Blessed

I'm feeling very blessed today. We had such a great weekend! We were able to listen to General Conference, and it was amazing! It's always amazing, but I feel like it gets better and better each time. I'm so grateful for the opportunity we have every six months to listen to the prophets and apostles and learn from their inspired messages. They truly are inspired men that are called of God. I just love Conference! I feel spiritually recharged and motivated to continue to work on becoming a better person each day. I don't remember who said it, or the exact wording, but someone mentioned in their talk how easy it is to share the Gospel with all of the technology we have at our disposal. I feel like I don't do that enough on this blog, so I'd like to share an experience.

Today, I was able to attend a very special wedding. The bride is a good friend of my mom's. My parents were able to help the missionaries teach her and her family the missionary lessons. They were baptized when I was a senior in high school, and I have never met a brand new convert with such an amazing testimony of the Gospel. Her faith has always been so inspiring to me. When I was a freshman in college, our family invited this lady to come with us to do some baptisms for the dead for some family names we had. It was her first time attending the temple, and it was such a blessing to be there for that experience. Today, she was sealed to a great guy for time and all eternity in the Logan Temple. I can't tell you how amazing it was to be there in the temple with her and see how much the Gospel has helped to change her life for the better. It was incredible. It just made me realize how lucky I am to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and know what I know. I know the answers to life's toughest questions. I know who I am, where I came from, what will happen to me after I die. The Gospel gives me so much hope, peace, happiness, and direction in my life. I'm so grateful to know that families can be together forever! How great is that?! I was thinking of Chuck a lot today. I usually do when I go to the temple. I miss him, but I know that I will see him again and all of my other loved ones who have passed away. I'm so grateful to know that! It makes life so much easier to have those eternal truths.

I'm so blessed to have such an amazing family, supportive friends, a good job, a safe home, and more than anything, an incredible husband! He's so good to me. I fall more in love with him each and every day. It's fabulous! He's my very best friend and I can't wait to spend forever with him by my side! I love you Patrick!

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Pizza and Lawn Darts

Today was the warmest day of the year so far! T-shirts and flip-flops were definitely worn. :) It was wonderful!! I know this warm weather probably won't last because, let's be honest, Logan summers don't start until about June. It will probably be snowing again in a few days, but it's okay because today was great! Since Patrick and I were both at work or in school all day long, we decided to spend the evening at the park to enjoy the nice weather. We grabbed some pizza from Dominos and had a great time watching a group of young Freshman playing Ultimate Frisbee at the park while we ate. It was entertaining to say the least! Being a Freshman in college sure is an awkward time of life, isn't it?

After we ate, we played Lawn Darts! Awesome! Patrick happened upon this little gem at one of his recent DI trips. While it might be illegal in some states and definitely has some safety warnings on the labels, it rocked. And don't worry, we were as safe as we could possibly be.

And that's how it's done, folks. Patrick may have won that game, but you better believe I'm going to give him a run for his money next time. I think that this will become a regular activity for us this summer. We'd love to play with anyone else who is interested! It will, of course, be played in a nice open area free of small children to avoid this:

Don't worry that this was the second picture that came up in my Google search for "lawn darts." Disturbing? Yes. But I couldn't resist sharing it. I promise this won't happen to you if you play with us. I don't know about you, but I can't wait for summer! Summer, come faster please!

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