My Satisfaction

While I was on my mission I had very little baptisms. The United States is I think one of the hardest places to get baptisms. So our focus was mostly part member families and less active members.

In the area I spent most of my mission we were teaching this one less active named Shawn. How we met him was kind of the most amazing thing to think back on. Every single thing had to fall exactly into place how it did in order for us to meet him. My companion Sister Nolin and I were going to meet with a potential investigator with a member who had just recently gotten back from her mission to Argentina. We went to the potentials house and she wasn't there, but we decided that because the member was with us that we would go walk around the trailer park that we were at and try to street contact that way.

After we had been walking around for about 30 minutes we decided to go back to our cars. While we were on our way back to our car the member stopped and started talking to this guy. And she was talking to him about how we (my companion and myself) would come over to his house and teach him and his wife and we'd give them a family home evening lesson and that it'll bring their family closer together.

The only way we would have met Shawn was because the spirit guided us to a place we knew, the trailer park, and then the spirit guided us to the person that needed us most.

Sister Nolin and I taught him on and off for about 2 months. Because most of the time he seemed semi interested in what we were teaching but then other times he would just think that it was repetitious.

In October Sister Nolin was transferred and I got a new companion Sister Taliulu. And we kept on teaching Shawn. One night we were going over to his house and Sister Taliulu said "Lets invite him to go to church." At this point I had been teaching him for a while so I kind of knew that he wouldn't come to church because he had too many issues. But wanting a positive attitude I said "Okay, we can try, but just be warned that he probably wont say yes." But we said a prayer and then went into the appointment.

What happened in that appointment was nothing more than a miracle. We went into the appointment with the direction from the spirit that we needed to not leave that house until we got the answer that he was going to come to church with us.

When we got to the point in the lesson where we extended him the invitation to come to church with us. He, as I knew he would, declined, but we weren't leaving without a yes. So we said everything we could to get him to come to church with us. A couple of times I thought we were going to get kicked out of his house. The most significant things that were said when we weren't taking no for an answer was my comp saying, "Don't bull crap us Shawn! If you say you're going to come to church with us you have to, otherwise we'll come bang down your door and drag you to church."
Also I said "You don't go to church for other people Shawn (because he had said that he doesn't want to go because of all the hypocrites there) you go to church for YOU, you take the sacrament for YOU not anyone else. Everyone else is just there to do the exact same thing."
One more "Can I call you guys on Friday to let you know if I'm going to come or not?" -Shawn
"No because you're just going to call us and tell us you're not coming."

That Sunday we were sitting in the chapel waiting for church to start and then realized Shawn wasn't there so we ran out to the foyer and we saw Shawn walk up to the doors. I was jumping up and down. Because I was so happy. Shawn had such a hard time with church in general and I was just so happy that he had made the decision to come to church.
That was pretty much the best moment of my mission. That is my favorite story to tell because Shawn could be anyone you know. Your coworker, your neighbor, even a family member. And they might just need a little nudge.

My Story......The Reason I Came Home From My Mission

Going on a mission was never part of my plan that I had for my life. When I thought about it I always thought that I would be married by 21 and that it just wasn’t in the cards for me at all. That all changed when President Monson made the announcement. I was at work so I didn’t know anything about it until I went home and got onto Facebook and all of my friends who I’d graduated high school with said they were going on missions. I had no idea what was going on but I finally found out that President Monson had changed the age. I felt the Spirit so strongly, but I felt like at the time that I was just overcome with the emotion because of the big change.

In February I kept getting that same feeling, like I needed to go on a mission. I met with my bishop at that time just to see what it would take to start my papers, because I didn’t know, and I ended up starting them right then. Everything worked out so fast and amazingly that it seemed like the Lord wanted me to go really badly.

I got my call April 11^th. That was the longest day of my life because I had to wait till 10:30 pm to open my call. And I was called to serve in the Colorado Fort Collins Mission and I was to report on June 26^th 2013. That was the craziest moment of my life so far because I had no idea how I’d gotten there really, it all seems like such a blur.

