Well things have been okay lately. Not much to report on. I'm actually doing pretty well in all my class except for one. Not sure how things will turn out in that class. I just keep praying for a miracle! I have a lot of writing to get done before Thanksgiving break and a group project to work on. Other than that though I don't have much to do before finals. I can't believe the semester is almost over! Oh and good news is that I found out I was supposed to get a tuition discount this semester so I went in and talked to them about it and they will give me one next semester! That will save me a lot of money! So I'm excited about that. My district right now is doing well. they are still trying to adjust but things will start to get better the next couple of weeks. They are all great missionaries. That's pretty much all I've got to report on! Sorry there is nothing more exciting going on in my life. Oh and it snowed for the first time yesterday. blah! I do not like the cold and am so not looking forward to the winter!

This past month has been crazy and busy. I was swamped with tests and a literature review so that consumed a lot of my time. Now I just have one more midterm tomorrow and I guess another one next week and just some more papers and presentations and then I'll be good for a while. I don't know I guess I just keep thinking I'll get a week off of school or something. But I'm going to get busy these next couple of days so I don't get behind like I did before. Anyway, things are going okay. School is going okay but I need to be doing better. The district that I have been teaching at the MTC just left last night. It was so tough to see them go. I miss them all so much. They worked hard and I literally saw miracles performed right before my eyes. It's just such an amazing experience to see and to be such a small part of the Lord's work. I'm grateful everyday that I can go to work and teach those missionaries. I don't get a break at all and will be getting a district tomorrow. So I've been busy trying to prepare for them to keep my mind off of the ones that just left. One elder however did have to stay behind. He had his tonsils removed last tuesday so he'll be here for another week until the doctor will clear him. He's a great elder and I've been trying to help him too. I know all the missionaries I taught will do amazing things. I just pray for their safety. Anyway, that's pretty much what has been going on as of late.
I have worked a little extra with covering a softball tournament at UVU and then last weekend working the high school volleyball state championships at UVU too. So I'm definitely due some money haha....it's interesting that now I can get paid for watching sports all day instead of as an undergrad where I never got paid and worked even harder. I'm excited for thanksgiving coming up so I can see family and get a couple of days off of school at least. Anyway, back to work. I gotta get prepared for a presentation and study for my midterm in the morning! I'm posting a picture of my district that just left. Wow, it's hard to believe that I'm now teaching my 10th district! Crazy!

Hmmm....what has happened the past couple of weeks? Well I guess quite a bit has happened. School has been really busy. I need to finish writing this literature review before tuesday. So far I'm not doing so well with it. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be haha. Anyway, things at work are going well. These past couple weeks have been pretty busy but good. I have been blessed to teach one of the best districts ever! They are all very diligent and just really amazing. They work hard and we've had some great, spiritual experiences together. Seriously I am so blessed to teach them and essentially to be taught by them!
Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to my mission reunion. That was a lot of fun. I mean I got to see a former companion and I also got to see my mission president and his wife which is essentially why I went to the reunion. So it was awesome! It was so good to see him and everyone else. What's sad is little did we know that while we were enjoying filipino food and each others' company the Philippines was just starting to get hit hard by a huge typhoon that I'm sure you all have heard about. It's really sad. My second area had some pretty bad flooding and mud slides but they are up in the mountains so the flooding went away. The mud however is still there and many houses of members have been destroyed. My last area was hit the worst. Because it borders the floodway from other rivers to Laguna Bay the flooding there was severe and the city is still mostly underwater. Some areas the water is about chest deep or higher still. It was so sad to hear about and I've seen many pictures that have just made me cry. What amazing people live in that city and country! I know they can get through this! I just wish I could help them. I had a great epiphany the other day about all this that I shared with my missionaries. Just like how I can't be there in the Philippines to save these people, my dear friends, our Heavenly Father cannot be here to save us. But it is through other people that the Lord works and it is through our prayers that others are able to be helped. But it has to be through other people like missionaries or others that the Lord answers our prayers of help for others. I know that the Lord has been answering my prayers. Especially since another big typhoon was headed straight to Manila but at the last minute changed it's course and headed more north perhaps saving the Manila area. Anyway, I know this gospel is true and I'm so grateful to be a member of this church. Conference has been so great so far too. Anyway, I'm going to post some pictures so you all can see how bad it really is over there. They need all the help they can get right now. Most the pictures I will post will be pictures of my last area, the one that was hit pretty bad. One of them is a picture of one of the Elders I taught a few times at the MTC who is serving in my mission. The others just show how high the flood water is still. Here is a link to a video that shows really just how bad it is. Watch it here!

