Inspired Writings

"Consider the Lilies How they Grow: they toil not, they spin not..." Luke 12:27 I want to share an experience I had today. This morning I woke up feeling sick and the rest of the day was just kind of blah. Sometimes I have days where I feel like I don't have a place in the world and I forget my value. And today was one of those days.  I got home and knelt down to pray to Heavenly Father. It's kind of one of those pleading prayers that you just really really need him to answer and you just want to know that he is there and listening. Well, during the prayer, I could feel comfort flood my body (also not the first time I have received his spirit like that). So I knew that was his initial connection to me to show me he was there, listening. And then I got an idea to go watch those Bible Videos that the church comes out with. I cannot describe the love I felt from Heavenly Father as I watched them. Every word Christ was saying was everything I needed to here.  ...

Recently I have been thinking about a profound truth. Service heals us. Sometimes in life, I think we tend to become so engrossed in our own problems, that we forget to stop and look around at the people around us and THEIR problems. Why do we do this? Well, it could be a number of things. One of the reasons we do it is because we feel like we aren't in a place to help other people if we, ourselves, are struggling. I was talking to my roommate the other day and she presented this argument. She wondered why people feel like they can't serve while they, themselves, are struggling. And then she said, if anything, the service they render to a friend who is in need will be more beneficial to them than if they did nothing. Service is the Balm of Gilead we need. Service is the key to a happy life.  It may be hard to help someone when you are feeling bad yourself. There is that idea that they teach when you are flying on an airplane and the instructor reminds you that in case ...

After the mission, there comes a time in your life where everything starts to flow back together again. For me, that was the Spring semester of 2017. Just 4 months off of my mission. These times are crucial. I do remember how hard it was for me to find a job and how difficult the social scene was back at school. I was not only a weirdo around my friends (though somehow still the same) but dating was also a struggle. There's this idea (especially now in our culture) that every return missionary NEEDS to get married 6 months to a year after their missions. Now, I applaud those who can actually manage to make that work. So, in some weird way, I thought that dating would be fairly easy, right? Wrong. I actually managed to get zero dates fall semester. Was I doing anything wrong? At first, I thought yes. But what I learned from this experience of not dating was that the Lord placed me in the time that I needed to be with the people I needed to be for a reason. I needed to get th...

Today I want to address a problem we can all face in our lives every now and then. Being stuck in a rut. Yes, those times when we reach a certain age, a certain trial, or even reach a person in ourselves, whom we don't recognize anymore. We just feel Blah about life and we don't know how to fix it! We feel like all the rainbows and sunshine that were once in our lives are not there. Well, maybe we still know that sunshine is attainable, but we don't know how to get it back again. I feel like lately I have been stuck in a rut. A stopping point in life, even if so many things continue on around me. Life stays busy, and I even am busy, but am I just going through the motions and not really addressing a deeper issue that's going on in my life? You could be asking yourself the same question now. But I have been receiving small answers everyday that keep reminding me that this stump is not going to always be in my way. So the question is...How do we fix this rut? ...

So today is Sunday! Happy Sunday!! I felt like I should write more consistently because I feel like it will help improve my writing the way it did when I was writing weekly as a missionary! So here is a little something: This whole week I have been contemplating on memories. I feel like it's a huge part of our lives; yet it is something we don't talk about that often. The reason why this topic has entered into my mind is because I have recently been engaged in the book The Leaving  by Tara Altebrando. The book is about 6 kids kindergartners who go missing. 11 years later, Only 5 of them return home and their memory is wiped from them (from the last 11 years). The whole conflict of the story is these kids (now teenagers) trying to remember what happened to them for those 11 years, who their captor is and figuring out what happened to the 6th person that didn't come back.  It's a really interesting story with a bit of romance involved too! I was so hooked I co...

Guys, let's be honest, I don't think anyone (me most of all) has mastered this whole confidence thing. So I'm not writing this out of my own experience of having this amazing confidence, but what I have observed from other people and what I have learned as someone who grew up being not confident in herself. Well, I think everyone struggles or has struggled with confidence issues at one point or two in their lives. If you haven't, WHAT IS YOUR SECRET AND HOW DO YOU EVEN. I want to address two parts of confidence in yourself. 1. Having confidence in what you are capable of. Which brings me to this quote: "The quickest way to acquire self confidence is to do exactly what you are afraid to do."-Anonymous  I LOVE this quote because when I read it, I automatically thought of all the times in my life I wanted to do something, but I was too afraid of either rejection or it not working out or something. Our biggest problem, the reason why we aren't confide...

So this blog post was definitely an idea that came into my mind, therefore, I give credit to the Holy Ghost and not to myself. But my writing is kind of awesome... I attribute that gift to Heavenly Father, and myself for developing those talents. All in all, God is the whole reason this blog post came to be. Here it is! Ten reasons why you should serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For those nonmembers reading this, in order to serve a mission, you need to be a member of the church! It's really simple, unless you make it complicated. God will tell you if it's right for you! I'm a convert to the church as of about 5 years and I am grateful to have everything I need to be happy in this life. Here are the links to learn more: Mormon.org or Lds.org I know that there are some of you, no matter how old, who are contemplating serving a mission. Some of you might have fears, doubts, or wondering if it's God's plan for you. Maybe you have...

Has anyone seen that movie Castaway ? Ya know, the one with Tom Hanks. He's like, stuck on an island for about 4 years and he has that volleyball named Wilson with a bloody (literally. not just being British here) hand print for it's face? Well, I was just visiting my family in California recently and was watching that movie. And being in California was good for me. Gave me new perspective with the people and the scenery and everything. But that's not what is important. What is important is what I learned while I was there and what God revealed to me as I had watched this movie. So, in Castaway, like I said, the main character gets stuck on an island for 4 years! He learns the ways of island life, makes his own food, while dealing with the hardships that come along with no human interaction. Being alone. He finds himself off the island by a miracle. Just as he is leaving the island, and heading out into the ocean, he looks back and the look on his face clearly reveals t...

I'm back! Wow, it seems like forever since I have posted on this website. And it actually has. It's been a year and a half, probably a little over that. Wondering where I was? I was in Missouri, serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...And now here is where I would normally post a link under this paragraph to the blog full of mission experiences I had. But my mom never was able to set that up while I was gone and I had limited access to the internet. If you need more information on that kind of stuff, I will give you this link instead!  Mormon.org Back to the main point of this blog post.  Choices.  Don't we love them? Why do they have to be so difficult? Were they always meant to be this way? The reason why this blog post even happened is because I, myself, am trying to make a very difficult choice. I just returned home from serving a mission, and now my next step is education. I am thinking about transferring to BYU-Provo ...