Urban Poly Princess

I looove this!!!

Looking at my calendar I have 10 working days left. 2 this week then 4 for the next two weeks. My visiting teachers are coming over today. I didn't go to our FHE yesterday. It's that time of the month and yesterday I felt like a river. I thought about the pioneer women and how that must have been so horrible for them. I'm glad we have a pioneer heritage. I also thought about them a lot when I walked to work over a week. Walking is easy but the scorching temperatures are from hell.

Helaman 4
5 And in the fifty and seventh year they did come down against the Nephites to battle, and they did commence the work of death; yea, insomuch that in the fifty and eighth year of the reign of the judges they succeeded in obtaining possession of the land of Zarahemla; yea, and also all the lands, even unto the land which was near the land Bountiful.

I like the phrase commence the work of death. I'm not morbid it is just beautifully said. Poetic even.

24 And they saw that they had become weak, like unto their brethren, the Lamanites, and that the Spirit of the Lord did no more preserve them; yea, it had withdrawn from them because the Spirit of the Lord doth not dwell in unholy temples—

Grateful in Any Circumstances - Dieter F. Uctdorf
We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.⁶ Many of us would have been inclined to withdraw, complain, and agonize about the difficulty of the journey.
You do not need to see the Savior, as the Apostles did, to experience the same transformation. Your testimony of Christ, born of the Holy Ghost, can help you look past the disappointing endings in mortality and see the bright future that the Redeemer of the world has prepared.

I complain a lot but I am always grateful. I have been blessed beyond belief. I can't believe what I have received and continue to receive EVERY day. The biggest blessing I enjoy is the testimony I have of the Savior and his role in my life. Just the ability to improve each day is such a gift. Progression brings me joy. 

I remembered seeing house pictures when I first looked at Curtis' Facebook Page. I went back to try to get a sense of his design style. I think those are pictures of the first house he bought. While I love how he dresses very much we don't share the same interior decorating preferences. While I am going to give him the first shot to take everything I don't want to take to Salt Lake, he may not like the same things I do. Who knows he might like my ugly couch. This is why I want him to look first. Before I take down my decorative things he can see if he'd even want that. 

It's about lunchtime and I'm hungry.