"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Thankful-ness

~I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
~Bill Watterson

It's already July! Oh my goodness! I've been out of school more than two months! And, like my mom pointed out the other day, it's hard to believe kids are still in school... ah, elementary school.

So, I've been thinking a lot lately about how grateful I am that I've grown up in the church. Not just for the gospel, which I could go into for a few posts... but just the church. I'm seeing how everything I've done in church is helping me now. All the bishop's interviews helped with Sterling Scholar, Study Abroad, and my job interview. Conducting Young Women's and mutual every week and giving talks has helped with presentations in school.

Camping, boating, rafting, jeeping, shooting, hiking... obstacle courses, skits, camp songs... the games and singing in church and service and corn mazes and region dances and EFY... playing sports without pressure and making friends to play night games with and walk around the neighborhood preparing for trek. Trek in itself was a huge learning experience. Temple open houses and baptisms for the dead...

It's hard to explain in a blog post, all the ways these things have helped me. I don't know where I'd be without these experiences. Even just the social aspect of getting together with kids several ages older and younger than me twice a week... learning how to deal with any situation. Region dances got me ready for high school dances. Night games helped when I went to college and spent all night out with people I didn't know playing simple games. Singing in church... haha, helped me when my FHE family had to sing in church a few months ago :)

A lot of it is just helping me in church now... but without all the things that I've had to do in church, I'd have a harder time with a lot of things now. Helping plan activities in young women's helped me with my calling as FHE group leader-planning meetings and making calenders and having activities. I know there are a million other ways I can't list here-and tons a don't realize... but it's been interesting to see how I've been prepared for things as I go through life :)
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