Guidance

So my mom just sent me this and I wanted to share it for anyone who needed it...like me. :-)

Dancing With God

When I meditated on the word Guidance,

I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word.

I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing.

When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.

The movement doesn't flow with the music,

and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.

When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead,

both bodies begin to flow with the music.

One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back

or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another.

It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully.

The dance takes surrender, willingness,

and attentiveness from one person

and gentle guidance and skill from the other.

My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.

When I saw "G": I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i".

"God, "u" and "i" dance."

God, you, and I dance.

As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust

that I would get guidance about my life.

Once again, I became willing to let God lead.

My prayer for you today is that God's blessings

and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday.

May you abide in God, as God abides in you.

Dance together with God, trusting God to lead

and to guide you through each season of your life.

Chocolate bunnies, Chinese man, pastel eggs, and neon shirts

So a lot has gone on this month of April! Unfortunately the weather has not been ideal and has snowed and rained quite often...where is the sun??? But we're keeping it real and still having fun.

Easter was the week after General Conference and the Easter Bunny came to our apartment and gave us milk chocolate bunnies. Aw! Then after spending the weekend with the family dying Easter eggs and Easter dinner, I came back and dyed more Easter eggs and had an Easter egg hunt with some friends from the ward. We hid the eggs filled with candy around our complex. It was like we were kids again. :-)







Hayley's birthday was a couple weeks ago and she turned the big 2-0. We celebrated at Tepanyaki - delicious! And let me tell you, those egg roll jokes and throwing shrimp in our mouths never gets old. And p.s., I was the only one who caught it in my mouth! Hootie hoo!





I went back up to my parent's house this weekend and helped with Tate's dinner before her Sadie Hawkins dance. The theme was a neon/glowstick type thing so they all dressed in the same color as their date (anything neon) and posed for pics and ate Mexican food before the dance. (I helped make the enchiladas by the way...). But it looks like they had lots of fun!





This is Hayley's candid, but not so candid shot...but usually what she's doing throughout the day.




"No more school, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks!"

Well I am done with school for the next four months and am officially a super senior. I have one year left and then I am done! I'll be taking some fun classes in the fall (LDS history, geneology, social dance, food, drama, Education law, and health) and then head out to DC to do my student teaching. I heard the social life is amazing out there and the wards are so fun! It will be a huge challenge teaching the inner city students, but I don't take crap from anyone so I think I'm going to be able to handle the challenge. And depending on how I like it, who knows, maybe I'll stay out there. But I am planning on studying for the GRE and taking it in the fall and heading to grad school after I graduate to get a masters in school counseling. I'm going to meet with some high school counselors and get some information about the profession and requirements to get a feel for what I'm going to jump into. But until then I'm going to bask in the sun at the Peaks and work my tail off to save up for DC. Wish me luck!

Conference and Lazy Spring Evenings

So this last weekend was General Conference and it was amazing! Just what I needed to hear. I watched it with Brooke and Shalisa on Saturday and then I went up to Kaysville and spent the rest of the weekend with my family in Kaysville. Every year my mom makes hommade cinnamon rolls which we made this year of course. Soooo gooood!



My friend Mindy had tickets for Sunday afternoon so I got to go with some friends to the Conference center. There weren't as many protestors as I have seen before. In fact there were only two on the southwest corner where I walked to the Conference Center and standing in front of their large sign was a couple of young adults about my age with signs that said "Free Hugs!" Way to lighten the mood!



Then a couple of us headed back to my parents' for Hawaiian Haystacks and a game of scum. It was intense! There was screaming and shifting of seats like you wouldn't believe! Some of my favorite things from Conference are:
- President Eyring's talk on adversity - remember that God gave us the gift of mortality to prepare for the gift of immortality; even when we have faith, courage, and strength we will be tried, but things will work out, smile through the pain.
- Richard G Scott's talk on not complaining - Visit the temple regularly; don't complain and instead ask what the Lord wants us to learn; we can do the best we can, but the final outcome is up to the Lord.
- Steven E. Snow's talk on getting on with our lives - Prophets give us direction, keep an eternal perspective, have faith, and be of good cheer
- Jeffrey R Holland's talk on feeling alone - We don't need to walk alone or be unaided even if we feel that we are; stand by Christ at all times, in all things, and in all places

Amazing.



Today was a beautiful day! I walked out of the library when I got off work at 5. I began to walk home when I decided to stop and lay on the grass and start reading the book 1776 that my friend Donny let me borrow. After reading a couple of pages and feeling the warmth of the sun, I decided to take a little nap with the sun on my face and it was amazing! I know it's supposed to rain soon, but at least it's staying warm. I love the sun!