EFY Logan 1 Perfect Knowledge

P-E-R-F-E-C-T Knowledge
My Heart can't rest til then. Woah Oh!!!
So this was my second week as an EFY counselor and I felt that there were some things that I could have improved but there are always are. This week I was blessed with another ten amazing girls who were such a blessing in my life, had strong testimonies, were great friends to everyone in the group and helped unify the whole company. These girls I tell you are amazing! So these ten girls ALL participated in the variety show and most of my company participated in the variety show not lying we dominated the show. Nick, one of the boys, sang and played guitar to the song 1234 by Plain White Ts. My girls and some of Heidi's(one of my co's) girls and a few of Casey's(my other co) boys all performed a musical number entitled Life of Raindrop. Those same boys, Casey's, also performed an interpretive dance to Miley Cyrus song, I Can't Wait to See You Again. That was one of my favorite memories mostly because of the rain thatwe had that week and that my umbrella broke, actually it was broken in the dance by the boys and it was awesomely rockin awesome funny. So Gertrude Phalanges my umbrella now umbrelli died an honorable death. Check out my youtube videos for the actual video of all these events. All of my girls that week bore their testimonies and I was able to share experiences with them and grow along with them as I taught. This week was different than Salt Lake 1 because of the difference in girls but both weeks rocked.

Perfect Knowledge!!! I can't wait to see you again!!!

Sixth Ward Summer Activity

Oh Baby Blue!!!
Elisa Tittle, McKinzie Mower and I all drove up to Logan together. This was a super great bonding experience. I love those 2 girls so very much. We had a super great time on the drives. So our first stop was the Oqquirh Mountain Utah Temple Open House. That was exactly what I needed that day. The day previous I was informed that my friend's father was murdered and that upset me. I was only praying to know what to do about this problem and I realized that I needed to share the gospel but this was not until after I had already walked through the temple and was flooded with emotions and the spirit that I remembered from the day that my family was sealed in the temple on May 2nd 1996. That was the greatest day of my life. Although I do not remember that day in clarity I remember the spirit I felt there and the emotions it just took that visit to the Oqquirh Mountain temple to remember it all. Well from there we headed up to Wellsville Utah. Okay so there really is not very much there but it was a lot of fun to hang out with the other girls. Friday we had a morningside at the gravesite of Martin Harris and it was great. Then after that we headed to Hyrum Reservoir and played on the water. So to understand the next part of this story you need to know that it was predicted to rain non stop all weekend long. So we all prayed for nice weather so that we can go boating. GUESS WHAT!!! It didn't rain and we went and played on the water but because of the predicted rain I did not bring sunscreen so I borrowed somebody's and I applied it not so liberally. Well, after all the fun in the water and the falling and the laughing I got totally sunburned. Well I didn't just get a normal sunburn I was totally strawberry red and my thighs were purple. I was in A LOT of pain all night and the next and the next nights! I was pretty miserable but it was so worth it. So after that we had a group dinner and a variety show and speakers and it was a great end to a great day. Then after on Saturday we had a service project and we did yard work for our gracious hosts the Schill Family. The results were fantastic! Then cleaned up and I sent my passengers home in another car and I headed for Logan to see my dearest roommate from DC, Erin Cottle. Then I started EFY on Monday!

EFY Salt Lake 1

This is a breakdown of my first week at EFY in Salt Lake. So I had ten fabulous girls they all came as roommates. When I found out that they were assigned as roommates I was really worried at first because I thought they would not mix well together but I was proven wrong right at the beginning. They turned out to be amazing. They were all super talented and had amazing testimonies. They all participated in the musical program except for one. I loved them all so much and I miss them all very much. I hope that they are all doing great things with their lives and sharing the gospel at every opportunity. The boys in my company were boys. They were both a challenge and a strength and support. Our company of Liken All was the best and do not let anybody else tell you differently. My Co-counselor was Jens that week. There was an amazing company of 10 girls and 10 boys. By Wednesday they were very best friends.

ba-da-bada-bah were liken all.

Update on life

It has been forever since I last blogged but here is whats going down in my life lately. I have been working as an EFY counselor and it has been one of the greatest experiences of my life. I was so blessed to be with the greatest girls in the world. But in May I spent a lot of time helping my mom in her first grade classroom. It was something to do.

10 things I will NOT miss

I will not miss somethings about DC. These are the top 10 things I will not miss.

1. The lack of a sense of community
2. The fast pace all the time
3. The tourists
4. Missing my Yellow Line Metro by 12 seconds
5. The lack of internet in my apartment or if there is internet the ridiculously slow speed of it
6. Getting home so late at night that you feel there is no time left to do anything
7. Paying $1.75 for each load of laundry to wash and then paying the same amount to dry it
8. Paying way too much for groceries, transportation really everything
9. Not sleeping well because of the noise,light or just not sleeping well
   
10. Crazy people who try to run you over in the crosswalks, happens everywhere if you jaywalk but it happens when you are not jaywalking in DC
    

10 things I miss about DC

Okay so I promised myself that I would make a list of the things I would miss about DC and another list of things I will not miss. This is the list of things I will miss.

1. Roommates
   
2. My view from the 11th Floor
   
3. Public Transportation (I know that sounds weird but I loved getting places and not having to worry about driving there)
4. The independence
5. The office, work and the people there
6. The ward
7. Rain
8. Never having a boring Saturday with so much to do mostly MY MALL
   
9. The History that is everywhere
10. My walk home, I really really really loved walking home. I got to walk between the Supreme Court bulding, the Library of Congress and the Capitol Building(favorite ever) everyday.
    

Update on life

So I have been home for a while now and I am just barely realizing that a lot of the things that I was hoping wouldn't happen have started to happen and the things that I was hoping would happen are not happening.

So I set a goal to get up early still every morning and that has so far fallen through quite bad, ten doesn't qualify as early. I am slacking in my nutrition, I am not eating good foods or at good times. I am slacking on scripture study, I know a horrible thing to admit but I am going to be honest about to you the world of blogdom. I am not spending as much time away from home being social like I wish I was. Honestly I realized that last night when my parents noticed that I am doing the same things I was before I left. Dang I was caught.

I am a total dreamer and things that I was hoping to happen aren't. Maybe because I am still living in a bit of fantasy DC land. I was hoping to have an exceptionally padded resume and I have to even find a job that I can fill in July. So I am worrying about a lot of ridiculous things that I shouldn't really be worrying about.

Things that are working out for me though are ones that are more long term. I am signed up for classes and I am mostly excited I would be more excited if I didn't have a math class in my schedule. I am taking a bunch of history and poli-sci classes and that just thrills me. Life is such a great when things work out.