Posting Frequently, Doing Service, and Hiking

I have been pretty prompt on posting lately and it's been a great succeed for me! Maybe this is just another way for me to use my time more wisely than I have been. Lately I've been... lazy. Only this picture can describe how I've been spending my time:

So yeah I guess you can see that this blog is better use of my time! But anyways today we had a church activity, and we were going to go to Goblin Valley, but it rained. So we all meet at the church, thinking that we're going to go hiking, while it was raining. But once we got there, all dressed up in hiking clothes, they tell us we're not going. So now we're all like well now what, we're all ready for it and we're not even going but then, they told us that we we're going to help someone in our ward move. This was ok for me, especially because I've moved twice and I understand how hard it is and it would be nice to give some help. So we went to this house, and we were all like whatever, everything's great (except that the fact it's still raining) and we're all good. We made a fire line and everything went smoothly- that is until we got to cleaning. So me and my cousin Sadie decide that we were going to clean the bathroom so were like ok yeah sure and we take a clorox wipe bottle with us. Well, this just happened to be a EXTREMELY dirty bathroom and we ran out of wipes (not like there were even that many because there were only 5 but you know, whatever). Well then I was given a window wipe which was ok except it was dry, so they told me just to get it wet. no problem there right- wrong. The water was turned off! Well how in the world am I supposed to clean a house with no water?! Or paper towels?! So then I improvised and found a spray bottle that hadn't been packed yet and so we used that. Well here comes problem two- I get the mirror all wet, and then there's no paper towels!! Great, this is just great. No I've made their mirror look like crap and there's nothing to clean that up. Well I decided that nothing was going to change so I move onto the next thing, vacuuming. Ok that's easy I thought! Well it was easy, if you call vacuuming the entire room 4 times in a row. The dirt just kept coming!!! Well I finally finished that and I decided that I was going to make someone else vacuum the next room. So I give the vacuum to Sadie and she vacuums for like 20 minutes and finally finishes. By then, she had turned the power to tools, so when she went to vacuum the hallway, dirt was flying all over. She thought the bag was full, so we emptied it. Nope, not the problem. she starts it again, and there goes the dust again. Well it turns out that both of us were too blonde to realize that the switch had been turned to tools, not the bottom vacuum part. Well that solved that problem. We finally finished packing and cleaning up all of their stuff, and the job was done. We had packed their stuff up in the rain and cleaned the entire house. SUCCESS! Then we debated for a while to o hiking. We decided that we weren't going to go to Goblin Valley for sure, but instead we went hiking to Corona Arch. Well we got there, and the rain had died down. We were all pumped and having a great time by then, and the day had been passed by pretty well. So you know boys right, anxious to get to the end, and always having the energy to run around. Well, I'm not a boy. So we start the hike and the boys are just running in the front and of course the leaders are trying to keep up with them and we were trying to keep up to the leaders. Well, fitness and me don't exactly cope with each other very well. When I got to the end I had felt like I had just ran a marathon. Apparently I'm out of shape (Isn't that weird? I live in Moab and I'm out of shape, and I never go hiking). We got up there and we stayed up there for probably a half an hour and chilled with each other for a while. The day had been great. But that wasn't the end, we hiked back down and went to the golden bar campground where our other leader had brought us lunch. How nice! We got sandwiches, chips, soda, and cookies (plus some candy, nice and sugary!). After that we went home and I got to relax for a while. Then I went shopping for a while, and now I'm here at home resting. My last day of January was actually good! Hope yours was too!

Corona Arch

 (Of course I didn't take this because it was raining when I went)

Living my Life Like it is

                   So living my life is difficult. I have stomach pains almost everyday, and it's hard to make it to school. I always have pity for myself because of the way I always feel. I know I'm not perfect, but I have definitely done some things wrong. Why do I have pity for myself when there are people in the world around us dying, every minute. So why do I have pity for myself when I have days that I do feel good and can enjoy myself and people are dying or are going to die? The Lord has blessed us all with billions of blessings and why don't we thank Him for it? Why don't we thank the Lord for all the blessing he has given us? Because we are humans, we have a part of us that is selfish. That's why. We always  have a part inside of us that always feels bad for the little problems that we face. Well I've learned from many inspiring people around me that we need to stop thinking about ourselves and care about other people for a change. We should start praying to comfort other people who have lost a loved one recently, or are struggling from hard illnesses like cancer. I have learned that the Lord blesses people that care for others more than themselves. I challenge you guys to try and recognize the problems that other people are going through that are harder than your own problems, and help them. Help other people that a blind of the church, help them to the church. I heard somebody once say, "Those who don't try to teach about the gospel will be charged with it at the judgement seat." This was such a powerful statement for me because I realized that I wasn't trying hard enough to help others. I hope you guys can try harder than me.

The Doctor's Office

So I know it's been a while since my last post, I know, my bad. However, I have been sick for a long time so I kinda have an excuse. Because I've been sick, I've missed out on a lot of things. Finally my parents scheduled an appointment with the acupuncturist to see if he can solve my problems; which would be constant stomach pains that come and go for days (which I have had for the past couple of years). So today came the day, and I traveled up to Salt Lake for my appointment. We were a little early so I had to sit in suspense and have a stomach full of jitters. The day before my mom had told me that since it was just a consultation, I wouldn't actually be have the acupuncture done; or as I like to say, get needles injected into my body. My mom lied. I got there, and one of the first things he did was put needles in me! I was hesitant, but my dad was obviously too strong and won the war of if I was going to get the needles or not. He had me lay down on the bed (I thought I was going to die), and he unwrapped the needles. Of course by then I was being a cry baby and was crying silently but you know who cares that I was totally miserable and nervous. No one. So he goes on with it and he sets the first one on my leg, then he kind of flicks the top of it and in it goes! you have now reached the inside of my skin; congratulations! He kept going on and finished my legs and arms. Then he gets to my stomach and that was when I got really teary and apprehensive. Yet, I feel nothing. I lied there for 25 minutes staring at the wall with these needles in my skin, and I got an itch underneath my eye. I thought I was going to DIE. I sat there for about 5 minutes trying to just tough it out, but it got WORSE! Finally I had my dad try to come over and itch it but he's so gentle it was still there. After probably 15 minutes my battle was over. The itch had gone away. HALLELUJAH! He finally came back and took them out. I was relived; I could move again! I guess I was so nervous I couldn't exactly hold still and relax, so it wasn't exactly a good time. (The whole reason for this was to get my blood flowing, especially because he said I'm low on blood, and my body can't receive nutrients, so that's why we had to do all of this) Anyways, he wants me to do that for a week but I don't exactly want to do it ever again, so this could be a hard thing for me. But, he put me on some pills that I have to take every day to detox my body. He says, "Can I give you some herbs?" I was just like sure! But when we picked them up, there were 4 bottles! I was like wow that's a lot. Then I realized how many I have to take each day and I felt faint! I have to take 16 pills each day!!!!! This better work because I'm not taking 16 pills a day for nothing! There was one last thing that we did, a hair test. She cut some of my baby hairs off and sent them in to be studied. Through this study they will figure out 300 foods I'm allergic to, any metals I'm allergic to, and all the foods my body can tolerate and can't tolerate. I thought that this was awesome, which it is, except for it take 6 weeks to get the results and it's quite the bundle of money. Not to mention, I'm getting braces really soon (next week will be my consultation, and then I'll get braces to be precise), and they are not cheap! My body is starting to cost a LOT of money. Thanks to my parents because I definitely don't have all that money. All I can do now is hope that we can find a solution to my mysterious stomach problems.