OHHHH WE'RE HALF WAY THERE! OOOOOHHHHH! LIVIN' ON A PRAYER!!!;) i feel like this song is so relevant right now. hahaha!
no seriously, if feels like he left yesterday, but it has also been soooooo long. i don't know how to describe time accurately. all i know is that i have officially made it over the hump and it will be easy peasy from here on out :)
tonight, my family is celebrating with a missionary cake (we had made!) and a movie! we'll probably watch 'the best two years' or something. we're gonna take pictures and then send them to my joe! hahaha i'll wear my 'missionary girlfriend' sweatshirt and everything! it's gonna be so fun!
ooooooh we're half way there!! ohhhh livin' on a prayer ;)
twelve months = 365 days = 365 rhinestones
YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY!
twelve months = 365 days apart
FINALLY this pie is half way!
twelve months = 365 days until i get to see him AGAIN!:)
emails with my cute boy have been so funny and adorable. just the other day, he was online and kept asking me to ask him a question. well i'm over here like, 'what in the world does he want me to ask?' after a few emails sent back and forth, i finally sent one back that said, 'do you still love me?'
his response:
"if anything i love you even more now.... forgive me of all my sins i have said or done to you or anyone else. i promise to devote all of my heart mind and strength to one cause and that is to be loving you."
OKAY. how CUTE IS THAT???? MY HEART! i almost died. he is so amazing to me! the conversation then went on for another couple minutes and he told me to ask him another question.... so, being funny, my mom told me to ask him "can i plan our wedding yet?";) he wrote back to me, "you just made my heart stop..." he then emailed my MOM and said, "hey mom-in-law, tell her she can go ahead and plan whatever she'd like!" hahahahahah!!! oh so funny. i love this kid:)
i found out that my last christmas box AND my valentines day box made it to him! remember how i was so convinced that my last christmas box was stolen? i mean, i sent it in NOVEMBER! but it made it!!! yay!!! he loved them he said. especially the valentines day one with the tie that i stitched the heart into.
last month i posted about an AB challenge that my friend and i were working on - totally finished! i didn't skip a night or anything. all in all i completed 2,625 crunches, 1,050 leg raises and 2,475 seconds worth of plank in 30 days. it actually toned me up a little. it probably would have worked better however if i hadn't eaten so much crap while doing it buuuuut, what do ya do?;)
my adorable little girl that i help nanny for just had a 3rd birthday! my little sister and i went to the birthday party on monday and oh my goodness, she is absolutely the most adorable little thing. also, the gift we brought was totally her favorite of the night! woot woot! we gave her a little mini princess tent thing, a new "fort-a" as she would call it. she carried it around with her and it was in every picture she took with someone! haha! so happy she loved it.
she's adorable!!!:) and you can see her new "fort-a"!
me, hailey and myrissa
nothing else to majorly exciting happened this month. february did go by so quickly. i've just been keeping up in school and work (and i actually am really proud of myself because i have maintained a 4.0!) yet it feels like i am doing the same things every day over and over and over. recently, i've had a few friends open their mission calls, and some have left to serve! it's so great to see all these amazing missionaries heading out. the lord needs them all so much.
time for a random paragraph. over one saturday afternoon, i was so insanely bored, i decided to take the time and draw a picture of the new Disney queen, Elsa. i am in love with the movie frozen! it comes out march 18:) yay!
at the beginning of march, i finished reading the Book of Mormon (in my personal study) for the 6th time. it truly amazes me how strong the spirit is while finishing such a book. i LOVE moroni's words at the end... he says that he "lies not" about the truthfulness of the scriptures. i find it so comforting that while writing the scriptures (i believe it was either mormon or moroni) one of them thought that his weakness in writing would cause a problem to those that would read it. he thought they would not fully understand it and appreciate what was being written. that is when the Lord comes in and says the weaknesses we are given will be made strong. it is so comforting to know and realized that the Lord actually does GIVE us those weaknesses with a purpose. He helps us become strong and allows us to eventually use those weaknesses to our advantage - sometimes to help other people - or to just learn and grow for ourselves.
i have learned and thought a lot about the atonement this week. my amazing sister missionary friend Mai sent me an email that nearly brought me to tears. she wrote:
"I know that the Atonement is real. I've experienced so much feelings of inadequacy, fear, sadness, frustration, etc. I've felt those moments when there's no end, no light. No joy, no laughter. So much sadness your heart is about to explode. Then there's that empty feeling. That feeling of sheer exhaustion when you can't go anymore. But you can. You can through Jesus Christ. All things are possible through Him. He who knows your name. He who knows adversity, better than anyone. He who loves you beyond what you can even imagine. He who has felt and experienced exactly what you're going through and feeling. If I could have a minute with my Savior, I would thank him, if I could find the words through my tears of gratitude. If I had a moment to speak with Him I would cry and tell him I'll keep going. I will do my best. I would pledge to Him that I will keep going.... Opposition and adversity is a necessary part of life. How could we grow if we didn't have struggles? Missions have a way of highlighting all of the insecurities and weaknesses that we have. But it's only because we are becoming more like Him. How could we expect it to ever be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?"
she inspires me so much. she's been struggling on her mission and then writes this. look how much she has grown! i love it. i would hope and pray that each of us can understand and realize the importance of the atonement in our lives. always remember that you cannot sink lower than the arms of the atonement can reach. Christ will ALWAYS be there for you. always. we are given trials to help us grow, and to help us reach our full potential. just like sister Mai said, there will be opposition and adversity... it's just a part of this mortal life. what we as children of God must do is prove that we can overcome these challenges with the help and strength the Savior provides.
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