An Amazing First Day Back

After a refreshing and much needed few weeks at home, I find myself back in my apartment in cold, snowy, and icy Utah. I had an amazing first day of school. I am currently enrolled in University Chorale and I think that was probably the best decision of my life.  I've missed singing so much, since I've been singing in choirs since 7th grade.  Within the first few minutes, I was getting chills and just so excited to be there! And then, we started singing "In Humility, Our Savior." What other school could you sing hymns to work on vocal technique!?

But more importantly, I had a great experience with the first day of my religion class. I'm currently taking second half of the New Testament with Prof. Griffin. I took the first half of Book of Mormon from him and the impressions I received from his class is the reason I changed my life around, as I was not the person I wanted to be that first BYU semester.

Anyway, today in class, towards the last few minutes, he directed us to Acts, chapter one. In chapter one, Christ is about to end his 40 day ministry after being resurrected, and his apostles ask him one last question.  The question is about temporal matters, mainly when will the kingdom be restored to Israel? Christ answers, in verse 7, "It is not for you to know the times or seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power." My professor then said to "liken all scriptures unto ourselves," because all scriptures can be to our learning, even a 19 year old girl at BYU.  I thought about this for a second and realized the spiritual importance of this scripture to me at this time.

At this time, I am a sophomore in college.  I am just getting into my major of choice, sociology and I've been worrying constantly that maybe this isn't the major for me.  I've had problems last semester that haunted me and I've been worried that they will reoccur this semester as well.  My future seems very uncertain, which worries me even more and at times, I wish I could see what my life has in store for me.  But, when taking this scripture and applying it to my 19 year old life, I realized that my Father in Heaven knows me personally, knows my weakness and flaws, and knows what my life will bring me.  At this time in my life, I need to trust and act in faith that I am leading my life in the way my Heavenly Father would want.  I need to trust my Heavenly Father and prepare for the trials that I know are up ahead this semester. And I need to have faith that, even though I don't know why, I'm suppose to stay for spring semester.

After reflecting on this scripture, I got a reaffirming feeling that this is where I'm suppose to be right now, at BYU.  I am leading my life in a way that is pleasing to my Father in Heaven and even though I'm impatient to see what the future has in store for me, I can act on faith and trust that everything will work out in the way it's suppose to, if I keep the commandments and listen to promptings I receive.

I am so excited for this semester and what it has in store for me. Life is exciting and "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friends!"