It has been quite the busy past couple of weeks but I enjoyed all the posts. So life for me has just been busy with trying to keep up with my reading and school work, which I'm a little behind still and need to spend the rest of my friday doing that stuff. But yeah. Things have just been crazy with work and everything else! Last week one of my elders went home. He was the fourth in the zone to go home the past 6 weeks and another might be going home this week. So It was so tough because everything I taught and everything we did in class was pretty much directed at trying to help him to not go home! We tried! That's all I gotta say. But I really pray everyday that he'll come back. He has a strong testimony and can make a great missionary but has some family issues and depression issues possibly to work out. Anyway, so that was weighing on me for a while. Then on tuesday they added an elder to our district so that way the elder whose companion went home didn't have to be part of a trisome of elders. That was a pretty smooth move but hard since he came from a different district and is a little behind in Tagalog now since we already reviewed some things that he hasn't learned yet. Anyway, then that same day (all on my day off) my co-teacher got let go. So that whole night I spent trying to work out my shift with another teacher who was going to sub but already had shifts she needs to work and yada, yada. So this was crazy. Then the next day my missionaries were pretty sad because he was gone. So wow! Let's just say as the zone coordinator things are never calm. There is always something that I'm worrying about or trying to work out. We have so many missionaries too that they split our zone/branch in two so that way the branch president and stuff can keep track of the missionaries better. I thought this was going to make things easier, which it has in a way, but still not. I think I just take things too seriously I don't know. I even felt bad when I was meeting with my supervisor and he was telling me that he was talking to some other supervisors about me and they were telling him that I must be a great zone coordinator who really knows the teachers and missionaries well, etc. So this made me feel good but sad at the same time because my poor supervisor is already stressed out and feeling bad about the situation as did I, etc. Anyway so I finally got things worked out for the next week but it meant I had to work a 9 hour day (and had to interview 13 missionaries) yesterday at work to teach and gets things organized. But good news is starting next wednesday I'll be teaching with the co-teacher I was with this past spring/summer. He's not getting a new district for a few weeks so I requested he be my co teacher again because he's a great teacher and will take a load off which I really need. But yeah so we'll be teaching together for the rest of the semester! Yay! I'm really excited! He's awesome.
Anyway, so things are going well now and this thesis research stuff is kicking my butt. But I think once I get past this semester and make sure I can do whatever research thesis topic I'm going to do for sure then things will get better. So for right now I'm just trying to get enough sleep and trying to keep my head above water for when tests start coming along. For the most part I'm enjoying it all and my classes are okay. But yeah that's pretty much it. Sorry if none of this makes sense and thanks for putting up with me talking about my missionaries all the time. The district I have right now is awesome! But yeah my goal for this week is to get my reading done and figure out how I can get the air conditioning to work in my classroom at the MTC because it's always hot and stuffy and smells(not me, the elders) because there are 13 missionaries in a small room. Just last night the sisters were telling me the room smells. I said "yeah only at certain times like just now but then it goes away". They laughed. They think I'm funny and it's great. But I was serious. I think they got the hint that it's just the elders who are too shy to leave the room or claim it that makes it smell. Or maybe it's one of the sisters? hehe...But yeah I'm trying to be mature about it. I've never had this happen before. I don't know hopefully it goes away. But yeah life is great and I try to laugh and find something funny about everyday which I normally do! Come what may and love it! Oh and I'll post a picture of my district that left a few weeks ago.

Well I am now about to start my second week of graduate school! Yay! Well it's kinda exciting I guess. Well last week my district left. I was glad to seem them go because honestly they needed to go and there wasn't much else that we could do for them here at the MTC. I think for the most part they were prepared so I'm excited for them. Of course I do miss them though. But I have a new district of 13 and they are fantastic. They are diligent and hard working and hopefully they keep it up! I have 3 sisters in my district too which is an answer to my prayers! So last week was pretty busy getting this new group settled in and such. Pictures to come once my co-teacher e-mails them to me.
The first week of school went pretty well too. The first day was great then the second not so much and then things just kept getting piled on as to what I need to be doing. I have a lot of reading and assignments to get done so I need to be really productive today since I'm kinda behind with everything. But I finally realized that I need to use my planner and plan things out and since then things have gone much better. Plus I spoke to one of the professors who I want to work on my thesis with and I told him what my interests kind of were and he gave me agreat idea of what to do my research on. It was awesome! I want to get started right away because I don't want to procrastinate this thesis. I'm a terrible writer too and I know this will take a lot of time for me. But pretty much we want to get a pilot study going this semester and get my proposal pretty much done this semester so I can propose next semester then get started on the research spring/summer and fall. So if you know of anyone who lacks Range of Motion in any of the major joints please let me know! I could use the help! But yeah, I'm excited for that.
Other than that not too much has happened. BYU beat Oklahoma on saturday so that was pretty dang exciting! It was way cool and Provo went crazy! Such a huge win! Anyway, I'm actually excited for football this year seeing as we should have a great season! Welp not much else to write about. Life is busy but great!

