You have maybe heard the saying that when it rains blessings and you have your umbrella up you won't see them! True Fact. You know what else happens when you are holding your umbrella? Your hands are full! You can't reach out to others when you're holding a giant umbrella. So you're being deprived of both blessings and helping someone when you're holding that dang umbrella.....put it down and don't overthink the whole process of it.
Sometimes things happen in our life that we don't want to happen. In Elder Oak's recent conference talk he talked about how opposition gives us choices. We have agency to choose the right or wrong. When opposition comes our way we can either be sad or happy, right or wrong...IT'S YOUR CHOICE. Knowing myself, I overthink everything and get myself all worked up for no reason! This talk helped a ton! I've been faced with a small struggle recently and I just wanted to tell everyone about it and fix it somehow. Some things can't be fixed and really my life was just dandy before I started worrying so.....I chose to be happy and because of that I don't even think about the problem:)
Another story, one of my brother's friend passed away. I only knew him from my childhood, but gosh dang it I have been blessed with the gift of compassion so it hit home. At this time I was reading the book "Covenant Keepers" by Wendy Nelson. There is a part in there that I love, it explains how before we came to earth and had already made the choice to come down to earth it may have been something like a mission call. "Dear Sister Spencer, you are hereby called to serve in the Sandy, Utah mission you will report January 24, 1997." CRAZY. Up there i would have been like, what why utah!? There are SO many crazy mormons there, i want to live in Europe! Then I look back at my 19 years in Utah and I wouldn't change a thing. Same goes for my call to California Anaheim, what why Anaheim?! Who really needs me there!? I know at the end of my mission I will look back and think, I wouldn't have changed a thing:)
Going back to my brothers friend, I decided to turn to the temple for comfort! I sat and waited to go in for about an hour. As I was sitting there with two mid twenties girls, a cute old woman standing about 4'5 came in and said, "You are all here for me, aren't you?" and sat in between us. She exclaimed, "I feel like a rose between two thorns!" Came to find out she was from Rigby, Idaho and regularly attended the Idaho Falls temple, but it was closed so she came to Logan. She went on to tell us that when she got married her husband wanted 2 kids, she wanted 14 so her and Lord had 10! She has 70 grandchildren and 150 great grandchildren! She said Christmas is quite the sacrifice, because she gives them $10 each and she spends about $3000 a Christmas. I want that grandma... She showed us her painted nails that her granddaughters painted bright pink and said overtime she raised her hand she thought OH MY LANTA those are bright haha. By this time we had quite the group gathered around and another woman came up to wait, the old woman looked up and her and said, "Are you sure you wan to do this to yourself?" The woman looked at us all and turned around and left ahah. Then another woman came over and started talking to us, I could tell the old woman sitting next to me wasn't fond of her. So she asked a temple worker to take her to another room. When she left the old woman yelled, "Yes, i got rid of her!" Sassy woman hahah. Then the time came when her name was called and she grabbed our hands and said, "Oh goodness, they are taking me away!" Thats the last we saw of her... oh I hope I'm that funny when I'm older.
A great life lesson I've learned these past months is forget yourself and reach out to others. Don't give a flying caboodle if you go to swing dancing night and the person you usually dance with is taken for a while. This is THEE perfect opportunity to swing/ speed date;) Every song I was able to dance with someone new, I got to talk about my mission, ragnar, and riding horses with so many different people! It was great! It makes you so much happier to just get out of your comfort zone and do things that scare you!
Fun updates:
Ash wen through the temple this week. The Wiscombs are the cutest family ever.
Caitie turned in her papers so the countdown begins!
58 days till I'm Anaheim/ Mexico bound!!!!! :)
Going back to my brothers friend, I decided to turn to the temple for comfort! I sat and waited to go in for about an hour. As I was sitting there with two mid twenties girls, a cute old woman standing about 4'5 came in and said, "You are all here for me, aren't you?" and sat in between us. She exclaimed, "I feel like a rose between two thorns!" Came to find out she was from Rigby, Idaho and regularly attended the Idaho Falls temple, but it was closed so she came to Logan. She went on to tell us that when she got married her husband wanted 2 kids, she wanted 14 so her and Lord had 10! She has 70 grandchildren and 150 great grandchildren! She said Christmas is quite the sacrifice, because she gives them $10 each and she spends about $3000 a Christmas. I want that grandma... She showed us her painted nails that her granddaughters painted bright pink and said overtime she raised her hand she thought OH MY LANTA those are bright haha. By this time we had quite the group gathered around and another woman came up to wait, the old woman looked up and her and said, "Are you sure you wan to do this to yourself?" The woman looked at us all and turned around and left ahah. Then another woman came over and started talking to us, I could tell the old woman sitting next to me wasn't fond of her. So she asked a temple worker to take her to another room. When she left the old woman yelled, "Yes, i got rid of her!" Sassy woman hahah. Then the time came when her name was called and she grabbed our hands and said, "Oh goodness, they are taking me away!" Thats the last we saw of her... oh I hope I'm that funny when I'm older.
A great life lesson I've learned these past months is forget yourself and reach out to others. Don't give a flying caboodle if you go to swing dancing night and the person you usually dance with is taken for a while. This is THEE perfect opportunity to swing/ speed date;) Every song I was able to dance with someone new, I got to talk about my mission, ragnar, and riding horses with so many different people! It was great! It makes you so much happier to just get out of your comfort zone and do things that scare you!
Fun updates:
Ash wen through the temple this week. The Wiscombs are the cutest family ever.
Caitie turned in her papers so the countdown begins!
58 days till I'm Anaheim/ Mexico bound!!!!! :)
The earth is beautiful ^^^ Thats all.
Temples + Friends = HUGE blessing in my life
April Fools. Parking Ticket on Austin's truck and my milk jugs spread out everywhere. I pranked my best and thats all that matters.
Weekend Visits with the Best Friend:)
ROOMIES.
Moved some sticks. It really built character.
Fun Fact: Nicole's care horse Cecil got cut up into little pieces for our necropsy, we didn't know it was him till a week later. Last time we saw him, we REALLY saw him...on the inside.....
COLOR FEST
Coming soon....May 2016
I love my Eleanor
Blessed with the best opportunities, like being able to work other people's horses for them!
General Conference with THEE Nicole Neeley, soon to be Sister Neeley in Reno, Nevada
Preach my Gospel. Nuff said
Roomie bonding
TEMPLE ON POINT. NO FILTER NEEDED
Bonfires in the canyon with my pals.
Austin took us shooting, I actually shot something so it was successful. I managed to bring together 5 friends, so i count that as successful too:)
58 Days.
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