He Lives, and He is There

Today, I had to spiritual experiences that I wanted to express my feelings about. I went to Mikey's farewell today. The Sacrament Meeting was amazing. The family that spoke with him did a great job and I really liked their talk. Mikey's testimony was especially powerful and really touched me, I could really feel the spirit. And then besides that, they had 5 boys from the Senior primary(ages 8-11) sing the song, "We'll Bring the World His Truth". The way they sang it with such joy and enthusiasm really touched my heart. This morning, I really felt the Spirit there with me, and I know the gospel is true.

I do have a testimony, but sometimes, when things get hard, I forget.

Tonight, for multiple reasons, I felt extremely sad and lonely. As I was writing in my journal about my week, and how I was feeling tonight, I reminded myself that I just have to let myself have faith that I am not alone. That when I feel more lonely than I know how to bare, Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ will always be there for me. I know what I need to do, but for some reason it's hard for me. Then, something happened. I was listening to my Sunday playlist on shuffle, and the song "Close Enough" from my Women At The Well CD came on. It's about the women who touched Jesus' robe and was healed. But I love it because it talks about remembering that Jesus is always there, always close enough to touch. As if that wasn't enough to help me feel better, and prove to me that God is here for me, I started looking around my room at the pictures of Christ I have. I was thinking to myself that I just need to let myself have the faith in them, to know they are there when I changed where I was looking. And sitting on my dresser was a Mormonad that I had put in a frame I'd painted at a YW activity. It's the one with a picture of Christ that says, "You are Never Alone." I started to cry again at this sign that God does love me, he knows what I need right now, and he is there for me.

Sometimes I find it harder to believe than others. But I do know that God is real. I know He loves me. I know He is aware of me, and he wants to be there for me. I know that Christ suffered for MY sins, and died for ME because he loves me. I know that the gospel is true, and that Joseph Smith restored it to the Earth with God's help. I know that if I am righteous that one day I can live with Heavenly Father forever, and with all my loved ones. I am grateful for days like to day, with experiences that strengthen my testimony, especially when I'm struggling, but even when I'm not.

The Hunt is OVER

I have a job!

That's right folks, having been home for exactly two months now, I finally found a job. And where is this wonderful job you may ask? Well let me show you, I will now be employed by;
I have to admit that I'm not overly excited about working as a cashier for Walmart, but heck, it's a job. And I'm starting at 8.50 an hour, which is more than I've been paid anywhere else. Tomorrow I have orientation for 9 hours! That is forever! I hope I can survive. If not, I hope you'll all come to my funeral. I hope that this job wont' interfere with things I want to attend while I am home such as mission farewells, my sister's wedding, family reunion, Windriver trip. Hopefully that won't be the case. If it is I just might quit. I certainly got used to the unemployed boring life.


So, you may also want to know how I got the job. One of my friends told me a should apply at Sam's Club. So, I did and the application for Walmart was on the same page, so I figured what the heck. I applied. Two days later, I got a call, and the next day I had my interview. That was a complicated process, but at the end of the day, I came home with a job offer. Luckily enough I have a clean background, and my drug dealer is on a mission(just kidding) so that was clean too. So, today I got a call and now I officially have the job. For now it's just part time, but that will be around 30 hour anyway.



The moral of the story is, when you feel like giving up, apply at random places you didn't think much about before, and you might just end up with a job! YAY!

The Wonders of this World

How often do we truly appreciate how wonderful this world is that we live on? God must love us greatly to have given us such a place to experience life in. Living in Utah, I've had the mountains around my entire life. I've always known that they are beautiful, but wasn't until I saw roommates and friends at BYU amazed by their majestic beauty that I learned how I take them for granted. Not only are there mountains, but flowers, and blue skies, and thunderstorms, and so many other beautiful sites and things to be seen.

However, it's not just the views, but also the life. I love creatures in nature, they amaze me. Today, I was able to see something that got me thinking about this, and I wanted to share it with others. At a family reunion today, we discovered there was a nest with baby birds in it, because the parents were feeding it. I missed the opportunity of watching a mother feed her young, but was amazed by the tiny baby birds as they begged for food. I was only able to take one picture(which is not a great one), and did not watch long since we didn't want to scare the mom away from feeding them, but I could have watched them for hours.

I am grateful for little things that help me remember the beauty of Earth, and the love of God for his children, and that includes me.

I love my family

Perhaps I'm a little biased, but I believe I have one of the most amazing families to be found anywhere. They are such a blessing in my life, and really one of the most important things to me. I feel really privileged to be raised in a home where family is so important. I am grateful for grandparents who raised their children to be best friends. This has given me the opportunity to find my best friends among my cousins, even if many of them live in different states. This only makes the rare times I do see them even more special to me, and I look forward to our reunions all year long. My mom's family is great too, even though my cousins are all older with their own families now, and I don't see them much, I love them all dearly.

Family has always been important to me, and anyone who knows me well will not find that hard to believe. This is because my family has always been there for me. When I have passed through my trials, I have known I don't have to do it alone. I have a family whose loving arms will always support me, that will be there constantly whenever I need them. It's difficult for me to put into words what family means to me, so I won't try. But having spent today with family, it is on my mind, and so I would just like to post some favorite pictures with family on my blog and tell everyone that I LOVE MY FAMILY.

Ice Cream with old Coworkers

Well, ever since I got home I've been trying to get all my friends that I worked with at Apple Tree together for ice cream, and to catch up. I finally decided to just tell everyone a time and place, and see who could show.


