I Love To See the Temple

I went to the temple last night. The Provo temple is always busy on Thursday nights because of mutual night...plus it's always busy. Amy and I were sitting there waiting to be confirmed in that tiny little room. I looked up at the sconces on the walls and noticed the light shining through the crystals. I then thought,

"There is so much light in here that the room is white. This must be what heaven looks like."

Then I thought,

"I am sitting here waiting to be confirmed, and I am sure that the women whom I am doing the work for are sitting in the exact same place in heaven, excited and waiting for their turn to receive the Holy Ghost. How excited and special they must feel."

Then we waited, and waited, and waited, in the pews to be baptized. I thought,

"This must be exactly what it's like in heaven. They are all sitting there, watching, waiting for their turn patiently. I am going to be patient too."

I love going to the temple and receiving revelation. I love sitting in the quiet stillness and finding inner peace from the Atonement of my Savior.

I love life.

READY FOR MOUSTACHE MARCH!

2011

I was lucky enough to spend the beginning 2011 in Pennsylvania with my best friend. It was so much fun and I am dying to go back! I wish I could just hop on a plane whenever I would like and just go wherever I want.

A lot of people are looking back and 2010 and forward into the new year. I guess this post makes me one of them. My new years "decisions" as my aunt Melinda has called them are not to lose a vast amount of weight or change my lifestyle completely. I have only one "decision": To be a better me.

I know it's a broad decision but I think focusing on being a better person spiritually and physically encompasses most of the goals everyone makes.

Spiritually, I would like to work on my relationship with my Heavenly Father and my Savior. I am hoping to go through the temple someday whether it will be for a mission or because I am getting married. Either way I would like to be 100% ready for that most spiritual time in my life.

I am also deciding to take the Sacrament more seriously. In my institute class last semester we learned about the sacredness of the Sacrament and how it is an ordinance not just something that we do as a routine. I am deciding to study it out and better understand the meaning of it for me.

Physically, I would like to eat better. I eat pretty good normally but I love to go out to eat and I love cheeseburgers. I am deciding to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into my meals and actually eating full meals.

My last decision is to respect my body. Heavenly Father has given me this body to hold my spirit and I need to be more grateful for it. I am deciding to respect it by eating better and to find peace with what I have. No more looking in the mirror and saying "ew" and no more joking around about how much I weigh. It doesn't matter how much I weigh but that I am healthy and happy with who I am and what I have.

That sounds easy enough for me to do this year. I think if we all really sat down to write down what we want ourselves to be we will find that we want more to be happy than anything else.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

just let me be, legally blonde

Tonight was a fantaaasatic night! I saw a show at the most fantabulous (and architecturally stunning I might add) Capitol Theatre. The show was Legally Blonde: the musical! My very favorite modern musical!!

They have made changes to the story. Good changes. Like, Emmet is not an idiot. And Vivian is more human. Things like that made the show more relatable!

I could go on and on and on about the entire thing, but that would take forever! It was amazinggggggg! That's the only word I can use to describe it!

It makes me want to be a in a show again.....someday!!!

Missionaries....

My cousin Truman left for theh MTC yesterday. He is going to the Manchester England mission. On monday night he came down to my apartment to say goodbye. It was sweet of him to remember that I probably wasn't going to make it up to Bountiful to say farewell with the rest of the crew. It made my day that he wanted to come say goodbye.

Truman and I are the same age. We went to school together from the fifth grade on! He is my cousin and my friend and I am very proud of him and his choice to serve a mission. It's the greatest thing he could do right now!

He made my day and then made me cry.

I miss you already Trumeeee!

100 Loves

1. sundays
2. my family
3. old books
4. libraries
5. blankets
6. summer dresses
7. cafe rio
8. peach crystal clear
9. Candy Bars
10. grapefruit anything
11. my cell phone
12. vintage clothing
13. converse all-stars
14. sunshine
15. swimming pools
16. getting letters
17. classic rock
18. crayola crayons
19. post-it notes
20. the jonas brothers
21. pink
22. fuzzy socks
23. running
24. silver nail polish
25. smiling
26. seventeen magazine
27. utah utes
28. food network
29. victorian houses
30. chocolate
31. summer rain
32. spice-so-nice roses
33. puppies
34. chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
35. church hymns
36. bear lake
37. golfing
38. dr. pepper
39. bountiful
40. my jane austen action figure
41. chocolate chip cookies
42. my minnetonka moccasins
43. sandals
44. writing letters
45. tyler hilton
46. chick flicks
47. gone with the wind
48. keva juice
49. main street
50. football games
51. hiking
52. spanish
53. fashion
54. history
55. cartoons
56. musical theatre
57. lemon heads
58. pearls
59. driving bountiful boulevard
60. forever 21
61. santorini
62. tommy boy
63. naps
64. robintino's
65. roundabouts
66. baking
67. basketball
68. my room mates
69. institute
70. eulala butters
71. sewing
72. my snuggie
73. lotr
74. whiteboards
75. coloring books
76. blessings
77. sweaters
78. people magazine
79. flower prints
80. airplanes
81. dinseyworld
82. disneyland
83. harry potter
84. scavenger hunts
85. north canyon park
86. seashells
87. gray
88. hair elastics
89. shorts
90. nephi
91. west side story
92. aviator sunglasses
93. coloring books
94. the buy low market
95. the life sized zac efron in my room...
96. the zac efron poster in my kitchen
97. bountiful sunsets
98. sleeping beauty
99. mylifeisaverage.com
100. singing