Spreading the Gospel...One Soul at a Time!

I had the coolest experience happen to me last night. Who knew having something start out so awkward and weird turn into a missionary experience and a chance to share the Gospel!! My friends and I got to do that very thing last night.


So we were sitting around, drinking hot chocolate and talking, when one of my friends asked if we had ever heard of chatroulette. Some of us and some hadn't so we explained what it was and we got a computer and got on the site. Now that site has a bunch of weird pervs. Luckily we didn't get any because we didn't have a camera on the laptop we were using so they would just skip us. But then one guy got connected to us and he actually looked normal! So we started chatting with him and he asked where we were from and we told him Utah. It lead to us telling him about our religion and we told him to check our mormon.org and watch a video or read a profile. He seemed interested and started asking what else we believed in. Luckily, we had two of our guy friends with us (who are RM's) and they got excited about this missionary experience and started chatting with him. He told us he had gone to a catholic school since 6th grade and that he had never thought of "mormonism" but he said it sounded interested.
We kept talking to him and told him our beliefs without trying to overload him. So in the end, what did we end up doing? We told him we could send missionaries to him of course! We told him to look for the "missionary request" link in the top right and he could fill out his address on the site and have missionaries come to him. And he did it. What?! Could this possibly be a future member who will learn the Gospel and become baptized?! And he has a pretty serious girlfriend too (they're both 20). Is it possible he could bring the Gospel to her after and she get baptized as well?! It was SUCH a cool feeling! This is definitely what missionaries must feel!! We felt so cool that we got to have this missionary moment!


I really hope he meets with some missionaries and has the chance to learn about our church! That would be so cool. And I hope I can serve a mission myself one day so that I can have that wonderful feeling with me all the time! I want to be able to experience being able to share my testimony of this Gospel all the time. I know this church is true and that God does still speak to us through a living prophet today. I know that we still have living apostles on this earth just like in Christ's time. Death is not the end, and I know that in the Millennium we can all be resurrected. We can be perfected through Christ if we repent and follow His teachings. God loves us and wants us to return to him, for we are all children of God. I know that The Book of Mormon is a true book that was written by prophets of old. Joseph Smith truly did translate it from the gold plates and he risked his life so many times for the coming forth of the true church. I know that Joseph Smith was a true prophet and did receive revelations from God; and that still exists today! I know that I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I am proud to tell everyone that! 


Check out mormon.org to see what we believe in and hear other people's testimonies of this Gospel. Some of the world may see us as something like a "cult" or not a real religion, but we're normal people! We're just the same as other people. And we have missionaries all over  the world, they're there to answer questions!! I invite you to learn about our religion and see what it's like.

Swagga of a College Kid~

I just love dancing. It's such a fun thing and it's so stress relieving. Oh and it's a good workout! Any type of dancing is what I love. I've learned jazz dance, some contemporary, learning ballroom/social dancing, and hip hop. Hip hop is what I want to elaborate though. It's probably my favorite out of them all. It's fun to just bust a move and be able to use the moves you learn in a freestyle way. With that being said, I'm in BYU's hip hop club now. Boy is it the best thing ever. It's an hour and a half to just dance and have fun with other people. And most of the presidency are my friends, which helps me be in the in's on everything; it's pretty great haha. We have a couple of performances coming up and then our showcase at the end of March, so that should be interesting. Anyway, so a few weeks before last semester ended, some of us got together and we made a music video!! aka we just messed around on campus :P the bloopers end is great, Michael likes to mess around like that randomly. But I feel pretty cool for being part of this now! I wish I had started last year, but I'm glad I'm in it now. 


Anyway, check this out (Link is right below)! This is the final product of our music video. It's pretty random, but we had a lot of fun doing this and we all love to dance. We've got the swagga of a college kid. It's in our blood.


BYU Hip Hop - Party Rock Anthem MV

Halloween 2011!!

Halloween was pretty good! I love the fact that I didn't have to spend any money on my costume this year. I decided to dress up as a football player because I actually have football clothes from my junior high school (no I didn't play, my friend did; that's a different story). Anyway, so the weekend of Halloween was pretty mellow, we went to a dance party on Saturday night, but other than that, Katie and I (literally) sat at home ha! But it was pretty relaxing. On Halloween, we had a ward party; it was alright, but they didn't do a dance party. Apparently it didn't work out so well (thanks to Riley for telling me what's up), but we made it happen. It was fun just hanging out with the ward! 
This ward has been great! Everyone is so friendly and everyone gets along with everyone. I'm sad that the semester is feeling like it's going by so fast though. But anyway, Halloween, good stuff! 
People watching is the best on campus during Halloween. I loved seeing the different costumes and the different things people did on campus because of their costumes. I'm really glad I saw Gandalf the White! Woo! 

Elaine, Katie (Gus), Mel (Shawn), Me!

