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Keepin up my Goals!

This has been a pretty good week! After a stressful week last week, I didn't have a ton of homework which was awesome. Now I have at least one test every week for the rest of March though, WOOHOO. But not really. I'm not very excited. Such is college life... Seriously though, college is a blast, I am a HUGE fan of college, but there's no denying the fact that it is REALLY hard. I really have to work hard to get grades that I am content with it, and it's really frustrating sometimes. Nothing feels better though than studying really hard for a test, taking it, and then seeing a score on that (wretched) T.V. screen in the Testing Center that makes you so happy that you can't help but smile! So that is school in a nutshell. Good times, good times.

My new healthy/nutritious lifestyle is going quite well so far! Not to toot my own horn or anything. I'm just so lucky to have my awesome friend Sam to work out with! We have the same goals, work out in similar ways (even though she can lift heavier weights than me, but hey I'm working on it), and we really stay on each others case about nutrition. Whenever one of us is tempted to get dessert at the Cannon, we stop each other. We choose our meals together at the Cannon as well to try and make them as healthy as we possibly can. Sometimes it's difficult, but we really are doing our best! In addition, for the past two weeks, we have not missed a single day of exercising!! We've made and stuck to a workout schedule that goes like this:

Monday: Pinterest Circuit Workout (these are intense, like sometimes I think I'm gonna die) @7:45 p.m.
Tuesday: Cardio/Weights at the Gym @ 7 am
Wednesday: Pinterest Workout either before or after Modern Family at night
Thursday: Cardio/Weights at the Gym @ 8 am
Friday: Cardio/Abs at the gym @ 7 am
Saturday: POWER WALK
Then of course Sunday is the day of rest! However, today was an absolutely GORGEOUS day, so we went on a lovely 2 hour long walk! It was a beautiful day and we just couldn't let it go to waste! Anyways, I'm already starting to feel so much better just in general! It's so much easier when you have a friend to get healthy with! Every time my alarm goes off at 6:30 in the morning and I'm tempted to go back to bed, I just think to myself, "Sam's up, so why shouldn't I be up?" So yeah, it's awesome. Almost as awesome as this acronym for our motivation: being able to LOOK GOOD in bikinis (not wear them). Prepare yourselves, this is awesome:

Bulk up
Inspiration
Kick boys' butts at sports
I Can and I Will
NO EXCUSES
Intense
Sexy (and we know it)

So that's my workout life! WOO. so exciting, I know.

I have been thinking a lot about a discussion that we had in my Book of Mormon class this week. We are currently studying 3rd Nephi, which is one of my favorite books of scripture. In 3 Nephi 11, Christ asks each member of the multitude that he is visiting in the Americas to come to him individually and touch the prints of the nails in his sides and in his hands. Brother Merrill told us all to turn in look at the clock on the wall. He said, "When the second hand reaches the 3, look at it with me for 10 seconds." After we had done this he said, "If you had exactly that much time alone with the Savior, what would you say? Are you ready now to stand in his presence?" I've been reflecting on that a lot this past week. I want more than anything to be worthy to stand in my Savior's presence. I know that I am not even close to being there yet. I still have so much to learn and I need to continue to grow. At this point in my life, I honestly don't know what I would express to my Savior if I had only ten seconds with him. I just hope that I can live my life to the point that when it ends, I will know exactly what to say. I want to be able to stand before him knowing that I have dedicated my life to serving him and striving to be more like him. I am so grateful for this life and for the opportunity that it gives me to learn and grow each and every day. I am thankful for the experiences that I have that have strengthened my testimony. I just love the Gospel!

Finally, a few quotes that I have found on Pinterest that I love. Food for thought.
"Keep trying, be believing, be happy, don't be discouraged, thinks will work out." -Gordon B. Hinckley

"Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven, but for those who embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they come." -Jeffrey R. Holland

"Next to God we are nothing, but to him we are everything." -Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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