Well the past couple of weeks have been pretty good. Just now I went to a temple dedication. It was really good except for the fact that I had to use a tissue instead of a handkerchief and I struggled to stay awake at the beginning. But it was really good and it was so good to hear from a prophet of God. That was definitely the highlight for me. This past week I was pretty busy with packing and working and moving and such. So that took up most my time. But things are great! School starts in a week which is WAY too soon for me. I can't believe that the summer is already coming to an end. I feel like it just got started. Anyway, I am kinda excited for what's going to happen now. I'm a little nervous for my new classes but hopefully I'll do well. And we're getting a ton of new missionaries in the next couple of weeks so it'll be busy. But I'm sure I can handle it. I mean...c'mon, Ako pa! Hehe...kidding. I will be able to handle it with the Lord's help though. So I'm going to enjoy the last week I have free from school from a while and Liz is coming to visit so that'll be cool too. But yeah a lot new things are going to be happening this fall. New ward, new apartment/roommates, new missionaries, starting grad school, etc. So it'll be interesting!

Hilary Clinton...wierdo!

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Watch this video! It is absolutely ridiculous. I know that we shouldn't judge others but seriously as secretary of state you should know better than this. Supposedly the translator might have mistranslated but even if not that doesn't give you the right to get angry like that especially when you are in another country trying to build foreign relations. It seems like all those years in the white house seeing her husband do crazy things to this country including having affairs with other women might have led to some unresolved anger issues. Seems like she's been holding this stuff in for a long time. "I am secretary of state, not my husband." Oooohhh wow, look at her. Now she's finally got the upper hand on her husband! What are weird family. Anyway, for some reason this just got me a little perturbed. I think it's cool having women in positions like this but not when they can't control their PMS and emotions. Gives all of us a bad name. Geez! Anyway, enough of my rambling for now. No wonder why I hate politics and avoid it at all costs! Off to work! :)

Well yet again I mourn the loss of another district. This district was so amazing. I wasn't able to get as close with them as I would have liked because I only taught them a couple days a week. But I learned so much from them nonetheless and I know they will all do great in the Philippines. I thank God that I was able to meet them. Anyway, today I've spent some time after work cleaning the bathroom and going through a bunch of clothes. I now have 3 trash bags full of clothes to go to D.I. Every time I move I get rid of new clothes haha. Today I just wasn't in the mood to try and keep stuff because I have a lot of packing to get done before friday. So I ended up just getting rid of a lot of stuff. There's more stuff that I need to get rid of though because I want to pack as few boxes as possible to make this move a lot smoother and quicker than last time. But anyway, today was pretty good and I good amount done I guess. I am definitely excited for the move to a new ward and new apartment though! My other apartment is a little smaller than this one though.
Last week I took my certification exam again. I'm pretty positive I passed this time. I mean last time I barely missed it and this time I studied a lot and felt a lot more prepared and felt like I guessed on not too many questions. But yeah I'll find out in a couple weeks if I passed or not. Yesterday a really good friend Azul left. She is being deported to Mexico which completely sucks considering she was raised in the states. But you know the Lord has a plan for her and I'm sure things will work out for the better for her. She is going to be missed anyway though! No doubt she has impacted many lives since she's been in this ward.
Hmmm...what else has happened? We had a zone party for all the teachers last tuesday night and we all cooked some filipino food and of course did a little videoke (karaoke but with a video). It was so much fun! I think I was getting into the most. I don't know why because I'm not normally comfortable with singing or dancing (I danced a little to one song) in front of other people. I guess I just felt really comfortable with all of them. It was a little embarassing though when I was dancing and I don't have the best voice. But you know what? It was fun anyway and I'm glad I did it. I love the teachers that I work with and they are so much fun yet work so hard to help their missionaries.
Welp can't think of anything else to write. I bought my all sports pass and am excited for the new football season. I'm sitting with a good friend too so this'll be fun! We bought my friend a Ukelele for her birthday and I've been trying to learn "drop, baby, drop" on it. I stink at the strumming part. Maybe I should take up learning guitar? I wish I had more time but school is going to be starting soon....AHHHH!!! Oh and my stupid smoke detector keeps beeping and it's obnoxious! I'm just gonna have to take the batteries out. Better not be a fire anytime soon or I'm toast!

