Sooo since my last post I've gotten TWO jobs!!! One is at the Borders Express bookstore in the Lakewood Mall and the other is with the city working as a cashier for one of the city pools! Im am so totally stoked about both jobs. But I was thinking. Isn't it funny how these blessings didn't come until after my last post when I decided to stop being all mopey. It reminds me of how the scriptures say "After the tiral of faith; then cometh the reward." (I don't think thats exactly what it says but something like that) But boy did Heavenly Father reward me with these jobs.
Borders Express...well let me tell you its prefect. Its only going to be about 20-30 hours a week and its only $8.00 an hour BUT the manager is Mormon!! Which means once again I have been blessed with a job where I do not have to fight every week to get Sundays off AND because she understands the importance of education the fact that Im leaving in September to go back to Idaho didn't scare her off in hiring me!
The City Job...This job as well I don't have to work on Sundays because...they're closed!! How great is that!?! But at this job I should get at least 35 hours a week and its $11 an hour!! Woo Hoo!!
And you want to know the best part about all this? Even though I could be working about 50ish hours a week I will still get off by 9pm!!!! At the latest!! How awesome is that!?! At the theater we were lucky if we got off by midnight at the earliest! Now I can have friends!!! And actually do stuff with them!!
Anyway...I was just excited and wanted to publicly express thanks to Heavenly Father for giving me soo many blessings this week!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Thoughts from the past few days...
Well I've been home for abourt twoish weeks now and I still don't have a job but its been great. The past few days espeically.
Wednesday (4/22/09)Stephanie invited me to come to institue with her and it was awesome!! It was really nice to be in a religion class again. Its something I've always missed during the summers since I get to take one every semester up in Idaho. We talked about the Thessalonians and Paul's epistle to them. One thing that stuck out to me was in chapter one verus six. Its says...
And I was thinking that like the Thessalonians all members of the church (weather at baptism or the time or true conversion) came into the church with joy of the Holy Ghost and the Gospel. And I feel like as of lately I haven't been really atune to that joy as I once was. And coming back to that joy and being happy with just life in general (not only in public but in private as well) is something I need to work on.
Thursday night I went to the LA Temple!! I feel as though I havent been there in ages...well inside at least. I went with Stephaine and Sister Monroe who did a session while I got to do baptisims. I know Stephanie felt bad that I was alone there and they both felt bad that I had to wait for them afterwards but I want them both to know that it is perfectly fine...more then fine really. It was great to be able to be alone in there and have time away from everyone and everything to just reflect and spend some time with my Father in Heaven.
I learned a lot about myself in those three hours and that there is a lot I need to repent for and fix before I can move forward with my life and I plan to start now (or I planed to start Thursday).
Something specific that I thought about while I was in there is prayer and how important it is to not only constantly say prayer but have them be meaningful. I think beacause I can't see Heavenly Father there while I talk to Him I sometimes forget that He is there and so I just say short, redundant prayers. But He is there and He does care and although He already knows whats going on in our lives it doesn't mean that He doesn't want to hear about them from us. I could quote so many scriptures about prayer but I think that it would be more benifical to you as the reader to go look them up on your own and let The Spirit guide you to the one that will help you most to gain/ strenghten your own testimony of prayer.
Another thing I thought about and that the three of us girls talked about a little on the way there was not giving up on people just because we think they are too far gone to ever come back or be interested in the church. Of course my mind immediately went to Mike. For those of you who don't know Mike, his and my story is a long and complicated one that I don't really have the desire to go into but know that he is inactive in the church and since the day I met him two years ago I have known that he is a good man who has a testimony of the gospel even though he may not really know that he has one and isn't willing to give up his lifestlye yet. But anyway, I was thinking of him and how much I would love for him to come back to church and I want him to know that there are people in the gospel (other then his mother) who still care about him and know that this is the right path and want him to come back to it. But since we don't really talk anymore I don't know how to bring it up.
Friday was fun. Katie (my little sister) had a festival with her singing group so Matthew and I went to watch her and then we went with her class to Knotts Berry Farm. It was super fun to be with my brother and sister all day. We had a blast going on all the rides and laughing and freaking out together. I counted and I haven't been to Knotts since my senior year of high school, which was three years ago now (man I feel old), when I went with Victor (my boyfriend back then) and some friends instead of going to the Sadies dance. And as I thought about the past and all the things I have been through (which looking back haven't been as hard as they seemed at the time) it was nice to think about the people who really mattered and the to be able to look on either side of me and see that two of those people were still with me (hence they are the people who matter).
Then Caitlyn called and about two hours after I got home she was at my house and we were of to a birthday party for some guy we didn't know, on his PRIVATE BEACH!! haha It was so so so much fun!! I love love LOVE Caitlyn!!! Justin Altier was there but he was like the ONLY person I knew there (well the only one that knew me as well The Nitta boys were there as well) So we danced and had fun and then the cops came and shut it down saying we were too loud even though it was a dry party. But that was ok. The best part was being with Caitlyn and catching up. We are going to the next Hunington Beach dace together and I am sooo stoked.
Today (Saturday 4/25/09) we all got up early (which was a task in and of itself beacuse I was like dead) and went to the Lakewood Service Day/ Mormon Helping Hands. We went to an old mans house and took care of the jungle that was his back yard. I wasn't very excited about this as I got up this morning but I guess the scriptures are right when they say that service makes you happy because we were all pretty happy while we were working together.
