Trust

I will post about the trip soon.  Give me time, a lot happened. But right now, I want to just vent some frustration I'm feeling.

I just found out that a good friend of me lied... a pretty serious lie to me, that made me feel pretty horrible about myself. It's difficult to lose trust in someone that you have already entrusted sensitive
information to. I have not confronted this person about it.

Today's institute lesson was wonderful, and someone made a comment about how she felt that she was skeptical by nature.
It made me realize that I tend to be really trusting by nature. However, since I've been in my current calling, I feel like I have been blessed much more with the gift of discernment when it comes to church related stuff.....so why isn't this translating into my personal life? 
Why do I have a hard time reading people and understanding how they feel towards me?

I don't want to become an un-trusting person, but I really really hate being taken advantage of. Maybe it's better to be ignorant about what people truly think of me I guess.

FINALS

This is what I feel like every finals week...

I have no desire to study.  I am only posting this to procrastinate. I want to eat everything in sight. I'm angry at everyone except other people having to take tests.  I spent at least 5 hours today cooking and cleaning and working out, and....watching TV, and my next test is at 7:30 tomorrow morning, and it's the one I'm least prepared for.
Luckily, me and Balzy know where our priorities lie. As we were leaving the library we decided if we're going to have a final that early in the morning, the least we could do is plan for everyone to go out to breakfast afterwards....that seems much more important than preparing for the test. 
Thank goodness I have Florida to look forward to!  Oh yea, Costa Rica flight got canceled, so we made an impulsive decision to buy last minute tickets to Orlando for next week...... it's so nice to be young ;)

Small and Simple Things

Our ward had a fast for missionary work this last Sunday.  The missionaries in our ward have also been working on pushing a lot more on doing Less-Active work and it's been wonderful.  I appreciate the work they are putting in and the ward members who are on board with our new goals.  As I've been thinking about missionary work this video we used to show on my mission kept coming to my mind.  It's one of my favorites....and we could use it in Taiwan because it doesn't have any words!   Enjoy!

I'm Not Competitive, I'm Just Better Than You

Here's me feeling guilty again for not taking more pictures of our adventures last weekend.  Somehow, however, I did manage to document with my phone my amazing game playing skills.  Is it possible that the only reason Shawsh gets so upset during games is because she is just as competitive as me, but without the skills to back it up?  Let's just say that aside from Boggle, I won every game we played that night.  If you don't want your spirits and self-esteem crushed, don't play nerts with me.....or this game.

Because I was the yellow pawn! 

Real Friends Don't let Friends Open Bags of Almonds

So my BFF/fellow student/studying commiserator, Balzy and I sit next to each other in class every day.  And every day we sit in the back of the classroom and snack on food, look for cheap vacations online, complain about life and school, tell funny jokes/stories, and occasionally learn how to position skulls to put the petrous ridges in the lower 1/3 of the orbits for a parietoacanthial projection of the sinuses.....

I eat Balzy's food.  She always brings in the best snack foods, and plenty to share, and I'm selfish.  So one day she bought me my own entire bag of almonds.  She's a giver. Unfortunately, I never learned the life skill of how to correctly open a bag when you have no scissors available.  And this was the result...after I cleaned up a little.

Oh camera phone, why must you be so pixilated? 

(I still ate all those almonds)

Balzy, you're the best!  Thanks for being a great friend ;)