(Day 1) So I'm very excited to start a new week! I don't think I'm going to blog EVERY single day, but I will when I feel inspired! Today was absolutely wonderful!! I just took a big step into turning my life around!! And also I think the whole having faith in myself deal was put to the test today... and guess what! I didn't give in! I feel sooo good!! Also I'm thankful that Heavenly Father gave me a way to get out of a potential mess with another person. I feel so much power within myself! But there are a lot of things I'm still confused about. So hopefully they'll get cleared up a long the way! So this weeks focus is about Faith in God. I already know that through God I have faith in myself to do all things, but I think I want to learn about it a little more... get to know the Godhead a little (hopefully a lot) bit better. Have you ever read the book 21 Days Closer to Christ? It's a very inspiring book! It's about know Jesus Christ personally to realize just what he has done! Try to find ways in our own life that you could relate things to the things that Christ teaches. I also challenge you to find that book and read it! :) I look forward to studying the Godhead and gaining greater faith in them! Wish me luck this week! I do know that if we are closer to them, we will have a greater desire to follow them! :)
(Day 2) So I'm having a lot of issues deciding whether or not I should stay in Provo... I LOVE living in my own place with some of the best roommates! But it's starting to feel like there's nothing here for me ya know? I just don't really know where I'd go... So the cute little Canadian boy I'm liking told me that I need to pray SPECIFICALLY about where I need to be. So I guess the trial of faith for today is... knowing that my prayers will be answered! I'm more concerned of how I'll get the answer and will I see the answer clearly, but then again I need to have faith that God will work everything out... so... Here it goes! I'm excited for the new week!
(Day 5) So I just want to touch up on a few subjects. First. FRIENDS! There's a fine line between being a friend to all, and they saying "Who your friends are says a lot about you." Take me and my ACEY TWIN for example. Her and I are soooo incredibly different when it comes to personal and life decisions, but yet soooooo alike in sense of humor, character, and personality that being friends just some how works for us. Although I am LDS and she's not we still are able to be there for each other no matter what happens. So the lesson of friendship I learn with my twin is that no matter what path you guys take, it's important to always be there through the ups and the downs. Now lets go to my friend... we'll just call her dance buddy. She's been with me since 6th grade. Her and I are always hyper together and can go on forever either singing like idiots in the car, taking stupid pics, making up ridiculous dances, or even holding each other crying!! The lesson she teaches me with friendship is that when you're that close, you start to feel what they feel. When she has a hard time I get sad and visa versa. Building a bond like that is important cause you know that that person will be with you through it all. You get to learn from each other's triumphs and mistakes, the one thing you must learn with this friend is how to communicate, be humble and apologize, and don't lock them out ever... The 3rd friend I want to talk about is well.... we'll just call her Mah. Now Mah has been with me since 4th grade and the lesson she teaches me with friendship is that true friends will stick by you no matter how stubborn you get, and no matter how much you guys disagree. As long as you two laugh together and are genuinely interest in what's going on in each others life, you two can get through anything. If any of you out there are stubborn like me we have to at some point realize that ya, sometimes our friends really do know us better than we think, and it's up to us to humble and at least listen to what they have to say. Jesus Christ is a true friend also. He will always be honest and upfront like my dancer buddy, empathize and sacrifice like my twin, and like Mah, the second we call in distress, or just needing to talk, He will be there in an instant. We can go to Him for anything! Sometimes we need to humble ourselves and listen to what he has to say because believe it or not, he even knows us better then ourselves all of the time. The best thing about Christ is that he's a friend to all, he will always be there to help you, but Christ also hurts when we don't act in a manner that would embarrass him. He's the ultimate example! Maybe if we all tried to be like him a little more we would be better to our friends on earth. I'm thankful for my friends and all that they have done for me. I hope I can do just as much for them.
(Day 7) Welp! This has been a pretty good week! Although I didn't write a ton I look back and realized I learned some valuable lessons! This week has been a sort of challenge for me. A challenge mainly because I had to leave my habitat of staying inside my dad's house all the time and go back to Provo to an apt. full of roommates that have lives, and a schedule, and a lot of temptations that could show up again. Some hold habits I had before started to show up again... but I think I did a fairly good job of going against them... What didn't help was that I was sick so I was basically in a bad mood a lot. Roommates had quarrels, people from my past tried to show up in my life again, but at least I went and signed up for institute which I think will help me a lot! I did gain a valuable experience about faith in God though. It's that you can always count on God to be there for you! He answers your prayers, knows you, and you will see that through faith, you realize a lot of the blessings he has given you! I was talking to one of my roommates well, due to a big feud going on one said that she doesn't want our sympathy or anything such... It saddens me actually to think that she doesn't expect us to care about her... and well... to be honest I feel that if she fights us enough... eventually we wont want to be there for her... Unlike us God will always be there... the spirit may flee if we are being unrighteous, but the second we call for him in true, faithful repentance, he will come to the rescue. I am thankful for the love of God and for his atoning sacrifice! I'm thankful that we can take even the smallest things on this earth and related them somehow to the Gospel. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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