Jeana not Gina

I've come to the conclusion that a lot can happen in 6 months. You can finish a semester of school, you can create 2/3 of a baby, & since research shows it takes 21 days to form a habit, you can easily form 9 good habits in 6 months. In 6 months time it's also time for another General Conference, time to make another dentist appointment (& change your toothbrush), & it might be time to move your clocks forward or backward. 6 months is such a long period of time yet this morning when I woke up & realized I had hit my 6 month mark on my mission I was shocked! How could 6 months pass me by so quickly that I didn't even realize it?! I didn't even have a chance to blink! Before my mission I was lost, completely & utterly lost. My life has been planned out 100% since the time I knew how to plan. From school, to church, to even the age I want to get married (my guess is still 24). But once I got my Associates Degree (in something I hadn't pl...

Life wasn't meant to be easy. That's one thing I can promise you. It wasn't meant to be a walk in the park, or a skip through a field of daisies, or anything that seems nice & friendly without consequence. If it was God would have called it 'Your nice & friendly trip without consequences." But that's not what He called it. God called it LIFE. And in this life we struggle, we have pain, & we have sadness, BUT we also get so much more than that. We also get gain, joy, & beauty, & that's truly what this is all about. Think about the vision of the Tree of Life ¹  with me for a second. When I think about this vision I often think of those who held onto the rod. There were 2 types of people holding on. You have the group that was "clinging" to the rod, & then you had the group that was "continually holding fast" to the rod. Now those who were clinging to the rod made it to the rod, but in the end were ashame...