Welp here we go again with another post. I've been so bad about this stuff lately! I honestly thought that I was going to have so much more time since my spring class is over. But since I've been teaching two districts things have been really busy. Plus I've spent more time hanging out with some friends. Anyway, so for the update.
I can't believe school starts in a few weeks! I'm not going to lie but I'm pretty nervous to be starting grad school. I'm not quite sure how tough things are going to be. I'm going to continue teaching at the MTC during this time as well. I didn't pass my certification exam so I'm taking it this friday again. I'm pretty sure that I'll pass it this time. I still have some more studying to do but I'm feeling more confident this time around so we'll see! I got my diploma in the mail the other day so now I can say that I'm officially graduated! Yay!
Teaching at the MTC has been crazy busy. I love my missionaries and I'm going to miss seeing the group that I'm teaching right now that leaves in a week. They've been a joy to teach and I love them so much! The other group I'm teaching has been in the MTC for 6 weeks! Time flies so quick. They have been a little bit tougher to teach but we are working our hardest to help them! But there's only so much that we can do as teachers. They really need to step it up and work hard. I'm kind of an overachiever too so with my zone coordinator position I've really been working hard to help the districts with everything that they do. Things have been going really well in the zone and with all the teachers. I feel like I've been able to help them all and the zone has gotten more unified. We have definitely raised the standard with all the missionaries and I've been seeing more miracles because of it. I love work everyday and love to learn from all of the missionaries!
I've been a gospel doctrine teacher this spring/summer and today was my last day teaching. I feel that things went well although I could have improved in many aspects. I'm moving out of my apartment on the 14th but can't move in to my new place until the 25th so I'm not quite sure what I'm going to be doing until then. But I'm so excited for a change and am excited to be moving to a new place. Although the moving part of everything I'm really not excited about!
The past couple of days I was able to go home to visit. I was so glad to go home and to meet the new neice and nephew and to just talk with each other. I loved just reminiscing on the past and just things like that. I really wish that I could've stayed longer but time just would not allow for this to happen. Everyone was pretty busy with the new kids but they were fun to see. I love being around babies because it just reminds you to be Christlike and how innocent children are. I was just thinking that they just came from our Heavenly Father not too long ago and as we are here on earth we forget that we used to live with Him and we start to lose perspective on life. But I love my family and I love being with them. Yesterday I was also able to serve as the escort at the temple for a friend who is getting married. It was so awesome to be able to share that experience with her and to help her in her process of getting married. She was nervous and it was fun to make her laugh and to get her excited for the sealing. It was awesome to be in the sealing room at the temple with them and to see them get sealed together for all time and all eternity. The guy who baptized her and her family was there too and that was so awesome to see! The Lord is so mindful of us all and knows what we need and how to help us! So this past while has been very testimony strengthening and I can't help but wonder what to Lord has in store for me in the future and what he is preparing me for. Anyway, I gotta write some letters to missionaries now!

Well I guess it's been a while since I've updated the blog. This tends to happen. Anyway, I've found myself having a little bit more time lately now that I'm officially done with school! Yay! I'm now officially graduated! And I think I might have even pulled off a decent grade in my class haha! That would be nice. So now I have a couple months break before I start grad school! I just took my certification exam last week and I'm pretty sure I didn't pass because I didn't spend enough time studying. So with the extra time I have I'm going to spend it really studying in preparation to retake the exam. I'll found out for sure if I passed or not pretty soon. But I'm just going to study anyway just in case. So now most of what I've got going on in life is work. I'm now working a little more than 30 hours a week at the MTC. I have a second district now that I split time with 2 other teachers. They are a great bunch although full of questions. I guess that's a good thing though. So that's been keeping me busy. Things have been going well as zone coordinator although there are still things I'd like to improve but we're working on that. All in all I'm really pleased with how things are going. I'm trying to get to know all of the missionaries and to be available to help all of them. I still make mistakes at times but am trying my best to improve and do better. My district leaves in a week. One of the sisters leaves tomorrow for whatever reason and I'm going to miss her so much! I'm going to miss them all. They are all going to accomplish many miracles in the mission field and I'm so excited to hear about it! Anyway, I'll be getting another new district next week. There are only 7 of them so that'll be nice to be able to help them each individually. Anyway, so things are going great there!
A sister from my mission, Sis. Doloy is out here in Provo now because she's going to get married and I'm way excited to see her. I'm going to be seeing her tomorrow so I'm way excited! She is one of my favorite sisters from the mission! Teaching gospel doctrine has been going well too so all in all I'm happy right now and just trying to enjoy a little bit of a break. Jean and Ross had their baby a few weeks ago so I'm excited to be able to meet Marcus in a month or so and Tom an Monique also had their baby, Ridley so I'm excited to be able to meet her too and to also see Christian and the rest of them for a first time in a while. I can't believe I haven't been home since Christmas. Time just flies! Anyway, life is great and I'm just trying to let things come what may and love it! I'll post a picture of my latest district that's going to be leaving in a week. :(

An update finally!

