At Peace Once Again

Ahhh. I love church. LOVE IT! Even though today was the first day and it was kinda chaotic, I still totally felt the Spirit. For the closing hymn in Sacrament Mtg., we sang "Secret Prayer." I love that hymn! I have a "new found" love for it, I suppose you would say. I really like the lyrics and the words speak true to me. I'm trying to have a better relationship with my Heavenly Father this school year and I just love the harmonies of that hymn.
So church. First Sunday. The "meat market" of Sundays. We have TWO relief society's in our ward. Sooo...double the girls. Could be a drawback but hey, I'm not looking for marriage right now (famous last words, right??). Our ward starts with relief society, goes to Sunday School and ends with Sacrament Mtg. In Sacrament Mtg, we sat by an apartment full of boys, who Shelby invited over for card games and cookies. ^.^ We'll see how that goes! They were really nice and desperately tried to remember all 5 of our names......and sorta succeeded! We'll give them somee slack though, seeing as it's the first week ;)
Our Bishop talked for a good 20 minutes (when we were all tired and hungry, props to him) at the end of Sacrament Mtg. He talked about how we should pretend that we're going to live in this ward for a more long term thinking, rather than two semesters. That way, in our callings/friendships/relationships, we will do our best because, heck, we're living here forever! I really like that way of thinking. I'm going to try really hard to reach out and make new friends. I think last year I came off as really shy the first semester (which...I kinda am...) but by second semester, I was really good friends with everyone I had met. I don't want to be like that this year. I'm finally excited about this coming year. I think it'll be good. I just finally feel at peace :)