Okay I am like religiously opposed to overloading my blog, but I went like three weeks without writing...so I'm going to write two within the same day!! So, Christmas was great! I spent it with my family in California. Michael took me to Wicked aka the most awesome three hours of my life! I loved it. I'm sure I'll have a blog about it sometime. I love my family. I missed my dad. I wish he was still a part of my family...I mean I know he is, but I don't know it's obviously not the same. Anyways, I am so blessed with my extended family. My mom's dad and her two brothers are phenomenal and really step up to be a father figure in each of our lives. I love them more than they will ever know I think! Michael and Ryan are the best brothers I could ask for. I mean, sometimes, I wish they were more active in the Gospel. I just know how much happiness it brings me, but I love them nonetheless. They are fantastic to me. Ryan said, "you know steph when people ask me about my family, I say 'my mom is the nicest person i know, michael is the smartest person i know and well my sister, she's my favorite person i know". And let's be honest my mom is a priceless jewel in my life. Gosh, I think God told me I was going to have the most angelic mother there was but I would have to endure other trials to have her and I was like, sign me up. She's honestly worth it! I have so much respect for her. So yeah Christmas was GREAT!!! Love the holiday. Love every kind of celebration of Christ we can have!
Okay, so now for Winter updates....HOLY BUSYYYYY!!! The break was like a weird one, I knew it would be the last break I have for a long time. I will be in 18 credits Winter, 9 credits Spring, 9 credits Summer, 20 credits Fall, plus Independent Study to finish up so I can graduate. I work twenty hours a week. I will be certifying soon to be a trainer and add about sevenish hours a week training people. I already spend a good hour or two at the gym everyday. Ice skating practice at 6 am (which is why I need to be sleeping right now). I'm meeting with a new advisor to try and crack out this obesity/eating disorder prevention campaign soon. Prepping for graduate school. Ahhhh!!!! So, I hate saying the things that I'm busy with, but don't worry there is a purpose. One of my favorite scriptures is in Matthew 14:23. Jesus had been running around healing people, teaching people, you know saving the world. Well, it says, "And when he sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray and when the evening was come, he was there alone". Oh my gosh everyone stop what you are doing right now and pick this scripture apart to how it applies to your life. I just think that if the Man who could endure all pain and suffering possible felt in needful to go away into the mountains by Himself, shouldn't we also take time for meditation and reflection alone? I know for me, I get so caught up with people and just doing things to just do them, I need to sit down look at myself (internally) and make sure I'm on the right track...That the things I do have purpose and meaning. A wise friend once said to me, "steph, I learned the most when I found out how to be okay with myself by myself". With no one else's approval or validation, are we really ok? I say this typing a blog that I expect people to read and validate haha. But seriously, think about it. Are you okay with yourself and your life without other's validation or direction? I have a long ways to go, but it's something I have been working on for TWO years!! Holy crap, it's been that long since my road to self discovery. Well here was a significant milestone I achieved tonight. BYUSA campaigning is coming up, oh joy, and I was asked to be a part of a core team. I have always done this, and it's weird to actually say no, but I did! I thought about it by myself without any input from outside sources besides God and me and then God and I made the decision to decline. Although this seems very minuscule, I know the Lord cares. I know that who I am does not consist of what I do. So even though that list makes me feel busy, it shouldn't make me feel any more important and of worth than if I did one thing on the list. I am so so so so so grateful for this belief I finalllllly developed. It has made a serious and lasting impact in my life. So as the new year starts and you make goals, just remember that it's about who we become not what we do. We have a long, long time to develop, we don't need to meet every expectation this year!!
On that subject, I just want to share my last soap box. Coolest discovery thus far in my college career: I'm going to live a long life!!! So with different things I do to take care of myself I will live an average 17 years longer than the average person in America!! AWESOME. These things include: religion, duh; exercise, nutrition, no smoking, no alcohol, aka WORD OF WISDOM. It's true people!!! Isn't that great! Oh and in the Word of Wisdom it says that the promise is to run and not be weary, walk and not faint...if that's a promise, we should probably start doing those things now, its not just gonna hit us when we die. We need to develop healthy habits while we can!! Eat well and exercise!! Take care of that beautiful God given body!!
Thanks to all my family and friends that make life better every day and I'm excited for the next 70 years we have together and then on to....FOREVER!!! <3
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