I Love To See The Temple

One of my goals for this Semester has been to attend the Temple once a week. As I have stuck to this goal, I have seen the blessings FLOOD into my life. 

THIS IS THE HOUSE OF THE LORD!

I am so grateful to live in a town so close to so many Temples! This is a blessing that I will not take for granted. 

There is no better way to start a day. :)

Let The Guessing Begin

This Past General Conference, I prepared a list of question to be answered. First on the list, was.....

"Should I begin preparing to serve a Mission when I turn 21?"

Saturday morning, I knelt down and prayed in my bedroom asking this very question, right before the start of the first session.

By the time I finished my prayer President Monson was already on the screen, exclaiming that he had an announcement. He then proceeded to tell us that the ages for serving missions in the church were now changed to 18 versus 19 for Men and 19 versus 21 for Women. 

WHAAAAAAAAATTTTTT????!!!!!!!

I was expecting such a direct response to my prayer. Yet it came. I did not want to jump to any conclusions, I still wasn't throughly convinced that a mission was for me. I determined that I would listen intently through out the rest of the sessions and then make my decision. 

I attended the Sunday Morning Session at the Conference Center in Salt Lake. For the Intermediate Hymn we all stood up and sang "Called To Serve". 

That's when I knew. 

I have put in my Mission papers and I am eagerly awaiting my call! The gospel of Jesus Christ is the JOY of my heart and my SOUL! I feel incredibly blessed to know of it's truthfulness. Nothing could be more fulfilling than sharing this joy and happiness with others. I could not be more excited for this opportunity!!! So excited that I went and bought a map of the World today just for fun.

Let the guessing begin!

General Conference

 Two of my favorite times of year are when we get to hear from the Leaders of our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It doesn't get much better than this folks. Time to get some Soul Food on. 

 Jake had never been to Conference so I managed to snag us some tickets and get him down there without telling him exactly what we were doing....I'm sure he had it figured out from the beginning, but he played along. We started off with Music and the Spoken Word.....

...The view from our seats...

I would not have wanted to be anywhere else. I truly love this church and the inspired words that the Apostles and Prophet prepared for us to listen too. There is power and peace that comes with heeding their counsel. If you ever have a spare moment click here and look these good ole boys up. They won't let you down and you won't regret it!

Doodle Junkie

I'll admit I am a doodle junkie. Every once in awhile these doodles are not too shabby. Something about pen and paper brings a creepily insurmountable amount of joy to my heart. Some people collect figurines, coins from around the world, taxidermy, toy planes, strands of hair from celebrities, etc. Not this girl. Pen + Paper = Happiness. 

Mount Timpanogos Temple

Today the Goon Squad and I did some much needed catching up. The only one missing was Heather. :( In order to avoid the long waits at the Provo Temple we went to the Mount Timpanogos Temple. I love my goons!