Noah's Going on a Mission!

Today was a big day.
A great day.
A monumental day.
An exciting day.
An anxious day.
Noah, my long distance boyfriend of 20 months, got his mission call this morning.

We had been anticipating this day since Wednesday this week and it was very much worth it.
It's probably a good thing that it came on a Saturday because I could not even handle myself in school the almost 9 hours we waited to open the call.
I was over babysitting six children and they probably had to watch over my physical and mental health more than I had to watch over theirs.
Finally, it was time to open the call.
All the six children I was watching were gathered around my side, standing on their tip toes trying to hear Noah talk to me over the phone.
Everyone in his family that was local was there in his living room.
All of work.
All from their homes.
All from down the road.
To watch Noah open his calling to the Montana Billings Mission!!!

I really can't lie.
My first instinct was "Hahahaa where the heck is that. I forgot Montana existed. And all the 600 people who live in Montana. How disappointing for him. Hahaa."
But as I got to thinking, Montana has got to be beautiful!
It's cold.
It's elevated.
It's bigger than Statesboro.
It's where he is personally needed by the Lord!
I got to looking on Google and saw that Billings is beautiful!
It has a tiny cute skyline surrounded by canyons and hills and mountains!
I looked on Pinterest to start hopping on some cute Montana art projects and learned that Montana consists of whiskey.
Bullet framings.
Spur earrings.
And green grass.
I'll have to tap into my well of creativity and depict and translate the state of MT through my artist brain.
I am so excited for him.
To send me letters.
To send me pictures.
To receive all my mittens and scarves and blankets I will learn to make.
To serve the friendly and the notsofriendly folk of Montana.
I am so excited to be a missionary's girlfriend.
I am so so proud of Noah and have faith he will be safe and taken care of by his generous Father in Heaven.
He will be so blessed and so will his family for his righteous desires.
I love him so so much!!

Temple Treasures.

I am positive that my favourite place on Earth is a temple.
Even better than Sea World.
I don't even have to be inside the temple for it to be my favourite.
Even the outside is magnificent to be around.
This weekend, we had a youth temple trip. These are easily some of my favourite days of the year. Yes, I woke up at 5:46 AM on a Saturday. Yes, I attend early morning seminary and wake up at 4:22 AM (something strange about me is that I hate when alarms are set for a common time, 5:00, 5:25, I just don't like numbers that end in five or zero. Or an odd  number. I, am an odd number.) But yeah, Saturday is my only day to sleep in, and it is sooo worth giving up for the temple.

I am certain that every time I go to the temple, I take away something different. Last temple trip was the first time we have ever been physically handed the names and it was incredible to learn about the people who have passed on that we were doing work for. I had one person, from Essex, England who had been waiting since 1532 for her work to be done. I had other names from Uruguay, Italy, Ukraine, Pennsylvania, England, and other countries all over the world. This time, I only had names from Hungary, which is still so neat to me. It was truly a feeling of such important work being done.

This time I went, I gained a new love for the blessing of a temple building, and one being only three hours away. The temple grounds just have an enlighteninng and clean feeling about them, and I love to be surrounded by beautiful white facades and fences and landscaping. Beautiful stained glass windows and shining glass doors. It gives me such a peaceful feeling. With how hectic and stressed life is, it is so hard to find the simple meditation that relates to the spirit of the temple.

Noah is soon awaiting his mission call, his papers have been in and everyone is saying the call will come this week. I am so so grateful for the opprotunity he has to serve a mission, and the desire! I honestly envy him being able to take out his endowments and seeing more of what the temple has to bless him with. I am so proud of him and can't wait to officially be a missionary's girlfriend. A waiting, LOYAL one, at that!;D

Temples are where I want to be, and I am living a life that will lead me to the temple always. I am so so excited to be a growing Latter-day Saint girl and approaching big steps in life, that are getting me closer to the day I am married in the temple. I am so thankful for all the work that is done, the workers and the missionaries and preisthood power to operate a temple.

Seriously, who isn't happy at the temple?

Thoughts For Thursday.

Thoughts for the 17th day of January:
1. College is DUMB.
1 1/2. I don't know what I'm doing.
2. That economics test was harder than I thought it would be.
3. I am crazy jealous of Noah.. who is in Alabama, playing in snow...
4. College is still dumb.

Love,
Cindy.

Admit it, you needed this, too.