Journal Gems: A Connection

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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Wow.  What a day.  I woke up at 5:30am and left right at 6am to get down to the temple (St. George).  Today was great  working in the Cafeteria!! The Pallocks are such great people.  And Sylvia is an amazing woman.  She ate breakfast with me today and she talked about always having a connection...."It's when you think you know too much or that you don't need God or that you're smart enough, that you don't allow a connection - but when you let yourself have that connection with God, he'll guide you and bless you and help you in your life!"  So don't lose the connection!!!!

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Journal Gems: EFY

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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
EFY (Especially For Youth)
Tonight we bore our testimonies.  I have never felt such a strong feeling.  It was SUCH a great meeting. I didn't want it to end!  In my testimony, I told the group that I had just gone through cancer.  Then I said that the time I have felt God's love the most was during the last couple of months.  As it says in  Isaiah 40:31; If I wait upon the Lord he'll renew my strength.  I can "run and not be weary, and walk and not faint."  That scripture just means so much to me.  I really do wish that I could be back in testimony meeting.  It was so great being in there.  I've never really gotten close to crying, but tonight my voice was all shaky and I literally was about to cry.  I know it was the spirit.

Journal Gems: Ice Cream

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November 2016

CLEANING THE SINK: So there is this diner in Logan called Angie’s. They have this “challenge” up there, cleaning the sink. They have these sinks (like one you’d find in a camping trailer) and they fill it up with ice cream, three mix-ins, bananas and whip cream. And usually we got a sink for every 6 or 7 people and we could finish it EASILY. But when you finish, you get a “I Cleaned the Sink at Angie’s” bumper sticker. I love ice cream. I LOVED cleaning the sink! Sometimes I was the one who “drank” the rest of the ice cream at the bottom. It was always such a fun time with friends. In fact, I only ate actual food at Angie’s once. The other 10 (probably. I kid you not) times I went throughout my year in Logan that we were there it was to clean the sink. And after a few times, no one wanted the bumper sticker we’d get because they all had one. So I took another one! And stuck it over my first bumper sticker I had already put on the car. And then it just kept going. Everyone wanted me to have the sticker! Ha ha. Right now, I think I have 5 stickers- all stacked on top of one another on my car bumper! Hahahaha. Good times. J I love that sink.