My Wake-Up Call

Warning: No Pictures...I know, right? Feel free to come back another day for those treats.

So I've been having a really hard time with our move to Boise. It's weird, I didn't think I would, but now it's here, and I am. Nick doesn't have a job, mine is up in the air, we don't have a home there, because our home here won't sell, so his parents are GRACIOUSLY letting us crash their basement. We're leaving friends that I don't even have words to say how much they mean to us, I could go on all day about this topic alone, but I digress. I've been having a seriously bad attitude. The thing about it is that we've prayed about this. We've both received confirmations that Boise is where we should be, I don't know why, but we have. So if that's where we're supposed to be, why is it so hard?

So the wake-up call. I was reading this month's Ensign, fabulous by the way, but a particular article hit me like a ton of bricks. It's the one by Elder Holland, The Best is Yet to Be. He talks about Lot's wife and how she was turned into a pillar of salt, not just because she looked back, but because that's where she wanted to be. So here's the quote that smacked me in the face

"So a more theological way to talk about Lot’s wife is to say that she did not have faith. She doubted the Lord’s ability to give her something better than she already had. Apparently, she thought that nothing that lay ahead could possibly be as good as what she was leaving behind."

So here's my lesson learned. I need to have faith that even though I'm leaving behind things that make me cry when I think about it, I must have the faith that the Lord has even BETTER things in store for our family. No more Lot's wife for me, I got the memo.

So looking forward, along with being happy about my situation and the blessings that my family has, I will:

Be better about my scripture reading, and not just the reading, but really doing my best to learn and grow from it every day.

Tone up. I don't want to lose a lot of weight, I'm in a size 6, and that's a size I'm happy with. But I just want to get some muscle tone and maybe look a BIT better in that 6.

Make my marriage a love story. I'm going to be better at showing my love for my husband, and we're going to have that sappy kind of love that you see in the movies that you cry about. That's right.

Those are a few on my list of many, but I'm excited. I'm ready to start exercising my faith a little more, and I'm excited to finally have good attitude. Wow, I really wasn't out for a novel, sorry about the long, boring read. But really, read this month's Ensign, it's really good.