Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to say on this Thanksgiving day how grateful I am for this life! It is truly amazing to see how much I have been given. I'm able to study at BYU and learn amazing things, and have a great job that puts a smile on my face every day. I have wonderful friends who are great examples to me, and an amazing family who is always there for me. I have this wonderful gospel which gives us truth and knowledge so we are able to have faith and hope that through the atonement of Jesus Christ we can overcome our weaknesses, and achieve our potential. I can't express enough how thankful I am for the gospel and the great promises we have, and can enjoy. I am truly thankful for my Family, for all they do for me and put up with! :) I have learned so much from them and am grateful for the examples they are to me. I know I don't say it enough, but I love you guys tons and thank you for being so wonderful! I truly have an amazing life, and I am thankful for the blessings I have been given, and even for the hard times that have taught me what is truly important in this life. Mostly I am thankful for our Savior, who gives us peace, and makes hope possible.

The Trials of Teaching!

So I teach to Senior couples at the MTC! I teach them tagalog, and it's a lot of fun, they are so great and working there definitely brightens my day! I'm learning a lot though, lately a lot of my couples have been canceling appointments! They're busy packing or visiting they're children, definitely legitamate things for them to do, but that doesn't help them learn tagalog! I've been thinking a lot about this recently and what I can do to stress the importance of them meeting with me and studying the language! I realized I have to be strict! I'll treat them like they're high school teachers did! I think I've just been too nice with them and that's made them feel that it's not important to study. So I'm learning that I have to be aggressive and strict, in order for them to take this more seriously! These are not things I like to do! I like being friendly and nice, but I'm going to have to grow an backbone and tell them whose boss! Well, kind of the boss! So anyway, this is just something I'm coming to realize, that I have to change the way I'm teaching and really express the importance of the time we have together. I hope this will help!

More Autumn Colors!

Here are a few more!

Autumn Colors!

So I'm taking a photography class this semester and it's been a lot of fun, I'm definitely learning a lot and getting hooked! I've learned it's definitely harder than it looks, and I need a lot of practice! But, here are some of my pictures! Our assignment was all about cropping and I chose to take pictures of Trees on BYU's campus.

Blogging!

So this is my FIRST blog ever! I've never done any of this stuff before! So, I was sitting here thinking about what to blog about, because of course you can't leave your page completely empty! That woud be boring! So I'm writing about blogging! I think it's pretty funny that we have to sit here and ponder what to blog about, it just seems so silly! So why did I decide to finally start a blog? Well, it was actually just so I could have a cute background! And a few other reasons, but mainly that! Well, this has been fun, it's completely random and uninforming, but hey that me!