Little things

Isn't it great how little things can make or break your day. The sun is shining, I am happy. It is snowing, I am sad. Work goes long, I am annoyed. Receive a text, jump for joy. Friend is sad, so am I. I could go on and on. I feel that God really does know what He's doing (duh right?) But really, if we required huge things to make the difference in life, I think I'd be really miserable all the time. I'm just happy I know who I am and why I'm here and in general where I'm going. It gets frustrating sometimes with my tunnel vision of only today, but then I get a little reminder, that there is a bigger picture and the best is yet to come.

I'll be a mess if I don't

So I just got home from being at church for 6 hours. Aside from being a bit tired, since I had to be to church at 8, I feel great!!! I love being at church. It may help that the last hour was munch and mingle and therefore there was food, but really I just love being at church. In Sunday school the teacher was teaching on faith and how we build our faith and was telling about a friend who asked him why he would go to church for 3 hours. My roommate under her breath said he should have replied, why do you go to the bathroom? I thought it was kinda silly and it definitely made me smile, but really it makes sense. You go to the bathroom because you need to, it makes you feel better, and you'll be a mess if you don't. I go to church for 3 hours for those same reasons. I need to, it makes me feel better, and if I don't I'll be a mess. Luckily I don't always have to go to church for 6 hours. I was just put in the Relief Society and we had Stake meetings this morning thus the extra two hours before church. All in all, the point of this is that I LOVE CHURCH!!!!

Blessings

This last weekend I had the opportunity to go home. What a great weekend it was. Saturday I went with my friend Pam to the Rexburg temple, then we visited with my favorite Cheesehead Denae. Then I washed my car and my dad changed the oil in it. That evening we all went to dinner at Gringos. My girl friends from highschool, my mom, my sister, my cousin, and two sisters from my mission. After that it was good times with my sister, since it was her birthday, then a blind date. It was pretty fun. Sunday was the best part though. I went to Stake Conference with my whole family, including 3 cousins and my grandparents and afterward I was able to witness my dad set my youngest brother apart as an Elder. It was awesome to see him sitting in the chair, with my dad, grandpa, and other brother standing around him. The gospel truly blesses my life and I'm so grateful for my family!!

New Hair!!!

So I decided to be daring and maybe a bit crazy and do something different with my hair. It takes some getting use to and I still think I look strange but it looks good I think.

New job?

My friend Rachel recommended me for a position at the church in the Small Jobs Shop. I sent her my resume and she sent it to the head man and I went for an interview this morning. It would be so awesome to work for the church and I think I'd be a great fit for the position. Let's all pray that I get it so I don't have to give people loans at 360% interest any more! :)

Vegas Baby!!!

So I went to Vegas this past weekend and it was so fun. My friend Aubrey is the greatest ever!!! She is so good and I love to be around her. We had many great adventures. We stayed in St. George friday night with her friend Janae. Listening to Janae's brother and his friends talking was quite entertaining. Saturday morning we stopped at the St. George branch of the company I work for so I could meet the people I talk to on the phone all the time. It was very entertaining. Since I had never met Aldo, the main guy, I went in pretending to be a customer. But I was a customer with an outstanding loan. It was so funny to watch him thinking and then his face when I told him who I really was. LOVED IT!
Then we were off to Vegas. It was nice weather and really the first time I've been in Vegas and not on the strip. We went shopping, then we went out to lunch with a college friend we worked with. We got to meet her husband and it was fun to chat with them. I miss my friends from Media Services! After lunch we went to the strip to see what we could see. Not much worth seeing. Aubrey was daring, I'll have to give more details later.
After an hour or so on the strip we headed to a YSA activity. The ward had bought and raised a pig and we went to the party to eat it. It was an awesome party. There were so many people there. Lots of dental students. :) Tom was my favorite, he even came and talked with us. Sadly he was too short for me. After the BBQ we went back to the strip to see our friend Whitney who was the whole reason we were in Vegas in the first place. She was visiting there for the weekend. We went with Aubrey's friend Margie, another girl from the ward, and Ryan, one of Margie's friends. We watched the lights and water show at the Belagio, went and watched the trapeze artists, and we did get to see Whitney for a bit.
Sunday we went to church with Ryan since his church was earlier than Margie's and then we went to see Whitney for a bit. (p.s. Ryan is too short for me, but he's great!) It was fun to hang out with Whitney and really get to talk. We got caught up on life and reminisced about Alaska. Then we had to leave to make it back. We stopped in St. George to pick up Aubrey's shoes she left and then we were on the road again. What a FREAKING long drive. I did not love the drive back. It felt like it was 12 hours long, but all in all it was an awesome weekend. Aubrey has all the pics so I'll have to post them later.