as i am frantically searching for all my things that sustain me for a month, i agreed on the fact that i need to update. Tomorrow i am going to a place where daily showering is not practiced and neither is the traditional womans favorite pastime, the shaving of unwanted bodily hair. eew... anyway, i am super excited to spend a month in the "old country" and see the beauty therof. Hopefully i'll have time to update this site and tell you all about it, and hopefully make all of you jealous. For my close friends, expect a postcard, or an e-mail. i love everybody, and have an excellent summer without me.

a quick update for the coolest website ever. I graduated from seminary today, to the complete relief to myself, my parents and my seminary teacher. I am proud of my accomplishments as a seminary graduate and an eagle scout. Ben spoke today and his testimony really touched me when he testified of his belief and reassurance of the plan of salvation. He said he was happy that the plan of salvation was there to show him what lies before and that he was happy that he could see his father again in heaven. It then hit me that i also have this same testimony, but i had been hiding it from myself for a long time. I had gained it when my grandfather died, then when Richard died, it even strengthened my testimony that we will see people in heaven after they have passed away. I was telling myself that i didnt have any sort of testimony, and that the only way to get anything was to read the Book of Mormon. I know that i will get a stronger testimony from reading the Book of Mormon, but that there is allready a foundation there, however small. I just needed to find it.