The Season of Lent...

So, I'm the only Mormon at work, and today everyone was talking about what they were giving up for Lent, I guess it's the first day. One of my coworkers said that he has decided to give up all mind altering substances for lent ahead of time because he had heard that it takes 40 days to make or break a habit. I've heard that before too, but never tried it out.
Just this past Sunday I was thinking that I really need to do better about my scripture reading. So I decided that for lent I was going to give up 5 to 10 minutes of my day to read my scriptures for the next 40 days. If I can put in more time then that would be great too and I will do that, in the mean time, this is how I'm starting out.
I am in no particular spot at the current moment so I found a random spot in my scriptures and began to read. Today I only read Mosiah 2:1-12 and it really was helpful for me. I really want to go on my mission, but as an earlier blog mentioned, I'm not sure why anymore. I knew there was a reason I had decided to do it in the first place and somewhere along the way I lost that reasoning. I'm still continuing the papers but at the same time searching again for the reason I began in the first place. In Mosiah 2:11 I found it to be saying that we are all here by the grace of Our Heavenly Father to serve one another. I think that that point is easy to forget. We don't get anywhere without the help of Our Heavenly Father. I'm know I can and most certainly should do better about including him in my daily life and being more grateful for everything he has blessed me with even when I don't deserve it. Also, I find that as much as I am being blessed I need to take the time to serve others.
Al thought there is only so much I know I am going to be able to do in this next couple weeks, I'm going to try to make a point of doing something for someone else. At least one act of service. I'll come back tomorrow and tell you how that goes. And in the search for why I want to be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. So far I have that I am needed to serve and bless the lives of others just as my life as been blessed through the church. Still looking..............

Cleaning My Room

Quotes found:

We don't do Great things. We just do small things with Great Love.~ Mother Teresa

Stand as a Witness at all times and in all things and in All Places. ~Mosiah 18:9

Be ya kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, been as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.~ Ephesians 4:32

Items Found:

Old Glasses

Old song lyrics by former missionary

4 build-a-bear birth certificates?

Nychole's first Miss New Jersey competition T-shirt

Old set of scriptures

2004 NYC Temple jubilee DVD

Old DECA awards

My Music Dept Awards

Minimum of 10 pairs of Scissors

HotWheels Cars?????

Approx 7 porcelain dolls

RENT Poster signed by cast

and jewelry up the Wazzooo.

Sunday Meetings

Today was a very intence day for me. I was able to listen to President and Sister Bulloch who spoke about things that I have been wondering about for a while especially since yesterday's conversation with Nate. At this point in time I'm excited that I got some insight on these things. Here's what I was able to come Away with;

• Have a Personal Relationshipr with Jesus Christ.


• I doesn't matter how things turn out; It matters how I turn out


• Instead of asking Why me? Why now? rather ask What am I supposed to learn from this? How am I supposed to grow from this experience.


• It is in Christ that we find rest, It is in Him that we find Happiness


• We are either going towards the Savior or we are going untowards him.


• Everyone needs to come up with their own testimony.


• The adversary wants us to be prideful, selfish and self centered. /the Advasary wasnts you to be spiritually insensetive;

*Keep the Faith

*Keep Praying

*Keep Reading the Scriptures

*******DON'T STOP BELIEVING!!!!!!!!

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true; Live it, Follow it and you will end up where you want to be.


• Happiness Comes from living the Gospel of Jesus Christ


• Christ was the only one who didn't gain from the Attonement, he didn't need it, but he went through with it for all of us.


• Marriage and Life in general is; Care about others more then you care about yourself<>Fact; The Gospel of Jesus Christ is True
  
• Fact; Our Heavenly Father Wants us to be Happy
  
• Fact; Satan wants to make us miserable
  
• Forget Yourself and Get to Work
  
• WE ONLY HAVE ONE WORK; TO INVITE ALL UNTO CHRIST.
  
• We live in a world where people are searching for Happiness
  
• Our happiness will be increased as we share the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to others.

I'm not saying that I have my answer 100% but I have a pretty good I dea of why I feel I am supposed to go Serve a Mission. All I can do is continue working on the papers, Pray and Wait. and I intend to do so.

I wore a Dress...................

Funtimes at FebCon 2010

So today was seriously the longest day ever, running around here there and everywhere. Started of with 9 girls running around to get to breakfast just a little late, followed by a wonderful KeyNote speaker then some workshops (See, got me thinking for more info). At lunch I met this guy, odd one really, he kept on asking me my last name for some odd reason, lol. anyway. then we had our Service project decorating the church for the dance, at which point we really got to know a number of people including, Nate and Rich














Nate, Standing on the Chair, Rich in Sweater and Awesome Glasses and Me in Rich's Glasses; I look Hot, I know, lol


But we worked hard on decorating too;

Tabby and Rachele worked hard on Getting the Streamers up, along with helping blow up a lot of Balloons. While Brianna hit on cute guys, lol.

Brianna got her act together and made a wonderful bunch of Balloons with some other person who'e name I can't remember, sorry, lol. Not Rachele, another girl. :p

I know who Rachele is....... Muah

I got working stringing the rest of the Balloons to create this wonderful prom looking backround.



After our service project, we went speed dating where I met a few cool guys;

Lamont........... Only the 5th Shot, LOL






























Alex, that odd guy I met at lunch. He's actually
quite a cool guy I must admit. A Ninja too, Oh BABY, LOL

And Jared; pretty cool guy actually, he and I are gonna be like best friends, lol.



The dance was AMAZING, we started talking about going to Friendly's but go too tired. fun day all in all.

"Today was a fairytale; I wore a dress."- Taylor Swift

Got Me thinking

As I recount today as well, this guy Nate(prettycoolguy) asked me Why I was going on a mission. I found this to be an odd question becuase well, Everyone usually just says That's Great or Awesome, even, That's so cool. Never has I ever gotten a Why? Even more upsetting to me was that I didn't really have an answer. I know that when I had first decided that I wanted to go I had a reason. A reason that motivated me to start everything I needed to do for it imediately. A reason strong enough to motivate me to go through obstacles I would have rathered not have had to go through. Yet, now as I thought about it, I didn't have an answer. At this point, I decided that I need to find the reason I wanted to go on a mission again. I don't want to be one of those girls who only goes on her mission because she's not married or in a serious relationship. I want to go knowing that I have a real reason for going and not just becuase I have nothing better to do. Starting today, I'm searching for it again...... Searching......