Thursday night I went with Shelley and Melissa to Marie's Bridal shower up in Layton. It was so fun to see her! I still cant believe she's getting married but the more I talk and watch her, the more I realize that she's ready and this is going to be really good for her. She is definitely someone that I look up to. We spent a few hours talking and enjoying each others company, then we had to make the long trip back home to Provo.
The girls minus Taylor.
Friday is when I studied for hours and hours then bombed my econ test. That night, Melissa and Shelley were in Salt Lake so I had to find something to do. I went with Lindsay and Spencer to see Captain America (WHICH by the way was amazing), but before we went and saw that we stopped at coldstone because Lindsay was craving cotton candy ice cream. FYI...NEVER try the strawberry basil ice cream. Im scarred for life it was so disgusting. It tasted like I just went into someones garden and started eating leaves. So yeah...for future reference, do not try it.
Saturday Spencer and Lindsay told me they were going to pick me up at 8:30am because we were going to go work (which ill explain in a minute). I woke up at 8:45 freaking out thinking that I missed them and couldn't go with them. I jumped in the shower and right when I got out Spencer called and asked if I was ready. All I needed was 5 minutes. He said thats fine and that they were on their way but I needed to get in the car right when they got there. I was fine with that. So I booked it into the car with dripping wet hair to find out that we didn't need to be there until 12 instead of 9 now. WHAT A PUNK! He made me think that I was making everyone late when in reality, we were 3 hours early. So here's my job. Spencer and a couple of his friends started this business called jumbas.com and what it is, is a website that consolidates all of the current coupon/deal website into one website. One of the best things about it is that its only the deals that are 50%-90% off. Also, another thing that I really like is that you can update your preferences, so if you only want to hear about restaurants and spas, then those are the only coupons that jumbas.com will send you! Isn't that awesome?! That way, you're not getting all that crap that you could care less about! So my job is to inform people about it and get their email addresses so that we can send them a welcome email so that they can start getting really awesome deals. So actually, if any of you are interested in this, just put your email in the comment box :) Its totally free! So yeah, we spent the whole day talking to people and getting the word out. Saturday night I did some grocery shopping, made some banana bread, watched part of Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 with Melissa and Shelley and then went to the creamy and got some raspberry ice cream! I splurged for once.
Sunday (today) I woke up and got ready for church, then skipped sacrament because Shelley and Melissa left without me and I didn't feel like walking into the meeting late all by myself. I got enough motivation to go to sunday school and relief society. I am so happy I did because relief society was amazing today. This summer has been pretty tough on me. It kinda got off on the wrong foot and set a bad impression on BYU for me. I know that its going to be great in the fall as long as I keep my faith in the Lord because he knows where my life is headed. I always have a hard time focusing in church because it's so much easier to doze off and think about other things that are on my mind. One of my roommates taught the lesson today and it was on a talk called "But if Not..." by Dennis E. Simmons. The whole talk was about faith and it was exactly what I needed to hear. At the beginning of the lesson I was just thinking about everything that was going on, the things I was stressed about and the things that I was looking forward to. I wasn't really paying attention at all. We started taking turns reading parts of the talk and I had the best section of the talk. If I had any other section, I probably would have continued to not pay attention. One of my favorite lines of the part that I read is this: "Faith is believing that although we do no understand all things, He does. Faith is knowing that although our power is limited, His is not. Faith in Jesus Christ consists of complete reliance on Him." As I was reading this during church I was just thinking...."woah". It hit me. It was definitely a reminder to me that everything is going to be fine as long as I keep my faith in Him. I transferred here because I have this gut feeling like I should be here even though I don't understand why and want so desperately to be in Hawaii. I know I'm being sort of vague as to why I've had a bad semester but its probably best to keep that out of the blog haha. You should definitely read this talk. Its from the April 2004 General Conference and its called "But if Not..." by Dennis E. Simmons.
Well right now I am currently waiting for Lindsay and Spencer to pick me up. We're going to my aunts house for dinner and Im really excited to see everyone!
been. I've lost track of time. She came for the fourth of July weekend and it had to of been one of the best if not THE best weekend I've had since I moved up here. We did so much! I don't remember which days we did what because it honestly felt like 5 days put together sincewewere always partyin! We hiked the Y one day, which took way longer than I remember ittakingwhen I went last year. After that, we went to the freedom festival! I got an awesome hempbackpack and signed up for a million raffles and didn't win anything, and she got a henna and a pink strip in her hair. After thefreedom festival we had a random urge for food so we went to Brick Oven and shared pizza and soup. Erica stalked a hott waiter and gave him her number. I think his name was Rob. We walked 
outside and there were fireworks going off from stadium of fire so we sat and watched, THEN this truck drove by who looked like someone weknew from Hawaii and decided to follow him to wherever he was going but we lost him. I don'tthink it was who we thought it was. On our way back to my place we passed a group of VERY attractive guysriding their bikes. You know what that means....PURSUIT! I think this was allonsaturday. Sunday we went to church and she got to see how small my ward is. Monday I think we went shopping. Maybe that was friday. I think it was friday actually. Yes, Friday. Because monday we went to the fourth of july parade! It was fun to watch, especially when the missionaries
showed up haha. Monday night we went to my cousin Cole's house for dinner andshe got to meet prettymuch every aunt, uncle, cousin, and grandparent. I love my family. I've got the best, craziest, most amazing family and no one can argue with me on that one. OH!And also on friday, we went to Cafe Rio and saw Jason Choi and Kelsi Cooper! Can you say hawaii reunion?!We went and got frozen yogurt. Ok Ithink that pretty much sums up that weekend. 
anyway so it wasn't a big deal haha. We didn't do as much this weekend because there wasn't much going on. We were gonna go to the llama fest but we thought it was free but it wasn't so we didn't go haha. Cheap college students. Erica and I did go to the mall to kill some time because we wanted to get massages. We came to the conclusion that pretty much every guy that works at a phone store is very attractive so we stopped at the closest one and it happened to be verizon. I went for the hott guy, she ended up getting a new phone (for free, which she wouldn't have gotten without me seeing a sign for "free phone friday"). I'm such a good friend. I loved having Taylor in town too. She and I had some pretty good conversations about life and boys...what else is important? haha. I wish she could have been here for the whole summer! Love her to death. I want my roommate back!
