This
morning I was looking through some old study notes; some quotes that I
wrote down in my quote journal. I wanted to share them with you
today. I love them. :)
"You are doing the best that you can, and that best results in
good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of
failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord; then
stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do. Then leave the
matter in the hands of the Lord. You will discover that you have
accomplished something beyond price." -Gordon B. Hinckley (To the Women of the Church)
"...he stood upon his feet and received his strength..." (Alma 22:22)
This
really hit me today because I went to bed with a terrible headache, then
I woke up with a terrible headache, therefore I woke up late. Well, I
was up... I just didn't get out of bed. Then I felt really bad about
it. And I needed to repent, and thus the story unfolds. I read these
things that uplifted my soul.
I believe that I have said before that, often, the smallest
things are really big to us. That is what this week has been full of: Small things. Some good small things, and some less good small things
that have accumulated into some big good things, and some big less good
things.
Ahhh.... a mission.
People are already talking
about transfer calls again - because they are next week. I can't even
figure out how time has flown by so fast. I want it to stop! Whew.
It's exhausting.
I told Sister Petrie the other day that I feel like I'm living
one, really long, continuous day. I just take an 8-hour nap in the
middle. But I am so asleep at night that I don't even have dreams.
(Except last week I had a dream that Grandpa Allen decided to serve a
mission, and he was in the mission office, and I didn't even know that
he was there until I saw him there when we had to go do something for
our car. I thought it was a funny dream. :) Anyway... The days are
long, but the weeks, and months are short. Time is going fast/slow.
It's SO WEIRD! One day, when I'm all knowing, and wise I will
understand this time business...
So. Yeah.
Oh!!!!!!! We did something fun this
week! We went to Manteo ( the birth place of the first English child,
Virginia Dare, born on this continent) a city in our area, and we rode
bikes. I know you never thought that I'd be excited about that, but it
was actually really fun. I enjoyed the entire day! And I have a GREAT tan-line on my arm from my watch. :) It was really, fun!
That's basically this week. Still pluggin along "inch by
inch, row by row, [helping the Lord's vineyard] grow." (from a jingle I
heard on a garden radio show one time in the car....)
I love you all,
P.S. HAPPY
BIRTHDAY MY MOST DEAREST MOTHER! (I NEVER FORGET! :) YOU ARE THE MOST
SPECIALIST, WONDERFULLEST MOTHER I'VE EVER HAD! I LOVE YOU A MILLION
TRILLION ZILLION!
