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!