Today's littles...

Hhhhallllooo.
Today I pushed the snooze button a few more time than I intended to.
However, I still got ready and wore an outfit (and did my hair) that Sydney from The Daybook would have been proud of.  Then I let my Life cereal go soggy because I was trying to take a picture of it- the outfit.  Not the cereal.
Today candy was necessary.
Today, in Abnormal Psychology, we studied about...ahem...sex (mostly sexual disorders and dysfunctions)...it was...informative.  And scary.
I sort of wanted to hide under a leettle rock.
Today the cute boy in my Astronomy class came and sat by me!  Win.  We worked on our test (open-people test) together.
I don't think I did well on it.  But still, cute boy.
My mom told me yesterday that even though I am in a crazy summer semester, I still need to have fun.
Today my "fun" came in the form of a much needed nap.  I love naps.
Today I spent way more time on facebook than I am willing to admit.
Today I watched the movie teaser for Les Mes, and had a mini freak out session.  I'm sure my roommates are concerned about my sanity at this point in time.  Whatever.
Today I had another mini freak out session thinking about my dear missionary friends who are coming home in the next couple of months!!!
Today I could have gone to a He is We concert, but that nap was so much more enticing...does that make me lame sauce?
Sometimes I feel like lamesauce college student.
Today I listened to "Somebody That I Used to Know" and "Blood" about 24 times.  I wish I could tell you that I was over exaggerating.  Again, I think my roommates are questioning my sanity.
Today I will probably have to have a small/dreaded DTR with boy.
Now I'M questioning my sanity. :/
Today I have looked at lots of pictures.  I love pictures.
Sometimes they make me laugh really hard, and sometimes they make me huge smile, and sometimes they make me reminiscinly half grin, and sometimes they make me cry.  Beh, I love pictures.
Today I have decided that life is pretty darn good.
The End.

Father's and Son's Crashers!!

I have never been to a Father's and Son's outing, but about a month ago Garen's mommy, Saundra called me up and asked me to get Cami and help out with a program for the boys at the camp.  You may think it's funny that a bunch of girls would show up to a boy's camp of sorts, but Saundra felt that somehow a  speaker from the ward just wouldn't reach the young boys the way a few young women and some good music could. So we got together a few times and practiced and performed some beautiful songs that were interspersed in a lovely little script of quotes from conferences and important priesthood messages.

Music is so powerful!

Can I please sing with this girl more often, like old times?

It was fun to get to know a little bit and sing with these cute girls!  (Sorry for the cut-off, Cam.)

I got to sing one of my favorite songs,
"My Kindness Shall Not Depart From Thee."

 Then it was my turn to share my testimony of why the Priesthood is important to me.  This is something I feel so passionately about, so I thought long and hard about what I wanted to say to these future missionaries/husbands/fathers/leaders.

 First I summarized this powerful story told by Elder Holland:

Then I told them that in the next song we were going to sing, we sing about being "warriors."  I told them that this is what the Priesthood means to me - it's not just that I can benefit from father's blessings or blessings of healing but it means that in the battle of good and evil, which we are all most definitely a part of, I can be confident that the men in my life will stand ready to fight and do whatever it is the Lord asks of them.  With a fierce love for the gospel.  In emergency situations (literally or figuratively) they will be prepared and qualified to call upon the power of God that they should be holding with the most precious care. 

I told them that some of my dearest friends are in the thick of this battle serving full time missions.  I told a few of them before they left: 

You are going to change the world.

I told these boys that it may be hard for them to grasp right now, but that Ezra Taft Benson said, 

"changed men can change the world."

I told them that I believe this with all my heart, and that if they will live worthily, the Lord will mold them into the finest tools they could possibly be.  

Then I thanked them.  That's when I got a bit choked up.  Oh my goodness, I looked at these boys (some of them super young, and some of them just trying to get through high school), and just felt so overwhelmed with gratitude for the good that they were going to do in this world and in God's kingdom.  

What a security it is to us women to know that.

I share this because it's what is in my leettle heart, and I am full of joy!  I feel so blessed to have gotten to participate in something like this, and I feel so unbelievably inexplicably blessed to have the Priesthood in my life. 

Keep it up, boys!  

You are going to change the world!!

I mean it. 

The gang!
Special thanks to Andersons for thinking of me for this program, and for putting it all together.

Today's Inspiration

A single thread in a tapestry
though its color brightly shines
can never see its purpose
in the pattern of the grand designand the stone that sits up on the very top
of the mountain's mighty face
does it think that it's more important
than the stones that forms the base
So how can you see what your life is worth
or where your value lies
oh, you can never see through the eyes of man you must look at your life
look at your life through heaven's eyes
through heaven's eyes
A lake of gold in the desert sand
is less than a cool fresh spring
and to one lost sheep, a shepard boy
is greater than the richest king
should a man lose everything he owns
has he truly lost his worth
or is it the beginning
of a new and brighter birth
So how do you measure the worth of a man
in wealth or strength or size
in how much he gained or how much he gave
the answer will come to him who tries 
to look at his life through heaven's eyes
through heaven's eyes
and that's why we share all we have with you
though there's little to be found
when all you've got is nothing
there's lots to go around
No life can escape being blown about
by the winds of change and chance
and though you never know all the steps
you must learn to join the dance
you must learn to join the dance

I met a stranger on the bus today.  I was just sitting there minding my own business.  I was listening to my music and thinking a lot about the gospel.  I guess it must have shown on my face because the stranger came to me and told me that he just had to come say hi - that I had a clear, beautiful light and energy about me.  I wanted to shout out to him, "IT'S THE GOSPEL LIGHT!"  

I didn't, but I couldn't help step off of the bus with an extra bounce in my step.  A stranger.  Came up to ME and told me he thought I was beautiful.  He talked to me about service and sharing with other people and how it is the most satisfying feeling in the world.  It fulfills some of soul's deepest desires. To some that may seem creepy, but it wasn't.  It was a miracle!  

See, we are all in this world together, ya know?  Each of us with our own story and paths, but we are continuously effecting the lives of others!  It's such a glorious concept to me.  

I am grateful for that stranger, and that he took the time to share some of his light with me. 

 We all have so much to give!

  "There's a lot to go around."

:)

Sunshine

The ability to express just how much I love my entire family, is still one that I lack.  

Spending time with, supporting, and having the most tender conversations with my family was just what I needed this week.   

I love you all!!