Thanksgiving

"...worship God, in whatsoever place ye may be in, in spirit and in truth; and that ye live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you."

-Alma 34:48

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I hope everyone was able to eat lots of good food today {especially pie!}. 

But more importantly, I hope everyone was able to reflect on what they are grateful for. 

Here are a few things of mine that I'm grateful for:

The Church,

My Family,

Temples,

My Friends,

My comfortable living conditions,

My education,

The beautiful earth we live on,

All of my many blessings! 

I heard someone once say,

 "Count your blessings, not your worries."

Have a great Thanksgiving weekend, and don't forget what this weekend was about too quickly in light of Christmas preparation.

Happy Thanksgiving!

-Angela

Divertido!... with swivel chairs.

As promised, I am posting a post {...?} about this past weekend.

This weekend was lots of fun! The most adventurous activity involved playing with swivel desks in the Clark building with friends Amanda and Katie after our ward party. 

We had lots of fun. :)

Aren't these desks cool?

We make an attractive group, I know.

This week...

...was awesome. 

So much fun! 

Unfortunately, I don't really have any adventures to blog about. 

{This week was pretty calm, but not dull.}


I can't think of anything in particular that made it so good... it just was!

Well, actually I went to the Temple today to do Baptisms for the dead.

{it sounds crazy/creepy, but it's not. I promise! There's some information about here.}

It was great. I think I might try to go again tomorrow, if possible. :)

What a blessing it is to have a temple that's just a five- to ten-minute walk away!!

This weekend should be fun, I think. 

Tonight is a ward party {woot!}, and tomorrow I have homework... but then I'm going to Extravadance 

with some friends!

Since I'm a ballet snob I am really excited to see what their dance program is like here. 

I've heard it's amazing, but I'm excited to see with my own two eyes.

I hope you all have an adventurous {yet safe} weekend! 

I'll see what I can do about having some adventures so I can blog about them.


Random thought:
If you love Jane Austen enthusiasts and funny dating stories, 
then you would love this blog.


I read it all the time!

Perseverance

I love Devotional.  

Today the speaker, Elder Zivic, spoke about persevering.  

One quote I especially liked was,

"Strong men are like kites; they rise when opposing winds are strongest."

Another one was,

"The best way to predict the future is to create it!" 

While I listened to him speak, I almost felt excited for trials to come so that I could apply the pieces of wisdom he gave me. Is that weird?

I feel like the theme for the past couple weeks, or more like semester, has been to push on and have the mentality,"I will survive, come what may." 

Especially since last night I watched an amazing movie called 17 Miracles. I highly recommend it. It's about the Willie and Martin handcart companies and some of the miracles they experienced. I get chills just thinking about it! 

If you think your lot is hard, you'll feel grateful for the amount you have after watching this little treasure!

And if you think about it, the stresses most people are dealing with are most likely not going to end their life, except in a few special cases.

And even then, if you have lived a life in line with the Gospel principles and teachings of Jesus Christ, then you have nothing to fear.

I love devotional.  

It is so worth going every week.

I always feel better after going... it feels kind of like a mini General Conference in the middle of the week.

I am so grateful to be attending a Church school!!

I'm hooked!

Thank you to my friends who introduced me to this song... I love it and listen to it all the time!!

My weekend thus far...

Happy weekend!!

I hope you all had a lovely Veteran's Day/11-11-11. Mine was great!

On Saturday I got to help out with a BSA Merit Badge Powwow at BYU-I. It was really rewarding to help boys sign off some merit badges, especially one in particular that was struggling a bit.  I loved seeing him and the others succeed! Scouting is so cool.

On another note, the caramel apple bread my roommate and I made this past week was pretty awesome... but it could have used some tweaking.  I'm thinking cloves might have added some needed pizzaz, but it was still delish and I will probably be making it again sometime within the near future. 

Sha-zam! 

 

We decided that next time we're going to make them into muffins... yum!

The other night was one of my best friends Tiff's birthday!! She's 19 years old! AH crazy. It actually feels like she should be 20. 

And... instead of celebrating with cake, we made a mound of ice cream!
For some reason my computer isn't letting me upload any pictures of Tiff's party/mound of ice cream, but let me tell you...  

That mound of ice cream was huge. We used six cartons of ice cream. Yum! :)

This is the life of a college student at BYU-Idaho. 
Full of ice cream and other goodies. 

...and that's why we have the Freshman Fifteen legacy.

Guest Post!

This post is by my good friend Cody Rae. He gets to start working on his mission papers tomorrow! This is what he has to say...

Angela Merrell is by far the coolest girl sitting on this couch with me right now... at this exact moment.... and chances are that it will stay that way for at any given moment... at least until i marry the women of my dreams who may or may not be named Jessica.

A New Start

Now that I'm halfway through my first semester, 

I have decided to start a blog.

A blog in which I record the many adventures of my young adulthood!

Updates? 

Basically,

Life is good.

Has anything especially exciting happened recently? 

Let's see... I participated in a zombie photo shoot on Saturday! It was fun and we got a lot of funny looks from passersby. Good times.  

And this wasn't just for the heck of it, it was for my friend's photography assignment. We aren't that bored around here.

Here's the cast!

I'm the one in the BYUI Dad t-shirt...

 It was three bucks at the bookstore. Why not, right? :)

Tonight my roommate Amanda and I are making Caramel Glazed Apple Bread... I'll have to post some pictures! It looks like it's going to be delicious!!

Speaking of cooking, do you know which cookbook I  love?

This baby right here. 

All the three recipes I've had out of here are delicious.

I know what I want for Christmas!