a. i love to dance, but look pretty goofy when i do... we danced the night away which was awesome!
2. i love to people watch... seeing these people from all over the world come and all interact was sweet... they were basically all drunk too so that made the dance floor a riot!
d. i love to be out a about on a saturday night... it was a nice change being out in the world instead of chillin at home... don't get me wrong though, i love being at home!
7. i am not a late night girl... we didn't leave orem til almost 10pm and got in the club around midnight... we danced around and by 1:30 i was toast and ready to go, but jess and i didn't end up leaving til after 2... i don't like always being the party-pooper but i'm a fan of sleep! we got home around 4am, and gotta love 9:20am church :)
z. i am not the "clubbin" type... i absolutely loved dancing with friends and watching all the people, but the music was ridiculous (i've never heard the f word so many times) and i felt so uncomfortable with the alcohol and scandelous dancing all around me... i'd take dancing in the kitchen over a club anyday!
so it was an eventful night, i'll call it a once in a lifer, but this experience definitely made me so grateful for the life and perspective that i have. and we were so blessed to travel to and from park city safely on the icy roads and snowy weather. good driving by jess and blessed protection from above.
work-out...
ha, no sunday work out for me :)
food goodness...
9:00am- bran cereal w/skim milk, clementine
12:45pm- turkey and lettuce w/mustard, pbj sandwich
1:30pm- chocolate chips
7:00pm- chicken noodle soup, apple and peanut butter, clementine, chocolate chips
9:30pm- sugar-free hot chocolate and like 4 bites of ice cream!
h20-12 cups
3 hours of delight...
after a night like mine, a little more raucous than normal, i was excited to be uplifted at church... yes, even though i was a walking zombie due to my lack of sleep. but it was my own fault and i'm grateful for Heavenly Father's compassion on me to help me focus today. the talks and lessons were awesome. a girl who served her mission in mongolia spoke (automatic Celestial Kingdom for her!) and then our high councillor spoke. sunday school and relief society are where it's at though!
i love talking about the creation, the fall, and the atonement. it's the foundation of our religion, the focus of the temple, and why we are all here. it awesome to get into deeper doctrine too, like why Eve was the one who partook of the fruit first. a guy in class explained that only a woman could have done it because of their nurturing nature and it who they are to put others' needs before themselves, so she put her great lineage before herself and transgressed against a commandment to fulfill the higher law. being a woman is pretty amazing then, i guess! a lot of responsibility is placed on us as daughters of God and mothers of his sacred children... someday i'll get to know how the mothering part of life is :) but i love learning about our ancient heritage and to think about them as actual people, not just stories from the scriptures.
in relief society we talked about moral discipline... of couse a lesson that is perfectly in sync with what i'm working on in my life right now. she talked about how it's just like a athlete in training (a perfect analogy for me) and how gaining moral discipline takes strength, showing up, and desire. the lesson was based off of Todd D. Christofferson's talk from the October Conference, so i thought i'd put in some of my favorite quotes from it...
"By 'moral discipline,' I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in facor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service. The root of the word discipline is shared by the word disciple, suggesting to the mind the fact that conformite to the example and teachings of Jesus Christ is the ideal discipline that, coupled with His grace, forms a virtuous and morally excellent person."
"We must declare the essential need to keep the commanments of God and to walk uprightly before Him in soberness, or in other words, with reverence. Each must be peruaded that service and sacrifice for the well-being and happiness of others are far superior to making one's own comfort and possessions the highest priority."
"All of us experience temptations. So did the Savior, but He 'gave no heed unto them'. Similarly, we do not have to yield simply because a temptaion surfaces. We may want to, but we don't have to... 'Mere wanting is hardly a proper guide for moral conduct'."
"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations."
-2 Peter 2:9
it's so reassuring to me that Heavenly Father knows everything about us, and that He blessed us with a Savior who knows exactly what we're feeling and how to succor us in every way. and i'm grateful for His mercy and the gift of the atonement, that i'm allowed to change and start anew whenever i screw up (which is all of the time). but it's that blessing of hope that can be a great motivation factor for me, just to keep going, have faith and trust in God and then, things will work out.
random insight...
so we all know the scripture, "many are called but few are chosen". i think it was sunday school a few weeks ago that the teacher brought up this scripture and added... choose to be chosen. isn't that so profound! yes, we are all part of the chosen generation and called of God, but it is our decision to be "chosen". agency is such an incredible gift yet somedays i wish someone else would make decisions for me!
week overview...
this being my first weekend as "new" me, i was definitely worried about how i would handle my eating habits. emotional and mindless eating is something that i've been struggling with for years, and it's part of this project to overcome it and not let food control me, so to speak. i've been blessed with strength and desire because this has been the most controlled weekend i've had for awhile. it's really been a small triumph for me, but the test will be to keep this desire and motivation. with the great support system that i've been blessed with, and with the constant help from above, i think i can keep it up... one day at a time!
my first of week of this great project has been truly inspired. it's seriously been better than i could have ever hoped for. i've been so blessed with great support and strength from my Father in Heaven, my incredible mother and sister, and others who God has used as His instruments to answer my prayers.
"...seeing that our merciful God has given us so great knowledge concerning these things, let us remember him, and lay aside our sins, and not hang down our heads, for we are not cast off..."
-2 Nephi 10:20
16 days til elder koelliker is back!
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