Good things to Come Feb 19-25

Can you find the sleeping child?

I love days when its warm and we all just sit outside together.

God wants to tell us things. He is not a God of secrets. We have to be ready and willing to just listen. 

Tuesday I got home from work and while eating dinner had the strongest feeling I needed to leave and go walk around campus. It was a beautiful night and as I wandered I ran into lots of people and had lots of good conversations. I looked at my phone later and found out I wandered for 2.5 hours. It ended with me having a really good conversation with a good friend. God is patient. The second I left my house I knew that that was who I needed to talk to, but it took me almost 3 hours to get over there. 

Men's volleyball is ranked #8 in the nation!!!! Lets GO!

Wednesday there was a volleyball game and Steven on the team opened his mission call! Its so fun to see all the people here supporting everyone. Love it!

The weather was absolutely perfect this week.

Sometimes you just need TacoBell when others want Cookout. So you go buy TacoBell and eat it in Cookout.

Friday was the first night of SVU idol! We cheered very loud for everyone, especially Colby. He had quite the fan section going on! We all ended up going to Cookout after, like any good SVU event haha!

 


Seriously love this kid.

Saturday afternoon I went to Macadoo's! Rachel's parents took some of us out to lunch. It is always delicious and always so fun! I love Lexington :)



I just kind of ran away after that. I drove to Staunton to get food at Sharp Shopper and then went to SVU's production of An Ideal Husband. I then went to the last of the second night of SVU idol. I just felt really overwhelmed. 

Some days are just a little harder than others. It might be more difficult to hold back tears, or harder to smile. But I still find that people are beautiful and Christ gives us many reasons to be happy and keep moving. In church we talked about not looking back and dwelling. Elder Holland said, "Faith is always pointed toward the future. Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the "high priest of good things to come"". 
Things might be hard in the moment. But God expects us to turn to him and keep moving! Find people who make you smile, feast upon the words of the Lord, and never forget to pray. never underestimate the feelings you have. You are smarter and more in tune than you realize. answers might not come when or how we expect, but with Faith and diligence. God will answer!

(Grateful for Rachel and our many talks! Plus look how cute our random matching dresses our!)
 

Biggest Volleyball Weekend! Feb 12-18

This new obsession with Taco Bell is getting out of hand.. But Monday we decided to make our own homemade Taco Bell! I am extremely grateful for Alayna who constantly makes me food :) 


Look how cute my brother is! Miss this kid!

Tuesday was Gallentines day!! Mikayla Skousen is one of my favorite people ever. She always plans these super fun events with tons of food! We took fun pictures, had cotton candy, and watched the Bachelor. It was a party!

Picture feature Quinn in his nature habitat.

Wednesday was Valentines day... it was a rough day for everyone! But the highlight was my 4 year old at work who made me a valentine the day before, and then Penn, who is one of my favorite kids!, I have been teasing him for weeks and telling him that he needs to bring me cookies. Well he did!! He saw me and goes, "Did you see I brought you cookies in the office". Love that kid!

 Some friends had a game night in the dance studio. We played the paper bag game and feather volleyball. It was an adventure!

Thursday was such a pretty day!! I wore my jumpsuit and sat and talked to Christian outside for while. I love days like that!
 

That night I got to babysit one of my kids from work. We ate food, read books, and had a full on Disney dance party in the kitchen. I laughed and laughed. It was so fun!!

Alayna went out of town for the weekend, but look at this super sweet Valentines present. It was delicious!


Also spring is in the air!

Friday started the craziest weekend ever! The volleyball team played 3 nationally ranked teams this weekend starting with Marymount. It was such a crazy game AND WE WON! It was nuts! I get so anxious at these games. I just love these boys! 

We then had a date night with this crazy magician guy.. It was so weird. I went with Sarah who was in charge of taking pictures. It was so funny and awkward and exciting all at one time.

Saturday we had two more nationally ranked games! I was so stressed out. First we played Juniata. It was a crazy game to! It went to 5 sets and we won! I think I am going to be the first person to die due to stress at a volleyball game. Yup. Me. After that game I had to go home and take a nap! I was exhausted. We then played UC Santa Cruz. WE WON! It seriously was the craziest weekend ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Totally lost my voice.

I gave a talk on Sunday about Godly Fear. I have never really liked that term because in my head I would never want to Fear God. I need him on my side! But Elder Bednar said, "Godly fear is loving and trusting in Him. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And "perfect love casteth out all fear". I promise the bright light of godly fear will chase away the dark shadows of mortal fears as we look to the Savior, build upon Him as our foundation, and press forward on His covenant path with consecrated commitment." 

 Sunday night Ashely and I made some brownies while dancing in the kitchen with Christian haha! We then went over to Kaipo and Colby's house just talking about the games, and life, and just laughing. It was fun! I am so grateful for those guys!