General Conference

I can check another thing off my bucket list!

I have lived in Utah almost my entire life and had never been to General Conference, I have wanted to go so bad! One of my amazing mission companions gave me her tickets!

Kyle and I got to go to the Sunday morning session and it was so wonderful! We got to see Music and the Spoken Word (which I never knew existed until I was in the MTC) and the spirit was amazing.

We were surprised there was ZERO traffic that morning in Salt Lake!

Elder Holland's talk was my favorite! If the Lord wants fish he can get fish, He needs diciples.  The crowning characterisic of love is loyalty.  One day our Savior will look at us and ask us the same question he asked Peter.  "Lovest thou me?"

I am so excited that the mission ages have been lowered!  I hope everyone considers going.  I couldn't see what I learned on my mission until I came home.  I remember thinking that I wouldn't want to send my daughter to serve a mission while I was out because it was hard!  I wondered why nobody ever told me how hard it was.  There are things I will continue to realize that I learned in the field for my whole life I am sure.  Now I am so thankful I got to serve.  It makes me much more confident to teach my family the gospel in the future.  I really came to see how the gospel fits together as I was teaching it.

I came to understand the love of the Savior for all of us as I learned to love people before knowing them.

I learned a small part of what my Savior felt and went though during his mission here.

I am so thankful I could be in the field at the same time as Kyle.  It definitley brought us closer together to be growing in the gospel in the same ways at the same time.
The Lord definitley blesses you for being willing to give a small part of your time to His great work.

My testimony is my greatest possesion and every experience that has brought me to know my Savior and that His true church has been restored is worth it.

The Savior lives.

Claim to Fame

I was on TV!

It was just the news, but even better is that because of my determination a woman in Alabama was arrested who admitted to having have sent over 800 fraudulent checks!

You can watch the story here:

http://www.kutv.com/news/features/gephardt/stories/vid_162.shtml

Happy Birthdays!

On our way to dinner we stopped to look at a car and ended up buying it.  My new 2010 Hyundai Elentra is the best birthday present I ever bought myself. 

My favorite part is the sun roof!!

Now I have AC/heater

brake lights

a side mirror

a back window that rolls up

and a smooth ride that doesn't feel like I may leave the atmosphere at any moment.
Now I am just scared that I am going to get in an accident and ruin my new car.

We missed our first reservation and didn't eat till 10 pm, but dinner at the Melting Pot was AMAZING! 

Just like my husband.

We finished an entire 4 course meal, I was impressed!

He got me flowers for the table that I got to take home too, what a stud :)

For Kyle's birthday we went to Tucanos and I finally filled my much overdue craving for mousse de maracuja! I think I got Kyle hooked too.  We need to go back to get some soon!!

Thank you everyone that made our birthdays special!
You know who you are