What a great day!

Today was such a spiritually enlightening day! I really loved Church. We had fast and testimony meeting, and there were so many wonderful testimonies born. I am truly amazed by how strong the people in my ward are. I was talking to my wonderful bishop, Bishop Armstrong, during tithing settlement, and he was saying how this ward is truly the cream of the crop. I really believe it! I have met so many wonderful people, and they all teach me something new and inspires me to be a better person. I mean, I've got 5 angels as roommates. Yes, I know that sounds really corny, but it's true. Continually I am strengthened by their testimonies, just by how they act and treat others. I am so grateful that I was led to be in the apartment I am. Deciding where I wanted to room was something I prayed about for a really long time, and even though didn't know exactly where I was going to end up in the end, after everything that happened during that roommate fiasco I know the Lord's hand was in it. There's this song, Unanswered Prayers, by Garth Brooks, and the line where it says "Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers." I truly believe that..because when I first was praying about where I should live, I was asking that I would find a roommate that I would be compatible right the day I chose. Well, those of you who I've told about that, know it wasn't the case. I was so distraught and worried about starting at college, and I really wondered why I couldn't feel at peace. I began to wonder if I hadn't had enough faith when praying. But then, after a series of events, I realized that if I hadn't chosen that initial room, I wouldn't have been brought to where I am now. So yes, although it didn't seem like my prayer had been answered in the beginning, everything that I went to had to happen, and in the end, my prayer was answered sevenfold. These girls have definitely become some of my dearest friends, and I am so grateful for them. All of them have such fun personalities and we get along so well. My life wouldn't be the same without our late night conversations, silly pranks, fires in the kitchen, and dance parties! I never really tell people how I feel about them, but I hope they realize that they have affected me in more ways than they could even realize, and they truly are answers to my prayers...And more importantaly,they have succesfully shown me that Andrea and I cannot put pull of a prank...hehe, that will be getting its own blog though. Hah, the song "For Good" from Wicked just come up on my playlist, how fitting for this blog. Well, since I doubt most of you even know who my lovely roommates are...I feel inclined to give some shoutouts to them, so ya'll see how great they are...In alphabetical order...lol


Andrea Marsh:
Andrea is from California. She has a boyfriend named Chris. haha. I love Andrea to death. We have a lot of fun together, whether it be trying (and failing) to play pranks on people, or staying up til 3AM talking about everything and anything. We go on weekly dates to Creamery every friday for dinner. We like to make fun of people that we don't know. We realized that's probably why we have no friends and no wanted to sit by us on the bus to Salt Lake. haha. I'm also getting married at her house on Christmas (not to her, of course). She likes to cook food, play the piano, talk to her boyfriend, and do random stuff. She's such a great roommate and I'm so happy that we've gotten to be friends.!


Christie Beck:
Christie is from Murray, Utah, and is tall. Like, 10 inches taller than me. haha. She is a highly entertaining person who is very easy to get along with. I really enjoy talking and hanging out with Christie, even if half our conversations consist of sarcastic remarks towards one another. She's one of those people who you immediately know has a good heart and cares about everyone, and her testimony of the Gospel is very evident. I really look up to her (more than just height wise). She plays sports, is smart, likes to clean, is really fun to hang out with, and most importantly, comes from an extremely good looking family. Her most distinct talent, however, is keeping the beat of songs. Seriously, pure talent. Anyways, she is a very wonderful friend. You haven't lived til you've meet Christie Beck!


Lindsay Irion:
Lindsay is also from Murray, Utah! She has a twin brother, Russell, who is on a mission in Germany. Lindsay is my late night buddy. We both thoroughly enjoy staying up late, doing absolutely nothing besides browsing through facebook flair (so much better than homework!) She loves to have a good time and laugh. She's definitely a kid at heart (good thing for sure!) I love chatting with her and going to midnight premiers of movies. She has a wonderful testimony and is so sweet. Whenever I am feeling kind of down, just being around her cheers me up because she always seems to be so happy. She's a really wonderful friend and a great example to me. She loves her family and little kids a lot. She wants to be a preschool teacher when she grows up. You can almost always guarentee laughter and fun when Lindsay's in the room! She doesn't really show it off all that much, but she she can sing really well! She likes the Office. Just so you know.


Mckenzie Boyle:
Mckenzie is from Sandy, Utah. She also has a twin brother, McKay, who is going to school in Salt Lake (thankfully, not to the U). There are many adjectives I would use to describe her, but the ones that describe her best are: Fun, crazy, energetic, and hilarious. Kenzie is a really talented person; she has an incredibly beautiful singing voice. Me and her love to sit around and talk about boys that we wish we had in the kitchen(specially them Beck brothers ;-)), and creep on peoples facebook. She's so much fun, I've never met someone with so much energy! She's really outgoing and nice. However, she does have a serious and spiritual side, and I love it! We are visiting teaching partners, and always gives such wonderful thoughts during visits to our girls. She always knows how to welcome someone when they come back from class, and makes everyone feel so loved! She's a great example to me in many ways. Plus, she has the coolest hair ever, I'm basically very jealous of it.



Shalece Kehl
Shalece is also from, you guessed it, Murray Utah. She's small, but loud! Shalece also has an amazing voice, and it becomes quite obvious because she is not afraid to belt a song at the top of her lungs! She is really fun, but also very dedicated to school! She's quite the actress (haha), and always tries to include everyone! She has the most interesting way of telling stories, she makes everything seem so excited! She also has a very strong testimony of the Gospel. She was one of the people who bore their testimonies todays, and it was very powerful. She loves to laugh and have a good time, and is very charismatic. Everyone loves being around her! She loves Nsync Christmas music and is a great dancer. I just love being around her, the happiness level of the room goes up about 20 notches, you can't help but be cheerful!




Ha, that sure was a tangent from the original intent of this blog. Well, like I said, Church was very good. I also had the opportunity to participate in tithing settlement tonight, and had a chance to chat with my Bishop. He's so awesome! Seriously, he really knows how to make someone feel good about themselves. Like, I never really think I make a difference to anyone, but for after talking to him, I at least felt like I contributed to the ward and others, at least in a small way. He told me how they "requested" that the BYU 13th ward boundaries would consist of the buildings with the best freshman at BYU, and that he was so happy that happened. ha ha. I love the Bishopric! I also love our relief society presidency. The relief society president, Cali, is amazing! She goes out of her way to make sure every girl feels loved and truly cares about everyone.

The last part of the night that was great was the Christmas Devotional. I have never actually watched the Christmas devotional (since KBYU didn't play at our house in Denver, it wasn't so convenient to watch as it is here). There was such a great spirit watching it. I love the first Presidency of the church. All of their talks had something in them that I had needed to hear. They made me really want to try and be more charitable, and serve others more often. I think I am going to make that my goal next semester.

This has definitely been a spiritually uplifting week. We went to Temple Square as a ward yesterday, and saw the Joseph Smith building..I'll write a blog about that later. I found out today our ward will be going to the Draper Temple before it's dedicated to take a tour..that will be a very cool experience. Needless to say, I love BYU!