After that two month wait into the MTC it was finally my turn to go into the big, scary, MTC. The first day was a big blur because so much has happened in a short amount of time. Now I’m not sure when it exactly started, but I know that my time in the MTC was not the best time because I had a migraine almost the entire time. At one point I had to go to the health center because I had a blinding migraine (something I’ve never experienced before) and I had to get shots in my hips and because of that I had to miss a whole day of classes. I felt like part of it was because I was going through caffeine withdrawals, but I didn’t think that it would be that bad.

When I left for my mission I still had a migraine, but for whatever reason I’m pretty sure that my first day in the field I had no migraine whatsoever. It was gone. That was the most amazing feeling. I thought that I would be able to continue, that I wouldn’t deal with it again for the rest of my mission.

That was very short lived. I got moved to another area my first three weeks out and so in my new area with my new companion I got a migraine one Sunday. I basically just slept that day because I thought that it would go away the next day. Because that’s how it was when I was home and I got a migraine. I’d get it, I’d sleep it off and then it’d be gone. Well this migraine I got on my mission has never gone away.

I dealt with the migraine on my mission from August until January. I did everything that I could on my mission. I tried to be the missionary that the Lord had called, but some days were harder than others. For months I had the question in the back of my mind about whether I should go home or not. I wanted to so I could just deal with all my medical stuff there, but at the same time I wanted to stay on my mission and serve. Finally I called my mission president and just kind of cried to him on the phone that I was sick of being on a mission because of how much pain I was in.

Then finally in January I had an interview with my mission president and I just basically was sobbing because I couldn’t take being there anymore. And he told me to make a decision and then pray about it and see if that’s what the Lord wants me to do.

I was lucky enough that my companion got a temple trip so I was able to pray about it there. And the feeling that I got in one of the rooms of the temple was the most powerful feeling I’ve gotten. I talked to the Lord that day and the Spirit let me know that going home was what I needed to do. So the next Monday I called my mission president and told him that I had prayed about it and I knew for a fact that going home was the right thing to do. I thought that he was going to have me wait till the end of the transfer, because it was a week later, but I went home on Thursday. So less than a week after I told my mission president I was on a plane home.

Yes being home is hard but I know that it’s the best thing that I could have done. I don’t know that I will return to my mission but I miss it every single day and I know that even if those amazing 7 months are all I serve I know that I was accomplishing my purpose.

Reading 2012

In the year of our Lord 2012 I made a goal with myself and Goodreads to read 65 books last year. I exceeded that goal, only by one, but I still surpassed it which I was surprised I did.

Here are the books I read last year.

1. The Holy Temple by Boyd K. Paker
2. Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
3. The Magicians Nephew by C.S. Lewis
4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
5. A Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis
6. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
7. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
8. At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
9. Maze Runner by James Dashner
10. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
11. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling 
12. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
13. First Love and Forever by Anita Stansfield 
14. First Love, Second Chances by Anita Stansfield
15. The Good Girl by Kerry Cohen
16. The Broken Road by Shannon Guymon
17. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
18. Someone to Hold by Anita Stansfield
19. Forgotten by Cat Patrick
20. Waiting for You by Susane Colasanti
21. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
22. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
23. The Death Cure by James Dashner
24. The Future of Us by Jay Asher
25. Across the Universe by Beth Revis 
26. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
27. Crossed by Ally Condie
28. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 
29. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
30. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
31. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
32. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
33. Hometown Girl by Michele Ashman Bell
34. The Perfect Fit by Michele Ashman Bell
35. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
36. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
37. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
38. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Favorite Book of the Year)
39. Amy and Rogers Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
40. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
41. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
42. All American Girl by Meg Cabot
43. Paper Towns by John Green
44. Where She Went by Gayle Forman
45. I'd Love to Tell you I Love you, But then I'd have to kill you by Ally Carter 
46. Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
47. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
48. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
49. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
50. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
51. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
52. Perfect Timing by Michele Ashman Bell
53. The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
54. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
55. Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
56. Before I fall by Lauren Oliver
57. What happened to goodbye by Sarah Dessen
58. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
59. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
60. The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan 
61. Looking for Alaska by John Green
62. The List by Siobran Vivian 
63. Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
64. How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
65. The Selection by Kiera Cass
66. Reached by Ally Condie
67. The Vow by Kim and Kricket Carpenter
68. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Apparently Goodreads didn't take into account that all the C.S. Lewis books were different and not just one, but oh well. Anyways I hope that everyone continues to read and read lots of good books this year. 