I'm sorry but it's been a while since I've updated my blog. It's been a really busy past few weeks! I think that it's not going to be busy but then it always is! Plus I'm sure I've wasted some of my time that could have been spent writing in the blog. My bad! But here's an update to what's been going on in my life!
1. School
So I walked at graduation and my family came for that so it was exciting! It was a stressful time for me though since I was still trying to study for the GRE and getting ready to start a class and trying to help my friend out who was in a car accident, etc. So right now I'm taking one class and this is my last class before I officially graduate! It's actually taken up a lot more time than I thought it would take up. I need to use my time more wisely since I also should be studying for the BOC exam (my certification exam for Athletic training). I'm taking that on June 12th which is the last day of classes I think. So somehow I need to devote a couple hours of my day to studying for that which I have yet to do. The most exciting news with school is that I got accepted to grad school here at BYU for the fall! Yay! I'm so excited, I really am! So what happened is I retook the GRE May 9th (I think) and got a score worse than I had scored before. I actually studied hard for this one! Anyway, I went straight to BYU and talked to the director of the graduate program. I explained my situation and asked if there was any way that they could reconsider my application seeing as I have a pretty high GPA but standardized tests are obviously not my thing. He informed me that he's no longer the director and I should talk to the new director. So I trying stopping by his office, e-mailed him and left him a phone message with no response. So after a few days I called the graduate coordinator in charge of my program, Athletic Training and he said they were already reconsidering the application and the info got passed to the other guy already. So after that weekend I went in and finally got a hold of the director. He told me that they had looked at my application and he talked to my professors and they all said I was a good student and they were going to let me in! I got the official letter a few days later. Needless to say mine and many other peoples' prayers were answered. I really had the faith that I could get into the program and I fought for it and a miracle happen. My new saying is "Faith plus works equals miracles". I know this to be true! I've seen a huge miracle in my life and am so grateful that the Lord answers prayers. I don't know why I had to go through all this but I sure am a stronger person because of it. I'm excited to start a new adventure. Anyway, sorry about the long story!
2. Church- I was just called to be one of the gospel doctrine teachers. I was really worried about this at first but I taught last sunday and got a lot of compliments. I was really surprised! So I guess it won't be too bad after all. Maybe I'll actually enjoy sunday school from now on haha!
3. Work- Well I just got a new position at work which I think I mentioned already. Now I'm the zone coordinator which means I'm responsible for for working with the leadership in the zone, the other teachers, and the branch president to make sure the needs of all the missionaries are met. It's been really busy but I'm starting to get into the swing of things. It's been about a month so it's been good. Anyway, this next month is going to be really busy! We are getting so many missionaries in the next couple of months. In June I will be teaching 10 hours a week to another district just because there aren't enough teachers. Some of us will be working extra hours because of this. So this will make for a really busy July and August. In July we will hit 93 total missionaries which is way more than we've had in a really long time. I don't know how I'm going to be responsible for working with all those missionaries! Anyway, I'm sure things will work out but I'm going to be way busy. But I love my district of missionaries right now and learn a ton from them. They are great missionaries! We just need to help them with their language skills a little more but they are progressing. I'm really excited for what the coming weeks have in store!
Well things are going really well. I need to spend some more time studying and just use my time wisely. I'm trying to find a place to live this fall and getting ready for grad school but I'm excited for the future. I really love my job and I love athletic training and just everything! I learn something new every day. So things are going well and I'm just hoping I'll get a little bit of a break this summer and that I'll be well prepared enough for the BOC!

Well it has really been a busy past couple of weeks. So I'll update you as to the different aspects of my life.
First, school. Well I walked at graduation yesterday! That was really long and kinda boring but it was good! So I have one class to take this spring and then I'm done officially and can get my diploma! Yay! But I am retaking the GRE on the 5th and I HAVE to score better. I really, really want to go to grad school and in order to do that I need a higher score on my GRE. Anyway, the past few weeks were way busy with school and finals and such so it was really tough to study much for the GRE but I did get some studying done. But I still have a lot of studying to do this next week. I can't waste time and I'm really hoping to have more time now that the semester is over and that I only have one class. So I'm not sure how i did in my classes this past semester but hopefully things went well. I'll find out in the coming week.
Second, my calling. Well I got released as R.S. president which was really tough. But it's okay because I really feel like I did my best! I learned so much from so many people and it really was a great semester. I wish I could've done more but it really was a great semester. I loved being R.S. president! So I don't know what I'll be doing next but I'll be happy to serve in whatever calling I get.
Third, work. Well things have changed a little at work. A few weeks ago I was called to be the new zone coordinator. Pretty much this means that I'm in charge of talking to the Branch president every week and meeting with the teachers once a week to make sure the needs of all of the missionaries in the zone are met. It does come with a nice pay raise which is great for me. But it does mean that I'm going to be really busy. I officially started a couple of days ago. But I'm excited to work with all the teachers and all the missionaries. So we'll see how things go! I haven't had a district the past few weeks so I've used the time to sub and to spend more time studying for school and such. But on wednesday I get a new district so I am really excited for that. I'm excited for a new adventure!
Lastly, the rest of life. Well all in all it's been a good past few weeks. My friend Carly got hit by a car and was in the hospital for the past few days so that made for some interesting times. I was at the hospital a lot and didn't get as much studying done as I'd hoped to but that's okay. It's worth it to help out a friend and her family. It really sucks what happened but I know i've learned a lot. I just feel bad for her because she's supposed to be moving to Boston in 3 weeks for P.T. school. But I know that things will work out.
So anyway, life is great. I really need to study hard for the GRE because this'll be my last week of studying. I can't wait for it to be done and I really am praying hard that I'll do well. I just really feel like I need to be going to grad school. I love my major and I've learned so much. I saw some awesome things while I was at Timpview high. I saw a Biceps tear and all kinds of other injuries that I've never seen before. So it was a great experience. Oh yeah and I am planning on taking my Athletic training certification exam the end of June so I need to be studying for that too. Then I should get a break in july and august. Welp it's time to get down and busy studying for the GRE. Wish me luck!!

