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Zhere's Your Vone

WOOOOOWWWW........
I feel like I've been really busy lately and but in all reality I've been doing NOTHING!!
Alright just kidding I have done a few things in the last little while...

First of all I finished my first year of college!!! (WOOT WOOT)  It feels unreal.  Like really I can't believe it...but none the less I finished and I finished pretty good too...3.7 gpa.... not too shabby

I moved home....hmmmm interesting times.  I've felt a little like a  shouldn't have...especially because I don't have a job yet and I'm bored...but it's been great for the most part.. : )

I've been spending some great time with my family.  My Nielson grandparents have been here for whole month so it's been fun to be with them.  Brianna had a Beautiful wedding!! It was so great to see the Nielson's from PA... (I literally can not wait to go there this summmer!!!!)

Yup Yup that's really all life is just moving right along as usual...

OH... I almost forgot the biggest news of my day.... (drum roll)
I GOT A CAR TODAY!!!! (biggggg WOOT WOOT!!!)
My amazing dad bought me a 2000 Honda Civic....I don't actually have it yet because the bumperr is getting fixed...but I am so excited!!!!

Life is great..... : )

Sleepovers and Long Drives...

There are a few things that I just love and I really think I could not do without....

...Sleepovers... Being the poor deprived child that I was (a little dramatic) I wasn't ever allowed to have sleepovers...I take that back..I could until the rule change when I was probably like 12.  So every night in my apartment has felt like the big huge sleepover I was missing out on.  We moved all of our mattresses into the living room and have just been sleeping in there for the week.  It's nice.  We've been watching a pethera of movies and just enjoying our last week as roommates until the summer..

...Long Drives... I love just driving. I hate that I don't have my own car right now because I can't just drive as much as I would like.  Driving around just puts life into perspective for me.  It's so soothing.

So my freshman year of college is coming to an end...

How did that happen???

Don't ask me.  I feel like just yesterday I was moving into good ol' morgan hall.  I can vividly remember that day.  As I was packing up my room yesterday, I kept thinking about when I put that stuff up.  How much things have changed since then but also how much they have stayed the same. 

I litterally CAN NOT WAIT for the summer.  I'm getting ansy and ready to break out of this place.  I have some big adventures planned and I really need it to start now!!  I would do a nice reflective college is over post... but it's not quite over yet...and I'm not finished reflecting yet.  :)

Two Soles with but one.....Shoe

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

 

I've been very blessed to have this best friend in my life.  Brittnay and I have been friends since the 4th grade.  It took us a while, but we became inseparable by the 6th grade. We've been through our struggles but we've never stopped being best friends.  It's hard for me to believe that people don't have someone like Brittnay.  She's my confidant. She's so loyal....like a dog :) We can tell each other everything. We laugh together, cry together, yell together and have fun together.  We've made it through a lot of crap storms, so I know we can be friends through anything. 

I love ya Britt!

Recently, we've come across another...Larissa is great.  She adds so much to our friendship.  She sleeps in between us every night.  We tell each other our deepest darkest secrets : ) I know that the three of us have some great times ahead of us! I can't wait.

You guys are great.  I love you!!! Thanks for everything!

A Pointless Post

I really have nothing to write..... I'm just bored....and not wanting to do any homework. 

Last week there was an earthquake.....I have never been in an earthquake before so it was a nice life milestone.  Don't worry we didn't have to duck and cover and get under our desk while the sky was falling.  I was just at work the tables shook for about a minute and then that was it.  I'm pretty glad I wasn't at Morgan Hall because I hear the tall old building doesn't exactly have a strong foundation.  But that was a pretty exciting moment in my life.  :)

Also, I registered for next semester a few nights ago.  I serioulsy can't believe my first year of college is coming to an end.  Time is a crazy thing.  It just goes by.  I'm super stoked for the summer and the adventures I have planned.  : )

Also, I only have to work 2 more days at my stupid job.  I'm just so annoyed with a) the people who work there b) the rules and c) working weekends.
They hired a whole bunch of high school students that seriously are just so annoying!!! Also, because they hired all those high school students and alll their friends, no one has been focusing....go figure.  So now we can't have ANYTHING on our desk to do.  Needless to say I doze off everyday. 

Anyway....time to get back to life...it never stops! : ) :)

MiStEr SuN

Mister Sun, Sun, Mister Golden Sun

THANKS for shining down on me!! :)

Keep up the good work!

His Hands

I've been thinking a lot lately about my Saviors hands. My favorite conference talk was by Pres Uchdorf in the Sunday morning session. "You are my Hands". He told this story and it has stuck with me since.

A story is told that during the bombing of a city in World War II, a large statue of Jesus Christ was severely damaged. When the townspeople found the statue among the rubble, they mourned because it had been a beloved symbol of their faith and of God’s presence in their lives.
Experts were able to repair most of the statue, but its hands had been damaged so severely that they could not be restored. Some suggested that they hire a sculptor to make new hands, but others wanted to leave it as it was—a permanent reminder of the tragedy of war. Ultimately, the statue remained without hands. However, the people of the city added on the base of the statue of Jesus Christ a sign with these words: “You are my hands.”

Like I said this has really stuck with me since Conference weekend. I am His hands. I started thinking about the symbolism behind the Saviors hands. The scriptures say that we are engraven on the Saviors palms; we are always with him. The nail prints not only represent the Crucifixion but they symbolize the fact that the Crucifixion was for us. Each of us individually so that we might over come death. The Savior's hands did nothing but good while he was on the earth. He went about serving, embracing, teaching, and healing. I love the movies that depict the Savior healing a blind man or a leper with only the touch of His hand. His hands served. I'm also reminded of the portrayal of the Savior in the Garden of Gethsemane. His hands quenched in pain as He suffered so that we don't have to. So that we can return and live with our Father in Heaven. Everything his hands do are for someone else. He used and still uses his hands to help others.

Pres. Uchdorf focused on the fact that our hands should also be used to benefit others. We are His hands. We are given the responsibility to do with our hands what the Savior would do with his if he were here.

So after I'd been thinking about this for the past week or so, I had a "fireball flying through the sky" experience yesterday in Sacrament Meeting when our testimony meeting was started off with the special musical number "His Hands". That summed up everything I had been thinking. My testimony of the Saviors "hands" grew full fold and I'm so grateful for that. I love my Savior and am striving each day to "make my hands like those of Galilee".