Long Time No Post

Yes I know. I'm the worst blogger ever. My last post was almost a year ago.
Well a lot of things have happened since then.

1. I finished my first year of college
2. I got a job at.........McDonald's. I know that its the worst job in the world, but I've kept at it and kept the job for the longest I've ever held a job.
3. I started my second year of college and I got all A's and B's fall semester and I'm so happy about it. 
4. The most exciting thing is I've decided to go on a mission!

 I'm almost done with it all! I just have to go to the Dentist (which hopefully will be soon) and then I need to call my Stake President and then I'll have my mission call soon! You cannot believe how excited I am that I'm going to go on a mission and serve the Lord.
Now I know I'm not one to preach my religion, but if anyone has any questions about the LDS church you can go to lds.org and you'll be able to have all of your questions answered.
I'm going to try to be better and update my blog more often. I've been reading one blog and she just talks about her normal life and it makes me just want to post more often.
Make good choices!
Carolin

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

After a break up there is a winner and a loser. Meaning what one person does after the break up is way bigger and better than the other person. This is what they say on How I Met Your Mother. I didn't really believe it till last Monday.

Last Monday I went on a date to go see the Hunger Games again (I'll try to remember to make a post about my opinion). Anyways because my date doesn't have a car I decided to drive. While I was driving to my date's apartment I was just driving along and then I saw this guy that sort of had a jacket that looked like my ex boyfriend Kyle's. Turns out it was him! He looked like a hobo and I'm not even joking, he had longer hair it looked like it was getting close to his shoulders. He had a long beard and he was carrying a backpack.......yeah he looked like a hobo.

Anyways as I was driving I started laughing my head off because he looked SO ridiculous and then I started figuring out the things that I've done in my life that he hasn't.

1. I graduated from high school. As far as I know he hasn't even gotten his GED and he's turning 21 this year.
   
2. I'm going to college and this time next year I'll be graduating with my Associates.
3. I haven't been engaged to 3 girls in the last 3 years. He has been with countless girls since me and he has been engaged at LEAST twice and has never gotten married.
   

I'm just so grateful that I got out of that relationship when I did, but all in all I have to say that I'm SO happy that I didn't drop out of high school like him, and that I"m in college and doing really well. I am the winner of this break up!

Long Time No Blog

Wow its been a really long time since I've blogged at all. Last time I blogged Missionary Boy had just gotten home from his mission and it didn't work out. Which sucked, there were a lot of long nights where I just cried and cried because I didn't want it to be over, but things work out the way they're supposed too.

Biggest things that have happened in the last two months:

• I bought my Hunger Games Tickets!!! We're going at 12:13AM Friday. We meaning Tedi, Chase, David, and me.
• I kind of got written off by Cory " I have my 'soul mate' narrowed down to 2 girls: one you might know the second you definitely don't know" Yeah he forgot about our deal we made over two years ago. How's that for awesome?
  
• I saw Ryan on the bus and he acted as though he didn't tell me in January that he didn't want to be my friend anymore.

Those are the biggest things that have happened.

I am still writing my friends who are on missions, and also writing this guy who's on his mission in Canada. It takes like 3 weeks for the letter to get there and then about a week or so to get here. Its a long process and I've only gotten 2 letters and I started writing him in December. I can't read the crazy Canadian mail system ink on my letter otherwise I'd be able to tell when I got my last letter, but its just been a really long time.

I love the show Grey's Anatomy, I've watched all I can on Netflix and I'm dying to watch the next season but I can't find it anywhere! I need to know what happens! The season finale was a killer! Anyways that's all I've been up to lately.

Home

Well the missionary i was waiting for came home before Christmas. We hung out and he kissed me and then decided it would be best if we just stayed friends. Then the next day told me we can't even be that. Happy Christmas to me......not.

He then told me like a couple days later that we could be friends. Then after I asked for my pictures back he told me I was being too dramatic and couldn't be friends with me anymore and that our personalities were too different.

I should have known it was going to be the same when he got home. That he wouldn't be the man he was in my letters. That him "signing" himself over to me would be real. I was so naive to think that he would have changed in the last year since I'd seen him.

