A new beginning...

Life is funny. But life is amazing! This new year is just barely starting and I feel like so much has already happened! This is going to be an eventful year... I can feel it! I recently had a whole plan for myself. I thought I knew what I wanted. It's always an amazing and humbling experience when God has a different plan for you than you had for yourself. It's even more amazing when you later find out WHY that plan was the right one! This has recently happened to me.
So I got a job this summer as an EFY counselor! I cannot wait to teach and set an example to many kids and to be in a surrounding where the spirit is so strong! I know it's going to be an amazing experience and I am looking forward to this summer. I applied to do it Last year and I didn't get it. Of course at the time I was wondering why but had to trust in the Lord that it wasn't his plan for me. Right after I got called to be the Vice President of Choral. This experience has been thee best thing that has happened to me. I don't think I would be the same person without it. I have made life long friends because of it and have grown so much. It has helped me become a better person and helped me be able to meet more people and become a better teacher. I was able to do that calling during the summer, during the time EFY was. I was also called not shortly after as a teacher for the relief society in my ward. That was also a life changing experience for me that really strengthened me and helped me grow spiritually and helped me be more comfortable in front of people. I know for a fact I wasn't ready to be an EFY counselor last year. I had other responsibility in my life that needed to be taken care of first so that I could grow. Now I feel that I am prepared and have had the experiences that have strengthened me to be a successful counselor to those kids! :)
I have already created so many amazing memories just in this year (2012)! Institute and Choir play a part in the majority of them. I don't know where I would be without Institute! It has been thee biggest blessing in my life! 

For Valentines Day, the institute had a dance! We as friends all went, and had SO much fun! :) Kaitlin was my date, and she was a darn good one! :)

 For our Choral social, we had a "formal night". Everyone got in their best dressed, and we had a nice dinner and dancing! :) It was a big hit and one of our best activities!!

We like to have spontaneous parties.... this was by far one of the best! :)