Catching Up

I am not going to let the math get me down...in fact, it isn't the math that is getting me down, it is Satan and his way of causing discouragement. He does not want me to succeed and I need to recognize this more often and rise above his buffetings. Once he realizes that I am not going to fall into his trap of discouragement, then perhaps he will let up a bit in the math department. I don't know though, I'd rather have him cause problems there than any other place in my life. Math problems .... no pun intended....I can deal with.

President Heder, a counselor in our Stake Presidency, is going to die if he doesn't get a bone marrow transplant. Even if I were compatible with his type, I couldn't donate because I've had hepatitis and the only person I can donate to is myself. I couldn't donate to even my family. That's the pits.

I managed to pass my Physics exam....was holding my breath on that one....but I did pass...I got a 71% for which I am so excited about I could do the Snoopy dance. I really do love this class....it is SO interesting....she has a way of putting it to us that it makes me think about changing my major from History to Physics. Now that is scary.....in a wonderful sort of way.She (Tonya Tripplett) is offering an Astronomy class in the summer and although I really don't need it, I would love to take it just for the sake of taking it. I always wanted to take Astronomy since I was a child because I thought the heavens were and still are fascinating, but never pursued it.

Paul and Leana went to Kansas to check out the area. Paul said he received a revelation in the Temple about moving to the Wichita area of Kansas. He hasn't looked for a job there, yet, but they went to just check out the area. They found a small community near Wichita called Newton and they said it felt pretty good to them. I am glad they went and glad they came home safely.

Mike knows nothing of their impending move, which is good because he would instantly blame Paul and say Paul is moving to get away from him. It may seem that way to Mike, and it seemed that way to me more often than I would like to admit, but I understand the revelation and when God tells you to do something, you do it. Mike never really did get the full concept of that. I will never know if he used his Priesthood righteously during our marriage or not. I know there were times that he felt the spirit and lived by it, but he just would not keep up with it nor live on the testimony that he felt during the high times of his life.....when the low times hit, he felt that the Church wasn't true and he would wander. He didn't trust his own testimony.

I don't want to spend my time rehashing Mike and I. It's over and done with, no sense in going back over it again and again....!

Kimberly is going to go to Nashville to visit my sister (half-sister) Kathy and Dean, Dad and Dee, hopefully by the end of this week. Leana may go with her. I hope they do go....it would be good for Leana to actually meet my sister. I didn't know how much I could love or would love Kathy, but she is such a huge part of my heart. I wish my relationship with Kelly (my other half-sister, Kathy's full blooded sister) were as good, but that will come in it's own time.

I've been reading the Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon, and I finally broke down and bought a book about how to read them and the meanings of the verses that are in the book. It is SO much easier to read now...wish I had done that years ago. I usually skim through them just to get through them, now I can actually read them and understand what he was trying to say. Isaiah is wonderful.

I have to finish up a paper that I am writing for Twentieth Century France (History) and I'm kind of stumped as to where to go from where I left off. What we have covered the most of has been WWI (The Great War) and he wants us to chose two or three topics about what was affected by the war, an outcome, a direct result. I love History.

I also want to read a bit of my scriptures before I begin to finish the paper.