to understand that in my home we don’t condone PG-13 movies or T.V. shows of the equivalent rating.  Sure we watch some of them but its not like we rave over them or are glad that we watch them.  It has surprised me being out in the world and seeing how many good people watch PG-13 rated T.V. Shows on a consistent basis and share them with others.  Granted some of them are great shows.  But they aren't the best thing we could be watching.  

When my sister went off to college she started getting into watching a T.V. Show called Bones.  When she came home for breaks my Mom and I would watch episodes with her and we soon got into it a little bit too.  Then the third season started(at least I think it was the third season).  All the sudden the show took a moral decline and started having more scenes of sexual content and more crude humor.  (Not horrible by the worlds standards)  My sister was so disappointed that a show she enjoyed was so bad.  She decided that she needed to repent and promised not to watch Bones ever again.  Even if it was a good episode.  She went cold turkey from a T.V. addiction that she had had for many months.  At first I was kind of amused by her goal.  That kind of self control was something that I could never have and it kind of urked me that she could just do it. Just like that.  I would watch Bones and when she walked by the living room excitedly tell her about what was going on in an attempt to have her sit down and join me.  She never did though.  Instead she would just put on her clever little smile and say she had something else to do then leave.  I didn’t understand then because I was still very immature but my sister had fully repented of her desire and action of watching a show that was harmful to her spirit.  She wasn’t trying to make a statement or make me feel like I was evil for watching it.  She just simply wanted to be better, made a goal to do it, and had a change of heart.  Her self control, courage, and moral stamina has inspired me for a long time, I honestly wish I could be more like her.  She made a choice to repent of something that not everyone would see as something to repent for, and she acted on that repentance.  She truly had a change of heart.  I’m sure that she was tempted many times to watch Bones but I honestly don’t think she has since she decided she wouldn’t.