I'm Grateful For...

It has been a really long time since I've updated this. Mostly, that's because not a lot out of the ordinary has happened, and I've been really busy.

This term has definitely been the busiest/overwhelming/most awesome! I love my classes. And I'm especially loving my internship. But everything always has its headaches and stress. The homework keeps piling up and I can never seem to keep up, even though I love what I'm doing.

Even with how busy and overwhelming this term has been, it's been a huge testimony builder.

Especially in my internship, everyday that I go, I am reminded of how grateful I am for the gospel standards, and for parents who taught me how to live them. I'm faced with these amazing kids, who haven't made the best choices, and I think about how that could've been me if I hadn't had the gospel in my life. I also am repeatedly reminded how grateful I am for such amazing parents. I will forever be thankful to them for being so involved in my life, for caring about what I'm up to, and for having the parenting skills that allowed me to communicate so well with them. I'm also very thankful for their discipline, and for being able to communicate to my why I was being disciplined.

To add more onto that, I have never in my life felt Heavenly Father work his magic quite like I have this term. I've always known that He will never give me a burden I can't handle. He gives me the burden, and if I've done all I can, He will do the rest for me. I've been taught that, I've read about it, and I've experienced it a little in my life before. But not until this term did I fully understand the meaning of it. I feel it in my life everyday now. Each day seems to come with its own burden, and every time I tell Heavenly Father I've gone as far as I can, He helps me get through it. I have seen it over and over and over in my life this term. It has been so indescribable what He has done for me, and what I have seen myself be able to accomplish because of Him.

I'm so incredibly grateful for the Gospel, and for the knowledge that I have of it. I don't know how other people make it without it, and I'm very thankful I never have to live my life knowing how to live without it.