So I was just going to head over to the Stake Center for the Relief Society Broadcast (you can see it at www.lds.org); but I got a call and was able to go into Salt Lake to be at the Conference Center. It is amazing inside the building the design is genius. Anyway, I did not want to blog about architecture. I have been learning about feeling for impressions while listening to a talk, not just trying to memorize the words or verbiage that comes out of the speakers mouths, but really listening for what it is that I should DO from what I hear. So lately I have been having my own little worries about Who am I really. Seems simply enough, why do we get these worries every once and a blue moon? Maybe I should not group others with me in the we. I know who I am inherently, but I forget to believe in myself and that no matter what is going on I have value.
It is interesting the things we hang our value on, nice house, clean house, nice kids, clean kids, good job, busy social life, places to go and people to see. I have nice kids and they are clean at least 4 times a week. President Uchtdorf's remarks about Forget Me Not and what we (I) should not forget was just what I needed to hear. Also Sister Thompson's reminder about keeping covenants. It is so important to me to just be me. I learned along time ago I can't be someone else, it does not work very well. The problem with thinking of myself is that everyday I am changing, growing into hopefully more than I was. I am grateful for the knowledge that as a daughter of God, he wants me to become what He sees I have the ability to become; no more and no less. How do we become what he needs us to be, simply keeping the covenants that we made, and trusting in the Atonement of His son. I hope I will remember everyday that I only need do my best to apply that to myself and not worry about the worldly expectation.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Random Blogging
I have not blogged for awhile. Summer was fast and we did not do very much, since I was going to school. Robert and Kyle did four weeks of swim lessons, and Rob is set that he will be getting a job in five years as a life guard. He already said he will help with the rent. Grandma's rent too. He is such a nice boy. He also played baseball and made it to the all-star team. He made some new fiends for the summer, and made up with his old friends now that football is on.
Kyle went from a level 3 swimmer to a level 5 swimmer in one summer. His card said "Such a little guy, but he passed to level five" I am actually glad that I did not buy him very many clothes he has grown quite a bit just in the last month. He seems like he may even be taller than Steven one day!
Lizzie's Birthday is tomorrow! She is going to play soccer again! She really likes writing and is going to be in a writing club at school I just hope that she can find a friend to get a ride home with, her club ends at 3:45 and I need to be in Salt Lake at 4PM. It will work out. It is hard to believe that she is 13, she has changed alot this last year and we are happy to see that purple and some pink have made it back into her wardrobe.
Steven started High School and he likes chatting on facebook with a cute Cheerleader. He is the starting center for the football team and hopes to be able to play on the basketball team. He is singing in the men's choir, and is in the Intro to TV broadcasting class. We may see him online one day, as the anchor for Stallions TV. I think he likes High School I can only hope he keeps up on his assignments.
Dave and I are doing well, he is now the second counselor in the Young Men's program in our ward. He has also been travelling alot this summer, he is such a hard worker. He does like his job but somehow I need to convince him to go to college and get a degree in something, anything, basket weaving hehe. I am starting my last year at the BC. I just need 5 classes and my internship to finish. But two of the classes are on Thursday Nights and I would not be with my group so I will take those classes in the Winter along with my internship. I cannot express so much in words, how being at the BC has been a blessing in our lives. I love it there. The faculty and staff are awesome and so caring. It is an amazing place. I hope that Steven and Lizzie will both take the chance to at least spend a summer semester there as students before going on to a University.
So this is my random blog tonight, my house is cool from fallish air and I am excited to still be blogging and living. We are blessed everyday. Happy September!
Samantha
Kyle went from a level 3 swimmer to a level 5 swimmer in one summer. His card said "Such a little guy, but he passed to level five" I am actually glad that I did not buy him very many clothes he has grown quite a bit just in the last month. He seems like he may even be taller than Steven one day!
Lizzie's Birthday is tomorrow! She is going to play soccer again! She really likes writing and is going to be in a writing club at school I just hope that she can find a friend to get a ride home with, her club ends at 3:45 and I need to be in Salt Lake at 4PM. It will work out. It is hard to believe that she is 13, she has changed alot this last year and we are happy to see that purple and some pink have made it back into her wardrobe.
Steven started High School and he likes chatting on facebook with a cute Cheerleader. He is the starting center for the football team and hopes to be able to play on the basketball team. He is singing in the men's choir, and is in the Intro to TV broadcasting class. We may see him online one day, as the anchor for Stallions TV. I think he likes High School I can only hope he keeps up on his assignments.
Dave and I are doing well, he is now the second counselor in the Young Men's program in our ward. He has also been travelling alot this summer, he is such a hard worker. He does like his job but somehow I need to convince him to go to college and get a degree in something, anything, basket weaving hehe. I am starting my last year at the BC. I just need 5 classes and my internship to finish. But two of the classes are on Thursday Nights and I would not be with my group so I will take those classes in the Winter along with my internship. I cannot express so much in words, how being at the BC has been a blessing in our lives. I love it there. The faculty and staff are awesome and so caring. It is an amazing place. I hope that Steven and Lizzie will both take the chance to at least spend a summer semester there as students before going on to a University.
So this is my random blog tonight, my house is cool from fallish air and I am excited to still be blogging and living. We are blessed everyday. Happy September!
Samantha
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