Choose to Be Good

We feel glad when we make good decisions. This includes choosing to be morally good and obedient.

On occasion, courage means to be with and stand by our friends. Other times it means that we have to stand a little apart, not judging them or feeling superior but choosing the right by doing something different.

When I was in junior high school, my friends were planning to go and throw eggs at cars during Halloween. I had good friends, but I knew that having fun at the expense of other people, including their property, wasn't right.

"You know, this really isn't what we want to do," I said. But they were set on it, so I said, "Well, I'm just going home."

I walked home that night, and my parents asked me why I was home early. When I told them, I knew my parents and Heavenly Father approved of what I had done—and it made me feel good to do the right.