So, it's been a while and I've thought about just starting over and making a new blog so it doesn't appear that I'm such a slacker. I'm currently writing in two journals right now and this is kind of like a third. The first one is for just day to day stuff that isn't really that happens. The second is for more deep things, personal revelation type stuff. This one will be for times when I don't feel like writing things by hand.

That being said.

A ton has happened since I last wrote on this blessed blog. I moved to Utah. I have gained a greater knowledge of the gospel and what it means to be LDS. I have great friends. I'm preparing to go to the temple on my own. I seriously can't wait until that day. I spoke with my bishop today (who is absolutely wonderful) about taking my endowment out and he said that he thinks that I'm ready and that I can go whenever I want. I'm shooting for December/January. The Lord has blessed me so much lately and I know that it was His way of preparing me for greater responsibility.

I'm really trying hard to be a good person. I love my life and the people in it. I want each day to be better than the day before. I don't have control over the what happens to me but I do have control of how I react and think about it. I deserve the best so I need to be my best.

There are things I'm insecure about and I'm aware of those things and I know that Satan will try to tempt me like he never has before.... bring it Satan. I'm ready and I have angels, friends, family and my own agency to back me up and I will win.

I had great intentions of figuring out how to make my blog 'cuter' but then I realized that I really don't have anything to really post about so I decided to do another quote. As I was looking around for a quote I found an old journal that I dedicated to quotes and I chose one from there.

"To every man there comes... that special moment when he is figuratively tapped o the shoulder and offered the chance to do a special thing unique to him and fitted to his talent. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour."

-Winston Churchill

So rather than make my blog cuter, I guess I should figure out what talent I have and work on it!!

I have a blog.... next on the list...

a life to blog about!!

I did hear a great quote in church on Sunday. So I'll share it with the millions of people that will be sure to check out my blog.

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means.” CS Lewis -Mere Christianity

I might add, I was really paying attention to the Relief Society lesson until she read this quote... then I checked out and went into ponder mode. It was great. I was even more impressed when I found the entire quote online (she only read a little bit of it), I think that I might start enjoying Relief Society instead of enduring it. :)