i'm always wondering where you are...

here's a song for you, lovely.

A quote i love love love:

"As with Paul, however, we may be perplexed, but we are not in despair. For if we are prepared spiritually, we need not fear. Even so, the Lord has made no secret of the fact that He intends to try the faith and the patience of His Saints. We mortals are so quick to forget the Lord: “And thus we see that except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions … they will not remember him.” However, the Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain. Therefore, given the aforementioned grand and overarching reasons to rejoice, can we not “be of good cheer” in spite of stress and circumstance? President Brigham Young said of a geographical destination, “This is the place.” Of God’s plan of salvation, with its developmental destination, it can be said, “This is the process”! President Young, who knew something about trial and tribulation but also of man’s high destiny, said that the Lord lets us pass through these experiences that we might become true friends of God. By developing our individual capacities, wisely exercising our agency, and trusting God—including when we feel forsaken and alone—then we can, said President Young, learn to be “righteous in the dark.” The gospel glow we see radiating from some—amid dark difficulties—comes from illuminated individuals who are “of good cheer”! To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

-Neal A. Maxwell

wow. how amazing is that?! i wish i had something uber exciting to put here. (and i wish i knew how to put those little dots on top of the "u" in "uber".) tonight ward prayer was in one of the houses (opposed to one of the apartments)--they had a sweet comfy couch, a tarantula, a gold stove, and one of those cafeteria carts you see in, well, cafeterias. a campbells soup cart. i liked their apartment decorations. good job, guys.

side note: i hate the guy who flirts with every girl. in front of every girl. you know him, you've seen him. he catches your eye and smiles, and your heart melts. then there's no turning back. he ditches the girl he's talking with, and comes over to you instead. you're eager for conversation, but hate him at the same time. he sits by you on the couch, and you welcome him because he can make any girl fall in love with him in a matter of seconds. guilty. is it his smile? his eyes? perhaps both; it's when his smile is so big it consumes his face and makes his eyes go squinty. i hate to love him. every girl is after him, and he's after every girl. you know you'll eventually get your chance, but only to be ditched in the same weekend by favor of his ex-(or not-so-ex) girlfriend. not that i speak from experience.

rant to be continued. soon.