Well it's been a really busy past couple of weeks. It's been the best couple of weeks for my district. Last night was my last night with them and it was hard. They are all like brothers to me and I'm going to miss them so much. I'd do anything for each of them and I know that they'd do the same for each other as well. Their testimonies amaze me and the change that has been brought about in their lives amazes me too! The gospel is so true and we have such amazing missionaries out there sharing the gospel. Anyway, this past week I found out the I need to retake the GRE in order to get into grad school. So that means that I'm retaking the GRE May 5th and HAVE to score higher to get in. So it's time to get down and study. I know I need to study hard in order to get better. Anyway, things are going well though. I just love the gospel so much! Right now I'm watching general conference and have already learned so much!

It was a really good day today. I got the opportunity to go to the dedication of the Draper, Utah temple. It was so awesome! When we all started singing "The Spirit of God" in the Marriott center the Spirit was so strong! It was just so awesome. No doubt in my mind that that is a temple of the Lord. And it just felt so cool to see us all unified in a cause like this. Other than that this week was just busy with school, work and a lot of games. One thing cook that happened was that I got to evaluate my first broken clavicle. It's funny how calm I was and how nicely we handled the situation. I just love the experience that I've been getting! I really do love athletic training. I'm so glad that I picked this as my career. If only they paid us a lot more! Anyway, I also had the pleasure of dealing with a bloody nose that would not stop bleeding. We finally just had to send him to the doctor because it was so ridiculous. Anyway, that was good experience though. So the final word is that I should be hearing back from grad school sometime this week. I really hope that it's sooner than later! I've just been waiting so long and I just really want to know what I need to be doing with the next step in my life! Well, everything is going well! Life is great!
Oh and one funny thing. So sunday morning my roommate (who is the music council chair) was telling the guy in charge of the program the hymns for sacrament meeting and I asked her if she could change the opening hymn to be "Scatter Sunshine" since one of my friends hates that song and we had just been teasing her about it. Anyway, so my roommate did. I made sure to sit next to my friend during sacrament meeting. She read the program and looked at my other friend and was like "oh my gosh look at the opening hymn." It was so funny! I told her I picked it just for her. Anyway, we sang the song and none of us could stop laughing. I sang it extra loud just for her too! Anyway, it was just so funny! I really couldn't help myself! So it was just really funny.

Well this week was pretty busy. I got a lot done but then I slacked so that didn't help. Anyway, the missionaries made a lot of progress this week but we still need to work on a lot of things. I did have one awesome experience this week. A few weeks ago I committed the missionaries to pray about he Book of Mormon and the church, etc and ask if it was true again even if they've done it before. I assumed they had all done it before. Then I followed up and asked about it and they all said they had good experiences, yada yada but nothing specific. Anyway, this week during weekly interviews I talked to one of the Elders and I just asked him if he'd ever prayed about the BOM and the church. He said Yes. Then I asked him when. He said he did it when I commited them to pray a few weeks ago. I got excited and asked him what happened. He said he prayed about it that night and the whole rest of the week because it felt so good. He said he just felt so good about it and that he knew it was true! It was just such a great experience! I haven't felt that good in a long time. It was like being in the mission again and just knowing that they know it's true. Anyway, I thought this was so awesome! This elder is so humble and just a good kid. He struggles with the language a lot but not too bad. But he's making so much progress especially lately! And this is why my job is so great because I get to see the progress in these young men. I get to see them slowly turn into men! I love it! And I love this gospel! It's so great!

Well this past week wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I managed to find the time to take both of my midterms. I had to sacrifice some things and I had to skip a day at timpview but it's all good. I'm not sure how I did on them but we'll see. This week I need to keep managing my time wisely. Now that I have my tests done I need to get a couple of projects done that are due in a couple of weeks. I don't want to procrastinate things since things are starting to get really busy at the high school. It was a cool week though because I got to evaluate a lot of injuries. I'm thinking this soccer season and softball/baseball season might be a busy one. We'll see though! Elder Ballard spoke to us today and it was way cool! He talked a lot about spiritual promptings and how we need to heed those promptings. So it was way cool to hear from an apostle of the Lord. Anyway, the other day I was remembering the time when I was really sick on my misison. I remember waking up at like 3am with this terrible pain throughout my whole body. I felt as if every bone in my body was going to break and that my head was going to explode due to intense pressure. I also couldn't see and was shaking and had an extremely high fever. It was crazy! I'll just never forget the feeling that I had that I was going to die! To me it was very clear that I was going to die and I yelled at my companion and told her I needed help. She asked me what she could do for me. I told her that I was going to die unless I got a blessing right then. So she managed to get the branch president to come and give me a blessing. After that I felt better but was still in pain. I remember knowing that I was going to be okay after that. Although I felt the effects of the Dengue fever for more than a month after that I knew things were going to be okay. I have such amazing faith in the power of priesthood blessings and in prayer. I don't know why I was thinking of this. I haven't really shared much about this incident but it keeps coming to my mind lately. Anyway, I've been trying to read the book, "the infinite atonement" lately so I'm gonna try to read some of that before I go to bed. This daylight savings is killing me!!

