Stay Positive

This week was a hard one for me. I had a paper due, two midterms, a cleaning check, and a long heavy work schedule due to a large dinner at the Hinkley Center for the Marriott school. To make it even worse I woke up Monday with a terrible cold. All week I felt like my nose was the size of an elephant seal's.

Despite all this, my week turned out to be a profitable one. I learned several things throughout this week:

1) Heavenly Father must have a sense of humor. On Saturday night I asked if should I go on the FHE hike Monday night or stay home and work on my essay. As soon as I woke up Monday with my cold, I kind of laughed and found the answer to my prayer even though it wasn't the one I wanted :) .

2) I found that sometimes it is better to find time to sleep rather than stay up all night studying. Sleep is important and although you feel like you will not be able to get all you want done, at least you will feel better the next day.

3) Little, simple things become more important. Whether it is a funny conversation with roommates, a wonderful mother who is just a call away that allows me to rant on, a bright yellow carnation, a lovely class lecture in Living Prophets, or a chocolate chip cookie brought over by a friend.

4) A hard week causes the weekend to become even more enjoyable. I am super excited to go down to the Conference Center in Salt Lake tonight for the General Women Broadcast and for a calm Sunday.

Football, Regional Confrence, and a Random Jam Session

On Saturday BYU played Boise State at home and beat them with another Hail Mary thrown by freshman Tanner Magnum and then we preceded to get another touchdown all in the last minute of the game. We were all screaming, hugging each other and I even had happy tears coming down my face. It was crazy!

Sunday was regional conference. My roommate and I were ten minutes early to the conference, but that turned out not to be early enough. We were given one folding chair so we took turns on the chair and the ground. The same thing happened the day before at the football game where although we were a hour early there wasn't anymore seats in the student section. I guess next time we just need to get to these events earlier. There was some really great talks. Everyone mentioned or talked about the Sabbath. It has been such a big topic lately. Sister Burton talked about how it is a gift from God and we need to be appreciative of it by having not only reverent actions but reverent thoughts as well.

After dinner and the Worldwide Single Adult Devotional, My roommates and I went to a random jam session with people in the ward. We didn't really know anyone there, but I learned that people can connect through music. There were about seven ukuleles, a bass, and a guitar, and the rest were voices. It was so much fun and I am so happy I went. We decided that this will continue to be a Sunday tradition. 

Stewart Falls

For Labor Day I went with some friends to Stewart Falls down by Aspen Grove. My roommate and I felt super prepared for this hike because we assembled sack lunches for everyone to eat by the water fall, enough water, a swim towel if we got wet and water shoes.

We were worried we wouldn't be able to find a parking spot, but a few opened up at the last second so we were able to go there. The weather was beautiful and the hike was fairly easy with only a few rocky steep skinny paths. All the online reviews of the hike said that the only problem people found was that sometimes the hike was too crowded and it seemed more like waiting in a line then a hike. For us however, there was quite a few people because of the holiday, but it wasn't that bad.  There were a few times when we all stepped off the path and let people going the other way through, but overall it was very pleasant. The waterfall at the end was very rewarding and super neat. We had fun running behind the waterfall to try out the legend that if you ran behind it without getting wet then you would get married soon. It turned out that it was impossible not to get wet. Boy was it cold! Some of pictures by the fall show us all having funny faces of us getting hit by the freezing water. We had to stand out in the sun for a bit to get dried off.  At the end of the hike we were tired and all shouted what we heard a little boy exclaim right before we started the hike, "Finally!". I am so glad I was able to go out and do something instead of being cooped up all day in my apartment doing homework or watching Netflix. I want to continue finding fun hikes to go on and continue to get in better shape.

Start Of a New Blog

I have been wanting to start a blog for a while now. My mother keeps a blog and I love reading other friends' and family blogs. So with the help of a required assignment from my MCom 320 class, I am about to start out on the blog writing journey.