Itty-Bitty Blessings

Well. Life is rollin' along, my dear people, and things are happening every day. Remember that Dance competition that I told you about last week? One of last week's miracles was finding out that I didn't have to miss classes, and that I could just go watch it to fill the assignment. Behold- the evolution of the miracle. This week, at the beginning of my dance class my teacher was calling roll, and when she got to my name she pointed her pencil at me, looked up from her clipboard and asked, "Do you still want to dance Samba? I found you a partner. Talk to me after class." Do I want to dance Samba? Um, YES I DO!! So I talked to her after class and the rest is history... DanceSport competition, here I come!! Other tender mercy? Finding out that my sister sees tender mercies. We were walking together on campus, talking about life, and she said to me "Er, I have to tell you my tender mercy story." She recounted to me a little event from the night befor...

Other warning: I'm actually not going to copy anything from the Miracle of Forgiveness. Just the title. But this week is definitely a bullet-point week. Here it goes: 1. Somehow, my homework load was super light this week- lighter than it has been all semester. I know it was divinely arranged, because it gave me just enough time to prepare for my lesson and talk. Amazing! 2. In my Latin ballroom class, we've been planning all semester  to compete in BYU Dancesport. (I'm going pro, people!) When it came time for choosing partners, however, all the boys were taken... So I was going to have to compete in a different event, a different time and day. It just so happened that this particular event happened to overlap with two of my classes, one of which I absolutely could not miss that day. (It was literally the one day all semester that I was going to get individual participation points.) After a long suspenseful interim, I finally found out that I can do a make-up assignme...

Hello friends! It is FALL!!!! This week I really began to feel the season. Are you feeling it?? Those piles of crackly leaves, the quick breezes, the cold sunshine... LOVE IT. Besides that fall breeze, want to know what else has been whispering? Little blurbs of love and happiness and college romance. Not in my life, of course. (Once again, faking you all out. Sorry. Keep waiting patiently with me.) But to someone even better!! I just love it when my dear, crazy mission companion becomes really, really happy. There is nothing better than a Cougar-Eat luncheon, munching chips and listening as the life of my dear friend develops exactly as she's always dreamed. I really love that. And besides that sticky sweet romance, what else has been whispering?? Well this one really does apply to me. There are always those whispers of "You're still failing at this or that..." and "Shouldn't you be doing homework instead of hanging out with your sisters or going to t...