2 weeks, 2 weeks, 2 WEEEEKS!

...'til I get to talk to this boy!

Trust

"O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever."
2 Nephi 4:34

The past few months I have really learned how to put my entire life in the hands of the Lord. I am so happy and so peaceful.

I've gotten some really great counsel from Him on some very important decisions recently. I know He loves me so much. And when I can't see the big picture, I know He can and I know He's keeping a special eye on me. This knowledge is so comforting.

Even though I sometimes don't know why things happen the way they do, I know He has a plan for me. I know that if I just heed the promptings of the Spirit, He will show me why. I know.

I am at peace with my decisions. I feel so incredibly blessed to have the Spirit to guide me and comfort me. I am so grateful for personal revelation and for ministering angels.

I trust Him.

Tender Mercies

I love, love, love the temple!

I spent this evening doing baptisms for the dead. As I was sitting there after being confirmed and waiting to be baptized, I watched a family get ready to perform baptisms for some relatives. It was an older couple and what seemed to be their 3 sons and their sons' wives. They were so happy! And you could just see in the faces of the parents how happy they were to be all together. It was one of the sweetest sights. I want that! Someday, I want to go to the temple with my husband and look down the row and see all our children and their spouses with smiles on their faces. No empty seats!
It was perfect. The gospel is perfect. The atonement is perfect. And I love it so much!

When I stepped outside the temple, I was blown away by this sunset. What a testament of Heavenly Father's love for us and his tender mercies. He made that sunset just for me!

Helaman 5:47

"Peace, peace be unto you, because of your faith in my Well Beloved, who was from the foundation of the world."

To Paraguay, or not to Paraguay...?

Let me set this up for you.

I've been looking for a long time to do something humanitarian this summer. For some reason I keep getting the impression that I need to be somewhere this summer. I just haven't been able to figure out where!

A few days ago, an opportunity came up for me to got to Asuncion, Paraguay for a month this summer! I would be working with a school down there called Escuela Pa'i Puku that provides good educations to kids whose parents can't afford to send them to school. I would also be going alone. Holy smokes! I would love nothing more than to go!. But I have so much to take into consideration before I make a decision, like...

1. I don't speak ANY Spanish. So if someone would be willing to teach me a little...

2. Money, money, money. The bane of my existence.

3. School. I'm signed up for classes over summer term, so do I really want to postpone them?

4. My mission. I will be turning in my mission papers in September, and then I'll be out of here, hopefully in December!

5. Safety. I would just be a little white girl alone in Paraguay! Well, not completely alone. I would be living with a Paraguayan woman Mom knows through Folkfest.

With finals this week, I haven't even had time to process everything. But I can't not think about it. How absolutely i.n.c.r.e.d.i.b.l.e. would it be, right???

Oh, p.s. Paraguay is bordered by Brazil, Bolivia, and ARGENTINA!! Just saying- Only 500 miles away from a certain someone, not that that matters! But still... :)