Dear READER,
Today has probably been the busiest day I've had since I can remember. I love being busy but sometimes there is an overabundance, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
It took me 2 hours to get into the office this morning. I was at the metro stop bright and early 5:45am. I wanted to be in early as I had so much to do today. Well I didn't get into the office until 7:30am. It was very frustrating - but on the bright side I was able to get a lot of scripture reading done.
Today was the first day since I started my diet at the beginning of the year that someone who didn't know I was on one mentioned how good I was looking. I work with this women and I think she is gorgeous. I literally want to look like her. Well as we were passing in the hall we said good morning as we passed. She then turned around and came right up to me. 'Jenessa, I just want to let you know, you are looking really good these days.' Maybe it was because I was a slob before - I don't know but she said I mean you are looking really good. I took it as well she might not know that's I've lost 15 pounds or am down 3 dress sizes but she notices that I am looking good which is great. It could have also been because I put some lip gloss on today. Take it as you well, I felt pretty good.
I had 20 message on my phone today. I was in the supply room packing most of the day so I missed a lot of calls. BUT I called everyone back and was able to help them before I left the office. It made me feel like the Hero.
Even with that said I have brought work home to do as I have to finish invoicing, emails, and inputting data before I can go to bed. I'm procrastinating a bit by writing instead of working. I love my job and how busy I am but man today has been really busy and I am just tired and want to sleep for 12 hours. Wouldn't that be nice.
I went Visiting Teaching -- the we taught was sooooo cool. She reminds me of my cousin Cam who just got married. This sister has just turned 20 and is engaged to this charming guy. The date is June 26th or maybe it was July 26....one of those. She is sooo excited. We got to see the ring, the dress, the bridesmaid dresses, the flowers, it was so much fun. I was a bit surprised at how it went tonight because in Church I have always seen her as quite and kind of in the background but today when we arrived wow she was so cool and talked with us and laughed and enjoyed the whole thing, it wasn't awkward at all. I just love VISITING TEACHING.
And my companion, I know I said it yesterday but she is just soooo great. I have been so very blessed.
I went to my first Family Home Evening (FHE) since moving out here. It was good. Interesting, but good. I got to meet a lot of new people. I also learned that the whole UTAH and BYU rivalry is alive and out there. I'd be in trouble if I felt that way at all as one of my Best friends went to the 'U'. And even more then that, I almost did my graduate program there. Taking off the blue and putting on the red, but I didn't end up doing that.
Lets talk about Captain Planet for a minute. I never watched this show on TV growing up but apparently it was my generations thing. Everyone in my FHE group knew about it and loved it. I was actually surprised by how much they knew or wanted to know about it. What was sooo great about Captain Planet. I didn't stay long after that as I had another appointment but it was fun to see how excited everyone especially the brethren got about this show.
So know that I've put laundry in, eaten dinner, and gotten in my PJ's I should probably get to work so that I can get to bed at some point tonight.
Yours Truly,
Jenessa
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Day 1
Dear READER,
It was interesting today as I relearned something about prayer. I learned that the Lord sometimes just likes to hear from us. Yes just to acknowledge that he is there and to talk with him.
I always love talking with my Dad. No matter what I have going on in life or how stressed I am, after talking with my Dad I feel great. Well I found that the same works while talking to my Heavenly Father. I had known this but had somehow forgotten. So as I said my prayers today and just talked with Heavenly Father - told him how I was feeling, what was going on, what I was afraid to do that day, and what I was excited about....I had that same feeling of GREATNESS that I get after talking with my Dad. It wasn't anything important that I said. I wasn't praying for something I needed or anything else I just went to talk with my Heavenly Father. It was a wonderful experience and I would recommend it to everyone.
I use the time in the morning on the Metro to read my Scriptures. I am reading the Book of Mormon and am currently in 3 Nephi. The Lord has just appeared to the Nephites. I am loving it. I really like it because everyone is super quite and leaves you alone. I have a paperback copy of the Book of Mormon and a yellow highlighter and that is it. And I just read for the 30 to 45 minutes I'm on metro in the morning. It starts my day out right and I am spiritual fed.
Well this morning as I was standing at my transfer point to get on a Blue line train - reading my Book of Mormon minding my own business. This women started to watch me, more then I liked. It wasn't even inconspicuous. She turned her whole body at me and just looked at me. Me feeling a bit awkward and knowing for a fact that I did not know her tried to dig deeper into what I was reading. Finally I though she is never going to stop, just ask her what she wants. I looked up at her and went to ask my question when she said "so what book are you in?". Taken back for a second I said, "3 Nephi, Christ is just appearing to the people of Nephi.". The conversation went from there. She is a member of the church and just didn't know how to ask if I was as well or if I was investigating since it was a soft cover Book of Mormon and my book mark is a pass along card.
Anyways it was fun to meet another member of the Church while on the metro. She has just been called to be the assistant girls camp director. I think that is one of the coolest callings ever. You get to plan cool fun activities, hang out with a bunch of silly girls, and party the entire time. How cool is that. The world really is becoming smaller every day.
