Rejoicing in Others' Success

One of the things we are encouraged to do as Christians is to be truly happy for others when they succeed.

But that's easy when it means that two of your favorite people in the whole world are gonna be at school with you.

I've already got Misa here in Provo, and now Joanna and Kendal are accepted and are coming to BYU too!

I can't wait!

I basically grew up with these girls, and so now we get to have this next chapter together too, even if we'll be at slightly different parts of it all.

This picture is AT LEAST 2 1/2 years old :)

Congratulations Joanna and Kendal!

You're gonna be BYU Cougars!

Playing Cards

Oh hey look, a blog post!

It's amazing, I know.

I just get a little picky and I don't wanna post just anything.. but maybe I should once in awhile so I don't have anymore of these huge long breaks and whatnot.

So anyway..

My LDS Marriage and Family teacher gave us this really cool object lesson at the end of one of our classes.

He passed out playing cards to all 121 of us (or however many were actually there that day).

I got a 9 of Spades

And I felt kinda lame 'cause my friend got a King.

BUT THEN

 my teacher started talking about his recent trip to South Africa.

(BTW my teacher is Matthew O. Richardson of the General Sunday School Presidency.

He gave an awesome talk in General Conference in October)

He gave a fireside, and some of the people who attended walked four hours to come see him speak.

They then walked those same dangerous four hours back home at night.

He noted that they showed a whole heck of a lot of faith doing that,

and we don't always have opportunities to demonstrate our own faith in such an extreme way.

Instead, we should demonstrate our faith with the cards we are given.

We can't control what cards we get,

but we have complete control over how we play them.

I'm gonna try to do everything I can with my 9 of Spades.