Try a little harder to be a little better

"You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others...." -Gordon B. Hinckley

I would like to say that I'm good. I'm not too sure what I'm good for yet. Hopefully I'll be good for something one day. I absolutely love this. Everytime I hear this quote or think of it, it just makes me want to do better. Do better in every single thing I do. I want to go feed homeless kids in third world countries and donate my wardrobe to kids in Africa...but today while I was thinking about this, I realized to be good for something and contribute something to the world, it doesn't have to be a huge thing. I realized I could be good for something as small as making someone smile, or making something a little easier for someone. I could be good for just being an example for others that I'm around and spread good that way. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this way, that to make a contribution to the world, has to be something BIGG. It doesn't. President Hinckley is freakin awesome. Enough said.

seek wisdom.

Sometimes I don't understand why people do the things they do to other people. Is it really necessary to be mean to others? I feel like it's harder to go out of your way to be mean, verses just being nice to someone. I don't know, that's just me.


Anywhoooo, recently I've been able to realize how lucky I am. I have an amazing life. My family is great, I couldn't have anything better. I have a job, which is a lot more than others these days. I'm getting an education, which is a pain in the rear, but will be beneficial for me and my future. I have amazing friends. I have the gospel in my life, with just that, I have everything I could ever ask for.

Long Time, No See.

Right when I was starting to get so good at blogging at least once a week, I fail. Ohhhh well. I'm backk. I've been really busy with school and work lately. I'm always so exhausted! I feel like I barely have time for anything else. So, Good News Minute: A couple weeks ago, I was working and a girl that I work with told me there was a deaf woman in the store and I should go sign with her. Now, for those of you who don't know, I am currently learning sign language. I understand most of it, and can carry on a conversation. There is still a lot more for me to learn though. So whenever I'm asked to go sign with someone, I get really nervous and worry that I'll look like a complete idiot and regret even trying to communicate with them. But, needless to say, I decided to try and have a conversation with her. She was with her son, and when the son was put in the fitting room, she was just looked around the store. So I walked over to her, and signed if she wanted a chair to sit down? She signed that she did, so I got one for her and started to walk away. As I started to walk away she started waving her hands (which is how you get someones attention whose deaf) so, I turned around and she asked me if I was deaf? I told her no, and that I was learning ASL. We ended up just signing for forever! I was so excited to be able to practice what I've learned so far. It was interesting because she told me she was from England, and a lot of her words were reallyyyy different, and I asked her why there were so different from the signs that I had learned and she told me she signs in BSL, (British Sign Lang.) She used a mixture of the 2 languages. Kind of like Spanglish. ha But it was so neat to talk to her, I'm glad I did. When her and her son were getting ready to leave, the son, who was hearing, told me thanks for talking to his mom and she gets so excited when someone signs to her, because she doesn't really get to communicate to other people because so few people know sign language. It was so awesome. It definitely made my day. I can't wait til I know everything about the language and am confident in signing to anyone.