One of the sweetest thing happened today. I am walking 26 miles on May 4th with the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Each walker is supposed to raise $1800 before then in order to put towards helping women with Breast Cancer and finding a cure. Well I'm at $500 and have been finding it really hard to get any type of donation. So this sweet thing, one of my friends put together this facebook post and sent it to everyone she knew. It stated that I would be walking and was working on raising $1800 for this walk and asked them to support me and make a donation. I got all emotional when I saw it because she had taken the time and effort to put something together that would help me. How sweet was that.
Everyone keeps saying that the snow is coming and that we won't have work tomorrow. I feel like they say that every time and then the snow never comes and I still get to go to work. Even if we don't have to go in tomorrow I will still have to work from home because this is the busiest time of the entire year and I have so much to do.
My flowers from my Birthday are dying. They used to feel my entire apartment with their aroma but know they just sit their and wilt. I think I am going to add a biweekly flower allowance to my budget.
So -- if you have gotten this far you might be thinking wow this is not like Jenessa's usual post, it's all over the place and really random. I don't write in a journal. I have a really hard time just sitting down and doing it and when I do sit down to do it I feel like I have to write everything and start from where I left off. I type a whole lot faster then I write and I only write the thing I think are somewhat important. So I'm going to try writing entries like this along with my other posts. My reasoning is because as I am reading the Book of Mormon I realized that the only reason we have it or any other piece of scripture is because someone sat down and wrote it. I also was commanded my an apostle of the Lord to write a journal or keep a history so here it is.
Yours Truly,
Jenessa
It was interesting today as I relearned something about prayer. I learned that the Lord sometimes just likes to hear from us. Yes just to acknowledge that he is there and to talk with him.
I always love talking with my Dad. No matter what I have going on in life or how stressed I am, after talking with my Dad I feel great. Well I found that the same works while talking to my Heavenly Father. I had known this but had somehow forgotten. So as I said my prayers today and just talked with Heavenly Father - told him how I was feeling, what was going on, what I was afraid to do that day, and what I was excited about....I had that same feeling of GREATNESS that I get after talking with my Dad. It wasn't anything important that I said. I wasn't praying for something I needed or anything else I just went to talk with my Heavenly Father. It was a wonderful experience and I would recommend it to everyone.
I use the time in the morning on the Metro to read my Scriptures. I am reading the Book of Mormon and am currently in 3 Nephi. The Lord has just appeared to the Nephites. I am loving it. I really like it because everyone is super quite and leaves you alone. I have a paperback copy of the Book of Mormon and a yellow highlighter and that is it. And I just read for the 30 to 45 minutes I'm on metro in the morning. It starts my day out right and I am spiritual fed.
Well this morning as I was standing at my transfer point to get on a Blue line train - reading my Book of Mormon minding my own business. This women started to watch me, more then I liked. It wasn't even inconspicuous. She turned her whole body at me and just looked at me. Me feeling a bit awkward and knowing for a fact that I did not know her tried to dig deeper into what I was reading. Finally I though she is never going to stop, just ask her what she wants. I looked up at her and went to ask my question when she said "so what book are you in?". Taken back for a second I said, "3 Nephi, Christ is just appearing to the people of Nephi.". The conversation went from there. She is a member of the church and just didn't know how to ask if I was as well or if I was investigating since it was a soft cover Book of Mormon and my book mark is a pass along card.
Anyways it was fun to meet another member of the Church while on the metro. She has just been called to be the assistant girls camp director. I think that is one of the coolest callings ever. You get to plan cool fun activities, hang out with a bunch of silly girls, and party the entire time. How cool is that. The world really is becoming smaller every day.
One of the sweetest thing happened today. I am walking 26 miles on May 4th with the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Each walker is supposed to raise $1800 before then in order to put towards helping women with Breast Cancer and finding a cure. Well I'm at $500 and have been finding it really hard to get any type of donation. So this sweet thing, one of my friends put together this facebook post and sent it to everyone she knew. It stated that I would be walking and was working on raising $1800 for this walk and asked them to support me and make a donation. I got all emotional when I saw it because she had taken the time and effort to put something together that would help me. How sweet was that.
Everyone keeps saying that the snow is coming and that we won't have work tomorrow. I feel like they say that every time and then the snow never comes and I still get to go to work. Even if we don't have to go in tomorrow I will still have to work from home because this is the busiest time of the entire year and I have so much to do.
My flowers from my Birthday are dying. They used to feel my entire apartment with their aroma but know they just sit their and wilt. I think I am going to add a biweekly flower allowance to my budget.
So -- if you have gotten this far you might be thinking wow this is not like Jenessa's usual post, it's all over the place and really random. I don't write in a journal. I have a really hard time just sitting down and doing it and when I do sit down to do it I feel like I have to write everything and start from where I left off. I type a whole lot faster then I write and I only write the thing I think are somewhat important. So I'm going to try writing entries like this along with my other posts. My reasoning is because as I am reading the Book of Mormon I realized that the only reason we have it or any other piece of scripture is because someone sat down and wrote it. I also was commanded my an apostle of the Lord to write a journal or keep a history so here it is.
Yours Truly,
Jenessa
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