Well this week wasn't too bad. My 2 midterms both got pushed to this upcoming week so I was pretty lazy this week. It was bad. I'm just starting to feel a little burnt out and ready for school to end. I know it's bad since we're only halfway through the semester. Needless to say this is going to be a really busy week. I have those 2 midterms and also the missionaries will be starting on lesson 1 in Tagalog on thurs. so that always makes for some busy times. I'm excited because I'm going to change up the way we do planning and co teacher meeting and such. I really feel this will help things a lot. I'm beating myself up for not doing it sooner. Elder Ballard is speaking at our stake conference this coming weekend so I'm really really excited for that!
This past week I've been thinking a lot about the Atonement. I've been studying some about it but need more material to study. But it just amazes me. And I know that it happened and that it was a very personal thing! I know that our Savior knows how to help each and ever single one of us! There's no doubt in my mind that He knows what we go through. Sometimes I lack the patience but not necessarily the faith. I have to keep reminding myself that the Lord has His own timetable for us that is much better than what we can do for ourselves. I know that He can help us with our pain and everything. I also believe so much in miracles. I was thinking back to the many miracles that I saw on my mission and most of them happened through prayer and through faith but they happened. Some of them I didn't do anything to help occur. I'll never forget the many times I was sick or struggles and had a blessing or prayed in faith and a miracle happened. It's just so amazing to me. Our Heavenly Father lives and He is so real. I am so grateful to be part of the true church that has the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love Him so much and I love this church! Anyway, this week I need to use my time a lot more wisely and need to study and take these 2 midterms! Ahhh.....

Well this week went pretty well. I didn't do as well on my midterm as I had hoped but it's okay. I really knew the material but for some reason made some dumb mistakes. We had a terrible basketball game friday night. Our girls lost by one because the refs called the winning shot no good. That was a heart breaker. Because it meant that they had to play another game on saturday to decide who makes it to the state tournament. Well they lost that game on saturday. I feel bad for our girls. They have a good team but make some bad mistakes. So girls basketball is over. Boys just have one more week then they go to state. And they are going for sure. Other than that I just worked on a project and studied all last week.
Yesterday was an interesting day. I celebrated my 2 year anniversary of being home from my mission. It was a really great day though. I read a few of my letters from the mission, mostly the MTC. It was good to remember what I wrote the MTC as being like and how I matured throughout my mission. So I should have a lot of empathy for the elders I teach shouldn't I? I do really well with the sisters but sometimes I forget that the elders are only 19 so I have to remind myself. Anyway, today I'm gonna go back through my mission letters and pictures and stuff and just go back to memory lane. It's been like a year since I've done that. One letter I read was from my second to last week in the field when I was going through a tough time with a roomate. She was doing a lot of disobedient things and I finally told someone other than someone in our zone since no one in my zone did anything and they immediately told president. Anyway, she got emergency transfered and I got a lot of grief because of it. But I knew I did the right thing. I wrote in my letter that you can't do wrong and feel right and you can't do right and feel wrong. When my mission president interviewed me he told me that what I experienced will help me in my life, in the future. I had forgotten about that. Anyway, it's true. I have learned a lot about integrity and certain things are just so important! Anyway, life is great! This week will be really busy because I need to follow up on visiting teaching and I have a lot of interviews to do with the sisters. But things are going well. My district is doing really well with a few minor things. We are now working on lesson 2 in english so I'm excited to hear them teach! Welp, hope all is well at home!

I can't believe how fast time flies. Above is a picture of our district that just left for Quezon City and Bacolod missions :) It's pretty crazy. I swear just yesterday I was updating this thing. Anyway, I know I need to be better about it :). Well I got a new district last week. They are all so awesome! They are all so full of excitement to learn the language and everything it's funny! It took us a while to get them to calm down and raise their hands and such but we broke through on sat. They were all quiet and polite and everything. It was way awesome! I love them all so much and am excited for the next coming weeks with them! School is busy as usual. I have a midterm this week and a couple projects due. So I really need to get up in the morning and finish these projects so that way I can focus on studying for my midterm this week. So all in all things are going really well with work and school and with my calling. I don't know....I'm enjoying life. It was a weird valentine's day but the tulips were nice that you all sent me so thanks for that. I don't really know what else to say. Timpview is going really well too. We've had some fun basketball games and such so it's been good. Ben is really nice and I've gotten to evaluate a lot of injuries, mostly sprained ankles. But I did evaluate a torn ACL all by myself. He didn't even check it and just saw what I was doing and said that was enough info for him. So she had surgery on friday I believe. Poor girl....welp nothing too exciting to report on. I should have some funny stories or something but surprisingly enough I don't have much to report on. I laugh everyday and it's awesome. We just talked about Elder Wirthlin's talk, "Come what may and love it". So that was awesome. I love his attitude and sense of humor and I'm trying to be like that. I think sometimes I laugh too much though haha :) Anyway, my goals for this month is to be more social, like going to ward things. I go to a lot of the girls' apartments to visit but I don't really go to any activities. So that's my goal for the next couple of weeks. These weeks are going to be busy though but I'll have to report on that. Anyway, things are great and I'm interested to see what's going to be happening in the next few months with life decisions and such. I feel good about grad school for now so we'll see if I get in or not. Anyway, love you all!!!

