Courage

I had to speak at New Beginnings for the young women of my family's ward tonight (my mom happens to be the young women's president - that's why I was chosen). The mutual theme for this year is from Joshua 1:9 I believe. "Be strong and of a good courage, be not afriad, neither be thou dismayed - For the Lord thy God is with thee, withersoever thou goest." I absolutely love this scripture. It also happens to be the seminary theme from last year that we picked from seminary counsel - ironic? I don't think so.

For my talk at this fireside, I was suppose to talk about having courage while going off to college and getting married; because I'm such an expert on these two areas. But I believe it was a very successful talk - I made my mom and one of my former young women's leaders shed, or get close to shedding, a couple of tears. Very successful. I wanted to share one of the quotes I found while preparing for this talk... this morning :) Of all the quotes I found, this was my favorite -

"You don't develop courage by being happy everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity".

The Cost of Independence

College just isn't the same when you're living at home...I LOVED living on my own, taking care of myself, and having a "sister/roommate" to talk to and hang out with all the time. Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but I want to have that college experience I'm suppose to have... If I could, I would find somewhere up in Ogden to live but it's sooo expensive :( And that's one of the main reasons I'm going to Weber, to save money. sigh...

Tanner lives on his own... He moved out and lives in Gail and Roxann's basement apartment by himself. His older brother, that comes home from his mission tomorrow, is probably going to live with him. I'm extremely jealous. Yet another problem with me moving to Ogden - I would be even farther away from Tanner :( sigh...

Why does money have to have so much control?