College
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Long Days
My days are very long lately. I am either working on homework, working at work, or doing some laundry, etc. I am taking 12 credit hours this semester, and most days I feel like it is going to kill me. However, I really am enjoying all that I am learning. Hopefully it will all be worth it in the end. My family is helpful and understanding, and even my children are trying to be more helpful. I feel guilty that I am not able to spend very much time with them right now, but I hope that the time I do spend is good quality time. I look forward to…
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Busy, busy, busy….
So obviously…. I haven’t posted much since starting my new job. It has been crazy trying to balance it all, and it is about to get much worse. I was awarded a grant for school, so I need to take a full load of classes (12 credits). I have no idea how I am going to survive working 30 hrs/week at work, starting a part time web development internship, taking 12 credit hours, and somehow trying to be a mother to five crazy kids! I am sure I am getting myself in WAY over my head, but if I survive I will be very glad for all I was able…
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Opportunties
I have just been given a great opportunity! I was offered a part-time web development internship. I even get to work from home, which is very exciting. I am feeling very blessed at the moment. I know that Heavenly Father is looking out for me, and allowing me to have all of these wonderful opportunities. The hardest part of all of the great things that have happened recently is just figuring out how much time to devote to school work. I have to register for my next semester, and I am a little torn on how many classes to sign up for. I want to take a lot so that…
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Everyone has Something Valuable to Share
I believe everyone has something valuable to share with the world. In this busy, complicated world, it is so easy to think that you can’t make a difference; that what you do and what you have to offer is not important or valuable to anyone else. I have recently realized that everything we do is important, and that each one of us has something amazing to offer the world. Have you ever seen stalactites and stalagmites? They can become enormous, intricate sculptures made purely from small, slow drips of water over a long period of time! Anyone watching the slow steady drips of water that form these sculptures, would…
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Lessons Learned:Lesson 4- New Testament
Unit 2: Choice 2: Luke 16:1-12, 19-31; 17:11-19; 18:1-14. Parables and Accounts That Teach Eternal Truths. 1. Study the following parables and accounts along with the accompanying commentary from the institute student manual. Describe in writing what you feel is the major principle the Lord wants us to understand from each of the parables: a. Luke 16:1-12, the parable of the unjust steward. “The Children of This World Are in Their Generation Wiser than the Children of Light” (p. 124). It is important to prepare wisely for the future and be aware of the consequences of our decisions. b. Luke 16:19-31, the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. “What…
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Lessons Learned:Lesson 3- New Testament Class
Unit 2: Choice 2: Matthew 17:14-21. The Savior Healed a Young Man 1. Review Matthew 17:14-21, and list three things the Savior said were needed for the disciples to heal the man. a. Faith b. Prayer c. Fasting 2. Read each of the following references. Next to the reference, write what it teaches about what is needed for miracles to happen. a. 3 Nephi 18:20 You have to ask Heavenly Father for it and you have to believe that you will receive it. b. Doctrine and Covenants 50:29 Be pure (repent of your sins) ask Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ. c. Doctrine and Covenants 42:48 You need to…
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Inspirational Quote Blog
I had to create a blog for one of my first college classes that contained inspirational quotes from prophets and apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I have not updated it as often as I first intended, but hopefully I will be able to find the time to continue to add to it now. Check it out! The link is: http://tdinspirationalquote.blogspot.com/
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Web Business Class Blog
Last semester I had to create a blog for my web business class and write about what I learned each week. Here is the link to my posts there: http://myreflectionblog.weebly.com/.
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Choices, Choices, Choices…
Life is FULL of choices and right now I am struggling with the choice of how many classes to take and when! I had planned to take four classes in the Fall Semester, but realizing how stressed out and busy I will be has made me second guess that plan. Now I am considering doing just two classes in the fall, but it is so hard to decide because I know that it will just take me longer to complete my degree if I slow down my classes. I don’t want my two youngest boys (6 and 9) to remember their childhood as missing their mother because she was ALWAYS…
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Lessons Learned: Lesson 2- New Testament Class
Unit 1 Choice 1: Matthew 5:1-12. The Beatitudes 1. Read the footnote for Matthew 5:3 and the institute student manual Points to Ponder section: “The Sermon on the Mount Is Our Constitution for Perfection” (p. 61). Write a definition for the word blessed or blessedness. Blessed: happy, glad, helped, comforted, favored by the Lord. People who are ‘blessed’ are making choices that better their own lives and those people’s lives that they come in contact with. 2. Read Matthew 5:1-12. Identify or mark all of the “blessed” attributes in these verses. Also, read the definitions President Harold B. Lee (1899-1973) gave for each of these attributes found in the institute…
