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Continue reading →: Forget-Me-Not: National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
October has come to be a very special month for me. It kicks off the last quarter of the year and reminds me that the year is slowly winding down. General Conference is held the first weekend of October. It’s the month I entered the MTC. Now October has a…
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Continue reading →: Charity
Last Sunday [the 13th] I had the wonderful opportunity to teach the Sunday School lesson at church. It was lesson 34 from the New Testament manual, which was “Keep the Ordinances, As I Delivered Them.” It covered 1 Corinthians 11-16. The third main point of the lesson was charity.
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Continue reading →: We Are Glass
Late last week I was talking to my parents and showing them some things I’d purchased at the local craft store. Two of the items were 4 oz. mason jars. During the conversation, my dad asked me why I like glass jars and bottles so much. For the first time…
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Continue reading →: “October Baby”
I’m not much of a movie watcher. It’s very rare that movies touch me the way books do. Emotionally, I just have a very hard time getting attached to the plots and characters. But every once in awhile, I find a movie that’s flawless. The soundtrack, the script, the plot,…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Robin Williams
One year ago, the world lost a wonderful man and a poignant actor. Not only was Robin Williams a comedic genius, he was an actor of multiple palettes and could make you cry and feel all the feels just as much as he could make you laugh. A lot of…
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Continue reading →: Today
Today is the day I stop comparing myself to others. Today is the day I stop questioning my worth as a person, a student, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a missionary. Today is the day I accept and embrace the fact that I struggle with depression, and that it…
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Continue reading →: Jumbled Up Thoughts
It’s been over a month since I last wrote a blog that wasn’t a book review. All of the reasons for that boil down to one thing: I’m unhappy and frustrated. When I get unhappy and frustrated, I tend to shy away from everyone except for my family and my…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Persuasion
Title: Persuasion Author: Jane Austen Pages: 236 Rating: 4.5/5 This is not a spoiler free blog. Synopsis: Anne Elliot is 28. Living in the early 1800s, that basically means she doesn’t have much hope of getting married. At one time, though, she was engaged – to the handsome Captain Wentworth.…
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Continue reading →: Bucket/Goal List #28 – Visit England and Ireland
From April 29-May 20 I had the opportunity to visit England and Ireland via the British and Emerald Isles study abroad here at BYU-Idaho! It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to visit England and Ireland, as so many literary greats are from those two countries. Sadly, we only spent…
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Continue reading →: Until Seventy x Seven
Forgiveness is a topic that I’ve been trying to learn more about on and off over the past year or so. Most the time I’d get frustrated and have to put it away. I’ve been trying to find concrete ways of how to forgive – almost a formula, I guess. Of…


