Tender Mercies

This has been an awesome week.  It was really hard.  But it was really awesome.

I've met so many new and amazing people this week, made new friends and learned from them.  I'm grateful for the examples that those around me set and raise the bar for me to become better!  I'm also really grateful to be at a university where you can feel the Spirit every day.  Whoa.  It's pretty inspiring, I'll tell you that much!  I'm really, really lucky to be here.

Suddenly, I don't know what to write.  I have been playing the guitar more, got to play basketball a couple times and even wally-ball.  I ran in the snow and early mornings this week, felt like a champ, but probably am not.  I am predicting that my math class will take the most time out of my semester, even though it's just a 2 credit class.  I'm predicting that my favorite class will be my religion class - Family Foundations, it's a class on preparing so that our future families are happy and existing according to The Family, A Proclamation to the World.

Something inspiring that happened to me this week was when I saw one student helping another student with her personal problems.  He just sat and talked to her, probably for an hour and a half.  I actually didn't even see them, I was around the corner, but it was so nice of him to listen.  Sometimes that's all that people need, an ear to listen.

Something I found funny this week was while I was in the BYU-Idaho Bookstore, there were these planners... they are called RM planners - and they look just like the ones you had on your mission.  I was SUPER tempted to buy one.  I took a picture with my phone just because :)

 Another fun thing was this note I found when I came home from school one of those first days... feels like sooooo long ago already!

My friend the squirrel

My bed - I'm on top :)

I've set a goal to have a Christlike Attribute that I work on each week.  Last week my Christlike Attribute was HOPE.  I even found a way to make a text banner on my smartphone with the word 'HOPE' in large letters to remind me to think of Hope this week.  I think that perhaps 'listening' would be a good Christlike Attribute for this upcoming week.  I'd like to study to see when the Savior set the example of listening in the scriptures.  

I love Sundays!  I love family!  I love salad!  I am learning to love homework, quizzes, and group projects again!  Haha...

Well, that's all I can think of for now.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is TRUE! :)
Smile!
Love,
Amber