I love people! Seriously everyone on the earth, every person that has ever lived leads(led) and interesting life! I love hearing about people's lives! Just the stories you hear, the experiences people have. It's amazing! I think that my life is pretty interesting most of the time, and if my life is as interesting as it is, think of all of the billions of people who have even more amazing lives, stories, and experiences! I think it is so fun to hear about just things people see, do and feel. Just today one of my friends texted me and told me about how they witnessed a car crash, and consequent arrest because the person was intoxicated. If it wasn't interesting enough for my friend to see that happen, and for me to hear it, think about the person who it was. The girl that got arrested! What a story she has to tell her friends! I am in awe when I think of how absolutely brilliant life is! How is it that we can all be on this mortal probation together, but still have distinctly different and interesting experiences? It is just amazing. It really makes me think of how vast the universe is! No two people have exactly all the same experiences, or thoughts. Even if two people share an event, they still perceive it differently! It amazes me so much! I am so grateful for this life, and the chance that we each get to be the dictator of our own life, to govern our own choices, and to make our own decisions. I love my life, and I love hearing about yours!!!:)
I love doing the right thing at the right time, and being in the right place right when someone needs me most. I've heard stories all my life about someone reaching out and being there for another person who was struggling. I try to be there for my friends, but there is something different being there and reaching out to a stranger, who is also a child of God. I had an experience today that made me feel so close to the spirit of the Lord! It honestly filled me with the light of Christ and happiness.
I was just doing my calling that I have been procrastinating, and calling people in the ward with out pictures in the directory. I had received a lot of answering machines, and was beginning to think that really what I was doing didn't matter. No one cares about pictures, and although I don't understand it some people don't like their picture taken. So whatever. I'll do my duty and be done with it. Before I could even realize how bad my attitude was, it changed.
A stern sounding woman answered the phone. When I asked to speak to her daughter she immediately sounded like my mom did when any guy no matter who they were called for me. She was defensive and asked who I was and what I wanted. I told her that I was from the 14th ward and I just wanted to talk with her daughter for a minute. She immediately relaxed and got her daughter. Before I could wait to speak to her daughter the mother jumped back on the phone and told me how grateful she was that I called. She informed me that her daughter really needed fellowship, and someone to befriend her, and take her to church and get her involved again.
At first I was a little overwhelmed thinking how can I reactivate her? All I want is her picture!
When the girl came on the phone she sounded timid, and meek. I was instantly humbled. It was as if this nurturing impulse suddenly took over my mind. I just wanted to reach through the phone and hug this poor child of God. I don't know her circumstances, but I do know that she needs the church in her life. I explained who I was, and that I really missed seeing her at church (all though I really don't even know who she is...). I said I needed to get her picture for the directory so that the bishopric can get to know her better, as well as any members of the ward.
I was half expecting to have to convince her to come, or to give her a list of reasons why, but before I could even think of a rebuttal she suddenly burst out, "well "I'll need a ride." and I was like OK! No problem! I will do my best to find you one!
With that we ended our conversation. I asked Sarah to give her a ride since she lives really close. I really hope that we can fellowship this girl, and that she feels the love of the Lord in her life, and also the love of her fellow ward members! I'm really excited to see how this whole thing works out, but even if it goes no where I thank the Lord for this great learning experience!
I love the gospel! I love the church! I love the aspect of service, fellowship and god forsaken love that the church embodies! I just finished reading a book by Miss Sheri Dew. This woman is so amazing! She is living the fear that a lot of unmarried women in the church face. Will we ever get married?!?! If we don't get married are we an abomination to the Lord? Are we taking the whole plan of salvation in vein just because we haven't found someone yet?! It just puts things into perspective for me knowing that Sheri is a wonderful member of the church, and yes she is unmarried. It does not change the good she has done in the growth and development of the church! She is truly amazing! 
I just thought I'd share some of the great insights I gleaned from her book No Doubt About It.
