a different Sunday

Sundays. Sundays are great because I get to sleep in, go to church and try to get outside of myself for a little while. Fasting is always good (yes I said it was good) and break the fast with the ward, dessert with now former :*( FHE bros along with Tangled is always a bonus. Can I just say I have the best hometeachers in the entire world? Shout out to Nate and Jason who gave their testimonies today which were a great boost to me.

So you know when people tell you how everything is gonna be fine just gotta focus and keep it out of your mind? Yeah, working on that. Kinda hard. Yeah a bit. I never thought I'd say this but I WANT MY TEXTBOOKS SO I CAN JUST FOCUS ON THAT. This in between period is highly unnecessary, but hey, what do I know?

I love the church and how constant it is. Everything about it just reminds me of how the Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. He carries me through the hard times and walks beside me to be there whenever I need. You know what? The scriptures are the best textbooks ever, so I can do my very best o get lost in those. Nothing is too big or small for the Lord to handle, if I just let Him guide me, I'll be just fine.

I get to go see Hugo on Tuesday with a friend from Bakersfield, who's in my stake, that I never knew existed until three days ago. Small Mormon BYU world . . . but in other movie news, Beauty and the Beast comes out again this week! YAY! Favorite Disney movie of all time and I get to eventually see it on the big screen! Now to get a car . . . who wants to comes with me? :)

School this week will be insanely busy I'm sure (unless my TEXTBOOKS don't get here) but I like being busy good at keeping the brain occupied. This quote needs to be in this post because I need to cheer up dang it.


"I like life! 

Life likes me!

 Life and I fairly fully agree 

Life is fine! Life is good! 

'Specially mine which is just as it should be! 

I like pouring the wine and why not? 

Life's a pleasure that I deny not 

I like life here and now 

Life and I made a mutual vow 

Till I die, life and I, 

We'll both try to be better somehow!"
-Scrooge

We'll both try to be better somehow :) Everything's good because I say it is. Have a good week cyberspace!

Cheers!

back in the saddle again

Who would've thought that I'd ever miss having my textbooks. I need to do homework and they're not here yet! ugh....

Getting back into the swing of school is kinda weird. Something is definitely different about this semester but I guess its just something I need to get used to. Best friends off doing great things so I'll support them every step of the way but its hard when they're gone. I really just want to dive into school and focus on that but without TEXTBOOKS its makes that difficult so I certainly hope they get here soon.

All my classes seem like they're going to be alot of fun but very difficult all at once, I guess I shouldn't be surprised especially since I'm in lots of major and higher level classes but I'll be busy. Next week, I'm going to go in and start working on one of the journals that BYU produces to kinda jumpstart my editing skills and make it easier for me to get a job later. I haven't decided between Criterion (literary criticism) or Americana (american studies + humanities) but they start on Wednesday and I'm really quite excited. I'm guessing this experience will really help me in figuring out if editing is right for me but I have high hopes.

A New Testament assignment really got me thinking yesterday about the value of a journal. I mean isn't that basically what all the scriptures are? Journals that the prophets of old and new kept of the spiritual and physical experience of them and their people for my benefit? Kinda seems silly that I've never been good at keeping a journal so maybe this blog could help with that. I love the new insights I've gained from my religion classes. Feeling the spirit and looking at the verses in a new way brings the scriptures to life for me. My New Testament teacher tells us that we should look at the scriptures as our story. What can we see of ourselves in the characters? Do we allow the Lord with the Holy Ghost to work on us like the righteous men and women shown in the scriptures? It gives you a lot to think about. I sometimes feel like I need to improve on so many things at once; scripture reading (between the BofM, NT and Ensign talks), overcoming the sins of commission, reaching out to everyone and just being a better follower of Christ, and I don't have enough hours in the day. Then it helps to remember the quote I've put up at the top of this blog: "Just for today, I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once." The gospel is a process, it takes a lifetime to go completely. It just makes me excited to go to the temple eventually and just learn more. SO STOKED. enough said

Cheers

it begins

I'm sure everyone is sort of afraid when they start a blog. What is it like to just send things off into the world wide web and just kinda say well someone will think its worth reading. Even if my mindless blabber really isn't worth reading to many, I enjoy doing it because its the best way for me to just let my feelings out. Writing is therapeutic. I've found this in my actual enjoyment of writing papers and especially in writing letters. It may be apart of my career someday but it may not but I don't really care either way. I've always been bad at journaling and hopefully this will be some semblance of a journal along with the mindless blabber that ill inevitably come with it.

Now, the breakdown of my current situation is as follows

• 15 credits
• working 4 nights a week
• new roommates
• best friend is no longer boyfriend and headed to Korea for two years = rather bummed out but super excited all at once
• forgot to get things when at the grocery store
• striving for more spirituality
• sleep is optional but very much needed

So.....more on those things later. My classes are calling to me, "Ready for this, ready for this, YOU'RE NOT READY FOR THIS!"

Well, I'll see if they're right won't I? Cheers