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 :)

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. 

Celebration of Anniversaries

Last night Caity and I went out for ice cream to celebrate my MTC anniversary and her baptism anniversary. It was a lot of fun! We talked and laughed and ate way way too much ice cream! Below is what I had Mint Mint Chocolate Chocolate Brownie- a Coldstone Signature it was way good, but I did pay for this morning when I woke up to heartburn. It's okay because I don't eat ice cream that often especially in that size of serving. Yea for friends! Yea for ice cream!