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!!

I stole this from my sister's blog. I wanted to see all the things on the list that I've done. So those are in bold.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity- almost
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain- not a very big one :)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo- Well kinda. There weren't many people listening though
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables- I've helped but not my own I guess
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run- On the Wii :) In real life...almost!
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied- almost
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain- Wouldn't you like to know :)
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie-Does homemade count?
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving- oh I wish!!!
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt- I've helped others do it!
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life- spiritually :)
90. Sat on a jury- I've testified but not been in a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one- If you count my hamster
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person- hmm...have I?
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Seen Mount Rushmore in person- I don't think so
101. Learned to play an instrument


Well it looks like I've actually done a lot of things but there are a few that I need to get to like skinny dipping :) That's always sounded fun....hehe

Well it's been a couple weeks since I've updated. It has been quite the busy past couple weeks so my bad. Between my new calling, finishing stuff for school, finals, basketball and getting a new district things have been pretty crazy. I've been busy all day everyday with everything! But finally I am done with school for the semester. I'm not going to lie though....I'm really worried about some of my classes for next semester. It's going to be a tough one! School is normally supposed to be easy your last semester but not for me! I guess it wasn't the best ideas to put off all my harder classes until the end huh? Well I'm almost there though. I didn't do very well on my finals this semester. It was really hard to study and although I did study a lot it wasn't enough. But oh well. I'm very used to not excelling at school so it's not that big of a deal to me. Anyway, we just got a new district a couple of weeks ago. It's been pretty rocky trying to work things out with everyone and unity in the district has been a huge problem but things are getting better everyday so I'm excited. They all are great missionaries and definitely have the desire to be there so I'm not super worried about them. It just has been really hard to focus on them lately with school and everything being so hectic. But I'm still trying my best to help them out. These next couple of weeks are going to be pretty hard though since I'll be out of town for a week and it's Christmas and then the TRC is closed where they teach each week. That is what we prepare for each week so it's going to be really hard dealing with that. I'm just praying that the missionaries stay focused even during this time of the year. But it'll be good for them to really take the time to think about the Savior and the importance of this time of the year. As far as with my calling, I was pretty overwhelmed at first then I chose my counselors and such. We met last night and it was so great. We were all very unified and they had great ideas of things to impliment this next semester. So I am very relieved. I spent 2 hours last night playing in the snow with one of my counselors! It was so fun! But seriously I am actually really excited. Things should get done and the girls in my relief society seem way cool. This next week I need to just sit down and figure out visiting teaching. Once that gets organized things should go well. Welp I gotta go to the store before I head to work tonight. I'm excited for these next couple weeks and it'll be good to take a break. Although I really need to be studying for the GRE. That's my biggest fear right now is that test. So far i'm not doing so great in that category!

Well I probably shouldn't write in this right now. I'm kinda having a bad day and am a little frustrated! Well last week was pretty good. Thanksgiving was fun. It was good to be with family although I'm not going to lie I was kind of a jerk at times. You know I'm not normally like that but for some reason when I'm around family I guess I just fall back into that role that I was used to, the role that I was comfortable with you know with being the 4th and all. It's kinda stupid though because I'm a lot more mature than that and I'm really not like that anymore. Anyway, it was just good to be with family and everything. So when I came home I jumped back into school which as usual is kind of frustrating. I mean it's not like I'm doing terrible it's just that I want to do better. I don't understand why I study and study yet can't do as well as everyone else or as well as I want to. It's just frustrating but it's okay. Then my district of missionaries left on monday. They gave me an awesome gift. They bought me a triple combination Book of Mormon and they all wrote a note and highlighted their favorite verse. It was really sweet. I really do miss them. I was so sad to see them leave and everything. I mean I just feel like I gave them my whole heart. I worked so hard. I put them first with everything, a lot of times before myself and most times before friends and anything else. So when they left it was kind of hard. But I really am proud of them. I pushed them really hard and they really responded well. Anyway they are all amazing and I love them so much. Yesterday though when I checked my teacher evaluations I was very surprised that I didn't get as high as I was expecting. I just felt like I did everything better than my last district and felt a lot closer to them and more aware of their needs. But I guess that's what happens when you are a girl teaching a bunch of elders. And I really tried to follow the Spirit in everything that I did. But yeah I'll admit that I was pretty strict with them at times. I just felt that that's what they needed. And honestly I just knew that they could be better. But maybe I was too hard on them I don't know. It's funny because many people told me that they were the best district they have ever seen. I'll admit that it was due to them and the things that they did. Anyway, I know this shouldn't be bothering me but for some reason it is. Maybe it's just that time of the month. It's just frustrating because I try to do my best but it never seems good enough. But that's okay because that's how life is. It's never going to be good enough and I finally have been starting to understand that because I've been reading "Following Christ" and we talked a lot about grace and the atonement in New testament class. I know that I can't be perfect. No one can be perfect. And we are all already in the kingdom since we've been baptized and such so we just need to stay on the path. That's what I'm trying to do. Sometimes I worry about some insignificant things. And I guess I need to practice what I preach haha....I think I've talked to my missionaries about grace so many times! Anyway, I'll get over it. That's just how life is. And I just got called as relief society president in my ward so that adds to all the stress. Anyway, I'm done. I just needed to ramble for a few minutes there but I'm better now. Things will be busy next semester and I really need to study a lot more for the GRE. But you know what, whatever is meant to be will happen. All I can do is keep trying my hardest and put the Lord first and I know that things will work out. Things have a way of doing that! :) So anyway, I've finished one final, now I have a test, a paper and then it's time to study for my other finals. I really hope I do well! Saturday morning I'm going to a convention for my major then we are going to look around temple square then go and help out at the basketball game. I'm excited because they are playing at the energy solutions arena (formerly the Delta Center). So that'll be fun! I just need to study for my test before then since that's on monday. Then sunday is going to be really busy because I'm going to Music and the Spoken Word with my ward and then meetings, church and then we are going to the Christmas devotional! So it'll be a long but great sunday! I'm so looking forward to this weekend!! Anyway, it's long past my bedtime because I have to teach at 7 in the morning. Yay I have a new district. They'll definitely be different from my last district so it'll be a challenge. But I'm so excited!!

