This New Journey

I have been home for a day and a have and man has it been GREAT! I seriously have missed this California sun!!!!! (and the P's of course!) Today I got an e-mail from my bishop WOOHOO and my papers are officially opened!!!!!!! I really can't believe this is happening. I have seriously been so emotional all day, on the verge of crying over the stupidest things. story time: Earlier I was petting willie (my cute pooch) and I was thinking "man he is like the best dog EVER". I swear there was like a little montage of the years we had him and then my eyes got watery... One word...PATHETIC I have been keeping my composure though because my mom thinks I am a pansy. She called me emotional (hmm...ill show you!)

Sweet Serendipity

This weekend i was able to visit my brothers for Easter. It was seriously so fun and so relaxing. One thing i hate about visiting them is I realize how much I have missed them when I am with them. I tend to get a little sappy, giving lots of hugs and kisses. Can i just say that my brothers are seriously wonderful. Actually my family in general is just wonderful. My parents have seriously raised us to love each other and to be there for support. Its crazy looking at life and thinking how grown up we are. I think back and wonder how it is we got here? I am so grateful for my family and how much I have been blessed.

Temple Marriage

"If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by." In my developmental psychology class we have been talking about divorce and one thing my teacher share with us was this.

Spirtitual Promptings

Seriously, spiritual promptings kick my trash I am always scared of making decisions because i feel that i can never read the whispers. I always question myself, i wonder if it is really a prompting or am i just being dumb. My roommate and i were talking about this and i shared my concern and how i wish and need to grow in this. She shared a scripture with me, Moroni 7:16 16 For behold, the Spirit of Christ is given to every bman, that he may know good from evil; wherefore, I show unto you the way to judge; for every thing which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God. After reading this i feel a lot better. Promptings are ANYTHING that is good whether it be big or small. Any feeling of doing good is of the spirit. My new goal now is to act on every prompting of good.

No Longer applicable

So I have been debating a mission for the past few months and I have decided. I will not be going. Weirdly I am happy because my mind is at rest. Sunday I was in missionary prep and one of the teachers was talking about women missionaries and how for men they have to go and women don't. I knew that already but when he said it I just had this thought of not going on a mission and it was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I know I want to be a missionary but I don't have to serve a mission to be one. I think that I am going to keep going to mission prep and use all that is said to become a missionary now and share with friends and family the blessing of the gospel. (deep breathe) I've made the decision... and it feels good.

The good mad... What more should i say?

Listen children, Don't give up on this world were livin in An endless chorus or beepin, countless digits Were prayin to god from these holes that were digin Oh I get get that it's all cataclysmic and someday we'll fall What good is a warning? Like old men before me, I'll rise up and meet the road. I have no fear of the crash of the tumblin market Why bother saving with holes in my pockets It's all a relic someday, We can not look back and wonder what money paid for.

The p's

Holy cow have I been blessed with AMAZING parents. I couldn't have asked for better ones. They are the funniest, craziest, most weirdest people ever and I love em! :)