Joseph B. Wirthlin: It is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us--even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will. We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.

-You cannot linger in temptation and expect to overcome sin.
I just thought of this saying. I remember hearing it a couple years ago and it has stuck with me. It is so true and a good reminder! Plus, it's pretty self explanatory so yeah.. :)

Obedience:
-Act on the Spirit
-Desire to be Christ-like
-How good can I be?
-Doing what you're supposed to- be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there
-Changing your will even if it doesn't make sense
-Act of love
-Becoming something better
-Informed-desire

-You do things because you love Christ not because you have to
-Eternal perspective-not so focused on the here and now
-Can obey without understanding why
1 Nephi 9:6 "But the Lord knoweth all things from the beginning; wherefore, he prepareth a way to accomplish all his works among the children of men; for behold, he hath all power unto the fulfilling of all his words."
-Heavenly Father doesn't give us commandments for His benefit but for our benefit and he always blesses us with a way to achieve them.
-Small choices bring great consequences
-By small and simple things are great things come to pass

Great 4th of July weekend

This weekend started off with some much needed shopping. I didn't really get too much but shopping is always fun :D Then Saturday I decided to be somewhat adventurous and float down a river on an inter-tube with my roommates. I'm not a good swimmer at all, so anything with water makes me a little iffy. I didn't fall in though, that's a plus. I did scrape my back on a rock but it didn't hurt that long. I made my roommate hold onto my raft :D but then going over a little waterfall I got turned backwards and couldn't stop and ran into a huge rock. I was glad to have the big tube then cause that didn't hurt. It was fun to get away from school and spent the day where my roommate lives and had dinner at her house. Then came back to my apartment Saturday night and then Sunday was church, food and games :) Can't go wrong there ;).

Monday was kind of interesting went swimming, sort of. It was freezing!! I watched some people jump of a bridge and that was entertaining. A guy that came with us cut his hand on a rock though.. so we took him to the ER. He had to have stitches but was good besides that. Then went to go see fireworks and roamed around there for a while and played some more games! The fireworks were really good though!!! Then it was time to go back home except it took 5 times as long because of traffic. I always wish people had a brain! Well I guess one they use anyway..

Now it's back to school but I'm optimistic about it! There's only like 2 weeks left and finals. Two of my finals are take home and two are more like opinion stuff so it shouldn't be too bad. I'm excited to go to Utah when this semester is over and then home!! :) But this weekend I know I'm going to a shooting range and canoeing. Then probably just buckling down for the rest of the semester. Then I'll be done with my first year of college!! I cannot believe how time has flown by!