Again today (as I was over christmas break) I was struck by the love I feel for my ward family. Some I am sad to say I don't know as well as I would like, seeing as I live up in Idaho for about seven months of the year but those that I do know well I have come to love as if they were a part of my own family. I can't quote it but it reminds me of the talk that President Eryring gave in the October 2008 confrence about unity. Thats how I feel about my ward family, especially on days like today when we are all working together...but then again we are all always working together to build the Kingdom of God.
Anyway, now that this entry has turned into a novel. I'll let you go back to what you were doing but I want you to know how much I love this Gospel that I have been blessed to be a part of. I love my family and I love my friends who feel like family most of the time. While I was in Rexburg I was a little bummed to be coming home because I thought that I had nothing to come home to. How untrue that was and how soon we forget the blessings the Lord has given us. I pray I never again forget how much I love my Lakewood and how great it is being here.
Wednesday (4/22/09)Stephanie invited me to come to institue with her and it was awesome!! It was really nice to be in a religion class again. Its something I've always missed during the summers since I get to take one every semester up in Idaho. We talked about the Thessalonians and Paul's epistle to them. One thing that stuck out to me was in chapter one verus six. Its says...
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having recieved the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
And I was thinking that like the Thessalonians all members of the church (weather at baptism or the time or true conversion) came into the church with joy of the Holy Ghost and the Gospel. And I feel like as of lately I haven't been really atune to that joy as I once was. And coming back to that joy and being happy with just life in general (not only in public but in private as well) is something I need to work on.
Thursday night I went to the LA Temple!! I feel as though I havent been there in ages...well inside at least. I went with Stephaine and Sister Monroe who did a session while I got to do baptisims. I know Stephanie felt bad that I was alone there and they both felt bad that I had to wait for them afterwards but I want them both to know that it is perfectly fine...more then fine really. It was great to be able to be alone in there and have time away from everyone and everything to just reflect and spend some time with my Father in Heaven.
I learned a lot about myself in those three hours and that there is a lot I need to repent for and fix before I can move forward with my life and I plan to start now (or I planed to start Thursday).
Something specific that I thought about while I was in there is prayer and how important it is to not only constantly say prayer but have them be meaningful. I think beacause I can't see Heavenly Father there while I talk to Him I sometimes forget that He is there and so I just say short, redundant prayers. But He is there and He does care and although He already knows whats going on in our lives it doesn't mean that He doesn't want to hear about them from us. I could quote so many scriptures about prayer but I think that it would be more benifical to you as the reader to go look them up on your own and let The Spirit guide you to the one that will help you most to gain/ strenghten your own testimony of prayer.
Another thing I thought about and that the three of us girls talked about a little on the way there was not giving up on people just because we think they are too far gone to ever come back or be interested in the church. Of course my mind immediately went to Mike. For those of you who don't know Mike, his and my story is a long and complicated one that I don't really have the desire to go into but know that he is inactive in the church and since the day I met him two years ago I have known that he is a good man who has a testimony of the gospel even though he may not really know that he has one and isn't willing to give up his lifestlye yet. But anyway, I was thinking of him and how much I would love for him to come back to church and I want him to know that there are people in the gospel (other then his mother) who still care about him and know that this is the right path and want him to come back to it. But since we don't really talk anymore I don't know how to bring it up.
Friday was fun. Katie (my little sister) had a festival with her singing group so Matthew and I went to watch her and then we went with her class to Knotts Berry Farm. It was super fun to be with my brother and sister all day. We had a blast going on all the rides and laughing and freaking out together. I counted and I haven't been to Knotts since my senior year of high school, which was three years ago now (man I feel old), when I went with Victor (my boyfriend back then) and some friends instead of going to the Sadies dance. And as I thought about the past and all the things I have been through (which looking back haven't been as hard as they seemed at the time) it was nice to think about the people who really mattered and the to be able to look on either side of me and see that two of those people were still with me (hence they are the people who matter).
Then Caitlyn called and about two hours after I got home she was at my house and we were of to a birthday party for some guy we didn't know, on his PRIVATE BEACH!! haha It was so so so much fun!! I love love LOVE Caitlyn!!! Justin Altier was there but he was like the ONLY person I knew there (well the only one that knew me as well The Nitta boys were there as well) So we danced and had fun and then the cops came and shut it down saying we were too loud even though it was a dry party. But that was ok. The best part was being with Caitlyn and catching up. We are going to the next Hunington Beach dace together and I am sooo stoked.
Today (Saturday 4/25/09) we all got up early (which was a task in and of itself beacuse I was like dead) and went to the Lakewood Service Day/ Mormon Helping Hands. We went to an old mans house and took care of the jungle that was his back yard. I wasn't very excited about this as I got up this morning but I guess the scriptures are right when they say that service makes you happy because we were all pretty happy while we were working together.
Again today (as I was over christmas break) I was struck by the love I feel for my ward family. Some I am sad to say I don't know as well as I would like, seeing as I live up in Idaho for about seven months of the year but those that I do know well I have come to love as if they were a part of my own family. I can't quote it but it reminds me of the talk that President Eryring gave in the October 2008 confrence about unity. Thats how I feel about my ward family, especially on days like today when we are all working together...but then again we are all always working together to build the Kingdom of God.
Anyway, now that this entry has turned into a novel. I'll let you go back to what you were doing but I want you to know how much I love this Gospel that I have been blessed to be a part of. I love my family and I love my friends who feel like family most of the time. While I was in Rexburg I was a little bummed to be coming home because I thought that I had nothing to come home to. How untrue that was and how soon we forget the blessings the Lord has given us. I pray I never again forget how much I love my Lakewood and how great it is being here.
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