Thursday, January 6, 2011

Get ready... here i come :)

I'm leaving! Next Wednesday at this time i will be in TEXAS!
I got an internship down there and can hardly wait! I will be working in a Zoo in Spring, TX (which is about 30 miles north of Houston). I will be taking care and working really close with of all sorts of exotic animals :)
If you didn't know this, don't think i hate you! it just all happened pretty quickly :) it a long story that has many valuable life lessons intertwined... which i will never forget :) It's a pretty long story that spans about 6 months so i'll tell the condensed version:
In September I started my first semester at Utah State University majoring in Wildlife Science. In one of my classes we were looking on the internet for possible jobs we could do with our major. While looking i ran across this internship. I decided to apply for it, nothing ventured nothing gained! Well they looked at my resume and talked to my references and called me about a week later. They really wanted me to come down! I told them I would think about it (not wanting to make any hasty decisions). They said that I had until the end of December to tell them if I was coming. Well not thinking that i would actually do it, I forgot about it!
It's now the end of November and i was freaking out! And soo super stressed. Finals were killing me and i really didn't know what to do with my life... i had a lot of different paths to take, different possibilities, different choices and all of them would lead me in a very different direction! They were all constantly running through my head and driving me nuts. Well i made some choices but life happened and things didn't work... so i made others and they didn't work out they way I wanted them too either.
It's now the middle of December and i was getting sick of making choices and them not working so i decided to go with my original plan, to go to USU another semester. By the time i decided this tuition was due and SOON. But every time i went to put my schedule in cement i got this thought and feeling that i was doing the wrong thing... i thought i was going crazy when i first had that feeling! Ha i tried to ignore it, but it kept coming back and nagging at me! I had prayed and fasted a lot on what i should do... it was so hard for me to decide, but in the end i went with what i thought was right, i didn't register for the spring semester! (that was THE hardest thing ever! it was for sure a test of my faith). The only thing i could think of after missing registration was WHAT AM I DOING?? What the heck was i suppose to do if i'm not in school!? What was a thinking!? I am idiot! People are going to think i'm a college drop out! What am i doing? For about a week i was lost, not knowing what i was suppose to be doing!
Right when i thought that maybe i should check into an insane asylum I got a call from an inspired neighbor! She had asked me to come with her and some young women in the ward to go to the temple and do baptisms. While I was there wondering what on earth was i suppose to do with my life I remembered the internship! Once remembering it i had this beautiful feeling that is the right thing for me to do :) Everything fell right into place after that!
I know that Heavenly Father is aware of me and my situation! I know He answers my prayers! I know that if we trust him and put our faith in the Lord that He will take care of us and in the best way, even if we don't think it is the best way! I learned that having faith in the Lord also means having faith in the Lord's timing :)

1 comment:

  1. I use to live in Tomball, which is a little Northwest of Houston and I absolutely loved it there. I still have some connections with some people from the church there, let me know if that would be helpful. Good luck! You will do great!

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