Fall 2014/Winter 2015 College from the camera

BYUI campus at sunset

On our way to a waterfall

Fall Creek Falls with Hina

My view during the weekdays-- library

Masquarade with roommates. SeQuoyah, Hannah, Schae, Mary, and Laura

What I do when I'm not in the library. :) Flowers. 

The thankful door

Home for the holidays

Udon party with my Japanese friends- Hina, Yuzu, and Emi

Mom is obsessed with her chickens. "Blue one!"

Curry party on New Years Eve

Cross Country Skiing trip with outdoor activities. 

A trip to Pocatello

Bever Dick Park with Mary-- we saw a porcupine.

Only in Rexburg

Antelope Island! They should probably call it buffalo island instead.

This was on our field trip to California (I'll put more pictures up from it later)-- this is at the LA flower market

Introducing everyone to Japanese ramen at Little Tokyo

The group

Working in the flower center

Got to learn Ikebana 

The wedding show (more pictures later probably)

Interpretive Design

I realize that I haven't written in a while- I didn't have a lot of time while I was in school...but now that it's summer I can maybe get caught up. For a while I thought I didn't want to do blog stuff anymore, but then I realized that this is like a type of journal that is fun for me to keep and I do want to keep doing it.

This was one of the things we did at school for a class called interpretive design. I'll be honest- throughout the semester we did a lot of "class discussions" and I was starting to wonder what the class was all about. But for the final project we got to interpret a painting in one of the school buildings. I'll show mine and some of my classmates work. It was pretty fun. :)

Construction details: 

1- wired a shadow box (with the glass taken out) to an easle

2- crumpled up and stuck newspapers around the frame. 

3- lined the inside of the shadow box and around the newspapers with a foil (to keep it from getting wet)

4- glued (glue dots) little pizza tables onto the foil on the back (where the picture normally goes) and stuck wet floral foam pieces on them.

4- insert flowers

Other classmates work: 

PS- check out updates on the flower arrangements page

The Best Advice

Sister Kuroki read me a part of a letter from a friend who was struggling with her companion and asked me 'what advice should I tell her?' I related some personal experience and advice of how I'd gotten through a similar problem in the past.
Sister Kuroki looked at me funny and said "No... You know what the best advice is?..."
 "What?"
...."Suck it up!"
I don't know who taught her that english...but as it turns out- this is some pretty good advice.

Life is busy. Probably no matter what situation you're in.
Work, school, church callings, friends, family, cooking/eating, sleeping, cleaning, a bunch of little to-do tasks....
 I've got this desire to prioritize my religion and do things like read scriptures and pray daily and go to the temple weekly. The temple was the hard one. The temple schedule didn't really fit with my- do homework until done and then do other things (aka probably not done til 10 at night) schedule. (Plus being in class and work during the day). But the temple closes at like 8. So I was at a debating with myself (my shoulder angel and devil trying to convince me) about if I was just taking too many credits and should drop some to have time for the temple, (or if I should keep it and continue to just not have time to go at all).
Shoulder Devil: hah! even if you did that do you really think you'd make time for going to the temple then if it's not a priority in your life now?
Shoulder Angel: he has a point.

So I decided to take the "suck it up" advice. (just do it. forget yourself and go to work...it's all the same :) ) I worked extra hard the first couple days of the week and got ahead giving myself time to go to the temple mid-week. (This may have also included not doing things that weren't that important.) I did have the time I just needed to have a bit of slightly uncomfortable amount of work on the other days to make sure the important things got done.
I've been doing that for over a month now.

If you want something that God also wants you to do, and you put your mind to it, it can happen. Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to (put up with people, a workload, a scary task...)- but that's where that gem of advice comes in. :)