I'm just glad I figured out that he wasn't for me before I got way too attached, that I didn't end up in a relationship with him that wasn't a healthy one. Don't worry I'm not upset or anything i'm perfectly fine. I'm just happy I still get to go out there and look for men!

The Doctor's

As most people know I got into a car accident 6 months ago. Well I had chest pain for the first couple of weeks maybe a month. But up until about a month ago I didn't have any problems but now I'm having chest pain. So my mom took me to the doctors and we found out that I either have excess cartilage in my sternum or I have a crack in my sternum that is still healing. Also if my chest doesn't stop hurting in the next couple of weeks I have to go see a specialist. Which I'm not looking forward too because I'm pretty sure my chest isn't going to stop hurting any time soon.

That's just an update on the crazy thing I call my stupid chest.

What's Up with Guys?

So as you guys know I'm waiting for my friend Ryan while he's on his mission. He's been out almost 5 months and he's in Minnesota. Well I have a new friend who's name I won't put here but I'll put his nickname I gave him. It's Pony Boy, because he's a boy who likes ponies. I wish I was making this up.

Anyways PB knows I'm waiting for Ryan and PB is waiting for his best friend to come home so he was giving me some tips on how to wait. Yeah a GUY was telling me how to wait because I was kind of sad this one day and really missing Ryan and I was talking to PB and he was telling me all these things I need to do like, keep myself busy (which I am I'm taking 15 credits this semester and next semester check!), Go out and have fun (um I went to a girls night the week before so check!) and I can't remember what else but I was thinking is he REALLY telling me how to wait?

Then this last week he was asking me what Ryan is like so I told him and PB says "I approve" Umm sorry buddy but I don't need your approval. Ryan and I will decide if it's right for me to wait, not some random third party.

So all in all I'm hating guys, they just aren't as up to snuff as Ryan. Its making me wish that the next 19 months go by fast.

Breaking Dawn Part 1 SPOILERS!

As always I went to the premiere of Breaking Dawn. This time it wasn't just Sidney and I like it usually is, Sidney had us go with some of her coworkers. First off i didn't know these girls and I was a little bit worried about it. So we were supposed to meet at 530 but I was meeting at our friend Asia's house and it took me forever to get there and then it took forever for us to get to Orem and then we got to the girls apartment and then she said she needed to go to her parents house and get the tickets which I thought was dumb because they were just sitting in her apartment and could have gotten the tickets earlier....anyways. So we started following the car in front of us but they went to fast and the car in front of them which we were supposed to follow too went through a light that they shouldn't have because then we all got lost.

So we called one of the girls and she told us to just meet at the Macy's at the Orem mall and we'd meet there. Well Sidney, Asia, and I were STARVING so we RAN into the mall to the food court then RAN back to Sidney's car so we could follow them. Well they didn't really wait for us so we just left on our merry way to the theater. While we were on the high way we were over by Pleasant Grove and American Fork and this high way patrol man was on the high way too. We made sure not to pass him but then he went all crazy, he turned on his lights (no one in front of him FYI) and drove from one side of the high way to the other getting us to slow down. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. Sidney and Asia think it might have been that the clean up crew was almost done so he slowed us down so we wouldn't hit the accident.

Well we finally get to the theater. With next to NO help from the girls we were supposed to be following because they didn't know where they were going! AND the movie was starting so to say I was a little upset would be an understatement. We decided right then that the three of us would be going to the second half by OURSELVES!

I'm going to now make a list of things I thought were good, cheesy, and things that got me confused.

GOOD (in no particular order):

• Jessica's speech
  
• How they made Bella look while she was pregnant.
• Showing Jacob imprint on Renesme

CHEESY (in no particular order):

• The wolves "talking" to each other
• All of the jokes were mostly cheesy
• The fact that Bella and Edward were playing chess because of the cover

GOT ME CONFUSED:

• The wolves phasing before winter. I've read a book series where there are werewolves but they can only change into wolves during the winter. The first book is Shiver. Great great book
• The whole close up of Stephenie Meyer
• Why Bella was wearing tennis shoes when she was talking to Jacob
• why the whole birth scene was so dramatic

Well this is my review. Its all mine. Although a little was swayed by Sidney.

Voting

Don't mind my gross hair and stuffs.

