Urban Poly Princess

I went to bed annoyed at bishop and just people in general. This is one of the reasons why I love Krista. She is real and not filled with these layers of hypocrisy and fakeness. She is cute and she knows she is a cute girl. She was killing me at her Chinese branch Thanksgiving party because everyone had to say what they were grateful for. The last thing she said she was grateful for was that heavenly father made her cute. The branch and I were dying. Again she reminds me of Rich my home teacher when he told the congregation he doesn't mind if he asks some girl out and she rejects him because he knows he's amazing. He reminded me so much of myself when he said that and Krista reminded me of myself too.

Rich and Krista have a lot going for them and they both know this. They are still humble. Confidence doesn't negate that. I wish my friend had that quality. Maybe it's his shyness thing. A lot of his jerky behavior can be traced to that. People who don't know Krista won't know she is confident. She is genuine, sweet and intelligent. People have this WRONG opinion of her because they judge her by surface things.

She is cute and she doesn't say a lot because she doesn't feel entirely confident with her English BUT she is also very intelligent and unlike what I think many people assume, she isn't shy. I remember when I suggested to Julie she play a piano number in sacrament meeting and my friend kept telling me to be careful about that. I kept thinking SERIOUSLY???!!!, you are trying to tell me how Krista's going to react. It may have been a big deal for him to play in church but it wasn't for her. He is a talented piano player too. What's with the nerves.

I've done a lot of things in public so I don't get nervous. I remember when I asked Krista to play for Justin's baptism. I asked her if she needed to know what she was playing beforehand or could she just play anything in the hymnbook. She told me OF COURSE she could play ANYTHING in the hymnbook. She just made me laugh. She has a testimony and she attends the temple at least once a week on her own. She wants to find her husband here. Rich told me Taiwan has very few members and thus very few options for her to consider. He told me she should stay here. Her mother wants her to stay here and work too. I'm glad she found a job. She'll be working on Icon's Chinese website. This is fabulous experience for her.

Graduate programs, ESPECIALLY an MBA program require you to present things by yourself AND in groups. I enjoyed that in my Library program. I also always tried to do something creative that still bolstered the points I wanted to make BUT at the same time made it enjoyable AND memorable. I try to do that any time I have to present something to a group of people whether that is professionally OR personally with church stuff.

Krista thought she was leaving which is why she wanted to play for sacrament meeting AND speak. I enjoyed speaking too. WE HOWEVER HAD TO ASK FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY. IT WAS NOT REQUESTED. She was too shy to ask herself BUT when I told her I'd help her make arrangements she was fine with that. I've been in this ward since its inception 3 years ago. I was NEVER asked to speak EVER and I have listened to several people give talks more than once. Krista was never asked either.

I need to sign up for tithing settlement. I need to be humble and respect bishop's position he holds even if I can't respect him. I think my first experience with bishop when he sicced Jared on me left a VERY BAD taste in my mouth. I REALLY needed help then and he didn't help me AT ALL. BUUUT I'm grateful I know the gospel is true AND I'm grateful my father in heaven was willing to help me figure things out financially.

Mosiah 12
19 And they began to question him, that they might cross him, that thereby they might have wherewith to ^aaccuse him; but he answered them boldly, and withstood all their questions, yea, to their astonishment; for he did ^bwithstand them in all their questions, and did confound them in all their words.
35 Thou shalt have no ^aother God before me.

I feel like my heart is softened and better when I read from the Book of Mormon. I have to work the early shift at the baptistry this Saturday so I need to drive back here on Friday. It'll be a day beginning at 3:30 am. She just decided to schedule me although I just did my 2 weeks of an early shift. Well, I actually missed one of my early days so I suppose it's alright. I looove working at the temple. I can't believe I couldn't work there for over a year. One day I hope I'll get why that happened.

To My Grandchildren - President Henry B. Eyring
“What choices could I make that will lead me to happiness?” And on the other hand, “What choices are likely to lead me to unhappiness?”
Whatever our personal characteristics or whatever will be our experiences, there is but one plan of happiness. That plan is to follow all the commandments of God.
From that simple statement it is not hard to summarize all I have learned about what choices lead to happiness in families. I start with the question, “What choices have led me toward loving the Lord with all my heart and soul and with all my mind?” For me it has been to choose to put myself where I felt the joy of forgiveness through the Lord’s Atonement.
 I urge those I love to accept and to magnify every calling offered them in the Church. That choice is one of the great keys to family happiness.
The pressures at every stage of life can tempt us to reject or neglect calls to serve the Savior. That can put us in spiritual peril for ourselves, our spouse, and our families. Some of those calls may seem unimportant, but my life, and my family, was changed for the better by my accepting a call to teach a deacons quorum. I felt the love of those deacons for the Savior and His love for them.
While serving others, we are most likely to plead for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Success in the Lord’s service always produces miracles beyond our own powers. The parent facing a child in serious rebellion knows that is true, as does the visiting teacher approached by a woman seeking comfort when her husband told her he was leaving her. Both servants are grateful they prayed that morning for the Lord to send the Holy Ghost as a companion.
It is only with the companionship of the Holy Ghost that we can hope to be equally yoked in a marriage free from discord. I have seen how that companionship is crucial for felicity in a marriage. The miracle of becoming one requires the help of heaven, and it takes time. Our goal is to live together forever in the presence of Heavenly Father and our Savior.
Life in families will test us. That is one of God’s purposes in giving us the gift of mortality—to strengthen us by passing through tests. That will be especially true in family life, where we will find great joy and great sorrow and challenges which may at times seem beyond our power to endure them.
“There is not one of us but what God’s love has been expended upon. There is not one of us that He has not cared for and caressed. There is not one of us that He has not desired to save, and that He has not devised means to save. There is not one of us that He has not given His angels charge concerning. We may be insignificant and contemptible in our own eyes, and in the eyes of others, but the truth remains that we are the children of God, and that He has actually given His angels—invisible beings of power and might—charge concerning us, and they watch over us and have us in their keeping.”²
I have prayed with faith that someone I loved would seek and feel the power of the Atonement. I have prayed with faith that human angels would come to their aid, and they came.