Good.

Life has been so good. I go to bed each night incredibly thankful for the life that I have been blessed with. I try to count my blessings before I go to bed and I honestly fall asleep before I run out. It is the best.

I love the opportunity that I have to live and study in such a place where I can be surrounded by others who want to uplift me and help me to grow spiritually towards eternal life. Where I have friends who go to the temple with me and read the scriptures as a group and have dance parties with our ipods in the middle of campus at night and offer to help me when I am stressed and do not get mad when I shove cupcakes in their face and invite me to go places in their cars and throw fun parties and make packages for friends on missions and the fact that I even have friends on missions and AHHHH it is all just so good. I feel blessed to have friends who live in a way that we can have the Spirit with us no matter what we are doing - because we are doing good things. I see my friends at other universities and legitimately feel like they are getting a little jipped off because they do not get to do all the fun stuff I do! And it is stuff that I will not only remember the next morning but for the rest of my life.

Sorry this is so jumbled and random, but I am having a hard time verbalizing how great things have been going. I mean, do not get me wrong, I still have hard times and tests and all that nastiness but when you look at it, it is really not that bad. I am taking tests because I am STUDYING at a crazy awesome university! I go to college! I am stressed because I am taking classes that PUSH me to be the best I can be! It is hard to explain, but basically I am happy. A pure and genuine happiness.

On a serious note, I know this happiness does not stem from me - it is all because I have a loving and kind Heavenly Father who knows exactly who and what I need. I feel His love so strongly every day. I honestly cannot imagine living in a world where I didn't have this relationship with my Heavenly Father and feel His love for not only me but for those around me as well. I know that if I do my part, He will do the rest and the plan of happiness He has for me is by far greater than any plan I could have for myself.

I am so fortunate to live in a place where it is not hard to keep the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and receive personal revelation that enriches everything around me. Life is just better when you have that open line of communication with the man upstairs. I know that we have a Father in Heaven who listens to us and speaks to us if we take the time to listen.

I admit, this is not my best work. But I have to say, it is one of my favorites.

Life is good.

Xoxo