Happy Golden Birthday to my Bestie!

infamous sunglasses photo

Tomorrow is my bestie's golden birthday! I am so grateful for her! She is always willing to listen and share good, funny, random stories, experience fun, good, random, and crazy adventures with, will eat unique, new, and familiar foods with me, she is kind hearted and super creative. She stands firm in what she believes and knows and is there for me when I need to have a good laugh or a good cry.  I am very blessed to have such an awesome awesome sweet person as my bestie! Heavenly Father leads us to places to meet people who will teach us, be there for us, and connects us for eternity. Kris-to-the-Tina Happy Golden Birthday! I know this year will be full of awesomeness and happiness! Masaya Ang Aking Puso :)

Anxiously Goodly Happy

My heart is anxiously, goodly happy!

Patience and Faith

"Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith!"-Elder Russell M. Nelson



"Patience is the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious. It is the ability to do God’s will and accept His timing. When you are patient, you hold up under pressure and are able to face adversity calmly and hopefully. Patience is related to hope and faith—you must wait for the Lord’s promised blessings to be fulfilled." -Preach My Gospel, P.120


I'm grateful to know that Heavenly Father is fully aware and into every detail of my life and that I am doing and becoming what He desires. His love is real. I'm grateful for the direction and peace that only He can give. Masaya Ang Aking Puso :) 

Patuloy ang Pangarap

Patuloy ang Pangarap

Di pa rin makapaniwala
Sa lahat ng nangyayari
Pangarap parang kailan lang 
Sa panaginip ko’y nakita

Ngayon ay dumating
Nang bigla sa aking buhay
Di naubusan ng pag-asa
Ako’y nanalig sa

Isang pangarap
Ako’y naniniwala
Ako ay lilipad at ang
Lahat makakakita

Sa isang pangarap
Ako’y naniniwala
Hindi ako titigil
Hangga’t aking makakaya

Unti-unting mararating
Tagumpay ko’y makikita
Patuloy ang pangarap

Di pa rin makapaniwala
Sa aking nakikita
Lahat ng panalangin ko
Ngayon may kasagutan
Lhat ng pinagdaanan
At pinaghirapan
Nagbigay ng kalakasan
Upang marating

Ang isang pangarap
Ako’y naniniwala
Ako ay lilipad at ang
Lahat makakakita

Sa isang pangarap
Ako’y naniniwala
Hindi ako titigil
Hangga’t aking makakaya

Unti-unting mararating
Tagumpay ko’y makikita
Patuloy ang pangarap

Kahit saan kahit kailan
Alam kong ako’y patungo
Sa marami pang tagumpay

Sa isang pangarap
Ako’y naniniwala
Ako ay lilipad at ang
Lahat makakakita

Sa isang pangarap
Ako’y naniniwala
Hindi ako titigil
Hangga’t aking makakaya

Unti-unting mararating
Tagumpay ko’y makikita
Patuloy ang pangarap
Patuloy ang pangarap

Living After the Manner of Happiness

Today a friend said in his testimony that he is grateful for laughter and happiness. I've been thinking about this and I've had a "duh moment" you might say as I realized- I am too! I am grateful for laughter and happiness. I am happy and excited about the present and the future. I am a happy girl! "Living after the manner of happiness" is to live the gospel of Jesus Christ, to remain a covenant keeper. I am grateful to know happiness is eternal, to know that happiness is found in the teachings and atonement of Jesus Christ. Yes life is challenging, some days are more challenging than others, but because of Jesus Christ and faith and hope in Him happiness is possible amidst challenges and struggles. Joseph Smith said, “Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith [1976], 255–56).  Mosiah 2:41 "And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and ^ahappy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are ^bblessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out ^cfaithful to the end they are received into ^dheaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it." I am thankful to know God wants us to be happy and that my concerns are His concerns and that He is in every detail of my life. I love the above verse-"temporal and spiritual" He helps and guides us in all things. I know He lives. I know He is our Father. Masaya Ang Aking Puso- in English my heart is happy.