30 Days of Thankfulness Day One: My Eternal Companion

I know its been a long time since I last updated my blog. A lot has happened...too much in fact. As you know, two months ago I started a new job. However due to the amount of stress, unfriendly and unprofessional enviornment I have put in my two weeks notice and as of June the 27th I will be unemployed. There are a lot of things that could bring me down right now. I worry about how we'll pay for our school in the Fall. I worry about how I'm going to work and finish up a 17 credit semester. How will I help my husband who has been feeling the weight of being a husband start to bring him down as we realize that there are some things we may never get to do and some dreams that may not come to be realized in this life. Our lives have become somewhat chaotic as of late. Between the two of us we have five callings in our ward, full schedules and three families who are asking for our attention. There are days I feel so inadequete as a wife, a visiting teacher, a daughter, a sister, a housekeeper especially. So many things are calling for our attention. There are so many things that we have been promised in our patriarchal blessings, and so many things that the Lord expects of us, I feel that we will never be able to fulfill our potential, especially when it comes to starting our family. 

For the past little while I've been thinking a lot about what the Lord has given us. So many little things go unnoticed and unappreciated. So I have decided to issue myself a challenge. I've started The 30 Days of Thankfulness Challenge. For the next 30 days I will be keeping a photo diary of things that I am thankful for. I will also include an opinions I might have or any quotes from Church Authorities as I update this. I hope that by doing this I will be able to focus less on what I haven't done and more on what I can do, less on what I don't have and more on what I do have and will yet recieve, less on myself, and more on serving faithfully in my callings as well as serving others.


For my first day, I am thankful for my loving companion, and best friend, Joshua. He is always so supportive and wants nothing but to give me the world. I'm so very grateful that he loved me enough to take me to the Temple of the Lord and marry me there for time and all eternity. I know that because of that simple choice we will be able to recieve all the blessings the Lord has promised us pertaining to our family through keeping our covenents to each other and the God. I know that we can make it through anything. I am so thankful for his love and support as we tread our way through the troubled waters of this mortal life. I know with him by my side, we will be able to raise up righteous children and show them the kind of love that can be shared.