Interesting Events!!

So it's really wierd because it seems like that through the worst times the best things happen. Since I've complained a whole bunch about my no so cool math class and everything you all know that I haven't had a very happy semester. But it's really wierd because now that it's the end I've suddenly started noticing that in my ward I have like a million friends. So it's not going to be very happy when I move in a few days. But it's so wierd because I have been in the same ward with all of these people the whole school year and last fall was less stressful. Yet last fall I wasn't really friends with alot of these people. So it's funny that it's the absolutely worst semester ever and that's when I suddenly get tons of friends and that sort of thing. It's true that the worst trials can be connected to the best moments/things in life. The reason why I noticed that I seem to have so many friends is because the ward has been doing alot of ward hang outs/dinners for finals week. So I go with my roommates, yet within two minutes of walking in I'm no longer with my roommates and suddenly I'm with all of these other people. It's great fun!! So try it, make your life rather difficult and then you'll notice at the end that something great happened. (just kidding, I'd never want anyone to have the life I've had for the last four months just to see if my theory is true)

Ooops!!

I was referring to the blog in general causing it to sound like I'm a depressed person, not that particular post.

I'm not a depressed person!!

I probably sound like a depressed person according to this blog. But I'm actually not, and bsides if I am it's only a temporary thing. (hehe) So it was great fun because over the weekend it was great weather. And for FHE we played soccer and ultimate frisbee, but I don't like playing sports that much. But I went anyways and it ended up that I didn't have a hard time getting out of playing because I kept running into people who weren't playing. So I ended up talking to people more then anything, it was really fun.
I have a cool ward and I have lots of friends in it. So it's kind of sad that I'm moving to another ward, but that's okay because I'll probably still come over and do stuff with the people in this ward after I leave.
And also, I'm a very happy person because in about two weeks it will be summer and that means play, play, play and work, work, work. But that also means money, money, money and no more being poor, poor, poor. Great huh??

What's most important in life?

I've been thinking on this quite a bit lately...mainly because it's basically the end of the semester and everything. But the other night I was reading this article in the ensign and it talked about this guy who had drank and stuff. And anyways he ended up quitting drinking and he repented and everything. So anyways, the guy from the seventy who told this story talked about when this other guy was basically on his death bed. And this guy from the seventy talked about how the only things that came to mind from this guys life were the things that he'd done, such as small acts of service and what not.
So after I read that I was thinking about it and it just made me think that really that's all that people will remember about us when we die, is the service that we did. And since it's the end of the semester I of course am worrying about grades and what not. And so I just started thinking about how grades seem like they're important, but in 20 years will they really be that important? I seriously wonder why grades are deemed as so important?
Just in my adolescents class a few weeks ago my teacher was talking about how getting a "C" in a class is classified as failing a class now. Yet 10 years ago a "C" wasn't considered failing it was considered average. And I have started noticing that really is the truth. Because from the looks of it I will probably end up getting a "C" in my math class. And when I talk to people about that class it seems like I always say that I'm failing my math class, yet I'm not because a "C" isn't failing. And so it's interesting that so much emphasis is placed on grades.
It's like we place the people who get 4.0's on a pedestol over everyone else. Yet if you think about it those people who get 4.0's don't do it on their own, those people who get 4.0's were blessed with the gift of intelligence. And for those lilke myself who get like 3.0-3.7 GPA, that doesn't mean that we're not smart and will never get through college. It only means that we have other gifts. Really why do we place such importance on grades?
Because in 50 years from now when we're about to die/we've died our families aren't going to remember that we got 4.0's in college and high school. They're only going to remember us by what we did in life and by those we've served and what not.
So really why are grades so important? Are they won't being upset over?

Conference

On my friend Jessio's blog she wrote about a conference talk she liked, which was Elder Ballards. And so I decided that I should mention the talk, one of the many, I liked. I haven't really ever been totally in love with Elder Bednards talks previously, but I really liked his talk on prayer. And the reason why I liked his talk was because he talked about how we need to have more meaningful prayers and he also had three points that go along with prayer. The third point was that we need to accept the will of the Lord and he told this story about a little girl who had some illness and so the father was upset about it and finally he prayed about it. And finally he accepted the fact that his little daughter might die, basically right after he accepted that fact the little girl went into a coma and died shortly after.
And I just liked that because my friend and also my sister Marianne's friends mom died of congestive heart failure about a month ago. The funny thing is that I didn't really know her mom, but it was pretty upsetting. Because my friend was sure that her mom was going to get better from the heart failure that she had last summer. And for awhile she was getting better, but suddenly out of the blue she died. So it's pretty hard because my sister, whom I'm pretty close to, was really close to our friends mom. And so it was hard just for the fact that this lady was only 45 and our friend is 18, she just graduated from High School last school year. So I guess for me it was more the fact that I suddenly realized that if my friends mom is going to die at age 45 then anyone could die. And my friend actually is dealing with the loss pretty well, considering. But I don't know as that I'd be dealing with someone in my own family dying very well, just because we're all tight, like really tight. And so I hope that doesn't happen for a very long time, as until we're like 90. But I guess as Elder Bednar said we must accept the will of the Lord in all things.

Trials, trials and more trials!!

So my cousin Ruthio commented on my last entry and what she wrote made me think of something. She said something about how the Lord is always there for us but he helps us at moments when we weren't planning for his help, or something like that. And actually this was just on the math test today, so I was going through all the problems. And almost at the end there was this really, really odd problem and I did not know how to do it, so I just did it how I assumed it should be done. And suddenly at the last second the thought just came to me that this problem was not supposed to be done like the way I had done it, but it was supposed to be done another way. So I hurried and changed it because I realized that was the right way. So even though I didn't ace the test it seemed like that there were problems that I know but didn't recognize were made clear to me. So it's true that sometimes the Lord helps you, but it's in unexpected ways and sometimes you don't even realize that it was the hand of the Lord. So it's amazing how we're never alone and the Lord is always there helping us along the path of life.
Farewell and have a great weekend watching conference!!

Trials, trials and more trials!!

So it's the end of the semester and I've had a horribly bad week. Mainly just because so many tests and papers are due all at once and there's never enough time for it all. So I had a math test today and as you all probably know I'm not super smart at math. And so thanks to many other things to do I really couldn't start studying for this math test until last night. So I probably studied for this math test for like maybe five or so hours and for a math test that is not enough time to study for that type of test. So the test was really hard and afterwards I was pretty upset about it. And then basically as soon as that test was over I had to come over to the computer lab to finish this research paper that's due. And so I'm just not to happy with life at the moment and it's kind of hard to think in happy terms after a bad math test. So anyways, I randomly came acrossed this quote by Pres. Hinkley on the internet. This quote goes as follows:
"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers."
After I read this quote I had to admit to myself that it really does work out in the end, I mean every semester when I think that I did so horribly in a class I always walk away with at least a "B". So even though times get hard I know that things do wok out and the Lord will never once leave us alone. I mean right now I feel like I've been left alone in relation to math and everything but this is just a trial and it'll pass over just like any other trial. It seems like everytime I've had a horrible week or day this semester I always run into quotes that are like the above. So I just know that the Lord doesn't forsake us and things always do work out. I guess that my lesson this semester hasn't been to learn math it's been to learn to trust in the Lord and never give up even when the goin get's tough.