Ever since I can remember I've always wanted to vote. I wanted to get the little sticker that said I voted. So finally when I turned 18 I finally was able to register to vote and that's what I did. I registered back in July (so on my half birthday) and then I was able to vote for my towns election they were having.
I think one thing to remember when voting is to figure out who to vote for. Because most Americans just vote willy nilly and don't do their research. So for family night last Monday my mom, step dad, and I did our research and figured out who we wanted to vote for and who would be best for our town.
Now unfortunately our town didn't do stickers this year so my mom made me one. So next election be sure to vote! We need to vote because it's our civic duty as an American Citizen

The Name Game

I have an issue, the issue is called: GET MY NAME RIGHT! Especially if its on a social network site such as Facebook. I mean how hard is it to not put an e on the end of my name?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8BoYEgy1I

Okay look at this link, its a link to Brian Regan's thing about names. It totally applies. Now the part I want you to watch isn't till the every end. But its great hes a funny guy.

I have decided that I have the worse name. Both of my names are hard. I have to teach EVERY one how to say BOTH of my names. So this doesn't really work out much. Hopefully I'm lucky like my sister and get married to someone with a last name that's easier.

Freaked Out!!!

I have bad anxiety, its gotten worse since I was in a car accident in May (which was almost 6 months ago! Crazy!). So one day in October I came home and my mom told me I had a letter! I was so excited and I asked where it was she told me the chair in the dining room where I sit.

I walked over to my chair and just saw this:
(please don't mind the fact that my phone is focusing on my awesome sock)

That freaked me out. I don't know what I had go through my head but it was a lot. I was afraid I had done something wrong and the first presidency had need to send me a letter about it, they wanted to send me on a mission early. Like 3 years early (almost two !!!!!) but luckily it was only a letter from my friend Elder Holt. Thank goodness. Yeah I know I probably should go get my anxiety checked into. I will I will promise CALM DOWN!

I got another letter!

So this week hasn't been all that good, I kept having the feeling something was wrong with someone and I didn't know who it was.
I was sitting with my parents in the living room I had my laptop on and I was playing around on Pinterest and Facebook and stuff and then I had this sick feeling someone I knew was hurt or something was wrong and I didn't know what happened. I told my mom about it and she told me to text my siblings about it and ask them if they were okay. Tedi texted back and said they were fine so I texted David and of course he didn't answer but I figured if something was wrong with them I would have heard something. I decided that it had to do with one of the missionaries I'm writing.
I got a letter this week and it wasn't from Ryan which I thought was weird because I just sent him a package and I thought it would get there before P-day, oh well...but anyways I got a letter from one of the other missionaries I'm writing.
His name is Elder Holt and I got his address from the group I'm on on Facebook. The best part of the letter was that he sent a picture! It was awesome and I showed it to my mom and she said he looks like Logan, my brother in laws brother, and a little bit like Chase, my brother in law which I thought was funny. But his letter scared me, he had a scary experience this past week and so I think that's where my bad feeling came from, he's okay obviously but it still was scary. Anyways this is really random but I just needed to tell someone about it and what better place than my blog!

Getting a Wish Granted

Sorry most of my posts have been about Ryan lately but then again that's my life right now. I've been having some doubts about whether me and Ryan would actually work out if/when he comes home. And I've been praying about it a lot lately and when I got a letter today and Ryan feels the EXACT same way, I'm SO glad. So I've decided to just be friends with him, what we've always been but then I figured out that we will only be friends, and i'm totally okay with that. I'll keep everyone updated though!

High School Again

I feel like I'm back in high school. There is so much drama going on that it doesn't even feel real. First Ryan writes me on a day that's not P-day and apparently his Mission Pres has a rule that they can't write unless its P-day so that's awesome. He broke a rule. So i've been stressed out about that, and school(because I"m a freshman its hard being in college) and finally the straw that broke the camels back was that my so called best friend doesn't want anything to do with me anymore.
Awesome right? Its like the drama I never had in high school. Yeah that's right I never had drama in high school. I tried to keep myself out of it because I knew from my sisters experience that having drama in high school is hell. So I've tried my best to keep out of it. I don't want it and I don't try to create it. It comes to me. My so called best friend texted me yesterday saying that "You're dragging me down" "And until you learn to be happy and listen to me I need a break." Say what? I always thought that our friendship was one that if we had a problem we could talk it out. Apparently not. But I was talking to my other friend and she was saying that it's all this one girls fault. That this one girl has always had a problem with me and that I'm always depressed and I'm super self centered and its all about ME ME ME!
On this blog I can make it all about me, why? Because its my blog and I can talk about whatever I want. But anyways I always thought that our friendship was one that we could talk about it and I just feel like crap sometimes because she was listening to someone else to get advice from and an opinion of me.