Well it has been a really long time since I've posted. I apologize but it's been a very busy past few weeks. When I'm not busy with school it's with work or my internship or relief society stuff so time has gone by really quickly. I'll just start off with updating everything.
First off with the district. My district leaves tomorrow afternoon. It has been a very busy, long month with them. We have worked so hard to help these missionaries but a lot of them just lack the diligence and it shows in the results of their efforts. But when I look back at where they all started when they entered the MTC it's amazing the progress that they have all made. I just wish I could have helped them more. But I feel good that I did the best that I could. This past week has been hard though to keep them focused and such. I just started to feel burned out there. So in the end I'm glad that they are leaving and that they are moving on to the next phase of their missions. I know that they all will be amazing and of course they are going to the best mission in the world!! (Quezon City) But anyway, I'm excited for the new district to come in on wednesday and I'm excited for the new adventure. I'm excited for these new missionaries. Anyway so things are going great at work. It's just really busy but there have been so many days with this district that have been awesome. Anyway, so on to yet another district! Boy is life an adventure!
Now for the high school. Things have been awesome! I love working with Ben, the athletic trainer there. He is fun to work with and he is very understanding of work and school and such. The athletes are a lot of fun to work with too. They are all really nice and just fun to watch and such. Right now we've just been working mainly with basketball but other sports are having practices as well so we've been pretty busy. The season is almost over so our guys and girl's teams really need to step it up if they are going to make it to the playoffs even. So we'll see. Anyway, I've gotten to evaluate a lot of injuries and see a lot of new things. Ben just lets me do a lot of things where in the past I haven't been able to evaluate as many injuries. So that's been good.
School has been fine. Really I've just been trying to keep up with everything. I've been able to keep up with my school work so far and I think I have another couple weeks until midterms. I'm not excited for that at all.
Relief society has been really busy. I've really been trying to get to know all the girls and work with them and help them out. It's been pretty busy. I wouldn't really say stressful because I recognize that this isn't my calling it's the Lord's so I've really been relying on Him and my counselors and such a lot. So it hasn't been too bad. All the girls are really awesome and a lot of fun to work with. I have been blessed with an awesome relief society. And it has surprised me greatly the things that they all go through and have gone through in their lives. Seriously I have learned so much from them. It's been awesome to serve them as well because it's through service where you really get to know and love people. That's why I care about all these girls so much and all the missionaries too. It's awesome. Our main goal this semester is just for each girl to really feel the love that the Lord has for them and to understand their divine worth and also to really work on the unity within our relief society. I want everyone to know each other and have a friend that they can call on in time of need. Anyway so things are going great so far!
So that's my life. It's been really busy. I've watched a lot of basketball lately which has surprisingly been fun to watch. Especially when you see a team make a basket for the other team. That's always embarassing. At least it wasn't our team though. haha! My friends and I have played a lot of this game called Carcassone lately too. It's a lot like settlers. We've all started to get really competitive though. Maybe we shouldn't play the game so often anymore. It's fun but it's not fun to lose. But oh well, so is life. Anyway, tomorrow we have a ton of basketball games and I have a couple homework assignments that I need to get done in the meantime so these next few days are going to be pretty busy. Welp sorry for the lame update. Things are going well but just busy. I love life and I love learning. Oh and yes I did take the GRE and no I didn't score as high as I needed to. But I went in and talked to one of the advisers and he was really nice about everything. He said if it was his decision then he would let me into the program but of course he's not the only one who makes the decision. So chances are that I'm going to have to retake the GRE. He told me to get in contact with the guy in charge of the grad school but I have yet to catch him in his office. So anyway, I'm probably just going to wait and see what happens. I'm sure that they will ask me to retake it eventually but probably not for a while. So we'll see what happens. Anyway, so that's pretty much it! Hope things are going well with everyone else!! Sorry for the lack of updates!

I was doing so good there for a while. But things have gotten crazy lately. I'm busy trying to get relief society stuff organized as well as school stuff and the work and then my internship at the high school. So things are pretty busy. And it's snowing so bad here so I need to leave now because I'm sure it's going to take me forever to drive through the snow. I'm for sure going to need new tires on my car after this snow season!!