Life is a journey, it matters not so much where we go, but how we get there.

Hey everyone!! I finally did it! I'm creating a blog.
Life is funny isn't it....It constantly changing directions, sometimes more abrubtly than others. Take my life for example. I always had a plan for my life after high school...lets just suffice it to say according to my plan I started 8 years ago I'm a failure, and yet I'm not somehow. Sure I haven't graduated with my bachellors yet but I have my AA, I completed a course at the National Personal Training Institute, and I'm working on going back to school to finsih up finally. I've lived all over west now...WA, ID, UT, NV, CA, AZ, and now I'm back NV. Sure I'm still single while I've watched most of my friends get married and many of them are having kids, but I can still go places and do things without having to worry about anyone else right now, or feeling guilty about leaving someone behind, and I get to work on me and who I am and where I want to be. So I'm not a big volleyball star or famous actress, but I play volleyball on a city league and since many of my friends dont really play too competitively they think I'm a star when they watch me play. As for the famous actress...well I guess you can't have everything, so I settle for acting in little "productions" and skits and what not with church. I may not have kids but I have some of the most wonderful nieces and nephew (soon to be nephews!!) that I get to see and play with and teach and hopefully influence for good. I may not have served a full time mission but I've served a mission in the places I've worked and people I've associated with. I may not have baptised anyone but hopefully I've been able to plant a good seed in many hearts through my example, testimony, and love for people. I may not have a set career but I've have a pluthera of diverse skills. I've been a busser/hostess/waitress, a receptionist, a customer service agent, a personal trainer, an optical technician, city summer recreation program director, cashier, and salesgirl...I think that's mostly everything. I can go anywhere and have marketable skills. So am I where I want to be, maybe not exactly. Am I where I want to be, maybe not but I'm where the Lord wants me right now. Am I happy, sometimes more than others but that's just life. We search for happiness all our lives, sometimes we have it by the handfuls, other times we are struggling to hold onto it, but regardless it is always there we just have to open our eyes and look for it. Its different for everyone and thats what makes it great. Life is a journey that takes from familiar places into the unknown and back again all the time. That is what allows us to progress and grow. I have a deep testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that Jesus Christ was once here upon this earth and that he took upon Himself the sins, the sorrows, the joys, the successes, the failures, the hope, and the despair of the world. He atoned for each and everyone of us because He loves us. I know that he died on the cross and rose again 3 days later so that we might all be able to live with Him and our Father in Heaven once again. I know that He knows me more intimately than anyone else, myself included sometimes. I know He is there for me. I know that He restored His gospel through Joseph Smith and that that gospel is still here in its fullest on this earth today. I know the Book of Mormon is true and was a truely inspired book that testifies of Christ in the Americas. I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is led by a prophet that walks and talks with God. I know the power of the Priesthood is real and is vital to my existance. I know that someday Christ will come again in all His Glory to once again redeem us all. The presence and power of the Holy Ghost is real and I am grateful that He sacrificed received an earthly body so that He could help deliver Christ's message of Love. I am not alone no matter what because He is with me, because Christ knows me and everything I am going through and could possibly ever go through. Sometimes its just more difficult than others to see and to feel that but it is true. He has a plan for me and despite all the plans I might make ultimately it boils down to is His plan is happiness and I don't know where He will lead me or how I will always get there, but I pray that I might always be ready and willing to follow. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, my brother, my friend, my Savior. Amen.