Lost and Found post...

Each time I get a chance to think I'm reminded harshly of the reality that I won't be living in my apartment much longer. It feels like I've lived there forever, but at the same time it feels like I just moved in. I can remember the emotions and thoughts that flooded my mind as I moved in back in January. I was so afraid I would have roommates I didn't get along with or that wouldn't like me. I was also afraid we would hate each other by the time we moved out. I have experienced running on thin ice at the end of the sememster with a roommate before, and for this specific reason I refused to move out with friends for fear it would destroy our friendship.

I am here to say I have been blessed. I have the most amazing roommates, we got along from the beginning, and, 3 weeks away from moving out, we not only still like each other, but we're all dreading having to move out.

There are a lot of things that I believe have contributed to this experience being so different than the last. I wanted so desperately to have a different experience than last time, and I knew there was a lot I needed to improve about myself to make that happen. I prayed over and over again and had the thought enter into my mind: the more you serve someone the greater love you will have for them. I took this to heart when I moved into this apartment. Every chance I got I tried to serve my roommates. It wasn't much, but I did what I could. As I did, it helped me love them and want to do even more for them. After a few times my roommates started to "fire back" and do things for me. It turned into a free-for-all war of service. The feeling in our apartment changed from awkward beginnings to trust and love for each other. We wanted to help each other in any way we could; we began to care about what was happening in each others' lives and shared laughter, tears, and many spiritual experiences with one another. The difference between my last experience and this one have been indescribable, and I know the Lord blessed me because I asked. He does answer prayers, always. We still have to do our part and follow the council He provides, but He will bless us.

It has been a fabulous experience! I'm sad it is almost over, but so grateful I had it at all.

Prophets, Seers, and Revelators

Out of My League

As I sat here listening to the song "Out of my League", I came to realize how much I feel that way sometimes, especially with school. I look around me at school and sit in almost disbelief that I'm there. I often ask myself "Can you believe it? You're actually going to school at BYU!".

Each time my mental response is the same; I can't. I can't believe I'm at a school where the gospel is in EVERY subject. I'm at a school where the academic opportunities are said to be some of the best in the country. I'm at a school where almost all around me share the same values I do. I'm at the school where, my whole childhood, I attended games with my dad and cheered on my Cougars in blue. I'm at the school where I thought I would never go because I had lived near it my whole life and wanted to get away, but the school I instantly fell in love with as I attended my first day of classes.

Is it hard? Yes. But is it worth it? Unquestionably. So many things (mostly myself) tried to convince me I couldn't make it, that it wasn't where I wanted to go, but I made it, and I wish I could explain the disbelief and joy I feel each time I stop to think about my experiences here. I don't know how to explain in words the little miracles I have witnessed and the tender mercies I have received. Nothing could have been better for me at this time in life. Nothing could take it's place.

There are so many things in life we have to be grateful for, especially the simple things; the tender mercies. So many times in my life I have been given just that little push I've needed to get through the hard times. Has my life really been that hard? No. Has it felt like it has? Yes. But it is in these times we come to find who we truly are and where we truly stand. Hold strong, the storm will soon pass.

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