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HELLO ASU EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM, [bye bye] sleep!

I have been [extremely] busy this week, and unfortunately its only the first week of classes and it only gets harder from here! I am in my program now for early childhood education and let me tell you, ASU doesn't mess around! Say what you will about ASU undergrad schooling, but folks this is the first time since HIGH SCHOOL i've had to sweat about homework :D Oh I [love] the challenge.

My homework:

40 page reading [x5] {one for each class}

hyperlinked powerpoints

2 articles of reading [x5]

starts to [at least] 20 page research papers

Thats just the start of my week! okay so as much as I complain, I love the challenge [miss the sleep] I guess I just have to learn how to survive on 5 hours of sleep each night! So with how busy I have been, I have managed to do a few things this past week that have kept me sane.

Monday - Brother Calton's [Book of Mormon class]

Tuesday - Brother Calton's [Latter day hymns class]

TEMPLE [with Kristi]

Wednesday - Brother Calton's [Book of Mormon class]

Thursday - Brother Calton's [Latter day hymns class]

Pretty much Brother Calton is the man, and invites so much spiritual growth into my life! [I love him for it!] oh and this goes without saying, but I enjoy saying it: {I LOVE THE GOSPEL}

Catching up!

Okay I'll admit it, i am terrible at updating when my life gets crazy busy, but heres what it has consisted of lately.

- making large vw vans out of crate paper

- staple-guning flower garlands to walls

- working at express

- smiling LOTS

- preparing for school

- preparing for no social life for 6 months

- and a crazy dream

You wanna know the crazy dream right? Well i hope you answered [yes] since im going to tell you anyways.

...... So I was working at express when there was a hostage situation at the mall, all of my co-workers and i were hiding in the back room. A male co-worker [didnt have a face the whole dream] grabbed me by the neck and held a gun to my head and shouted to the group "I'm taking her with me, im a part of this whole thing!" and instead of me pleading not to go or asking for help in terror i screamed, "WAIT! can i bring my scriptures?" [k really i did, but this isn't over yet] so he let me bring my scriptures. And the next thing i remember, i woke up in a half filled bathtub [with my clothes on] and with barbed wire constraining me into the tub and with all sorts of bombs attached to me to blow off my leg and my tush tush aka [my peach]. As the kidnapper is explaining to me how the thing works and how im going to die a slow and painful death without a leg or [my peach] he then asks me "any last words?" with a smile in my heart and an even bigger one on my face i replied, "See you in heaven!".... then i woke up.

I know im crazy and sorry i talk about the gospel a lot but now you know its even in my dreams. i am the crazy weird convert who dreams about my scriptures and who even in my dreams understands the expanse of the atonement.

In my hymns class in institute with Bro [amazingness] Calton he asked us to read certain verses of hymns all about the atonement and this hymn #186 [Again we meet around the Board] really hit me.

1. Again we meet around the board
Of Jesus, our redeeming Lord,
With faith in his atoning blood,
Our only access unto God.

2. He left his Father’s courts on high,
With man to live, for man to die,
A world to purchase and to save
And seal a triumph o’er the grave.

3. Help us, O God, to realize
The great atoning sacrifice,
The gift of thy beloved Son,
The Prince of Life, the Holy One.

we talked about how in everything we do the most important thing we learn is about our pre-mortal existence. Once we know who we are, where we came from and where we can go [because of the atonement] {though the atonement} the veil becomes thinner.

I guess all im trying to get out is, look at every individual around you: member, non-member, awesome person, terrible person and see them how Christ sees them. See them for their potential, see them for who there were in the council in heaven, and see them for who they can become with Christ's help. Love them for who they were in the pre-mortal, and love them for who they will become after the resurrection.

The war is raging on earth, we have the upper hand if we would just use the good around us. So be on the winning side today and love everyone around you........ even those who are trying to blow you up in a bathtub :D