It's been a ginormous blessing to have my starter work as well as it does, even though it's broken. I pray every time I get into that car that it will start quickly, and it does. Another tender mercy of the Lord.

Charity: The Pure Love of Christ

I was blessed to be able to speak in church yesterday on the pure love of Christ. I think it helped me understand what "charity" really is. The talks I read in my preparation were really insightful and wonderful. I love preparing for talks!

Talk about bald spots...!

I drove back to Mountain Home for a friend’s wedding reception back in August. Well, Karen’s husband, Kent, worked on my car that weekend and discovered another miraculous tender mercy of the Lord: one of my front tires had an eight inch bald spot! Kent was amazed that I’d made it the 350 + mile trip to Mtn. Home without a blowout. Believe me, I was amazed, too! He rotated my tires but told me that I’d need at least two new ones, if not all four, before I left for Twin Falls to see my best friend, Emily.

I was running on a tight schedule on the 16th (Monday) when I got to Walmart and was told that the wait for all new tires was two hours! Karen called Les Schwab, but their wait time was an hour and a half, so I went back to Walmart. This time a young guy came out and gave me the quote. He said he’d “jump right on” my car and that the wait time would be 30-45 minutes, no more than an hour max. So with divine help I was able to visit my best friend for a little over an hour before heading back to Provo. :D

And, thankfully, I had enough money in savings to pay for all of the tires.

A few weeks ago I woke up late and came very close to being late to work. I had woken up to my alarms, but had delayed getting out of bed to the point that I had fallen back to sleep. I woke up again not to my own alarm but to my roommate's. After peeking at the clock I jumped out of bed and rushed to ready myself for work in order to leave on time.

Talking to my roommate, she said that she had thought that it was weird that she'd set her alarm for 7:30 am when normally she would get up at 8 am, but when she had been setting her alarm the night before she had felt that she needed to set her alarm half an hour earlier than normal.

I am grateful to the people who manifest the hand of the Lord in my life by listening to and obeying the promptings of the Holy Spirit. This is yet another experience in which I was able to recognize the tender mercies of Lord being given to me.

I am grateful for thoughtful home teachers.

I am blessed to live in such a beautiful country.

I am SO thankful that my chem concurrent enrollment credits transferred over!

I'm extremely grateful to live so close to my favorite siblings.

I'm blessed to have made it to the county assessors in time--one less ticket to be furious over.

I am thankful for chemicals that make and keep hair curly!
I'm blessed to have an amazing hairdresser.
I am blessed to live only a three-minute walk away from my preferred salon.
I'm grateful to have been able to afford my new hair style. It looks SOOO much better!

I am blessed with working limbs. Life would be so difficult and so different without them.

I am grateful to live only a few minutes drive from the temple. It is SUCH a blessing!

I am thankful for games--they're so fun!

I am grateful to live where food is delicious and plentiful.

I am blessed to have at least one job where I can eat after every shift. And the food is AmAzing.

I am thankful for paved roads to drive on.

I am blessed to have such adorable nieces and nephews. They're so sweet. :)

I am thankful for clouds. Clouds are cool and are connected to precipitation!

I am grateful to have glass windows. It's so nice to be able to view the beauty of the earth from the comfort of the indoors.

I am SO glad to have a bed to sleep on! It's much more comfortable than the floor.

I am grateful for the many servicemen and women who have kept this country free!

I am thankful for internet access--access to knowledge, among other things.

I am blessed to have beautiful eyes. They're just so gorgeous. ;D

Indoor plumbing. SO thankful for that!!

I am thankful for refrigerators.

And for microwaves. How would I survive without them?!

I am blessed to have a wonderful body that has few problems.

I'm thankful for cameras that preserve memories that otherwise would be forgotten.

I am so thankful for missionaries!

I'm blessed to have lighting that happens with just a flip of a switch.

I am grateful for fans. I HATE being hot!

I am blessed to live where there are so many Latter-day Saints.

I am blessed to live at a time when there is a living prophet and living apostles of Jesus Christ on the earth!

I am blessed to have a general idea of what I want to do with my life.

I am blessed to have such hilarious siblings. When we're together, there's no such thing as 'boring'!

I am grateful for my knowledge of the gospel. Kristy is right--being in the MTC will be much different for me than for most other missionaries.

I am thankful for my cell phone! Communication is key.

I have been blessed to live in a prosperous country, even though, most of the time, I resent the people living here.

I'm thankful for rain on sunny days--and for rainbows. :)

I am thankful for animals. Pets AND the wild ones!

I am blessed to be able to work to provide for myself. Even more of a blessing, I enjoy both of my jobs!

I am thankful for music and the beauty that it brings to the world when used properly.

I'm thankful to be able to breathe normally (on a good day, which today is not).

I am blessed to be able to see color. It's such an enormous part of my life!

I am blessed to have glasses and contacts so that I can see things clearly.