I just want to tell my readers out there that IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ME TELL IT TO MY FACE! I DON'T WANT A FREAKING TEXT MESSAGE SAYING YOU "WANT A BREAK FROM OUR FRIENDSHIP!" WE'RE NOT A COUPLE STOP ACTING AS THIS IS A RELATIONSHIP! Sorry I just had to get that off my chest.

Carolin out!

Ps. I'm SO happy and I feel like a weight I didn't even know was there has been lifted off of my shoulders.

Weird Boy

So remember how a couple of posts ago I said I got Dear Jane'd? Well apparently I didn't......right that totally makes sense(not). Well I got two letters from him this week and kind of explained everything. But I was pretty sure I was Dear Jane'd. I had Sidney even read my letter and she thought I got Dear Jane'd too.

Apparently I didn't. So I'm still officially in the waiting game, oh wait no I'm not because he dropped another bomb on me in my last two letters, that he's coming home. He's only been out 2 months, almost 3. Great right? Not really. I told him in two letters that I don't want him home unless its for medical reasons.

Sidney has said that he wants to do everything that isn't what I'm expecting. First he told me he was going on a mission. Next he told he loves me. Third he told me he loves another girl and what I thought was Dear Janeing me. And now Fourth is that he told me he's coming home. Sidney said that last he'll come home and tell me he's marrying someone who's not me.

So he's a weird boy and I just need to figure it out. He's pissing me off. But that's all for now. I'll let you know what's the next crazy thing he's told me.

Random Pictures from My Phone

Please don't mind part of my car in the first picture, but anyways I took these pictures because I was looking out my window driving(you'd hope so right?) but I was having a not so good day. It didn't seem like anything was going right and then I saw this beautiful scenery. I don't know why I thought it was so pretty but I just did.

As soon as I took these pictures my phone died. Go figure right? But I'm happy I was able to take these pictures and have it help lift my day up.

The Eights

8 fav. TV shows:
1. The Office
2. Four Weddings
3. Project Runway
4. Say Yes to the Dress
5. Bones
6. Teen Mom
7. Gilmore Girls
8. Medium

8 places I love to eat: (not in any kind of order)
1. Chipotle
2. Zupas
3. Noodles
4. Sonic
5. Subway
6. Panera Bread - but utah does NOT have one! grrr it's my favorite.
7. Olive Garden
8. Costa Vida

8 things I did today:
1. Woke up
2. Painted a board for my closest
3. Texted Tedi
4. Blogged
5. Showered twice
6. Read blogs
7. Watched Say Yes to the Dress
8. Drank a Dr. Pepper

8 things I am looking forward to:
1. December (the semester will be over)
2. Thanksgiving!
3. Go to the Temple
4. Having money
5. To be in my bed- sleeping...
6. Getting good grades in school
7. Christmas
8. To be finished with math


8 Things I love about FALL:
1. Jumping in a pile of leaves.
2. Thanksgiving
3. The color of the leaves changing
4. Being with Family
5. Carving pumpkins
6. Hot Chocolate from Starbucks
7. Covering up more
8. Knowing I'll almost be finished with 2011 soon


8 Things I WISH for:
1. To start dating
2. Having more money
3. To be happy with my life
4. To know that I'm doing good in school
5. To be okay with my body
6. Being more creative
7. Have school all paid for
8. To be able to get married in the temple to the love of my life

Going to Concerts

(There was a naughty swear word I don't think anyone wants to read)

Going to concerts has always been my thing. I love buying the tickets and anticipating the concert and I love going and hearing really good loud music. So when my friend Angela and I were talking about going to the Anberlin I got really excited. Tuesday Angela started talking about going to go get the tickets I wanted to go and get tickets because I really wanted to go. So we got our tickets and its in a couple of weeks and I'm SO EXCITED!!!!