Rachel and Julia!

Dwight aka Scott! I hope he wins the costume contest.

Jordan the hobo and me.

Riley was Link

A couple of the FHE bros

I look legit 

MJ's ward was in the other side of the building!

Part of Growing Up!

My head hurts. A lot. I think it's from stress, indigestion, and being tired today. Classes and studying. Cooking. Cleaning. Driving. So much happening! But as I've been sitting here, enjoying my cream soda and realizing that I really shouldn't be drinking this right now, I've been taking the time to reflect on life, and how I've changed from even a year ago from now. 


Let me first start off with talking about today. So for my nutrition class, we were supposed to cook a nutritious meal and share it with people to get their opinion. Since Katie and I are in that class, we decided to team it up and we invited some of our guy friends over to try it. So we went to Smith's to get the ingredients and figured it all out like responsible adults. Then I had to go back and get ginger. Then we started cooking. So much to do!! It was so stressful to try and get it done on time. Luckily the guys just watched some football for about 5 minutes. Anyway, what we had decided to cook was homemade sweet and sour chicken stir fry with rice. I think it went pretty well! They enjoyed it a lot. Then cleaning up afterwards just took ages. But we finally finished. Before all this I did have classes and studying. Who knew cooking a meal would be so hard and tiring? it made me realize how much my mom must go through to cook meals for us. I'm even more grateful than before for my mom to spend so much time and concern on cooking for us. I really do have thee best mother ever. 


Now, looking back at about a year ago from now. It was freshmen year and life was ok! Living off campus is so much nicer, that is for sure. Anyway, back then, it felt like I didn't have to worry about anything in life and it was all a breeze. Halloween was coming up and my roommates and friends and I were trying to figure how we were going to stop by all the different parties and dances going on. Our concern back then was what we wanted to dress up as, too. We did study and worried over our classes, but it just wasn't the same as it is this year. My sister was in Provo, too, and she was always trying to spend time with me when I was supposedly busy. RM's looked scary to me, and pre-mi's were wonderful people to befriend.
Looking at life now, all I can think about is my classes and my grades. Halloween is coming up and we're not really putting much thought into it. Dressing up really isn't a priority right now, with studying for tests and all is so much more important. Food is stressful because you always have to cook and worry about it financially as well (miss the meal plan). I wish I had a job to worry about right now so that I could have that income as well. Staying up until 2 in the morning is definitely not an option anymore, especially when 10:00 rolls around and you get tired. RM's really aren't scary and I've enjoyed making these new friends. My sister isn't here, but all the way across the country, and I can't spend time with her like I should've. I regret not spending time with her, and I really wish she was here with me. Life is just one big stress ball.


Some people hate the stress, they want everything handed to them on a plate. But you know, this may sound silly, but all this really is just part of growing up. Life is supposed to be full of all this stress because that's what makes life satisfactory in the end because you pulled through. I hope I just can make it through all this; life is just too good. I'm blessed with the best family ever,  my sister as my best friend, great education, wonderful friends, and all the rest of the blessings that my Heavenly Father has given me. Don't complain about life, just pulling through is what life really is about; because by pulling through, we become stronger and mature.


This truly is the life of me.

No Pictures?

I've been in Provo for a while now...wow 2 weeks today!! And I've taken absolutely no pictures yet. For real. What is this? I took pictures like the third day I got here last year. Ah freshman year....had so much time for fun and all. Sophomore year, not as much. But I'm really liking meeting new people. I like this ward I'm in a lot! The people in this ward are very fun and nice. I feel comfortable around them all. And I got my calling as sacrament pianist. What up. I was so happy to get that calling. Now I just need a piano with me. :/ Good thing Mel has a keyboard. I guess I could be like those brave people who play in the Wilk but.....I'd rather pass. 


I miss my piano back at home :( Oh one of the woes of college and having to move away from home. 


Also, I wish I had more people to talk in Korean with. It'd be nice practice but, alas, it ain't happening. Oh well, I guess having Korean in the morning everyday is good enough. However, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I need to book up the RB stairs to get to Korean. There are over 80 stairs let me tell you. And usually I end up having about....6 minutes to get up those stairs and to the basement of the JFSB. At least it's the JFSB...if it was any further I'd probably keel over by the time I got to my class ha!


Point being, I need to start taking pictures! Good thing I have this weekend to spend with Katie and whoever else wants to join us.


Speaking of Katie, we found out some guy who lives THREE blocks away from us was using her wifi, changed the name of it, hacked on it without her password, changed her password, and messed around with it so that it wasn't working for us yesterday. He came to our door and told us what was up and everything. Not gonna lie, we were mad and freaked out that some hacker geek did that; props to him to be able to do it, but still!! Luckily we reset it and fixed it so we could use it again after he left. He came to try and fix it for us but only made it worse.


Well, I think that's all now. peace and blessings everyone.