Friends

Where in the world would I be without the good friends that I have? I don't really even like to think about it. This weekend was a bit ridiculous. I took a whirlwind trip home to get a demo reel done for a job I'm applying too. Procrastination is a terrible thing. Lucky for me I have great friends. Mike and Luke got things started and then Derek came and helped me out, my dad came to I wouldn't be by myself and he even helped by capturing video and attempting to edit. You'd think a video engineer who studied broadcasting would not be so intimidated by an editing program. :) Anyway, I got my FHE video done and got the demo reel close to being completed. Then I left a note for Mike and Luke asking for them to finish it and post it for me. Mike called me today for some info on it. What would I have done without them. Cry a lot. Anyway, just another testimony to me that God loves me a lot a has given me really great friends.

Just one of those days

Life is good

Life can be kinda crappy sometimes but I think all in all it's good. My favorite 2nd counselor just got released and gave a talk today in Sacrament meeting today. He gave a quote that I had heard before and I really like it.
"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is most putts don’t drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
"Another one I found in my mission journal is similar.
"Our journey into the future will not be a smooth highway stretching from here to eternity. Rather, there will be forks and turnings in the road, to say nothing of the unanticipated bumps. We must pray daily to a loving Heavenly Father who wants each of us to succeed in life."
In my lesson today there was another great quote by President Faust. He shares an experience of being in Tahiti and looking out at the ocean and feeling peaceful and how beautiful it was but then he says, "I have come to realize that the comfort and sense of well-being I felt on that special morning came not only from the external influence of the beauty of the landscape and the sea, lovely as they were, but from the inner peace, strength, and security of knowing that God lives and from a testimony of the divinity of His work upon the earth."
Life is rough, but I can still be happy knowing that God is still in charge and that no matter what things will work out the way they need to, as long as I'm doing my part. There are so many little things that just make life great. My roommates are awesome.

This is a cake Natalie made for us for our birthdays.






I have a job. I have the opportunity to serve: I teach Relief Society, I get to go to the temple often, I get to volunteer at the MTC and I get to sew for others.

This is the quilt I made for the 2nd counselor who got released. His wife is expecting in August and they are moving to Alaska so I thought the bears would be perfect.

Life

Do you ever just feel so overwhelmed? I felt like that yesterday. It's really nothing, but I was thinking about it and decided that life can't always be so easy. (Obviously) We don't grow without trials and life can't always be smooth sailing. It's nothing big and I'm sure it will actually help me out in the long run. Just gotta keep a good perspective on things.

Little Things

So sometimes just little things make life so great. This week my dad came down to pick up some stuff from the church. I got to go to dinner with him, Luke, and John. It's always fun to see people from my last job. It was so good to see my dad. He got to "meet" my car and says I did a great job. Leaving after dinner I almost started to cry, I missed him already. I'm not one to get homesick but I really did just want to stay with my dad. Lucky for me the next day he stopped by my work on his way out of town. It was a fun surprise. Then today my best friend Katie called and told me she was going to be in Salt Lake but wouldn't make it down to Provo. If she's coming all the way to Salt Lake you can sure as heck bet that I'm gonna drive the 45 minutes to go and see her! So after work I headed down to Holladay to a bridal shower I was not invited to. It was great. The food was delicious, the games were entertaining, and I got to see Katie, best thing all day. I sure do love her. God knew what he was doing all those years ago putting us in Sunbeams together. Life is good. I wish I had a picture of her and I as little people to put on here.

MTC

So I go to the MTC every Thursday night after work. I even have a name tag now that says "Sister Schultz Volunteer Missionary Training Center" I love it! the elders glow and they're just so great and their Spanish is horrible and I just love them. One of my favorite weeks was when the Elders were doing "contacts in the park". They came and introduced themselves to me, one was Elder Johnson and the other Elder Nielson. I thought to myself "there was an Elder Nielson in my mission". At the end of the contact I asked the elders where they were going. They said Spain. I of course got really excited. "I served in Spain!!! Which mission are you going to?" Elder Johnson is going to Madrid and Elder Nielson to Barcelona. They then asked me which mission I served in. I said Malaga and then Elder Nielson said, " Oh! My brother served in Malaga." Yes my district leader/zone leader/ AP is this elder's brother. What a tiny world. Tonight he taught me and I got a picture with him to send to his brother.
The other interesting thing about the MTC tonight was that I went alone which I don't usually do. I always go with Emily but she had to go to Salt Lake tonight. I went into my room, the elders came and we walked to "the bus", then I went back to my room to wait for them to come and teach me for the second half of the hour and there was a guy in my room. He had been assigned to the same room so we chatted for a while until the elders came back. Then the elders taught us and turns out we are "almost getting married". The things we say when we are pretending to be someone else. Anyway that's what we did for the rest of the night. "We're not married, just working in that direction." After the volunteering was over, my new friend asks me to go to dinner, and I did. it was fun. Kinda really random, but fun.