Well this week was a good week. School wasn't very crazy so it was nice. And I found out that I didn't do too bad on my test. But I really need to ace my next test and do well on the final in order to get a good grade in the class. But yeah basketball was out of town on tues. and wed. so I had those days off. Monday night I went to FHE and we did a video for our group. We are having a contest of sorts. Pretty much the only part that we were in was a group dance portion. It was pretty dang funny. This girl like choreographed this dance number for us. It was quite hilarious! But yeah then tues. I got some homework and stuff done. Then we had basketball games on thurs. night, fri night and sat night. That was fun! The other teams weren't very good so that was nice for us! We pretty much laid it to them most of the games. So it was really busy but it was fun to watch all the games. Yesterday my friends and I went and saw Mamma Mia. The movie was pretty funny but the play is definitely better! So that was fun to do. Well this week is my missionaries' last week. It's kinda sad since I leave on tuesday so I won't get to teach them again after that. I think I'm pretty strict with them. I wouldn't say that I'm hard on them but I definitely expect a lot out of them since I can see their potential and sometimes they aren't living up to it. But they are all doing a great job and are excited to be able to go to the Philippines! I am so excited for them and will miss them all so much. I just really hope that work really hard this last week. This is the Lord's time and they really have a lot to get done before they leave. I know if they left today they would be fine because the Lord will be with them but they still have some things they really need to work on and they know it. So it'll be hard saying goodbye to them. I just hope they work their very best every day! Anyway, enough on that. It's going to be a great week! I love thanksgiving! I'm so excited that Monique (my sister in law) is pregnant too although mom did not say anything to me until just now. Grrrr.....welp I gotta get some things done before I go to bed! See you all on tuesday!!!

Welp this week was busy for sure. Tuesday night we had a basketball game which was awesome! We totally killed them haha! Anyway it was a good brak for the week. Then I was super busy with school and work. I had a test on friday that I was really stressed about. I'm not doing super well in that class so I really needed to get a good grade on the test. But with the basketball game and with the stake service activity that we were planning for that week it was really busy! I tried to take the time to study but things would come up that I needed to do for my calling in order to prepare for saturday. So of course I did that first but tried to study in my spare time and such. Anyway, the test I think went okay. I definitely studied hard so even if I don't do well oh well. At least I tried my best! The stake service activity also went well. We had a pretty good turnout from our ward so I was happy. I had to work that morning but I showed up to clean up and such but I really do have a great council. They helped out a lot and my co-chair pulled through for sure. One big thing that did happen has to do with my future. The other day I talked to my supervisor at work about how long I was going to keep teaching at the MTC and he was saying that I could work until august unless I go to graduate school. Then I could work for up to 3 years. I think he wants me to stay. So that got me thinking. So I talked to Rob, the trainer I work with about grad school and the possibility of working for one year through grad school then doing an assistantship my second year. I told me I really should just apply for grad school and not to try taking a year off. He has talked to me about this before. Anyway, I told him the only thing stopping me is the GRE. I really don't want to have to take the GRE. He told me not to worry about it and just take it! Anyway, so I thought a lot about it and talked to one of my teachers and I think I'm gonna apply for grad school here and just hope that I get in! We'll see! I am a little worried about having to take the GRE within the next couple of months but I'm going to go for it. I still need to talk to the grad school advisor a little about it but he hasn't been in his office. So we'll see. Anyway, that's pretty much how my goals/plans have changed lately. So it was a busy week this week but it was still good! And the basketball game on fri. night was really intense. Today was a good sunday too. So anyway!!! This next week shouldn't be as intense as last week since after the break it'll be time for finals pretty soon! But yay Christmas is coming soon! As soon as thankgiving is over on comes the Christmas music!!