Look Up.

Tonight as the day was drawing to a close I was feeling very weighed down by the stresses of life. Mostly silly things that seem like a big deal to me. I'm sure we each have those problems that are very sensitives to our hearts... and I am a very sensitive person, haha. I was in need of some advice so as I was texting my mom the worries and sadness I was carrying in my heart she told me to look up this talk "It Is Better to Look Up" by Carl Cook. I turned on my favorite hymn "Be Still My Soul" and began to read. As tears were streaming down my face. I immediately was filled with the love Heavenly Father has for me and how He truly walks by my side every day. Sometimes I feel that I get too distracted throughout the day to remember to "Look Up" and keep perspective. Sometimes I forget to turn to him to ease the burdens of the day. Sometimes I forget how much He loves me. But not tonight. Not after reading this talk. I'm so glad my mom shared this with me at such a perfect time and I will most certainly work on "looking up".

"Experience has taught me that if we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with the burdens of life. We will not feel incapable of doing what we are called to do or need to do. We will be strengthened, and our lives will be filled with peace and joy.³ We will come to realize that most of what we worry about is not of eternal significance—and if it is, the Lord will help us. But we must have the faith to look up and the courage to follow His direction."

"We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy."

Click here to read the full talk.

Cheers to the freaking weekend!

Last night was the UVU Hunger Banquet. It was such a great experience because I got to learn a lot more on how to fight hunger in Utah as well as world wide. It made me think a lot about the people I met in Fiji and a lot of the struggling families I saw. The kids rarely had more than 1 outfit and their clothes as well as shoes were all torn up. I miss them so much. I need to go back and help them. I have a burning passion to travel the world and help those that are struggling. I guess we will see if I can do that at some point in my life!

In other news, I dyed my hair a week ago! I forgot to blog about it. But this picture was taken the first night I got it done. It's faded a lot since then and I really love it! It was a fun change and I definitely like to mix things up every once in a while. :) I'll try to post new pics soon.
Right now I'm sitting in the UVUSA office before my shift at work starts in a couple hours, haha. I'm listening to the Mumford and Sons pandora radio stations, which quite possibly could be the best station EVER made. And I'm thinking about my trip back home this weekend. I'm sooo excited. So many fun things are happening and I just want to be home and I just want to be around my family. I miss them.




I just discovered this song on Pandora and loooveee it. Such a good song for a road trip.

Things I want or am going to do while home:
- Run
- Eat at Sammy's
- Eat at Chipotle
- Go to Alexandria's Bridal shower
- Go to Alexandria's Bachelorette party
- Go to Kekoa's homecoming (yay!)
- Go swimming (if it's warm enough)
- Eat sunday dinner with my family with the back doors wide open
- Hang out with Jenn, EMERSON, and Jordan

Can't wait :)

Yet Another Reason To Go Home

Some days I hate living so far away from home. While I'm up here, this cute girl gets bigger every day! I have this irrational fear she will grow up barely knowing who I am! Key word: irrational. Haha. I love my little niece so much. I can't wait to see her this weekend! Also, it's Alexandria's bridal/bachelorette party and Kekoa's homecoming. Such a great weekend ahead!

Today my engaged friend said the sentence that every single person knows and fears. "We'll be friends when you're married". Us single peeps all know it's true but we like to lie to ourselves and pretend we have lots of friends regardless of their marital status... Myself included. I mean who likes to periodically go out there and find new friends every few months... Not me! Scary, right? It is a fact that when your friends get married there is a wall immediately built between you two. If you are like me you pretend this wall doesn't exist and sit nicely perched at the top of the wall where you can still see your friends. However, from my experience the closer the wedding gets and the longer they are married the shakier the wall gets til BAM! You fall off and are now chillin' with the other single, lonely, and possibly desperate people. Ok, just kidding. I'm being dramatic. But if you live in Provo, Utah it's basically all true, haha :) So I'm going to get off my soap box for a sec and remind the world I am nearly turning 21 which is actually quite young! And I am perfectly happy with how my life is going. Ignorance is bliss and I'm 100% ok with that. So I would like to go back to pretending that all my married friends are in fact still my friends... Right guys??






Hello?

February Favorites

Favorite picture

Favorite memory

Favorite Valentine

Favorite love story

Favorite quote

Favorite running jam

Restless

The most beautiful movie I have seen in a very long time.

I can't stop thinking about it.

Love

Valentine's Day is coming up and I'm so excited! Maybe I'm one of the few single girls who actually enjoys this holiday, but I do. I love celebrating loved ones.

Things I love:

Being LDS

My family

True friends

Summer

Travel/Seeing new places

Any place warm

The beach

Henderson, NV

UVUSA

Running

Dancing

GOOD music

New music

Taking pictures

Not waking up to an alarm

Laughing

Laughing

Laughing

Mumford and Sons

I've got a thing for this band.



But tell me now,
Where was my fault,
in loving you with my whole heart?