Daughter of God

"You cannot imagine the gifts and talents each of you has. All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed. None of you should be so content that you cease to care about how you look or act. In his day, President Brigham Young encouraged women to get an education. This is still good counsel, but I hasten to add: in all your getting, do not lose your sweet femininity.
You sisters do not know the full extent of your influence. You sisters enrich all of humanity. All human life begins with you. Each woman brings her own separate, unique strengths to the family and the Church. Being a daughter of God means that if you seek it, you can find your true identity. You will know who you are. This will make you free—not free from restraints, but free from doubts, anxieties, or peer pressure. You will not need to worry, “Do I look all right?” “Do I sound OK?” “What do people think of me?” A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.
I wonder if you sisters can fully appreciate the innate gifts, blessings, and endowments you have simply because you are daughters of God. It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do." - President Faust.

Not worrying about what people think of me didn't come easily. It came after my group of friends didn't want to be friends with me anymore. It came after my supposed friends got together and made a plan to make my life "a living hell." It came after my supposed friends went around telling people that I didn't even know, things about me that were far from true. It came when I had nothing else to do, but not care. Because caring would've eaten me alive, and I never would've made it through the last two years of high school.


So please don't assume things about me. Just know that I do the things I do, and I don't do the things I don't do for a reason. I don't think that I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean that I think you're better than me. We're different, that's how we're supposed to be.

Quote of the Day!

So lately people have been saying the funniest/most retarded things! So I decided that I needed to start a quote of the day!

July 1st - "I want more than one relationship" - Kristi trying to tell me to right the plural of relationship in a text.

July 2nd - I can't remember back that far!

July 3rd -

July 4th -

July 5th - ok so I had a few for this day!
"Well I'm catholic and I drink like a fish so..." - The cop at the school after we told him we were a good group of Christian kids and hadn't been drinking.
"How old are you?" "24" "You're 24 and you're playing hide-and-seek?" - The cop and someone else there!
"You missed it, Kristi just got yoinked!" "You got yoinked?" "Yeah, by the hose!" - Ryan and Sean after Kristi got tripped by the hose!

July 6th - "Mormon kids just grow up slower than regular kids." - Kristi

July 7th - "Will you...I need it for tomorrow...My feet hurt..." - Kristi trying to ask me to do something...it took me a few minutes to try and figure out what she wanted!

July 8th - "You can do it without screwing things." - Shannon trying to tell me how to open a manicure set case!

July 9th - People were pretty normal today...sad! :(

July 10th - So not really a quote but a story I heard on the radio!!! So some kids went around one night and stole over 6 dozen manhole covers! And then a 12 yr old girl was walking down the street and fell into an open manhole! haha

July 11th - "So now my grandma's like the hickey police!" - Joe

July 12th - "What side of the road is the stop sign on?" - Ashley trying to ask for directions.

July 16th - So I've missed a few days! This quote isn't funny, but it's really good! And it isn't from today, I think it's from Fast Sunday, but I just saw it on Meagan's facebook and remembered how much I like it. "Just because life is hard, doesn't mean it's bad." - Rachelle Warby

"Look a flying star!" - Joe Edmonds. There's another one about popcorn but I don't remember it right now! :(

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July! I really think that the 4th of July is a cool thing. Not only does it remind me, for obvious reasons, of our freedom, but it also reminds me of Joseph Smith and the organization of the church. Without the 4th of July, and the gaining of our independence, the gospel wouldn't have been restored in its fullness. The freedoms that came along with our Independence, allowed the church to be organized. I guess it's kind of a reminder to me that God has a plan and a purpose for everything. He knows what to do and when to do it. He doesn't let it happen before it's supposed to, no matter how bad you want it to. Lately I've been able to look at situations where I really wanted to be able to do something, but for one reason or another I couldn't and trust that I wasn't supposed to for a reason. Sometimes I have to talk myself into believing that I wasn't supposed to do it, and other times it's more of a subconscious feeling and it takes me a while to figure out that that's what it is.