My baby is growing up

My baby is getting so BIG!

He LOVES playing with Kellen!

He is learning so much.

And is So happy when he does something new and daring.

He makes me smile,

Even if he isn't sure about things.

He is one great kid. Happy 5 months 5/10/10

My New Life

4 years and counting....

So as I woke up this morning, I realized that it has been four years since I got my mission call to Roseville, Ca. And I started reflecting on how that decision has affected my life. I am SO grateful that I had that chance to go and do something that I always wanted to do and to realize how much love God has for everyone.

There were some very hard times where I could do nothing but cry, but then it was more than worth it when someone you saw change walk into the waters of baptism.

Going on a mission has changed how I deal with people in general. I feel like I try to be more calm and think (for the most part anyways) before I react to something that is said or done. I feel it will help me teach my children the importance of living the gospel, and how it can change their life for the better.

I am grateful to appreciate having prophets and apostles on the earth even more than I use too. I love that I know that God still speaks. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it,

"It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was;

that He speaketh, not spake."

I love that we have a book that will change anyones and eveyones life who dares to open its pages.

I am grateful for some of the lifelong friendships that I have now. Which, I feel without them, life would not have been has full if I had chosen to stay home and follow some other options that were available to me.

I am also grateful that it gave me the chance to know for sure that families are forever as I testified to people I met, knowing that shortly, my dad would die having just found out he had cancer while I was serving in Roseville 9th ward.

" For this is the fulness of my intent, that I might persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob and be saved." 2 NE 6:4

To sum up this post... I LOVE MY MISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!