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this one has been causing too many problems.

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Church life

I have been putting this blog post off for a while now. Maybe because I still had not wrapped my head around it. I got a new calling at church about 2 months ago. I was asked to be the Young Woman's president. Yes. You heard it right. My jaw about fell to the ground. I obviously accepted. :) I had actually been thinking about the girls in my ward a few weeks before I was asked to take the calling. The Lord works that way sometimes. He had be giving me a few clues that this was coming and I just didn't understand until I was asked to serve.
I didn't really know most of the girls at all when I went in there. I have had some pretty amazing experiences in the short time I've worked with them. I have an amazing presidency to work with and I feel like we all have different strengths we bring to the table. We have doubled our attendance in two months and really have started to bond with the girls. I feel like we are really making a difference in their lives. It is such a joy to see them open up about their feelings towards the gospel and feel their  testimonies.
I went to our first girls camp meeting the other week. When I walked in I heard the Holy Ghost tell me I was going to teach a class at girls camp. I thought to myself, what would make the camp director ask me to teach out of everyone here? Then the director started going over the schedule for the week and when she got to Thursday she said there would be 4 classes and the girls would rotate to each one. They were all filled except for one, would any one be willing to teach it?
I didn't say anything....
 Surely someone else would be found to give the class.
Later on in the meeting I asked her a question about where I would  stay since I was coming up at the end of the week. She asked which day and I said Thursday.....
Great!! I will put you down to teach the class!!
Ad there you have it. When the Lord wants you to do something. First he tells you, then he gives you a chance to act....and sometimes if you are lucky enough he will push you into it. I am going to be figuring out what it is I will teach, but I have a feeling the Lord will push me in the right direction.

This year Heavenly Father has big plans for me and I am ready to take on all the new responsibility and blessings that goes along with it.

I am a bit scared about girls camp....I pulled crazy pranks on all of my leaders!

 

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I tell you it is about time I stick to one email and one password for my life. It took me a hour to figure out just which email and password I use for this blog. Also blogger messed with me for a little bit. I didn't like it one bit.

I have so many thoughts about my life right now. I know I shouldn't even be writing this right now because I am going to regret this in the morning when my two year old comes into my room and tells me he wants cereal. Joseph has no school on Fridays and I won't let them watch tv any more until later in the day...the mornings start early around here. I am teaching a music class every Friday for toddlers and preschoolers. Daniel loves it and Joseph has his moments where he loves it. Last week I Incorporated a game, pretty much hot potato, and if the ball landed on you then you showed us some dance moves. The girls in the class were too shy and it wasn't until Joseph got up and busted his moves did the class get really into it.
I hate posting pictures on here....so if you want pictures you can find me on instagram.

The O on my key board doesn't work unless I hit it hard. It makes it hard to type.....
So that was a random thought.
I have so much going on in my life right now that reminds me just how blessed I am. I don't even know where to start.
I've been  pondering my life more than ever before.  My heart has felt so much from the Lord. He is telling me I am his. I have always been his. I am so grateful for my church and the wonderful truths I learn from it. Who I am....I am a daughter of a King. I am here because HE sent me here. I wish that everyone would come to understand that they are his children too. That he loves them and he has a plan to help us return to live with him again. Because we did live with him before.  I seriously want everyone to know who they are and who they have always been. Children of our Father in heaven. Whom he sent to earth to grow and learn and choose him over the world.
 If this is something new to you and you would like to hear more about my beliefs click here.


 

stand by your man....not always though

Jason swears this all went down a different way. But I know the truth. I am here to give you the real story.
Home Depot was having this annual safety day in our town. I wanted to bring the boys because I knew they could make and paint their own firetruck toys. We get there and we are doing the all the fun stuff. We started with the  train ride and jumping in bouncy houses. Then we walked over to see a real fire truck. We had just walked over to the firetruck and the fireman told us they were going to land a helicopter in a few minutes and we should cover the boys eyes because the helicopter would pick up all the dirt on the pavement. You should know this entire event was taking place in the parking lot of Home Depot.
Right after the fireman tells this to us the huge helicopter comes hovering above us. That my friends is when the crazy kicked into Jason.

We stood there watching the helicopter, you could see the area marked off close by the firetruck where they planed to land it. I knew we would be the closest people to the landing and told Jason we might want to back up a bit because of the sand getting into our eyes. He wanted to stay and see it land up close. So I stood there with him and watched it go in a small circle. Then Jason starts walking towards it with Joseph on his shoulders. I look to my right and people are running to see the landing of the helicopter.

 I couldn't believe people really thought it necessary to run. I started to walk away from the firetruck back towards the store and bouncy house.  Then I thought maybe I should stand with Jason, I turned around and walked over trying to find him amongst the crowd of people and then I spot him. Standing in the middle of the marked off spot where they planned to land the helicopter. I couldn't believe he was in the area for the landing. Then after the helicopter waited for Jason to move out of his spot, they realized the man wasn't moving. They land off in a field and then tell some people to move the plastic streamers marking off the area and move the idiot standing in the middle so they could land.

Jason swears tons of other people were standing in the middle with him and he also swears the only reason they landed in the field was to move the streamers out of the way....not him.
It was hilarious telling him my story and hearing him tell a completely different story.