quantities II

this one won't be as good as my first post of this sort, but that's okay i guess...

i've lived in the valley for 6 months

i missed only 1 day of school this semester (thanks cam and rob Knotts was super fun)

i got straight A's this semester (and E,E for those of you who know what E's are)

i went to the beach 0 times while here

i met HUNDREDS of new people

i was the only girl in my english class

i canned 6 bottles of jam (nectar berries from the back yard)

i bought 4 new pairs of jeans while here

i'm taking MORE than 100 lbs. of junk back to AZ

i've driven 1 time in the last 6 months

i've watched more hours of television this semester than i probably have in my whole life combined

i've used 1 toothbrush this whole time

i turn 18 in exactly 60 days

i met 2 people from holland (my 2nd cousin once removed, and his girlfriend)

i land in tucson in about 18 hours

i can think of 0 more things to write

but i really had a blast this last 6 months...so many people have touched my life, and i don't know how i could ever thank them enough. my heart will never be the same thanks to the west hills ward. and i learned SO much about the world and people and culture and everything at school. it just has been a very positive thing for me. but i'm now excited to press forward and apply everything i learn....

closing time

well uh, i'm moving home in 5 days. crazy huh? but my new thought about that, is who says that that's home? i mean i'll be going home to my family, but still i've met so many amazing people here, that have become a part of my "home." never before in my life had i been even away from st. david without at least a sibling there as a crutch, and since i've been here, i've learned so much about people, and how amazing they really are.
so leaving is going to be rough. not that leaving st. david wasn't, but that all felt very temporary, and i felt like leaving there was finding a new me, and it was exciting and scary all at the same time. now it's like i've found the me that i'd set out for, but a peice of that will be left here. i hated who i was in st. david, and i love who i am here, so how can i take all the good and move it to the setting of the bad? i mean i am going to hang with a different crowd.
mostly i'm just venting my thoughts here, so sorry. but leaving here is definately worse than leave AZ was

JAM

i got to learn the amazing art of jam making this week with nectar berries out of the back yard

the AMAZING power of prayer

it'll never cease to amaze me how amazing and versitile prayer is. here's just a little testimony builder story...

today when i got to my 4th hour class my teacher decided that he was going to be nice and instead of giving us a test, he let us watch a movie. well i wasn't paying attention to the film at first because i was talking, but once everyone settled down i realized that the movie had to be rated R because it had a lot of profanity. well i didn't want to make a scene and i knew we weren't being tested on it or anything so i got my MP3 player out so that i could just not watch the movie. well when i looked at the screen i realized that i had forgotten to charge my MP3 player last night :O oh no! there was like a very minute green part of the battery left showing and i knew that meant taht it would last about 10 minutes and we had 30 minutes left of the class. well i said a little tiny prayer in my head about not wanting to have to watch the movie but that i didn't want to have to embarass myself and inturrupt the class just to inform everyone that i dont watch R movies.

i sat and stared at my back pack listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers because i was afraid to change the song because i thought it might use more battery up. well totally miraculously i looked at the clock and noticed that it was time to go. the bell rang, and as soon as i stepped out of the classroom my music went of. i took my MP3 player out of my pocket and it was dead.

heavenly father loves me, just the same as he loves anyone else. i'm so incredibly grateful to know the things i know and have the standards i have