Almond Dental

Today has been a pretty good day. My mood has been fairly positive. This could be for several different reasons.

Last night I was thinking back on a lot of old memories, totally random ones.

Which is nice sometimes but occasionally it doesn’t let me sleep right away.

I remember one time; I know I was at least 16 because I drove out to see my sister, Stephanie, in Provo over night.

I remember we went to one of their single ward dance activity thing. And I remember part way through I got my stomach pain I used to get once every month or so. And it hurt and I was trying to just move and pray it would just go away.

I didn’t want to make my sister leave because of me but when I’m in pain it makes me really tired.

We decided that we would ask some of the men to give me a blessing. I remember before hand I had asked her the question about the oil and why they use it for blessings for sickness. We both weren’t really sure but we didn’t ask anyone.

When we got in a room and they stood around me to give me a blessing, in the blessing I remember they answer my questioned I had asked in confidence with Stephanie.

I remember thinking how crazy it was and it reminded me that God hears our prayers and our questions. He is always watching us.

Now there are sometimes we should ask someone the question but He does always see what we are doing and saying and even thinking.

The end of the story that I remember is we did end up leaving early and we sat on her couch and ate birthday cake ice cream. I can’t remember what we were watching on TV though and the pain didn’t go away for a while but the blessing taught me something none the less.

This morning I got up with Spencer and slowly got Stew prepared to put in the Crockpot. Doing that woke me up a little bit and when I DO make myself make dinner it does make me feel accomplished. It’s just the whole getting up and making myself do it. I did take a little nap just so I wasn’t super tired through out the day. Then I was off to my first dentist appointment at my new dentist office.

It’s called Almond Dental… 5 stars! I walked in and the receptionist was super nice, whenever I talk to her she is happy and upbeat. After we got paper work figured out I was off to get my teeth cleaned with the nurse. Is that what you call them? Or the assistance?

Either way, sadly I forgot her name but she was SUPER nice. She was talking to me and we were talking about our marriages and all of these different things. We figured out that we both were Mormon which isn’t that uncommon in Utah. But she was really nice and it was nice to talk to someone knew and have a connection of some sort. It’s nice to run into a Mormon because you just automatically have a connection usually with that person and you could talk with them for hours. Too bad I probably will only see her when I go to the dentist.

And Doctor Almond was really nice, at first he didn’t know I was a new patient because they have lots of Peacocks that go there for some reason. =] The sad part though was I have 5 cavities… all on the left side which is weird because I chew on my right mostly. But it’s partly because I don’t floss well. Which, okay fine, I will do a lot better this time because I am tired of having to be numbed all the time. Yeah this was a bummer to find out but I knew my teeth wouldn’t be perfect for long. They’ve always given me trouble.

But then I got to work and talked with Heather for a little while which is super nice.

You know I just realized that talking to people like really have some kind of conversation with them makes my day a little brighter.

Now I do talk to my husband every day but it’s nice to talk to someone else occasionally.

I wrote Elder Marstella aka Chase who is the brother to one of my friends named Haley. He left around the time I ended up getting married. And I decided to write him and he wrote me back today and it was a nice letter. He is super happy, you can tell.

ALSO I get to leave 30 minutes early today to pick up one of my handsome nephews… Jerimiah! He and I will hang out for a few, maybe even drop food off to Spencer while he is at the church. I think J will like that especially since I’m going to show him the candy stash at church. =]

21 days closer to Christ:

Day 6-

Invitation- Hope

Journey- Attempt to analyze through different eyes a situation that has been troubling you. Pray that the Savior will touch your eyes so that you will see what you need to do differently. Write down some of the good things that have come to you through Christ. How does recognizing these things bring you hope?

Answer- Well Spencer is a good person that came to me through Christ. Whenever I was feeling alone or needed someone I would pray for a friend, someone to be there. Every time Spencer would show up or text me. Christ made something happen, he made me see that I can need things in my life and he will bring it unto me if I need it at that time. Of course He knows when we need the things we need.

There is one situation that’s been troubling me. I don’t want to discuss it with everyone but basically it’s troubled me for a little while. And I’ve been told the same thing every time. Mainly just be patient. I completely understand why it’s that response but waiting is a hard thing and apparently I’m not really good at it. Knowing that He will bring things into my life when I am ready for it. That brings me hope, and makes me know that I can be patient. (Hopefully that made since)

Anyways I feel like today is not too bad of a day. Hopefully dinner cooks nicely in the Crockpot while I am at work AND hopefully I put all the right ingredients in it.

Have a wonderful day