"Prophets have admonished us to be in but not of the world, to forsake the world and turn our hearts to Jesus Christ, who promised, 'In this world your joy is not full, but in me your joy is full.' (D&C 101:36) And for good reason. For in this mortal sojourn, wrestling as we do with the natural man's cravings for the enticement of the world, it can be easy to find ourselves lured away from the light of Christ by the adversary's blinding glare. Satan brilliantly blurs the line between the eternal things of God, and temporary, superficial, creations of man. As President Spencer W. Kimball taught: 'If we insist on spending all of our time and resources building up for ourselves a worldly kingdom, that is exactly what we will inherit.' How often are we focused on pursuing the so-called good life that we lose sight of eternal life? It is the fatal spiritual equivalent of selling our birthright for a mess of pottage. 'where our treasure is, there will your heart be also.' (Matthew 6:21) 'For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' (Matthew 16:26)"
"If you expect glory, intelligence, and endless lives, LET THE WORLD GO." President Joseph F. Smith
"If the world is going to be saved, we have to do it...No other people in the history of the world have...received a...more compelling mandate than we [have]...and we'd better be getting at it." Gordon B. Hinkley
"Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause. Lend your efforts to helping people...Work to lift and serve His sons and daughters. You will come to know a happiness that you have never known before...Let's get the cankering, selfish attitude out of our lives....and stand a little taller...in the service of others." Gordon B. Hinkley
"Satan never goes on vacation. He never sleeps." Harold B. Lee
"The nearer we get to our heavenly Father, the more we are disposed to look with compassion on perishing souls." Joseph Smith
"You are an essential part of the church, a most important part of it. It could not function properly without you. You provide inspiration. You provide balance. You constitute a vast reservoir of faith and good works. You are an anchor of devotion and loyalty and accomplishment. No one can gainsay the great part you play in the onward rolling of this work across the earth." Gordon B. Hinkley
"God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not loose faith and that he is always at your beck and call...So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me."Mahatma Gandhi "Grand is the privilege of every Latter-day Saint...to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives...[so] that we may know the light and not be groveling continually in the dark." Lorenzo Snow
"There has never before been more expected of the faithful in such a short period of time than there is of us. Never before on the face of the earth have the forces of evil and the forces of good been as well organized...The final outcome is certain-the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us...will stand in the battle-and how tall we will stand...Great battles can make great heroes and heroines." Ezra Taft Benson
"This life is a test. It is also a glorious privilege."
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters)
"The cruelest thing you can do to a human being is to make him forget that he or she is the son or daughter of a king." Truman G. Madsen
"I wish to say, for the benefit of our posterity who may read this history, whatever you do, work with as much determination to secure enough to keep you for the eternity. Do not be slack in your duties. The gospel is true. We must always be found defending it. But yea more, we must be found teaching it, by word and something much more noticeable, by our every action. We are children of God, but to be a joint-heir with Jesus Christ, we must take into our lives the attributes he had." Grandma Dew
"Become a vast army with enthusiasm for this work!" Gordon B. Hinkley
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which...you would be strongly tempted to worship...It is in light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another...There is no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, exploit-immortal horrors of everlasting splendors." C. S. Lewis
"When you have a testimony of Jesus Christ your life can never be the same again." Grandma Dew
"Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievement...those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts." Neal A. Maxwell
"You are good. But it is not enough to just be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And that good that is in you must be spread to others." Gordon B. Hinkley
I love reading the words and compilations of quotes by Sheri Dew. Basically it's a huge book of inspirational quotes, with her great life experiences thrown in here and there. It is great because that is exactly how I present things. I usually have a quote or a story, then share something personal. Reading this book left me feeling like I am the salt of the earth, and that God does know me, love me unconditionally, and that I do have a purpose here in this mortal testing stage. While I am along my journey I must try to bring my fellow brothers and sisters unto Christ. Therein lies the true joy in this life, and the life to come! 
I am so grateful for people's willingness to serve! This weekend I had a crazy adventure! I had a reception to get to in Idaho, but there was NO way I was driving all the way to po dunk Rockland Idaho by myself because gas is so flipping expensive!!! So I was supposed to ride with Keli's sister Jeni, but she had a car full of gifts, so I ended up being poned off on Keli's best friend Brittanie. The first sign that it would be an adventure was the fact that as soon as we got in the car Brit got out and popped open the hood of her car to "check" things. SOOO...then we proceeded to walmart to buy antifreeze. We made it as far as Clinton, before her car overheated....We had to pull of to the side of the road in the middle of no where with no clue what to do!
So amongst mine and Brittanie's frantic calling of people this lady in a minivan pulled off to try to help us. Her name was Lindsey, and she was way nice! She didn't really know much more than we did, so she called her father in law and he happened to be right by the exit we were on. So he came and took a look, and decided that we should take the car to his friend's shop because there was no way we were getting to Idaho. So we followed Lindsey to Jerry's shop. Surprisingly there was a hottie in the shop! I can't remember his name...Ryan maybe. Anyways he was way cute! But things were looking on the downside!!!
