Day 6

Day 6, Monday: If you couldn't answer with your job, how would you answer the question, 'what do you do'?

I survive. I try to be happy in the worst possible circumstances. I try to make others happy. I try to live worthily of my Heavenly Fathers unconditional love. I try to forgive. I try to be the best I can. I really do try to let people who have hurt me be happy and to be glad for their happiness. Its hard though. I try to be a good example for the 3 little girls of the family I am staying with. I try to be a good example to everyone. I try to trust and to let go...Sorry I'm so SERIOUS haha. I really do try though. And thats what i'm doing right now. I have no job, i know hardly no one, and I don't know where I will be in the next year of my life...But i'm trying to move forward, for the Lord cannot steer a parked car.

Day 5

Day 5, Sunday: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don't have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member

My Mom, Diane is awesome. I love her so much.  She is a really great example to me. 

My mom joined the church when she was a Junior in High School. She was not very supported by her family in her decision. She had a lot of trials in her youth, but that did not stop her from being the kind of person that she knew her Heavenly Father wanted her to be. She does everything for her family. She tries so hard to give her kids a life and an example that will make them who she knows they can be. Sometimes I don't fully appreciate what she does for me...but it is never too long that the Lord shows me the difficulties and hardships she faces without a complaint.  She helped my dad find the church.  Thats another reason I love her. She takes initiative. When my dad and she were dating, she showed up to his doorstep one day. She had a large picture covered by a towel. When she unveiled the picture, she said to my dad, "This is the Washington D.C. temple. This is where I am getting married, you can join me if you'd like." I LOVE THAT SORY. she is so cool.

My mom has taught me more than I can even realize. She is amazing, and I thank God everyday for her and the service she gives to me and my family.

Day 4

Day 4, Saturday: Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it

I have so many of these!! Just looking through my PINTEREST board trying to decide has left me motivated with all the great words I have come across in my lifetime. 

“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.” -Marjorie Pay Hinckley

This has to be one of my absolute favorites. I want to be the kind of person that helps everyone she meets, who gives selfless service with a cheerful smile. I want to be a mother and a wife who supports and loves. I want to be a friend and a servant to the Lord. I want the Lord to know that I did my best to be the kind of person He was while He was on the Earth. 

Day 3

Day 3, Friday: Things that make you uncomfortable

• People hard core kissing in public places
• scream-o music
• swear words
• immodesty 
• when people gossip about people I know
• hairy backs
• smelly perfume
• crammed tight spaces
• hot cars
• being the 3rd wheel
• no one talking
• when you catch someone making a joke about you
• bragging
• alcohol 
• meeting a friend of a friend and being left alone with them

Day 2

So.... I missed a day. But its a new project so its going to take some getting used to! haha

Day 2, Thursday: Educate us on something you know a lot about or are good at. Take any approach you'd like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic)

Well...I'm not sure what to do for this one. I thought a lot about it and I decided to educate on the thing I hold most dear...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  While I cannot educate on every teaching and doctrine via blog, I can teach about the Restoration of the Gospel.  

When Christ died, His church was left to his 12 apostles. When they all died, the church collapsed. Many people picked up bits and pieces of Christ's church, but did not adopt all of His teachings, and that is why we have so many churches on the Earth today.  Well in 1820, a young boy named Joseph Smith wanted to know the truth. He wanted to know which church was true...or if any were at all

"In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?"

  Joseph Smith-History 1:10

He read in the bible one night for solace. He came across James 1:5 

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."

James 1:5

Joseph recounts that "no other scripture had ever come with more power to the heart of a man than did this at this time to mine."

Joseph Smith-History 1:12

So, Joseph did as James directs. On a clear Spring day in 1820, 14 year old Joseph Smith went into a grove of trees nearby his family home.  He carefully kneeled down and offered a vocal prayer. Very soon after he began, a darkness seized over him. He recounts: "It had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Think darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction."

Joseph Smith-History 1:15

Joseph goes on to say that he felt he was to be taken, by a very literal dark being. He exerted all his strength and called upon the Lord. Soon after, the darkness went away.  A light appeared, above the brightness of the sun exactly over the young Joseph's head. Two personages appeared "whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other-This is my Beloved Son. Hear Him!"

Joseph Smith-History 1:17

He saw Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Joseph asked them which church he should join. They told him to join none of them, for none were the complete gospel of Christ. He was then called to restore the Church of Christ to the Earth.

I love this. This is why I do what I do. This is why I am who I am, is because of this day. Joseph later translates the Book of Mormon, a sacred record kept by the people of Christ's time on the American continent, and establishes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, all through the power of God and His Holy Spirit.  

If you would like to learn more, please visit 

mormon.org

lds.org

or contact your local missionaries! (you can do so on mormon.org)

Day 1

Hey! So... School is starting soon. I am way excited!! I found out my roommates and my apartment number and ward so things are starting to come together!! Its crazy!! I have felt so much better about being in Idaho the past few weeks.  So, to celebrate the first month of school, I decided to do something awesome. I found this template on blogging EVERY DAY for one month. I meant to start it on Sept. 1, but didn't...so who cares? I think it will be fun, especially while so many changes are happening in my life. So. with out further ado...

Day 1, Wednesday: The story of your life in 250 words or less (or one paragraph... no one will be counting your words... probably)

My life is wonderful.  I grew up in a home centered around the gospel of Jesus Christ, learning from my parents who were both converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  I grew up with an older sister and a younger brother.  I went to day care with lots of kids and 2 wiener dogs. I went to Woodrow Wilson elementary school where my dream career was to be a hair dresser and a babysitter. I went to Eisenhower middle school where my dad was the band director, and it was awesome. I play the trombone. I went to Manhattan High School where I became who I am today. I started everyday of High School with a 6:20am church class called Seminary where I learned about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I loved it. I graduated in 2013. Now I am here in Idaho, trying to figure it all out. and I'm excited.