A New Blog...A NEW LIFE

So, now that I have matured....well somewhat matured, I feel the need to redeem myself when it comes to this blog. While on our way to BYU-I, my parents and I stopped in Jackpot to break up the car ride. We had dinner and walked around a little bit, then decided to just hang out in our room. I decided to look up my blog to see the last time I had posted and what crazy thing I had said. I realized then that I will never have to use an exclamation point again in my life. I showed my mom and we had a good laugh, mostly because of what I said. The coincidence is that in my last post two or so years ago (when I had not matured yet), I said "I was going to delete this blog, but my mom says it will be nice for when I will go to college!!! So I am going to keep it..." That's right! I am in College and after seeing what I had said, I decided that this blog needed an update.

Well, I did it. I have survived two weeks of late nights (or should I say early mornings), LONG reading assignments, extensive homework, parties, boys, roommates, activities, and just the weird mormon culture. I LOVE IT!!! (ok, I guess I haven't quite had enough exclamation points) Anyway, I am having a blast and I am so happy to be busy again. I am so grateful for this Gospel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have been provided with so many oppertunities and I love that I have an outline for my life. One of my biggest worries about college was making friends. You can ask my mom...almost everyday I told her how nervous I was about making friends. Within the first week of being here I made a group of girl friends, I got called as FHE "mom", and have probably talked to over 100 new people that are all so nice. I have probably put 20 new contacts in my phone (though I can't remember who everyone is). The fact is that Heavenly Father knows me and my anxieties, and he blesses me everyday with new opportunities and people to meet.

Since I am already on a "spiritual" aspect, I mine as well share how amazing and inspired this school is. I love that we have so many student wards with all these leaders who care about us and put in extra time for us when they have families at home. I love that we say prayers and sing hymns in every class. I love that we have devotional every Tuesday. I love that we relate everything to the gospel. I love that we use Scriptures, Prophets, and other great church leaders as resources in all my classes...especially science. I love that the temple is just up the street. And most of all I love that everyone here shares my standards. oh! And I love that the clock tower rings primary songs....even as I type it plays "Love is Spoken Here".

What is with all the late nights, boys, and parties? Well my new friends and I are trying our best to get involved with everything and to make more friends, especially guys. We have done everything we can think of from "studying" on the social floor of the library, to loading our arms with groceries, to going to Sammy's street party, to crashing a black and white party wearing neon...well that was partially an accident. Oh and our favorite thing to do is sit outside of our dorm hall on the curb to say hi to everyone that walks by. Last week, we were doing this when a random guy stopped to talk to us, he was nice but maybe a little interesting. He eventually asked us to dinner though, which we actually just cancelled, because we didn't realize that something else was going on. Anyway, the best art of this experience was these two random guys that came over and serenaded us with their guitar, high pitch voices, and our own words. Again...weird mormon culture! But I guess that's my new life...and I love it already!

(Pictures to come)