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.....