Come What May and Love It

I did this as part of my personal scripture study, but I thought that I would share it here.  I am another year older, but here is 20 things that I have a testimony of for you to enjoy. Have a wonderful day! Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. He suffered for our sins, our trials, and our troubles. Families can be together of. I am so grateful that I got stuck with a great family for all eternity. I can not imagine even one day without them! Heavenly Father is very aware of our circumstances. He puts us into the situations that we need to be put into. Heavenly Father answers prayers. They may not be loud answers, but quiet feelings. Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. I am so grateful for this. Going through this challenge is making me even more grateful. The Book of Mormon is true. It is filled with all the right stuff. :) President Monson is a true prophet. He speaks the words of God to us today. I am grateful for this connection to God. The Priesthood is resto

I have been in Utah for almost three weeks! I still have no idea what normal life is going to be like... For two weeks I was in intense training for my job. I was working from 9am to 4pm M-F. Have I talked about my job yet? I LOVE IT! I am a Freshman Mentoring Peer Mentor. I get to interact with the Freshman and make sure that they are able to take full advantage of all that BYU has to offer. I am basically here for them for wahtever they need. Have I mentioned how much I love it? But as part of my job, I got the opportunity to attend NSO again. Now, last year I did not like NSO that much. Infact, I kind of despised it. Why, you ask? It was just so long! Here is the schedule from this year (which it is very similar to what we did last year) Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. On-Campus Housing Check-in 8:00 p.m. Housing Move-in Socials Per Assigned Housing Thursday: 8:30-10:00 a.m. NSO Check-in, Meet Y Group 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Convocation 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00-3:00 p.m. E

This seems to be a lesson that I keep having to learn over and over again. Heavenly Father is always there for us, even when we don't want Him to be. I cannot express in words how thankful I am to have a Heavenly Father who knows me so well and knows my needs so much better than I do. Let's rewind to two weeks ago: I was having a particularly stressful week at work. On Monday that week, I was put into Inspection with a lady I had never really worked closely with before. Everything was fine, but I didn't completely know what I would be doing the next day. The lady I was working with told me "Oh, I will just tell you what to do in the morning". Okay. That is fine with me. So the next morning I go into the room and start doing what she had told me to start before she got there. I was polishing capsules and the machine just wasn't working right. A supervisor came in and I asked what I was doing wrong. We come to find out that the humidity was too high to make

I am home. Actually, I have been home for almost 2 weeks now. All I have been doing is trying to get a job. Out of the blue, an old friend from my childhood ward came to visit our family and happened to know of a place that would hire me. Last Thursday, I started my job at a vitamin company. It is definately not the most exciting job in the world, but it is a full time job that pays better than minimum wage. By the end of the summer I should have enough money for at least two more semester of college. This is such a blessing to have gotten this job at this time. It is going to be long hours, but I know in the end it will be worth it. It is amazing how the Lord answers our prayers with things that we didn't even know we needed. Sometimes life is about those little tender mercies...

I have made it through finals! I took four finals today and did well on (well) most of them. I am very excited just to be done. My freshman year is officially over. All that is left to do is to pack everything up and move out! It is just crazy...I still can't believe that it is already over. A year ago, I was writing a speech for graduation. I was working at Arby's. I was just looking forward to the opportunity to leave and start over new. Now, I am done with my first year of college. Only three more years until I am a teacher...

Finals week is about to begin. A week from today I will be moved out of my dorm and getting ready to head back to Arizona. I am excited and sad, but all I can think about is this: I should be studying...

Today is the last day of classes! I cannot believe that I have already made it this far. This morning I was reminded about where I was a year ago... About a year ago I found out that I did not get a scholarship through BYU. This devistated me! I had worked so hard all through high school and graduated as valedictorian just to not get a scholarship to my dream school. I found out about this during my English class and right after that class was seminary...it was the one and only time that I ditched seminary because I just had to go home and cry. At the time I didn't understand. If I did get a scholarship I would have been a lot more worried and concerned about school and grades. While I am still trying my hardest (and still getting good grades :) ) I would have been locked up in my room all the time. Every test would bring with it anxiety and a lot of stress. I would not have been able to hang out with my friends as much. I probably would not have taken the Divine Comedy positio

Remember in December when I said that I was going to blog more? Yeah...I lied. There is only a week more of classes and then a week of finals and then I am DONE with my freshman year! It has passed by so quickly that sometimes it is hard for me to believe that it is really done! Let me catch you up on all that has happened this semester: - I got a room to myself : At first I was a little saddened by this, but it has been so great having a whole room to myself. The best parts are having an extra bed that has become my study/netflix watching place, getting to set the thermostat to freezing cold (much to my friend's dismay), and having the fridge on the extra desk so that I don't have to lean down to get my water out of the fridge. While sometimes I wish I still had a roommate, I have been loving having the place to myself. - It hasn't snowed...much : It really has not snowed that much this winter. All the Utah people have been telling me how this is such a mild winter