Chasing Butterflies

So a lot of stuff has happened this week. School started, auditions, callbacks, cast lists, talked to different people, etc. But my favorite thing about this week would have to be...church today. It's really rare for me to get that burning in my heart. The very, very real feeling of the Spirit. Well today, I had it for a good, long 3 hours. It started with sacrament and went all the way through the last hour of church, which was Relief Society. The speakers in the first hour were fantastic today. In fact, they were amazing and I learned TONS, but the best part was before any of them spake. There was the actual sacrament. The moment the sacrament prayers were said, my heart burned, my eyes started tearing up and I thought about what the sacrament and the Atonement really means to me and I had to fight dang hard to not let those tears fall. For this first time, in a very, very long time, I felt completely clean as I took the sacrament. I felt clean and I realized that I had final...

What a fun word 'why' is. NOT! Well...actually it can be quite the fun word. But if you are trying to ask that question and can't seem to find an answer anywhere? Than 'why' sucks. Last week I posted about how blessed I was/am and I meant every single stinkin' word. Well..the very next day, my life decided it wanted to go crazy. My car, that I have spent over $3,000 dollars on trying to get it to be a reliable car, decided it didn't want to start. I had to get it towed from my boyfriends' house back home! To top that off, the tow man was creepy and kept hitting on me and referred to me as 'that' to the neighbor guy that was checking out my car for me. EW! Well neighbor guy noticed a loose cable connected to my battery and he tightened it and voila! My car started! I was so insanely happy! He said I might want to spend a bit of money on this thing that would make my battery vibrate less so the cable doesn't loosen up again. It was about 10 b...

Ok... I know I have had quite a few of these kinds of posts...but I think it's good to sit there and remember all the ways we are blessed! And the song 'Blessed' by Martina McBride has been stuck in my head for awhile so I figured it would be a good way to start out my blog :) 'I get kissed by the sun Each morning Put my feet on a hardwood floor I get to hear my children laughing Down the hall through the Bedroom door Sometimes I sit on my Front porch swing Just soaking up the day I think to myself, I think to myself This world is a beautiful place I have been blessed And I feel like I’ve found my way I thank God for all I’ve been givenAt the end of every day I have been blessed With so much more than I deserve To be here with the ones That love me To love them so much it hurts I have been blessed Across a crowded room, I know you know what I’m thinking By the way I look at you And when we’re lying in the quiet and No words have to be said ...

So, I've talked about tunnel singing before, but I am now going to do it again. :) This last weekend I went tunnel singing with my boyfriend. It was a lot of fun. I really and honestly love going just to hear those hymns sung so loud. Even if there are only like 20 people there, the tunnel echoes and it sounds like an entire congregation. I love it! And this time the tunnel was stuffed full of people! The first 30 minutes were just fun. We sang songs I liked, I played with the Alto part and did way better than I usually do, and I got to listen to my boyfriend sing (I love his voice, don't tell him that I don't want him to get cocky about it :D). After missionary minute, which was really cool, we sang one of my favorite hymns that I have only sung once before at tunnel singing. 'A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief.' The last time we sang this song at tunnel singing (the last time I had been there for this song anyway) was when a very, very close friend of mine came for...

I think I am going to start with the other stuff...even though I mention San Diego first in the title ;) I honestly think writing a lot of my goals and aspirations down in this blog has helped me a lot, especially spiritually. Throughout the time I have had this blog I have felt the growth in myself and it has made me want to do even better. I now read my scriptures on a daily basis, say my morning prayers regularly and I am almost there with my night ones (I'm usually exhausted and collapse into bed, gotta pray, then collapse :P). I received one of the best compliments from my dad a few weeks ago, which is why this part of the blog is being written at all! About a week or two ago my parents, grandmother and older sister came to see the shows I was in. Afterwards they all commented on how much I have grown and progressed as an actress. Later that night as my dad was driving me to where I needed to be, he told me he was so proud of me. He mentioned that he could see my growth as a...