Bajo el mismo sol

I watched the sunset today. I walked a friend to her apartments and on the way back I decided to just watch it. I crossed the street and walked up the stadium that faces the sunset perfectly.

In A Knights Tale, Chaucer takes a moment & exclaims, "Days like these are far too rare to cheapen with heavy handed words." It was in that moment as I watched the sunset that I understood those words. I couldn't explain what I saw, for words could not describe. It was more of a feeling. A feeling I definitely enjoyed. I loved today's sunset and I'm hoping to make this "climbing up the stadium to watch the sunset" an everyday thing. I hope you can take a moment of your day to watch the sun set. You know what they say, no sunset is ever the same.

Come what may & love it.

Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin gave an amazing talk about these words. They were words his mom would speak to him after things didn't quite go the way he'd expect them too. Those simple but powerful words helped him take the bad, with the good.

This semester, I feel like I am definitely learning what it means to take what life throws at you and loving it. I started this semester very different than my previous semester. I'm not going to get into detail, but I will say that I wasn't happy with the way things had gone down before heading back to school and I wasn't ready to go back to Idaho just yet.

But I did leave. And it was mostly because I needed a place to runaway from everything that wasn't going the way I wanted it to. However, problems don't go away by just running away from them. That just doesn't happen. No matter how much I wished it could.

I learned a very important lesson that first week I was back in Rexburg:

GOD TAKES CARE OF IT. Especially after we do our part and put our trust in him.

Things are still not perfect. But I've learned to be okay with that. There's this quote from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants that has always stuck with me, "Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."