Come What May and Love It

(Please excuse the Hannah Montana song title. I couldn't stop myself!) There was a time that I thought I had to be perfect all the time. There are still days when I do not feel like I am enough. I feel like as a member of the church, sometimes we are expected to be perfect. We are given a lot of expectations and if I fail at even one of them, then I must be failing my Heavenly Father, right? Wrong. I feel like as we have feel like we must be perfect, we feel like others are judging us if we are not. I felt that a lot in high school. I felt like if I didn't do everything right 100% of the time then my peers would judge me and my faith. I felt like I could not make a mistake because everyone was watching. But WHO CARES? We weren't sent to this earth to be perfect. If we had, then we would be living Satan's plan. But we are not. We have agency. We came here to "take chances, make mistakes, and get messy" (is it bad to quote Ms. Frizzle in a semi-serious blog ...

So it is officially official. I have been accepted into Brigham Young University (Provo). Right now it is exciting, and nerve racking. This is the school I have always wanted to go to since I first step foot into the BYU bookstore when I was five. It is just crazy that I am actually old enough to be going to college. I am basically creating this blog to document my journey. From the acceptance letter to my final graduation. I pray that this blog will not be too boring, not that very many (if any) people will read it. It is more for my benefit, that I can document everything I am going through (and try to get better at journal writing).