Believe

The other night my family was sitting around our living room talking. My mom started to talk about the book she is reading. It is by Teresa Caputo. You know the spirit lady on TLC. Anyway, in the book Teresa talks about reincarnation, and when you die you are shown and made to feel how you made others feel throughout your life. But it's peaceful, not scary/sad/mad or whatever other emotion you would be afraid of feeling that you have made those around you feel. Teresa also talks about how you work towards becoming a perfect soul. How you can have many lives but your soul remains the same. You know when you've met 'the one' and you feel as though you have already met and been together? I believe yes, your souls have already met. In another lifetime...

When I was 14 my family left our former church. I'll just refer to it as the 'group.' I was old enough to understand what was going on and to start thinking for myself. All I had ever known was the group. That is where all of my friends were, and some still are. It was my comfort zone. Being the age that I was,  I had felt that the floor had been ripped out from under me. I was confused and I became fearful. Fearful that I would loose my friends. Fearful that I wouldn't be strong enough to make good decisions without a church. Fearful that I would end up alone. With the support of my parents and my wonderful family, I became confident enough to fight against my fears and figure out what I believed, and to not just follow my parents blindly. I continued to attend our former church alone. My friends helped me to feel comfortable to continue to go. I also started to attend the Mormon church with some friends I had made from school. As well as go to some Christian churches. While at home my dad would teach of Buddha, Gandhi, and Christ. I was determined to figure out what I believed for myself. What I found, through prayer and long conversations with many different people, is that there is truth everywhere. I was raised to believe that there is one real truth, and you have to follow that truth to make it to heaven. But my soul feels differently. I wasn't content to commit myself to just one church.  Through out the years I have started to believe a lot of what Teresa talks about in her book.  I believe that our spirits are growing and learning. That we all are on different levels in life, simply because we all go through different life experiences, and that the main goal is to become a 'perfect' spirit. I have chosen Christ as my example of a perfect spirit,  and it is my goal to become just like him. When my mom started to tell us what Teresa talks about in her book, I became all excited! 

I'm grateful that my parents left the 'group.' It has opened my eyes to so many wondrous things. It has helped me to think for myself and to work for and find what I truly believe. Because what I was raised to believe was taken away, it made my testimony of Christ so much stronger than I could have ever imagined. I'm still learning, so I'm not saying THIS IS THE WAY, or anything like that. But to my soul right now, it feels right. So I'm going to continue to follow Christ's example, and try to show my love that I have to share to everyone.

On a more lighter note! I get to be with this hunk in just 4 more days!! :) Wahoo!!

Life in Rapid City

Today I have been thinking a lot about my life back in Rapid City. I miss it. I was driving to Walmart and thinking "If I was back home this is how my drive would go. This is how long it would take." So on and so forth. I do that with almost every daily activity now. We have been away from our cozy apartment for 3 weeks now, and still have another 2 to go. I'm so grateful that we have such a nice apartment, and I can't wait to go back and get back into the swing of things.

I love to cook. I love the feeling of having a healthy yummy meal on the table for my husband to come home too. I love when my husband comes home from work. Layered with dust and whatever oily stuff he works with. I love his musky smell. It reminds me of my dad when I was younger, so that is probably why I love it so much. But I have learned something, Attitude is everything. When Jake comes home and I'm cranky the night usually is just meh. When I greet him at the door with a smile and a sometimes half hug (he is just so dirty sometimes!) and a kiss, then the night will almost always have good conversation, laughs ( I LOVE to tease him) and cuddles. I love cuddling. :) But my point is, smiles are contagious and everyone likes to be around happy people. So I try to make an effort everyday to work through whatever emotional crap I'm dealing with that day, so that when my hubby gets home we can just enjoy each other. Heck, I'm alone 10 hours a day. I have no excuse. 

Some fun things that Jake and I like to do around Rapid City are:

Summer Nights! Every Thursday night during the summer, they would shut down an intersection in downtown, and local bands would come and play. It was so much fun! There were vendors and lots of people! The music was usually pretty good too!

Hang out with our new friends!! We made friends with another guy Jake works with and his girlfriend. Evan and Kira are awesome, and always a hoot to hang out with. Back in September Jake went to Wyoming for just a few days, and so I just stayed with them. It was nice to have company while Jake was away. Kira is also a yummy cook and we like to invite each other over for dinner. Its fun.:) Plus is always nice to have a reason to go out on a double date!

Mount Rushmore! We live only 25 minutes away from this National Monument. Jake drives past on his way to work everyday too. Its pretty neat. Not as big as I expected but I'm from Utah. I' am used to having big mountains to look at.

A Lineman's Wife

Well Hi! :)

I've never been one with writing and making things sound all spiffy, so bare with me.  I have been married to my wonderfully amazing husband Jake, for 6 months and 2 days! Wahoo! I love being married to that man. He is so caring, goofy, funny, handsome, and is such a hard worker. I love that about him. I know that I will always be taken care of, because of his great work ethic. He also has a delicious color of red hair that I absolutely love! Oh, and he's a Lineman. Hence the title. Let me take you back, 3 years and 3 weeks to be exact. I was friends with Jake's cousin who was my grandma's neighbor and Jake had moved down for the summer. Sitting in my Grandma's drive way, it took Jake about half an hour to spit out the words 'I like you.' I knew it was coming, and maybe I should have helped him out a little bit, but I liked seeing him nervous, it was adorable and showed me just how much emotion was behind what was coming. We 'got to know' each other for about a month before he left to go home for the holidays. He grew up in Montana, so we wouldn't be able to see each other as often as we would  have liked. Through out the next couple of months we would talk on the phone and continue to 'get to know' each other. At 10 months we made it official, and decided that the long distance relationship was worth it. Skip 2 1/2 years later, my best friend asked me to marry him! April 5, 2013! We got married June 8th, 2013, at 4 in the afternoon. It was the best day of my life, and I still reminisce back to that day often.

Today, I'm back home in Utah. Sitting on my little sisters bed. Jake is working out of town, and has been for the past 2 1/2 weeks. We moved to Rapid City, South Dakota because that is where Jake's work took him. He graduated from Lineman College back in December '12. He is trying to get his apprenticeship going, and with his work ethic he'll do anything to make that happen. So Rapid City is home for now. :) I knew when we got married that he would be going out of town for alot for work. You would think that after 3 years of long distance it would get easier. In some ways it does, but when you're married there is so much more to miss. So I've decided to start a blog. For many different reasons actually. We live so far away from family and friends, and have so many fun stories to share! It will give me something to do and help me to not go insane being alone 10+ hours through out the week. Lastly, it will be fun to read years down the road and see how far we've come!

I have so much more I could share, but that will be saved for another day! 

Jake doing what he loves!