We were still 2 hours away from Rockland and it was 5:00! Suddenly Lindsey saw Brittanie's bride's maid dress in the car hanging up, and she was like "oh my gosh are you a bride's maid?" and she was like "yeah we both are...." so then after a few minutes Lindsay said that she would drive us to Rockland! We were both like what? Are you sure!? It's like 2 hours!!! And she's like yeah, I have absolutely no plans tonight and I talked to my niece and she's down.
Brit was a little hesitant, but I was like what do we have to loose? She seemed nice, so I was totally down for it. So Brit called her mom, and her mom decided that she was going to start driving and meet us half way. So that is exactly what happened. Brit bough Lindsay gas, Lindsay bought us slurpees and skittles and then we were off! Britt's mom met us in Snowville, and drove like a mad woman to Rockland. It was so amazing! We made it to the church at 6:59 and the reception started at 7:00!
We hurried as fast as we could to rush and change, freshen our hair and make up, then off we went to mix and mingle! What an adventure eh?! The whole weekend was spent amongst the 318 people in Rockland Idaho! haha. It was pretty fun, but a little lonely because I didn't know anyone, and Keli and Kyle left after the reception, and then I was there with her family the rest of the night and Sunday. I loved them all though, they were so sweet!
Over all it was a great weekend, and it i so great to know that you can trust people still now a day, and that God is watching out for us!!!
I really love my friends. I love planning things, and I love it when people come to the things I plan. I love being in one place and seeing everyone I care about! It's so great. Sometimes...just sometimes I truly do hate being the organizer. It gets so old being rejected all the time (not personally rejected, but just people have other plans) And I try to take it as such, it's not personal but sometimes when I plan a really great thing and no one comes that said they would it really sucks because it could have been so much better! When people always depend on me to do everything for them, and when they call me and say hey let's get everyone together, aka you get everyone together, it gets annoying. I really wonder if people get sick of my texts haha. I hope not!! But anyways, I really get sick of it sometimes!!!
I think of myself as a very strong and independent girl. It is really hard for me to fully rely on someone else, or to let them take control of things that involve me. It is so weird but at the same time that is what I want so desperately. I want someone to take care of me, and look after me. I want to be ok with not being in control of certain situations.
I hate getting ready for bed! It's such a hassle! I mean think of all the components involved in it! First you have to brush your teeth, take off your make up, then wash your face, read your scriptures, and pray. There is just so much to do! When you get tired and try to go to sleep you still have at least 45 minutes in front of you! Especially late at night it's so daunting! But at the same time you know that if you don't keep going every single day with your schedule you'll never be able to keep up with it, and you'll just stop all together.
It really bugs me that people are so closed minded that they think that a guy and a girl cannot have a strictly platonic relationship! I really don't get what's so hard about it. I love my guy friends! It is so great to talk to guys about things you can't talk to girls about. Guys give honest opinions, and don't sugar coat things girls do. They also provide a different prospective.
Seriously though I am really good at controlling my feelings and if I say I don't like someone odds are I don't. I may have at one point, but I get over things really easily. I am the kind of person that has a hard core crush where all I think about is that person, and then nothing happens, and they don't make moves, or reciprocate the moves I make, and then I get over it.
If a guy likes me he needs to show me, or I won't stick around. There are too many fish in this big sea of life to worry about one or two who don't like me in the same way. It basically sucks because yes I have liked a lot of my guy friends, but somehow we just end up as friends.
I am honestly pretty sick of being just friends with all the guys in my life, but I guess it's alright because I really admire all of them. :) Anyway I am just so sick of everyone questioning my motives if I talk about guys that I am friends with. It really is possible for a guy and a girl to be JUST friends!
I love people! Seriously everyone on the earth, every person that has ever lived leads(led) and interesting life! I love hearing about people's lives! Just the stories you hear, the experiences people have. It's amazing! I think that my life is pretty interesting most of the time, and if my life is as interesting as it is, think of all of the billions of people who have even more amazing lives, stories, and experiences! I think it is so fun to hear about just things people see, do and feel. Just today one of my friends texted me and told me about how they witnessed a car crash, and consequent arrest because the person was intoxicated. If it wasn't interesting enough for my friend to see that happen, and for me to hear it, think about the person who it was. The girl that got arrested! What a story she has to tell her friends! I am in awe when I think of how absolutely brilliant life is! How is it that we can all be on this mortal probation together, but still have distinctly different and interesting experiences? It is just amazing. It really makes me think of how vast the universe is! No two people have exactly all the same experiences, or thoughts. Even if two people share an event, they still perceive it differently! It amazes me so much! I am so grateful for this life, and the chance that we each get to be the dictator of our own life, to govern our own choices, and to make our own decisions. I love my life, and I love hearing about yours!!!:)
