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Thursday, March 31, 2011

It's the most wonderful time of the year!


Easter is my favourite holiday (besides Christmas of course). I love it because it always makes me think about Christ and what he did for us. (which also makes me realize that I don't think about it enough other times of the year) But this year along with trying to read the Book of Mormon, I want to try to read/ study about Christ's ministry while he was on the earth. My favourite year of Seminary was the year that I did home study and that year we did the New Testament. I remember learning and getting to know Christ. I loved it. I want to study the New Testament again. I feel like I have lost contact with that connection that I had when I was studying it in high school. Here is a testimony from President Monson about Christ that really touched my heart.



He Is Not Here, but Is Risen


Today only ruins remain of Capernaum, that city by the lakeshore, heart of the Savior’s Galilean ministry. Here He preached in the synagogue, taught by the seaside, and healed in the homes. At the beginning of His ministry, Jesus took a text from Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound” (Isaiah 61:1; see also Luke 4:18)—a clear pronouncement of a divine plan to rescue the sons and daughters of God. But Jesus’s preaching in Galilee had been merely prelude. The Son of Man had always had a dread rendezvous to keep on a hill called Golgotha. Arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper, deserted by His disciples, spat upon, tried, and humiliated, Jesus staggered under His great cross toward Calvary. He progressed from triumph to betrayal, torture, and death on the cross. In the words of the song “The Holy City”: The scene was changed. … The morn was cold and chill, As the shadow of a cross arose Upon a lonely hill. 1 For us our Heavenly Father gave His Son. For us our Elder Brother gave His life. At the last moment the Master could have turned back. But He did not. He passed beneath all things that He might save all things: the human race, the earth, and all the life that ever inhabited it. No words in Christendom mean more to me than those spoken by the angel to the weeping Mary Magdalene and the other Mary as they approached the tomb to care for the body of their Lord: “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen” (Luke 24:5–6). With this pronouncement, those who have lived and died, those who now live and one day will die, and those yet to be born and yet to die had just been rescued. As the result of Christ’s victory over the grave, we shall all be resurrected. This is the redemption of the soul. Paul wrote: “There are … celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. “So also is the resurrection of the dead” (1 Corinthians 15:40–42). It is the celestial glory that we seek. It is in the presence of God that we desire to dwell. It is a forever family in which we want membership. Of Him who delivered each of us from endless death, I testify He is a teacher of truth—but He is more than a teacher. He is the exemplar of the perfect life—but He is more than an exemplar. He is the great physician—but He is more than a physician. He is the literal Savior of the world, the Son of God, the Prince of Peace, the Holy One of Israel, even the risen Lord, who declared, “I am the first and the last; I am he who liveth, I am he who was slain; I am your advocate with the Father” (D&C 110:4).


“Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’” 2

Of this I testify.



I really hope you read all the way through that! This weekend is General Conference and I am going to listen really closely to what is said.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

I really like this I want to make a huge one and put it up on my wall! I am trying to come up with ideas on how to decorate my house. It's really boring right now. hmmm

Thursday, March 10, 2011

It's True!

Ok so those people who know me, know that I have wanted to be a Mommy all my life.. well..... My time has come! September I will be a Mommy! I can't believe it myself some days!

It didn't really become real until yesterday when I went for an ultrasound and I was able to see the baby's heart beat, the legs, and arms. All the detail that is already there on my 5cm little baby! I have just being feeling sick (worst feeling ever!) and bloated. I wasn't having any cravings, I was actually grossed out by any food. I am always tired always having to go pee, I was getting tired of being pregnant but not really feeling it ( the excitement I mean). So when I got to the appointment and was waiting, I was getting more and more excited. Like is this really true? Am I PREGNANT?!?! I just couldn't grasp it. Then I saw him/her... I fell in love! I cried I laughed I couldn't control it.

Steve and I are so excited and can't wait. Right now we are set on not knowing the gender of the baby. We like the idea of surprise.

My social experiment

I didn't update on this right away like I said I would, because I needed more time to really see if there is a change. I didn't really have that much interaction that week after I posted my rant about rude people.
I noticed change in some people's attitude half way through out conversation when they realized that I wasn't talking rude them. When I say some I mean not everyone took to the smiles and kind voice.
I am going to keep this up and I hope that people will stop being SO rude! haha

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Families Can Be Together Forever

Life lately

This weekend was my nephew and cousin's Baptism! They both turned 8 within the past month. I can't believe that they are both getting so big! It was great seeing them at this big step in their life!
Also this weekend our ward was made smaller! A new ward was formed from our ward and another. I am excited for the change, but sad to lose many great people! I hope that with this change it won't be so easy to get lost in the ward. It was huge before so it was easy to be invisible. (Maybe I will get a calling outside of Primary? haha probably not. That's alright, I love the kids in my class)
Steve's Insurance Brokerage is going well. It's keeping him really busy, so that's great!
I am excited for 2011, 2010 was full of ups and downs. Blessings, and trials. Excitement and sadness.

This morning we woke up to -28 and -40 with the Windchill......BRRRRR. WHY do I live here? I can't believe how COLD it has been this winter! I sure hope it gets warmer SOON! Even with this cold I have been thinking that I am grateful I live in Canada. We are SAFE from Political unrest and major natural disasters. My heart goes out to those in New Zealand who have been suffering from many earthquakes. My heart aches for the Libyan and Egyptian people who have been suffering because of a corrupt Government. I can deal with the cold, I don't have space to complain about life being so horrible. I have a family who loves me, a warm house to go home to each day, I have a job, we have a democratic government.
Well that's about all I have to blog about.... Till next time...