Last week Dallen was so busy studying for 4 tests that I hardly saw him. This week will be the same with another 4 tests. He is doing so great and he is working so hard. I think that sometimes it all seems overwhelming to him, most of his classmates are 5-7 years younger than he is and he feels at a disadvantage since he has been out of school for 2 1/2 years, but he is doing well and he loves it. He brings home teeth he has drilled on or full sets that he has cast and he is so proud. I feel blessed to have such a hard working husband.
Due to so many adjustments in such a small amount of time; moving, settling in, Dallen in school and gone most always, sending my sweet Brycen to school, Taylie being extremely needy and trying to make new friends-just to name a few, I have felt a little out of sorts the past couple of weeks. Don't get me wrong, I love it here and am so grateful to be here, but I miss our families and wonderful friends in Idaho (and Utah).
So I went to the Relief Society broadcast on Saturday night feeling a little rough. When I got there we had a wonderful dinner and I thought, huh, they do that here too, that's cool. Then as I was sitting waiting for the meeting to begin the realization came to me that most (not all but most) of the women that I really love are doing this same thing at this same time. Some in Idaho, Utah, Missouri, Wisconsin and many other places. I felt a sense of peace and unity that no matter where I am there are some things that will never change. That the gospel of Jesus Christ can unite hearts and minds no matter the distance that may be seperating me from those I love and deeply miss. How grateful I am for this gospel and the peace that it brings to my soul.
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I love you and miss you too!! We are trying to get this webcam working and it's not going very good! Hopefully it will work soon so we can have a little visit!
I'm sorry that when talking to you today I just sat and . . . well, you know. I thought of a million things that I wanted to ask you as soon as I got Elsie to sleep. Serves me right for calling you back as I was in the middle of things.
Your post made me all teary. I love you and miss you so much. Truly, I can't think of another friend that I would rather do _______ (fill in the blank) with than you. I miss you a lot. I've depended a lot on you in the past 6 years. It's hard to not have you just up the road.
I'm glad that you are all doing good --- even if sometimes you feel a bit out of sorts. --- I'm POSITIVE that slowly there will start being more "put together" moments than not. - That's just the way you are . . . I wish that I were more like you in that respect.
I'll probably call you again tomorrow to ask you the ONE question that I will actually remember again at that point! :) I love you! Have a good day.
i love to go to the relief society broadcast with all the other women in my stake. it is such a unifying thing.
I never really thought about the fact that women i love all around are sharing that experience with me even though they are far away. People probabyly told you before you moved away that " it will be hard at first and then you will adjust"- for me the "first" part was the first 6 months to a year. it will get better. there will be waves of lonelyness and homesickness, but it will get better. take the time to embrace your new experience without preset expectations. You might have to recreate your definittion of "fullfillment" or "friendship" and even "family" but there is joy and peace to be found in this new season. I love you and I can't wait till thanksgiving.
you are too cute. i felt the same way on saturday, we just moved into a new ward and it was so weird not feeling "a part"...I am not the outgoing, can I sit with you type, so unless I'm invited I won't ask. but it felt good to know that my friends in Rexburg were doing the same as me-even if it was at a different chapel. i was able to pay attention better once i told myself that. thanks for the reminder. miss seeing your smiling face!
Oh Christin. What a great post and great insight. You are loved and thought about. Just yesterday you were on my mind a lot actually and before I went to bed I said that I was going to call you today. So Heavenly Father is watching out for you. HUGS!
Christin,
I hear you...and empathize with you. I have had the same hard time with our move. It's so great to hear your attitude. The gospel is so great.
Awwww, so sweet! It's nice to get away from Idaho & Utah, at least for a little while where the majority are not LDS. It's a good testimony builder. Alas, I wasn't one of those at the women's conference-- camping near Ashton took priority this time-- oops!!
Dear, Lovely Christin,
I had pangs of homesicknesses just reading your post, and I found myself sniffling through it! It made me miss you terribly! It was so insightful, real, and tender--just like you!
It also brought back the now bitter-sweet memories of feeling like a "stranger in a strange land" when we moved to Rexburg. I was pregnant, miserable, lonely, friendless, and callingless and trying to take care of three little boys who were three and under. I was a wet, bawling, hopeless mess! I felt empty and lost.
A friend from Utah wrote me a letter and said, "Sarah! You just need to plan a party!"
So I did.
I pulled myself out of the nauseous, awful, self-pitying funk and made some plans. For the RS Broadcast that year, I invited about 20 women from my ward to my house for dinner. . . doesn't sound like me, does it? It was still awkward, especially since when I invited most of the women, they said, "Now. . . WHO are you?" But it laid the foundation for some of my closest friendships here. . . It was like pre-Bunco!
Looking back on that night makes me see in hindsight how the Lord loved me enough to put women in my path that would be good for me to know, love, and learn from.
He always does! And he will for you in your current place and time too! It's so exciting to anticipate what friendships are on the horizon. I can't wait to see who He has planned for you to meet!!! They are so LUCKY!!!!
This is like the comment that goes on foooreeeevvvver, but I must share one of my favorite quotes from Elder Maxwell before I close (just kidding! I KNOW I'm not giving a talk. . . but I HAVE to share the quote):
I am so grateful, as you will hear me say in the text of this speech, for a part of mortality that we sometimes overlook: the intertwinings of our lives. I acknowledge the Lord's hand in these intersections. Some here have heard me say that one of the reasons we love each other in the kingdom is that our friendships are not friendships of initiation at all but are, instead, friendships of resumption!
t should not surprise us, brothers and sisters, that Heavenly Father brings about these intersectings and intertwinings of our lives. So often (after something is over) we will say, "little did I realize" or "I had no way of knowing" in referring to these intersectings. But why should we be surprised? Each of us has circles of friendships, and within those lie the portion of the human family whom God has given us to love, to serve, and to learn from.
-Neal A Maxwell (“Brim With Joy” BYU Devotional)
I love you and miss you, Christin! Give that girl and those boys a hug for me!!!
-Sarah
thanks for that awesome testimony and great reminder! I agree completly but I know you know that this is all worth the great reward at the end of the tunnel! Tell Dallen when he gets done.... Pinedale almost always needs dentists! Good luck!
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