Hail the Utah Aggies!

Utah State! Hey! Aggies all they way! Go Aggies! Go Aggies! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Lets just say the Aggies beat Northern Illinois University tonight in the Poinsettia Bowl. Great night to be an Aggie! 

THE Hoodrat of 210

Sometimes your friends leave you to go on missions. And sometimes their hand decides to be dumb so they are sent home to get fixed. And I am so thankful that this happened to Cassie Davie.
She seriously is the best.
Her favorite word is "Huzzah!"
I definitely missed her while she was gone.
She cracks me up.
Our conversations are seriously the best.
We think the exact same things.
We are in the exact same situations.
We are pretty much the exact same person.
She is the greatest, that Cassie Davie.

Adventure is out there!

Did you guys know that I am a Wilderness Explorer? And I have the Ellie Badge? It's true. It all happened the summer of 2012 in Disneyland.
Well tonight I watched Up with my grandparents and thought I would document all my favorite quotes because there are such good quotes.

"Adventure is out there!"--Charles Muntz

"I ripped this right out of a library book"--Ellie.

"South America. It's like America, but south."--Ellie.

"You don't talk much... I like you!"--Ellie.

"The wilderness must be explored! CA-CA! RAAWWRR!"--Russell.

"Hey, let's play a game. It's called 'See Who Can Be Quiet the Longest."--Carl
"Cool! My mom loves that game!"--Russell

"Now, we're gonna walk to the falls quickly and quietly with no rap music or flash dancing."--Carl.

"You'd better get up, Russell. Or else, the tigers will come eat you."--Carl
"Tigers don't live in South America. Zoology."--Russell

"I can smell you!"--Dug.

"I wonder who he belongs to."--Carl
"Sit, boy. Hey look, he's trained! Shake. Speak."--Russell
"Hi there."--Dug
"Did that dog just say 'Hi there?'"--Carl
"Oh yes. My name is Dug. I have just met you and I love you."--Dug

"Squirrel!"--Dug

"Can we keep him? Please, please, please?"--Russell
"No."--Carl
"But it's a talking dog!"--Russell

"Kevin's a girl?"--Russell.

"I liked his other voice"--Russell.

"This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke."--Carl
"Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, 'I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead.' Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead."--Dug

"I was hiding under your porch because I love you"--Dug.

The Hobbit and the Restoration

Today, I watched The Hobbit. I am a huge Lord of the Rings fan. I love it.

As I watched this scene, I thought of something I always taught my girls at camp.

Even in our darkest hour, when we are just about to give up and lose all hope, Heavenly Father will always be there to our rescue.

Each week at Oakcrest, I had the opportunity to teach about Joseph Smith, the First Vision, and the Restoration (Joseph Smith--History 1:5-20). 

"After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which has seized upon me, and that the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction--not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being--just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me."--JSH 1:15-16

Joseph Smith was at the lowest of lows. And at the moment he was about to give in to Satan's power, Heavenly Father came to save him.

Heavenly Father loves each of us and will never leave us. He will let us struggle to learn and gain experience but he will never desert us. 

Faith

"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."--The Conductor from The Polar Express

Last night, I watched The Polar Express. It is one of my favorite Christmas movies ever. As I have reflected on the recent events and changes in my life, this quote really hit home for me. A lot of things have not been in my favor lately. I have been struggling to be happy and understand that Heavenly Father is in control and that what he is doing will make me happy. Sometimes it is good to have a reminder that Heavenly Father loves me and cares about me and knows what is best for me and what will make me happy. I just need to have faith in Him and His timing.

"And now as I said concerning faith--faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true."--Alma 32:21

"Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou has seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."--John 20:29

"And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."--Ether 12:6

Music Monday (which is technically yesterday)

My future husband can sing this to me.