i told people all the time...

Think about the person you love the most. If you're a parent, think about you child. Can you explain to me how you feel about your child in words?

One of the biggest reasons God gave us a family was to help us understand how He feels about us. He couldn't tell someone and have them write it as scripture in a way that would mean as much to us as letting us experience it ourselves.

Every father or mother I have asked says they can't describe in adequate words the way they feel about their children. Neither can our Heavenly Father. The way He loves us is like the way we love our children. Except it's perfect.


[ps. this video about made me cry... so good.]

little change

As you can tell, there has been a little change made to the bloggy.

This is because I am down to single digits here folks, I leave in 9 days. You have got to be kidding me.

I feel fantastic about it - I feel fine about it (please recall my feelings on the correct use of the word "fine").

                            .... and then thirteen seconds later I am having a minor heart attack. 

But it's all going to be good good good. Mi madre is going to post e-mails here. And as soon as I get my info I will put it here because you best be sending me truckloads of dearelders (it's free you stingies :] ) and letters and packages. 

And if someone could figure out a way to get Cafe Rio to me, I would probably marry them.

here is a picture from my farewell that Kimmy Lane spruced up. :] love ya.

here's a scoop

let me dish you some honesty, people..
sometimes i am terrified to go tejas for a year and a half. sometimes i feel like i don't really want to go.
because of a lot of things:
my family that i'll miss, my friends that will go on and change without me here, the opportunities that will be gone when i get back... all of these things are real.
But...
I'm going to be fine. and not fine in the horrible, generic sense of the word. fine in the way it was meant to be used. like 'one fine day' or 'he's a fine boy'. fine as in "of superior make or quality".
So, my friends, if you ever feel, like I did today, that nothing in the future could possibly be as great as what you're leaving behind check this out:

>>> http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=12522 <<<

and trust me-
you'll be fine.

plus THIS...and, p.s.,  know that i love beyond love Elder Holland. he's my favorite and i'm not afraid to admit it.

"Trumpeted from the summit of Calvary is the truth that we will never be left alone nor unaided, even if sometimes we may feel that we are..."

"...May we stand by Jesus Christ “at all times and in all things, and in all places that [we] may be in, even until death,” for surely that is how He stood by us when it was unto death and when He had to stand entirely and utterly alone. "

fall on your knees...

Phillipians 2:10