Now Taking Orders

It is no secret in my family, or close friends that I love to bake, and you can definitely tell that that is one reason my parents didn't mind me coming home because that meant lots of goodies. Last week I spent all of Wednesday in the kitchen, the result was 1 cherry cream pie, 2 pumpkin pies, and 1 caramel shortbread cookie bar, just the pumpkin pies were supposed to be for my family but in the end the got all three pies and almost half of the cookie bar, with so many sweets half the pies went bad. When I got home from LA on Saturday my mom told me that she had signed up to bring dessert to the Temple when she works there on Friday in hopes that I would make it for her. On Monday I was then informed that she needed two dozen cookies by Thursday night, and another dessert for school on Thursday, my sister also told me she needs two dozen cookies but Thursday night so it looks like it will be another day in the kitchen for me tomorrow. I feel like I should start taking orders on a daily basis to see if they want something... and perhaps to start charging them, but that probably wouldn't happen, but I am sure I could make a nice amount of money by doing so.

LA Temple

Alright, so yesterday the Branch I attend here in Visalia took a trip down to LA to visit the Temple and to see the Christmas lights. We were able to watch the Joseph Smith movie, which is an amazing movie that I highly recommend that everyone see. After the movie we were able to walk around to take pictures and enjoy the beautiful spirit we were able to feel. It is a Beautiful Temple and I am grateful that I was able to go see it and take pictures... even if all but one of my pictures turned out blurry. It is a good thing you are used to my lack of ability to take pictures. We were also able to share the Gospel with the bus driver, the branch president and his wife invited him in to watch the movie with us, which he stayed and watched the whole thing and after I heard that he had lots of good questions to ask, and for a thank you gift we all signed a Book of Mormon to give to him when we got home last night. It really was a great experience.

Looking Back

So the time has come for me to finally finish unpacking and organizing my room, I have zero organizational skills what so ever so it always takes me forever to get motivated and to get it finished. When I was out here visiting in July I cleaned out my room and now I have been back almost a month and I am cleaning out my room, I think it is extremely ridiculous how much stuff I have and how much stuff I have not thrown away in the past that really should have been gone a long time ago. Hopefully sometime by the end of this week my room will be clean, livable, and organized... All things I have always hoped for and rarely achieved.

While I was cleaning out some drawers I found some pictures of me when I was little, and I am going to take a moment to just say.... I was Adorable. I know that that sounds very self centered but I was, I really truly was, if I had a way to get those pictures on to my computer I would put them up so you could see how adorable I really was. It also got me to wondering what in the world happened to all my adorableness?

I do have this one picture of me as a baby, you can't really see me, but you can get the idea that from the start I had it in me to be an adorable child.

Job Position Opened

Now accepting applications.
Position: Good Morning Smile

Job Requirements: Must be able to perform all duties required by position, no exceptions.
Duties include: A good morning Text every morning, wishing a good day. Must mean it when they send it. Good morning text must bring a smile to the recipients face every morning.

Application: Name
Birth date
Reason you desire to become the new Good Morning Smile
Why you think you would be good at this job.

All applicants will have to go through an audition to qualify for employment.

Payment will be discussed on being hired... This is not a cash paying job.

Trying to Find Happiness

So the last couple days I have spent on trying to figure out how to be happy, and I am not sure how well I am doing with this. I am trying to figure out why I came back to a place where I have never truly been very happy and where I have never really felt apart of, now more then ever I feel more like a stranger to the things here then what I did when I moved here over 6 years ago. I don't think I can remember a time where I could smile everyday, and really just be myself, but I am determined that one day.... hopefully in the near future, I can smile no matter what is in my path. In the gospel we are taught that the true way to peace and happiness is through the Lord Jesus Christ, that through turning to him we are able to find happiness in our lives that we never knew was possible. I hope that as I turn more to the Savior, and focus more on his teachings, that I can find the promise of being happy.