A New Year

So I have not posted a blog since July. So here's the first blog for the year 2010.Life has been going pretty good. I don't normally write much about my life in these blogs but I decided to today.

1. My New Years Resolutions
My overall new years resolution is to be amazing, awesome, and classy. The only problem with that as a resolution is when I tell that to people they tell me I'm already amazing. The only thing I can think of is I'm not quite my definition of amazing yet. I plan on going on a mission because that will bring me closer to my goal. I have more specific goals that go along with this but I do not feel like typing them all out at this time, or possibly ever.

2. Mission
So I'm planning on going on a mission. I started thinking about it last November and decided it for sure in February. Since I decided to go on a mission I am asking people who have been on missions what one thing is they wish they would have known on their mission or something that really helped them while they were on their missions. Then I plan on working on those things so I can be better prepared for my misison. I figure if I'm going on a mission I'm going to work to be one awesome missionary, not someone just trying to go through the motions but really working hard. So I am studying and trying to prepare better for it.Along with my mission one of my resolutions is to read the book of mormon and other scriptures and books before I go. I'm reading the BoM forward in the mornings and backwards (started with moroni and going through) so I should meet close to half way by the end of the semester, therefore I will have read the whole thing.

3. Relationship
K so the newst thing in my life is I'm dating somene. He's rather awesome in my opinion, otherwise I would not be dating him. He's also getting ready to go on a mission. Some people question why I'm dating him, but if you knew me and you knew him you'd prolly know why. For one thing it keeps us both working towards our mission plans. For two, He thinks I'm amazing. I've never dated someone who tells me I'm awesome as much as he does. It makes me so happy. At times I think he thinks I'm more amazing then I think I am, and that's pretty difficult to find cuz I think I'm pretty amazing (that's a good thing btw) :) I'm not quite sure what else to say other then he makes me smile lots and he's just great. He's amazing, just so you know, and I'm dating him because I chose to and I'm happy with this decision. :)
4. Speaking Topics
So those who know me might know that I would love to do motivational speaking someday. I decided this last semester. My plan is to base my topics around the idea of royalty because each of us are Children of God (Sons and daughters of a King). So I'm going to do a series based on this that is basically about becomeing your best self. I have a few other ideas as well. Right now I'm just studying the topics but eventually I plan to start writting speech ideas and possibly even a book series.

So that's what's new with me as far as much as I can think of right now.

To finish I thought I'd leave you with a thought, since that's usually what I do in these blogs.So Iwas thinking the other day while I was reading in my book of mormon about the song "what have you done with His name" by Kenneth Cope. Below are the lyrics

"Father named me after Grandpa
He said he hoped that I would one day
Be the man that he was
Well, Grandpa died when I was five years old
And so he hasn't been around to know
What his namesake has done
But what if he's watching
What if Grandpa's seen all I've become
CHORUS
What have I done with his name
I'm hoping he won't be ashamed
The right or the wrong
I've done it all with his name
Someone named me after Mormon
Trying to turn world against me
Because of faith etched in gold
But that name has stood for goodness
And its fame now floods the nations
By the words Mormon wrote
Now, what if he's watching
Have I been true to what Mormon made known
REPEAT CHORUS
There's a Name above all others
And it's the only one that saves
So Grandpa, me and Mormon
We love this Name
And we know He's watching
Jesus sees all of our faith
What will we do with His name
He's hoping we won't be ashamed
The right or the wrong
We do it all with His name
But, He can catch us when we fall'
Cause that's what He does with His name
That blessed name
I love His name"

SO, thinking of this song I was reading in the BoM in Ether chapter 7 I think and was reading about some of the kings and the way they ruled wickedly or righteously. I then noticed a king named Noah who ruled in wickedness, and I thought of King Noah from earlier in the BoM with Abinadi the Prophet and it made me wonder what Noah from the Old Testiment (Noah's arc) thought about these Kings that came later that have his name. Old Testiment Noah lived righteously and these kings who have his name did not live that way. I hope those who's names I carry will be proud to have me sharing their name with them. It's something to think about. What have you done with the names you carry?
Just Some thoughts
A Friend Always,
ME