Weddings! Could it mean sacrificing so much for such a short time? I mean seriously! Let’s face it, it shouldn’t be this complicated. I guess the fact that my fiancée and I are doing most of the work ourselves isn’t helping in some respects. The good news is that we will be able to get married in the temple and that our reception is going to look amazing. I’ll definitely have to post pictures when we get them from the photographer. It is going to be a fantastic day though! I can barely contain myself. We only have 17 days to go! Can we say “Stressful”!

On a bit of a different note I finished my final classes at the community college I was attending and got 2 “B’s” and an “A”. All in all it was a good semester, definitely better than the one before that. I must say that I am exceptionally happy to be finished with community college. It seemed more like high school with ashtrays more than anything else. The school I will be attending in the fall is going to be amazing. I am excited to enjoy new opportunities for growth and learning. Most importantly I finally get to be a “real college student.”

Have you ever been told you couldn’t do something or that something was impossible? Has anyone ever told you that “once something…always something”? Well I don’t think that for a minute, not even a second. You see, I can’t or rather I won’t believe something so incredibly diabolical. You see that is what people that are failures say because they want an excuse for not being able to overcome their trials. Now don’t suppose for one minute that I am talking about the impossible being possible by myself. I’m talking about the impossible being possible in and through Jesus Christ. By myself I know that it is impossible to “change my stars,” however I know that through his strength that all things can be restored and that I can be made whole. You see I have been broken for quite a while (although when you think about the eternal perspective it really hasn’t been that long) but I feel that it won’t be long now until I am made whole. Of course I will still struggle, this is life. The difference is I have hope, I have hope that if I continue on the path that I have chosen that I WILL be made whole, perhaps not in this life, perhaps in the life to come but it will come. It is only a matter of time and frankly given my tenacity I am very confident that I will do marvelously. I don’t know how to quit; I don’t know how to fail. I may loser the battle sometimes but I know that through the strength that is being offered me that I can and WILL win the war. There isn’t a mountain that I can’t climb; there isn’t a valley that I can’t wade through with His strength. In Psalms 23:4 it says “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” I certainly echo this sentiment. I believe that I can be restored to my pure and unadulterated person that I once was, but it is only through him. I am not a second rate person, I am a good person. I am kind and caring. I love to love. I have overcome many things to be where I am, and I will continue to work hard to overcome all of the obstacles that life throws at me. Not of my own strength mind you but certainly of Christ’s strength. It is through him and only him that I will be made whole.