I am Grateful For

I am grateful for the gospel and the great plan of happiness.

Wonderful Wednesday

So before I start I have to say how much I love doing these "Wonderful Wednesday" posts. As I try to think of something I am truly grateful for, and more then simple things. I find how much my life has been blessed. I find how close the Savior is to me in my life. He is the constant I am then one that decides where our relationship goes.

So my wonderful Wednesday: TIME

As strange as this may seem it sums up what I am grateful for this Wednesday.

Have you ever spent any amount of time and looked at your life? Who you are? Where you came from? Where are you going? What you have learned? Where you are now? If not you need to! I have spent a lot of time doing this as of late and wow its been a journey.

As I have done this I realized how much I have grown where I have come from and where I hope I am going.

Things I have noticed:
A Year Ago: I was hurt, confused, building very high walls and really testing my trust in the Lord and his direction. I was in a state of doing what I knew my Heavenly Father wanted and needed me to do but I had no clue why. I was in an extreme state of simply acting out of blind obedience. I was only making decisions and actions out of love for my Heavenly Father and nothing more. I did not know why I was making these decisions. I did not want to follow or act. I wanted things to be different.

Today: I am still relying on faith. But I can see each and every day why the Lord's direction was best for me. I feel excited about life. I am ready and willingly to trust again. The thought of moving forward doesnt scare me. The future exists me. As a quote I read state: I know that all things will work out for my best. I am ready to take down walls, and am doing so daily. I am excited, hopeful, etc. I am no longer afraid. I feel so at peace that everything is working out how it should.

This is just one example of what time has done. I know it comes from maturity but a lot of changes in me have come from the atonement and the power of love. Time worked on me and through me. It took time to heal wounds and give me the courage to move forward.

I am grateful this Wednesday for TIME

I am Grateful for Peace

I am Grateful for PEACE!!

I am grateful for the feeling of peace I have in my heart. I know that in my heart all things are going to work out for the best. I know the promised blessing is right around the corner.

If you were to ask me the two things I feel in my heart right now I would say hope and peace. Why... well I always try to feel hope its always there. But why the peace. I can explain it exactly all I know is that I feel so peaceful in my heart and so so strongly that what I have been praying for for years is right around the corner. I feel I am closer then I have ever been to getting married. Truth I know its going to happen I feel it and I know. The peace is feeling that what I am doing right now is leading to that promise. It almost feels so close I can touch. I know it may be a few years yet but I feel its coming. I know its happening. I feel peace because the knowledge, faith and hope are there. The promised blessing seems so close I can almost reach out and touch it. My heart is no longer afraid its at peace.

(Oh so I decided that everyday between now and Christmas I am going to post one thing I am thankful for.)

My Birthday Weekend

Last weekend was my birthday, well November 15 to be exact. I have sadly reached the age of 23. As my brother put welcome to being a menis (I know I cant spell) to society. To be honest I love how things are going in my life and would not change a thing. I know things are going just as they should and pray daily that I can continue to do and be where I need to so I can help make my life as God has planned it. Everything will work out just as it should.

So here is how I spent my weekend, or at least highlights.

I LOVE gooey yummy chocolaty food. So my mom made me the yummiest chocolate trifle ever.

Saturday night. My mom, sis and I went on saw Ballet West "The Tempest." Well this was more for my moms birthday. My dad gave her season tickets to the Ballet it just happened to be on my birthday. No complaints there.

I spent Saturday morning at the spa. I had a massage, facial, pedicure and manicure. I got acrylic nails for the first time ever. So far I love them. PS they help with sanding glass.

Friday night I hung out with a bunch of friends. We went and watched the first five episodes of Heroes. Now I just need to finish them.

We also went and had dinner at CPK.

Thanks everyone for making this one of the best birthdays ever.

Wonderful Wednesday

My Wonderful Wednesday is HOPE

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
—Vaclav Havel (b. 1936), poet, playwright, 1st president of Czech Republic

Wonderful Wednesday

Yep I know its a day late.



My Wonderful Wednesday this week is for finaly starting to get over my case of bronchitis!!!



Silly I know but its been a hard two weeks.

Going Private

Hey Friends-

So this week I attended a prevent child abuse conference for work. I attended alot of classes about technology and the use of computers and the internet to stalk people. Its trully scarry what goes on out there. For a while I have been thinking about how to be saffer. One hint please please watch who you and your kids talk to on the internet, what info is given out and personel info, etc.

I have allready had some fun experience with weird people calling me from my Facebook account. That finally lead me to remove all personal contact info from all accounts. Right now I am tempted to change my email, basically have one account for public and one for private. But I havent quite gotten there yet. Ill let you know if I do.

But thanks to Natalie I have decided to take the step I have been thinking about doing for awhile. I am going to be making my blog private. I created them for a few reasons (to stay in touch, have a sorts of journal and a good collection spot for my thoughts).

I will leave my blog public a month or so. Please let me know if you want to be invited.

PS the blog for my craft business and maybe my bro's mission will remain public.

Wonderful Wednesday

Today's Wonderful Wednesday is for simple promptings of the spirit.

This week has been one full of simple promptings and revelations from the spirit.

The first came on Sunday when I had a feeling to read my patriarticle blessing during the sacrament. So I dug it out of its home, probably bad if I had to dig for it in order to read it. As I was reading my blessing I was filled with love and a sense of peace knowing what God had promised me and that all these things are mine to have. What struck my the most though was the last line, the closer. It said something along the lines that these blessings are mine based upon my faith. I thought that was kind of interesting I have heard a lot of people say that their blessing confirm these promised blessings based upon their faithfulness and obedience to the commandments of God. To be truthful I always thought that was what mine said but it simply said the blessings are mine upon my faithfulness. The second revelation came at that time the greatest dreams and desires of my heart are mine to have, in Gods timing, but they are mine-minding that I remain faithful. I thought this was interesting for the greatest thing I struggle with is keeping hope and faith alive. I have always believed that faith=hope=happiness. When ever I remain truly hopeful things have happened. So thats the key.

The third was prompting. I kept getting a prompting to read the entire talk by Elder Holland entitled "He Loved Them Unto the End." So last night I did. Can I tell you it is the best talk ever. A summary of the message is this, through the pain and hardships of Gethsemane Christ never turned his back on what he was sent to do. He continued to love us. He never stooped loving us and he never will.

I am grateful for simple promptings and revelations.

Happy Halloween

Yep I know a few days late but Happy Halloween. This year I decided to go for something new and went all out for Halloween. With the costume that is. I went as a black fairy/Nimph/Butterfly you decide. I went to a party at my friends and then headed down to a party at the Skybox with my sorority and fraternity.