Inspiration comes in many forms

Over the past 10 months I've gone through a huge growth spurt. From seeing my sister go on a mission and become an amazing woman in ways I didn't know were possible to listening to the devotional that changed my life.

I've made curry, enchiladas, chile rellenos that flopped, peach cobbler 8 times in two months, pesca parmesan, and frozen lemonade pie in that time.

I've learned to follow the Spirit better, be on my knees in earnest prayer more, read my scriptures and the words of the prophets more, and have maintained good letters with my sister and best friends serving missions.

I've been threw the fiery darts of the adversary with temptations not to believe in God who manifests He is watching on a daily basis. I struggle with not being able to voice my disapproval at things that should be obvious to others. I read a book called Discover your Strengths and man I tell ya, that book can sum me up if you read the green highlights I marked. I've been reading Daughters in my Kingdom which the Church published for Relief Society and it's been amazing to learn what I have.

I've been really struggling with patience in myself. I was having an even harder, easily the hardest, with a summer friendship that I received a "no" without me even asking, being incredibly lonely at school because my best friend is getting married and most of my other friends up here have moved off. I've been praying desperately just for a friend that I could call up whenever and be able to just unwind and unload with.

I went to a dance that ended up being the blast of the semester next to Yellowstone the first weekend in Idaho.

I've discovered my passion for education and psychology. It's been a crash course getting back into ceramics but I good one. I've been picking up on new music. He is We is one of my new favorite bands.

I've been looking for opportunities to serve and have been blessed with said opportunities as well as a busy week. If I'm not busy, my anxiety picks up.

I think I spend more time talking to my mom than most women my age, and I have no secrets. I'm an open book. I can't keep things in that bug me. I'm working on when to deliver such conversations so they don't explode on me.

I couldn't ask for more out of life right now. To all who have entered my life since coming back to Idaho, thank you. I've learned so much and keep learning and improving.

I know God teaches us in hind-sight. He lets us experience pain, then rescues us from it, and lets us take a step back and say," Oh, I get it now!" I'm a fighter. So when temptation comes my way I get annoyed with him but like Sister Thompson said in conference, "I didn't keep my testimony, my testimony kept me." I've learning endurance. Good endurance. Nothing is impossible with God. We just have to be willing to put forth the effort and wait on Him. No one is perfect, and I'm in no hurry.