A New Begining

So in case you have not heard. I got married on July 5th, 2013 to Jeffrey Scott for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake City Temple. So in honor of the occasion, I am starting a new blog of all our fun adventures together. If you are interested in what we are doing now here is the link. I will only be posting on this blog from now on.............

thescotts2013.blogspot.com

Come join in the fun of our lives together :)

The Lord Knows Best

I am constantly amazed at the confidence the Lord has in me. I am amazed at the things I am able to accomplish and do when the Lord tells me to. There are things that I never would have even attempted until the Lord told me I needed to try them.

I have also been thinking of Sister Julie Beck's talk last year to the members in the Utah Valley Regional Conference. She talked about how we are doing better than we think we are in our path towards eternal life but that we know we could be doing better. I have connected this to trials and the hard things we are asked to do in the church. The Lord stretches us to the point that we think we can go no further and then he pushes us a little farther. This is the "we can do better" part of our lives. We may think that we are doing the best that we can in life but the Lord will show us how much better we can be doing.

Looking back we notice that although it hurt at that moment it has made us a stronger person. We notice that we are better because of that push. There are some lessons we can never learn if we don't push ourselves to be better and to try our best to follow the Lord's plan for us. This is where the spirit comes in to play the most in our lives. Learning to trust in the Lord and follow the promptings that we receive.

I am amazed at the Lord's timing as well. It seems that answers to prayers come at just the right time and just as we cross one hurdle He throws another one at us.

I am eternally grateful for the Spirit that I have constantly with me. I am also glad that my parents taught me to always be prepared for what ever the Lord has need for me to do. I have been asked a couple weeks ago what goals I have for my life. Well I want to live my life in a way that I will always be able to help those in need and be the Lord's hands on this earth. This is now my new life's goal.

I have found that this movie is so touching and has really helped me to reach this goal of helping others around me:

Sometimes we just have to take a leap of faith and hope that the Lord will be their to catch us if we fall.

Bucket List part 2

Yesterday we crossed off item number 2 on our bucket list. We had a whipped cream fight. It was so much fun!!!! Here are the pictures:

Yes, we had a blast:)

Bucket list

Well we crossed off one item from our bucket list today..... Pulling a round about in the middle of an intersection.

Yes that is right, we were on our way back from Wally world. The way that I go there are exactly 4 round abouts that you have to cross. The first one I did regularly. The second one I crawled around it at a whopping 3 miles and hour at least twice around. The third one I went around 5 times. The fourth one I could only go around twice because there were other cars in the way.

In the car with me were my roommates Aubrey and Alison. I created a fifth round about on the way home. I was coming up on the intersection of 2nd East and 3rd North, when out of no where this round about pops up. Of course I had to follow it. Then as if nothing had happened it disappeared again.

It was the craziest thing. Then when we pulled into the parking lot of our apartment complex, my roommates fell out of the car and almost kissed the ground. I thought it was hilarious. Now we can say that we have officially crossed off an item from our bucket list:)

Apartment Bucket List

This year our apartment has made a bucket list of all the things we want to do together throughout the semester. Here it is:

1. make aprons
2. drop bouncy balls in the Tanner/SWKT
3. Staching through the snow
4. astronomy show
5. make some one else's wish come true
6. swing dancing
7. play with all the Eyring displays
8. pull a round about in an intersection
9. Whipped Cream Fight
10. Shaving Cream Fight

It is going to be a great semester!!!

New Year

Sorry I haven't written on here for a while. I have been super busy this year.

I just wanted to take some time on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon to reflect on the greatest gift in my life. The Savior and his atonement. One of my favorite quotes of all time is by Chieko N. Okazaki about the Savior.

I couldn't find the exact quote but she talks about how the Savior know s how we feel all the time. he knows our situations and how we feel. He knows all stages of life and what challenges that come with each stage of mortality.

I love this quote because it shows just how infinite the atonement is. It shows how the Savior is our ultimate comforter. I love how you can cast all your burdens on him and lean on his arm. I also know for a fact that the Savior is the one person in this world that will never let you down.

I was reading a letter from my friend Tairsa, who is on a mission right now, and she said that "the gospel is a hospital for the sick, not a spa for the perfect". This quote really hit home for me because I am always striving to be perfect. But I understand now that it will never happen in this life, and that is okay. The Savior doesn't expect me or anyone else to be perfect in this life. Perfect people don't need a Savior.

Therefore I am going to strive to be the best person I can be and try my hardest to be a better person every day but if I mess up that will be okay. He knows what is going on in my mind.

Another comfort to me is that Satan doesn't know what I am thinking. Only Heavenly Father and the Savior know our thoughts, I learned this from the scriptures. This is a tremendous comfort because of the many temptations that we are faced with everyday.

I would just like to finish by saying that I am so thankful for the atonement and its power in my life. I mess up constantly but I know through the Savior's redeeming power I will be able to live with my Heavenly Father again one day and look up into his face and know that I am home once again.

Music For Life

I have been struggling for weeks now trying to decide on a song that basically explains my life.I have been trying really hard to come up with one and I think that I finally found one. Not really, actually I found about 50 but I have slimed this list down to 5. Here was the criteria:

1) Had to be an up beat song. Any one who knows me would understand this. Any one who doesn't know me.................... well you should!

2) Has to make people smile when they hear it. I like to make people happy, therefore my song has to make people want to listen to it not be all down and depressing!

3) Has to be a unique song. I am not a normal person.... Much to my mother's chagrin I am not a normal sweet little girl. I like to think have spunk and am my own person.

4) I have to like it... This is a pretty vague category I know but if the song is going to be about my life I better like it


So here are the 5 songs I found...............

1) 2012 by Jay Sean
2) Dynamite by Taio Cruz
3) Club Can't Handle Me
4) Tik Tok
5) Fire Burning


So if you have any opinions or songs you think of that are not on this list let me know!!!