Tonight was the night, and only Mikey, Steve, and Jenelle showed up, but we had fun anyway. It was great to just catch up with them, relax, and have some good laughs. Mikey had the camera and it died, or he would be in some pictures, and there would be more of them.

The Drive-In Adventure

So, the other day Rachel Rigley, a dear friend of mine, called to say her place of employment was indeed hiring, and she would get me an application. Then, on an impulse she invited me to go to the Drive In Theatre with her and a couple of friends that night. Seeing as my life is currently boring, I agreed to do, and was appreciative of the invitation.

About 45 minutes later we departed. We got there, and I was happy to find out that Rachel's friend worked there, so we got in for FREE. But then, the two shows we wanted to see, or at least what Rachel and Marette and I wanted to see were on separate screens!(they do double features) Their friend that works there, I believe her name is Sandy, but I had never met her before, so I'm not sure, said it was against the rules to switch in between, so we couldn't do that. Everyone wanted to see Kung Fu Panda, so we agreed to go to that screen, instead of the one with Iron Man. However, Rachel and Marette and I decided we did not want to see Indiana Jones, but would rather get home. There was just one problem. The battery in Rachel's truck died, and we had to wait to get them to jump it. Which means I saw part of Indiana Jones, without sound.

Don't worry though, we had sound for all of Kung Fu Panda, because Vanessa had her own car there, and we just turned hers up.

Other interesting things that happened;

Vanessa caught a wheat thin in her mouth after placing it on her nose

Vanessa also accidentally ate the second Fancy Cake in Rachel's pack, and had to give her her other, but it was partially smashed.

Happy Father's Day!

So, I just want to say that I love my dad on this day meant for cool dad's like him to be appreciated. As with mother's day, I wrote him a poem, and once again it is on the site with my writings, a link to which you can find on the left of my blog.

Why I love Library Book Sales

So, every once in while the Layton Library has these beautiful events where they SALE books, and CD's and movies, and such that they've used at the library. Therefore they are really cheap. Generally I forget when they are having these, and then I get really sad that I've missed it. It's not like they have tons of the books I love, but you can usually find at least one thing you want. Last time I checked out books at the library, I saw a sign announcing that they were going to have one. So, I actually got smart, and pulled out my phone and put the event on the Calendar.

Saturday morning, we woke up early to have breakfast together before Sarah headed up to Rexburg for EFY. I don't generally wake up at a decent time anymore, so I was still tired, and went back to bed after delicious waffles. Then, all of the sudden at 9:45 my phone starts beeping at me! I had totally forgotten about the book sale, thank goodness I put it in my phone.

So, after going back to sleep till 10:30(I know, it's pathetically late, but at least it was Saturday) I told my mom about it and she took me down. Where I found these;

I've never read this book, but I've heard it's excellent. It's based on a true story about a spy during WWII. Written by the actual person. So I'm kind of excited to read it.

I know you might be shocked to find out that I love this movie. Sure, there are a couple parts with some dirty dancing(who would have guessed) and a couple other parts that last like a minute or less that need to be fast forwarded, but in general, its not too bad, and the love story in it is great! So, I was pretty excited to find it.

This show is one that I would have NEVER heard of before, except that my grandparents own it. And, I frequently borrow movies from them. It only took one viewing of this show for me to like it. So I was also excited to find this one.

The best part of all of this is that I only spent $2.25. And that is the real reason I love Library Book Sales. I can find great books and movies for excellent deals.

My Love for...

Sunglasses!

I've recently decided that I don't just like sunglasses, I LOVE them. This realization hit me because I don't just have one pair, nope, I have FOUR! I and Love every single pair.

At first I only had one pair, and they were brown. But, you can't wear brown sunglasses with every single outfit, what if they don't' match? So, This summer I decided I would buy me a nice black pair. Lo and behold, they were on sale, a BOGO at Payless Shoes store. So, I figured what the heck, and I bought a beautiful white pair as well. I figured I was set, with brown, black, and white. And then I found these babies;

I went with my mom to Dollar Tree the other day, not because I wanted to, but she had taken me to the Library book sale, and needed to go there, so I decided I'd tag along, instead of making her take me all the way home and then have to drive back. We walk in and at the front of the store is a rack with many sunglasses. My mom said, "get yourself a pair of sunglasses" kind of joking, because some of them were silly, but also serious. So I looked around until I found this amazing red pair. So that's right folks, I got this pair for a grand total of ONE DOLLAR and five cents (Everything has an extra five cents with the stupid price of gas) plus tax.

So, from now on every visit I take to Dollar Tree I'll have to take a look at that rack and see if I can find me another cute pair of one dollar sunglasses. Of course, I don't know how I'll fit five pairs on my head to take pictures for the next blog I'd have to write.

Dinosaurs Still Roam

the temple grounds.

So, on Friday my sister had her Bridals done. My mom and I went and met her friend who is doing them for her at the Ogden temple so we could help with her big train. On the dress. So, I was actually kind of bored, because there wasn't tons to do. I was just looking around and I looked at the ground to discover that dinosaurs still roam, just not in the wild. But on the temple grounds.

I found this little buddy laying in the grass. I was pretty amused by it, and decided then and there that I needed to write a blog about it. It's about the most interesting thing in my life lately anyway.

But, just to add to the entry, here are some pics of my sister in her dress as well;