Little Things

It's been one of those weeks when I'm thinking, "Did anything happen?" 

This week has been the routine, nothing too exciting and nothing to catastrophic.  But there have 

been special moments ... LITTLE THINGS that made me realize the Lord knows us and directs us. 

- I was able to talk to an old lady in my yoga class about death and how we feel.

- I'm helping Tilly Gardiner teach our Beehives next Sunday a lesson on how to have Christlike love. 

I had read some amazing things and texted her - this is a great lesson, but how do you get the girls 

to actually love like the Savior - to take it the next step, not just having a good lesson. Then Carly 

posted or 'liked' or something on Facebook an Extra gum commercial. It's a cute little love story, but 

at the end it says "When you give extra, you get extra." If you want to feel loved, then love!

- Because of Terry Newman we were able to transfer the Vaca's records into our ward in about 15 min. 

and he wasn't even at Church. The boys are now attending Seminary. (Oh the Vaca's are back in our 

ward).

- Last Saturday, we went to the temple for baptisms.  As we were waiting - the lights went out. It's 

been like 100 the past few days. We didn't even get to do baptisms. We ended up at the Visitor's 

Center and with the emergency lights we had a testimony meeting with the kids. It was really good. 

I think the kids needed to feel the connection with each other. Kaitlyn Knapp was there and then 

came to YW on Sunday, which we haven't seen her for a long time.

- I bore my testimony on Sunday. The bishop and Jake had mentioned reading scriptures. Someone 

else mentioned prayer and so I felt prompted to bare testimony on faith. I don't know what exactly I 

said but I remember saying that I think that faith is like the pixie dust that makes it possible to fly. As 

we do little things the Lord blesses us. As we were taking the sacrament I remember thinking that is 

how the Lord is - He is always there, gently and offering to give, continually loving us. It is as we take, 

that he heals, that he strengthens, that he cleanses. I am grateful for the testimonies that you all have. 

I love the Lord. 

"Little Things" - I saw this on Facebook. I think Emily posted it cause I've never seen it. 

AND some BIG things too! Love you Michelle!

I hope you have lots and lots of Big Things happen in your life right now, but I also hope that you can 

see and appreciate the little things too. They are there. 

I'm back again!

So it has been a long while since I have been on here, and that seems wrong since I was the one who came up with this idea in the first place. Anyhow, I wanted to give everyone an update on us real quickly before I have to head off to my next class. Michelle is doing well, but the baby is getting big so they are going to do some measurements this Friday and if the baby is getting too big (when the baby gets too big with diabetics, the shoulders can get too wide to the point where they get stuck in the mother's pelvis) then the doctor said we should consider an induction (c-section). From what Michelle has told me, she would prefer to do the natural way, so we may bring up in the meeting with the doctor if necessary that we could try to induce labor, not sure if that is an option or not, but we will give it a try. As for me and school, school is going pretty well so far, and I've been able to keep up with all my classes and I've started a big programming project that is due in a couple weeks. One frustrating thing is that our financial aid petition still has not gone through and they are asking for more information, reason this is frustrating is that I started this whole process over a month ago, and each time they have sent me an email each week saying, 'this is great, we have met about it, but we need the following...' and they have done this at least 5 different times. So, I'm ready for them to be done and make a decision so that we can get the financial help we need, because we don't have enough to pay tuition without that money. So keep us in your prayers, especially Michelle, and we will keep you all updated. Love you!!!