Ok Rikaela, I did it! Just for
you! Sorry it took so long... So we are starting week two here at BYU! I
absolutely love it. Summer term is going really fast because they cram a whole
semester into 8 weeks. I have been doing about 3 hours of homework a day for
each class. Music 101 is boring and long, but Survey of World religions is
awesome! Right now we are studying the Bhagavad Gita and Upanisadic Hinduism.
But that's enough about school!!!
My roommates are absolutely awesome!
I love both of them so much already :) Our ward is pretty legit as well. It is
weird to go to church and not have kids running around... Sacrament meeting is
so quiet! haha I miss la rama. But there are mucho RM's in my ward, lucky me!
;)
I got to see Minga's baby,
Zayleigh, last week. Uncle Randy and Aunt Tiffany and Bert were there too! It
was so nice to see all of them again :) I can't wait to meet Lola next
month!
Austin and I started a list of
things we have to do. It is titled, The List. So far there are 24
adventures on the list :) We checked cafe rio and Squaw Peak off the list last
night. Cafe Rio was so GOOD! I think Rileigh would like it a lot. and Squaw
Peak was so pretty. I love being in the mountains :) It was amazing to look out
at all the lights and think that God know each person out there individually.
He knows their name, their struggles, trials, joys, fears, everything. And that
was only like 1 millionth of the world! We also got to park and look at the
stars. Stars keep me humble. While we were up there my mind kept going back to
President Uchtdorf's talk You Matter to Him, especially the part where he says,
"This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are
everything to God. While against the backdrop of infinite creation we may
appear to be nothing, we have a spark of eternal fire burning within our
breast. We have the incomprehensible promise of exaltation—worlds without
end—within our grasp. And it is God’s great desire to help us reach
it."
God is there. He loves us. We are His children, and that makes
each of us something special. The atonement is so incredible. Not only because
we can repent, but because it allows the Savior to know each of us perfectly
and personally. He knows you.
I am so glad I have Austin here!
He has been so patient with me as I figure all this stuff out :) I don't think
I have told him thank you nearly enough for everything he has helped me
with.
I am one lucky girl!
I miss my Chico people, and I love
my Utah people.
I promise I will try to remember
to post here for you as often as I can :)
Love,
Reagan :)
