Change the World!!

Quote Of The Week!

“Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up.”  Andy Law

I found this quote on a website and I loved it! It's so true!! 

If there is something we really, truly want, we have to be willing to change and most of all compromise. We are going to be faced with different things and meet different people that are going to give us a new outlook. Love it!

DISNEYLAND

Just thought I'd share somthing that made me laugh as I was in Disneyland this last week. The day we got there, we decided to walk around Downtown Disney for a while. As we were walking across the street from our hotel, it was about 8 at night and all the little families were leaving Disneyland. Everything single person leaving had the biggest smile EVER on their faces. Even though I'm sure their feet hurt and they were completely exhausted from the long events of the day, they were still so happy, the little kids especially. They had their balloons in hand (which I decided I hate so much! $8 for something that will be flat in a day just seems unreasonable to me), the Mickey ears on their heads, and were wearing the colorful princess dresses. There are the occasional temper tantrums for not getting their favorite toy or dropping their ice cream cone but hey! Those cones mean a lot to us!!

Wishing For Better Days

"The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead!"
-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

This is especially for me right now!! I'm so excited for days ahead and where my life is going to take me in these next couple of months that I'm losing sight of what is happening right now. I need to be loving and enjoying life right now and living it to it's fullest so when those days to come are here, I can say without I doubt I don't have any regrets. How often it is I get caught up dreaming about my life to come, and I have to remind myself there are still things to accomplish, lives to change before the next days come.
Thank you Pinterest for this quote :)

Tandem Bike Ride

I've been taught my whole life to trust that things will work out how they are supposed to and not to stress about it. Just do my best and it will all be okay in the end. However, I don't think that is as easy as it sounds. I like to have control of my life and let myself determine where and how I fast I go.
A couple weeks in my institute class, we had a lesson about this. It was about learning to trust God that everything would work out. My teacher related it to riding a tandem bike with God. At first he lets us drive. We can go wherever we want and see who we want. We can travel as fast as we'd like and take any route. After a while, He asks if He can take over. He isn't very cautious and drives very quick and doesn't take very safe routes. He just keeps yelling back at you "Pedal! Pedal!" So you just keep on pedaling. Often He stops to visit people where you receive gifts, but you can't keep all the gifts because there isn't enough room, so you give them to other people you visit. He takes sharp corners and dodges many trees, but no matter however scared you get everything is always okay. He just yells at you, "Pedal!!!"
If there is only one thing I remember from this class, it is this comparison. There are so many times in my life when I am so confused about why things are happening the way they are and I don't know what to do. If I just remember to trust that things will always work out how they are supposed to and just keep "Pedalling" on!

Learning to Dance in the Rain

You know the quote, "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain"? Well, I had a conversation with a friend yesterday the related to just that but so much more. She was telling me about when she went to Dixie after attending SUU how she thought "What am I doing!?!?" and then when she came back to SUU she missed Dixie. She went on to tell me she had to learn to be happy wherever she was. She said that was a time in her life that she learned the most while having a difficult time.

She got me thinking a lot about my own life. There are times in my life that make me wonder, "What in the heck am I doing here!" or "Why does nothing seem to be going my way?" I need to learn to be happy no matter what trials I'm facing and trust that everything will be okay. I need to realize that everything does happen for a reason.