howdy ya'll

recently, if you can't tell, my life as kinda turned upside-down.

i receive these quotes from here and the other day i got one that really helped me out.

"We will each face times of difficulty, and the question is not when we will face them but how we will face them."

James B. Martino

it seriously opened my eyes to the kind of reaction that i was choosing to have about the trials i am facing. i have also had an amazing institute class this semester that has really helped me.

right now we are talking about how life is a testing center for all of us and what the rules are for the testing center. i will tell you more about it when we actually finish the subject we are on but i'm telling ya.. it's good.

also, my wonderful aunt lezlee, i really feel like i shouldn't be calling her my aunt, but more of a friend, is visiting from kansas and we have had a really fun time trying to find houses and having lunch together. i cannot wait till they are here permanently.

i'm thinking you all should read this talk. because i mean, we are all going to face trials. might as well have a good attitude now. :)

okay i'm off to do homework. yaaaay.

much love-smash.

new.

why hello there.

yes it is me. ashley.

unfortunately, i am not good at blogging. at all. it is so sad.

so, here i am just a few months after my last post.

a lot has happened in my life.

luckily no one reads my blog so i can talk about it.

Let me put it bluntly, i have NO friends.

last august i lost my best friend. no not to a car accident or anything like that, but to a boy. i seriously have hung out with my best friend probably 4 time

s in the last 6 months. and just last week she got engaged. i am SOO happy for her. but i am just sad that we aren't "best friends" anymore. and then to put the icing on the cake, my one other friend here, just moved home to Oregon. OREGON! to get married!! what is with all of my friends getting married? all 3 of my best friends are now married or almost married.

ashley no likey.

everyone is like focus on school, get school o

ver with. and obvious

ly i know that, that is something i am focusing on but, i am a social butterfly and i have relied on my friends for so long and now that they are gone, i feel broken.

thank goodness for mary engelbriet and her art and the words of the prophets or i wouldn't be able to handle life right now.

enlightenment here.

but wanna here something crazy? so this evening, after dinner we looked outside only see a bunch of cop cars and fire trucks. we went outside and our lungs filled with smoke. someone, or something lit our neighbors big industrial size dumpster on fire. there were fire trucks and police cars everywhere. and the funnest thing was that they had to walk all the way down the street to find a fire hydrant. that scared me a bit. pictures to follow.

must.change.attidute.

words to live by :]