Families forever

For my vacation this summer we went to Iowa to spend time with my moms side of the family. this year they decided to make into a family reunion kind of thing where all of my moms side of the family (her siblings)at first i didn't like the idea because it would be almost 30 people in the house all at once even though people arriving and leaving different days, a couple days would be all 30. so i didn't like it because i thought it'd be to many people in the house and i was going to have anxieties and stress over everything, even if it didn't even have anything to do with me. i was wrong though, not completely but i did have some stresses and exaggerations. the only thing that really got me through the couple days when every one was there,was praying. i guess scripture reading to but mainly praying though. i just wanted people to know even if you do know, that even when you are stressed and don't know what to do, you can pray to your heavenly father.remember you can pray to him ALWAYS there is no limit, so use it!i know i am not perfect with it and will continue to work on it, by praying to my heavenly father. one of the other things that got me through the vacation is the thought that the family here, part of the family i'm going to be with forever.

Finals week

Everyone remembers finals week! Am I right? The stress, no sleep, no social life whatsoever, physical and mental exhaustion. You remember. Let me tell you the honest truth here. I have never been really perfect at prayers and scripture reading at night and mornings. But I'm not going to lie the things that I have noticed that have helped me the most through just review week. Is all of those. Attending church and seminary and mutual activities, also prayers and scripture reading. It really does help. It kick starts your day and allows you to start it in a spirituality uplifting way. I have noticed I am more awake and focused of what is going one. And that the best days this year have been when I am doing those things. So I invite you to do so to. Especially finals week. IT HELPS!! I promise. Have a great week everyone. Teens. We. Are. Almost. There. Just a little longer. You've got this!

"let us all speak kind words to each other."

We should be kinder to each other always. And looking for opportunities to make someone feel better. You have no idea what the stranger next to you on the bus or at work is going through. And just a smile or a funny comment could make or break them. I feel like we have so many missed opportunities as the human race now a days because we have this technology at our fingertips that are just hovering in front of our faces all day every day whenever we can. And I know I'm kin of a hypocrite because it is typical stereotype as teens to have our phone in our face. But I can tell you honestly that I'm working my best at using it as little a possible. And putting it down or keeping it in my pocket as I'm walkingdown the   hallway at school. I'm sure you have all seen the look up from your phone video and all the missed opportunities just that one day. Imagine that everyday. With every person on earth. What are we really accomplishing by using our phone 24/7. I noticed my family members weren't treating each other kindly because the other was hogging technology. We shouldn't let technology run our lives. They are meant to improve not deceive and distract. We need to be spending more time with families and focusing on the opportunities we have in front o us everyday and speak kindly to each other and not let technology run our lives. 

Better than you think you are.

My YW in my ward had our new beginnings tonight and it was themed around coming to Christ and we had some really great talks about the for the straight of youth. And there was our bishops talk which related fishing to the for strength of youth. And then one about our YW values by one of our leaders. Then before we presented all our projects for the new incoming YW. The leaders got up and sang a song for us tht was basically saying you don't know who you really are you are better than you think you are. And that Heavenly Father knows who you are and also knows who you will become. And it was beautiful. It move me to tears because it is what I needed to hear as a teenage girl we always feel like we aren't good enough and aren't the prettiest or the best. But we need to turnout hearts to god and know that he loves us for who we are and also go we will become because he knows. We are all better than we think we are. 

RESPECT

Ok so guys. Let me just give you a quick hint to help You in your search for a girl. I don't care what your excuse is or anything but when a girl corrects you on something and tells you to fix something your doing wrong. DO IT! Because honestly it's rude and disrespectful to bot listen at all And completely ignore what we are saying. At least acknowledge it. Because will remember what you did for a little while despite what we advised you to stop doing. For example today in seminary our teacher needed to print something off and told us to quietly think and ponder what these two scripture verses mean to us while he went to go print these papers. And I don't know if I've explained this before but there are 4 girls and I think 7 guys. But there is two tables one is the girls and our friend that is one of the guys who does treat us with respect always. Then the other table is the rest of the guys. And don't get me wrong they are nice guys. But sometimes like what they did today can be a little damaging to what I thought of them. And majority of the time It's my table 're that does the most participating while the other table is busy talking about Whatever. And that's a whole other story for a different time, but As we were suppose to be reading these verses the guys at the other table were continuously talking. And one of the girls at our table was constantly trying to tell them to be quiet so we (girls and one guy) could focus. Then they'd give her or US this look of whatever why would we listen to you and then they'd get back to talking. So finally all 4 girls including me got up and went to another room to study because they were being very disruptful and taking away from the spirit and our learning. So when we got back in there they treated us with more disrespect by saying that we were lying and nothing happened till we left. Of course our teacher knows the truth. And was trying to explain to the guys more often than not the girls are right.  So moral of the story listen to the girls. Again I don't care about your excuses on why you shouldn't. Just do it. Please. You'd do everyone a favor because it is rude and disrespectful. And we don't do it to you so don't do it to us. Thanks!

True beauty

This is not like gospel truth here but I know it is true for me. True beauty can not be defined in words really but in actions definitely. For example. I was looking at this girl who isn't Mormon that I know is known for being immodest all the time. So I decided to look at her profile on Facebook to see what she was really like before I just judge. And I have to be honest. I was jealous. I'm not the skinniest person ever. And I'm not huge either. But as I was looking at this all these guys giving her attention that I don't get and all of them saying something about how hot she is and how hot her BODY is. Ya. Her body. Not her herself. Then it finally hit me that they don't even care that she doesn't have a personality. No one does. Not even the girls. All they care about is how much better she looks in a swimsuit than they do. And I realized that that isn't the attention I want. And its not the attention I want for anyone really. Because even though you feel beautiful And people tell you you are hot or beautiful. It isn't true beauty in that way. I'm not saying when someone says oh your so pretty or your so beautiful is a bad thing. I'm saying receive it the right way in the right situation. For example posting your ? daily selfie of what you are wearing to school and someone says oh you look so pretty or beautiful. That is a good thing. Recieving it like that girl in my school. Not so much. Learn what is the right attention to have. True beauty will make you the happiest the longest. And remember hottest is modest. It really really is.

Drivers license.

Got my drivers license today! So excited and so happy to finally have one! And the important thing I learned is to pray before I drive I've said this before but it does make a huge huge difference. We were planning on praying in the morning with me my mom and my dad but we forgot. I went to school and got out of school early to leave and we said that we will pray when we get there. (Just me and my mom) we get there and get out of the car forgetting to pray about walk in and before we walk in we remembered and stop go to a side of the building a say a quick prayer praying for it to be easy and that everything I have learned will com back to my memory so I can pass and also that I won't be so nervous. I get in there and we get all our paper work filed and stuff and we honestly thought that there was a written part to this. And there wasn't. And that was the main thing I was stressing about. And it was non existent. Haha and the other thing was parallel parking and I did perfectly on that. So. Praying before driving is super duper important because when we left we didn't pray. And I was being very dangerous and chancy I'm not going to lie. That and I've never been to this area before so I didn't know where I was going as well. But it's not an excuse for me being very dangerous and not as safe as I normally am. I promise I am a great teen driver. Because I normally pray before I leave. So Yes pray pray pray before you leave in the car! It DOES make a difference.