I am fairly certain that if I don't update soon, my older sister will disown me. So here I go. My life has been fairly crazy but exciting and wonderful at the same time. I am loving being engaged to the man of my dreams. He is so amazing and I can't wait to be his wife for ETERNITY!! I miss him terribly because I haven't seen him since he left for the airport in April to go back to Wisconsin while I did this semester. I wake up everyday and count the days til I will be back home with him and the days til we will be MARRIED!!!
I am absolutely in love with being a social work student. It scares the bageebees out of me every once in a while because social work is such an intense field. But then I think about the difference I will make and I wipe away the tears and get back to work learning these skills and working towards getting my degree.
A few weeks into the semester, Bishop Haderlie called me into his office (his WORK office so it had to be important) and asked me to be Relief Society President for half the sisters in the ward. I was so nervous but I accepted with a smile and it has really been amazing. I have learned all the girls' names, which is something I definitely wouldn't have done if I hadn't gotten this calling. I have gotten very close with most of them and especially those in my presidency and in other leadership positions in our Relief Society. I have learned to delegate. I have been going to Ward Councils. It has just been really amazing experience and I have loved almost every minute of it. It can be really stressful when people don't do what they say they will but I'm slowly learning that I can't control the world around me and that is OK.
I have met (or spent more time with) a lot of really amazing people this semester who have taught me so much. My Relief Society secretary and roommate, Karen Belt. I met last semester in our Family Home Evening group. She definitely has more energy than I realized last semester. She can drive me absolutely crazy but she is super amazing and has really taught me a lot about not complaining and recognizing the Lord in your life. Two weekends ago, I went to Ward Council just like I have before. Karen had mentioned a pain in her stomach but with the two of us, that is not something new. And it was just a comment in passing no big deal. When I got done with Ward Council I looked at my phone and she had texted me that she wasn't feeling well and she wasn't going to be at Church. I was sad but it wasn't a huge deal. Church got over and she told me that she was pretty sure it was a ruptured ovarian cist. She had one when she was younger and this felt a lot like that. Through this whole ordeal she complained very little (at least a lot less than I would have). She didn't get an infection and she tried to get back to normal life a little too soon and made herself feel sick again. But I think it really strengthened our relationship that I was able to help her with the things that she couldn't do herself (ie. grocery shopping) or just comfort her and sit in the living room ALL Memorial Day Weekend.
I have also learned a lot from Rachel Tonks. Like how to love life no matter what, see the positive and love with all your heart. How to talk about everything and care about others. Never does she come home and not ask how my day has been and what I did. She also has taught me to laugh a lot and not take people too seriously. She finally got used to my joking and now jokes right back and it makes me a laugh a lot. She is always telling jokes.
Summer Bailey has also influenced my life a lot. She is my closest engaged friend.
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