My personal challenge

I've been thinking about what the Gospel means to me and how much I love the security and consistency it gives me and so I am creating a challenge for myself.

Challenge #1:
- Strengthen myself spiritually.

•    Read scriptures every day
•    Have private prayer and pray with my husband
•    Share my testimony as often as possible

Challenge #2
- Strengthen my body

• Work out consistently. I know I'm not the most fit or skinniest girl in the world and honestly, I am ok with that. I have a family who loves me for me and a husband who loves everything about me (including my waistline) BUT it's not the size that makes me want to change, it's the fact that I want to be healthy and energetic.
• Eat healthy and take vitamins! I can handle eating healthy, it's the vitamins that scare me a tad. They are so huge and so is my gag reflex BUT I'm not going to let that interfere! Eventually, me and Blaine are going to be pregnant and I want to be the best and healthiest Mom I can be for 'it', starting right from the beginning.

I'm only 20 and Blaine is 23, We have so much to look forward to in life! Who wants to be held back from doing activites with your family because you're not healthy enough or not spiritually strong enough?? I know I don't! 

So bring it on world, I'm ready to face the challenges that you have to throw at me with my husband holding my hand.

So to execute one of my challenges....

I want to bear my testimony to YOU, that I know that life is full of up's and down's but I can witness to you that if you continue to pray diligently and sincerely, life will begin to get a little easier each time. Pray about finding opportunties to serve others, or sharing the gospel with someone, and you will find comfort. When life gets hard, hold your husband's hand and jump in together! There is great strength in a marriage that the husband and the wife work together and not divide duties. I am so grateful for my husband and all the things he does for me, and for the love he provides. I am grateful for the priesthood and the blessing of having that spirit in my home. The spirit allows for me to harmony in my home and I pray that I can give that to my children like my mom did for me. I am blessed when it comes to families. I have the 2 best families to gain wisdom from. I love my family as well as Blaine's, and that is a blessing in itself to truly love your family. I hear so much "I hate my family" or "I wish I had a stronger connection to my family", I am so proud to say that I have such a strong love and connection for mine and his family. And I am grateful for that blessing. I love my Heavenly Father and all the blessings He has given me. I pray that you will be blessed in your life and in your up's and down's that you, too, may find comfort and peace. I challenge you to do this challenge with me, so that you may reap your blessings.