Grateful today for my education/college experience. I look back with the fondest memories and wonderful experiences. Was it hard? Oh yes... More than almost anything. Was it ridiculously horrible and emotionally draining? Why yes, yes it was! And yet all those times just blur into one awesome 4 year period.
I loved loved loved my freshman year at BYU, living in the dorms was unlike anything else and I seriously made some lifelong friends. It was SUCH a learning experience and I am so grateful that I was surrounded by such amazing people with strong testimonies of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I remember when the guys from my ward started leaving on missions that I just had this epiphany- "MY friends ARE the missionaries" and I never had any doubts that any of them would be anything less then the most loving,caring, christlike missionaries out there. There were so many great examples to me, so many of the people in my ward were so loving and accepting and I really was able to start figuring out who I was.
I am grateful that I could find a major that I was truly interested in, looking back I do have some regrets about not really taking advantage of many of the opportunities/classes available, but hopefully I can figure out how to incorporate those things at some point in my life. I LOVE the human body.
I am so grateful that I got to go to BYU and can't stand when people hate on it. I love the campus, the honor code, the sense of belonging, and the gospel incorporated into so many aspects of my life. I feel like its easy to say "this is where my spirituality stays" and sort of limit it and keep it in a box with church/scripture study but being at BYU really let me make it a central influence on every aspect of my life. I love being outside on Sunday and seeing so many people in church clothes striving for similar things.
Of course you don't need to attend a religious school to recognize and learn these things but that's the way I went about it. In my college career I gained a great amount of secular knowledge, but more importantly I learned how I was going to LIVE the gospel and for that I am very grateful.
I loved loved loved my freshman year at BYU, living in the dorms was unlike anything else and I seriously made some lifelong friends. It was SUCH a learning experience and I am so grateful that I was surrounded by such amazing people with strong testimonies of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I remember when the guys from my ward started leaving on missions that I just had this epiphany- "MY friends ARE the missionaries" and I never had any doubts that any of them would be anything less then the most loving,caring, christlike missionaries out there. There were so many great examples to me, so many of the people in my ward were so loving and accepting and I really was able to start figuring out who I was.
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| end of the year formal dance freshman year |
I am so grateful that I got to go to BYU and can't stand when people hate on it. I love the campus, the honor code, the sense of belonging, and the gospel incorporated into so many aspects of my life. I feel like its easy to say "this is where my spirituality stays" and sort of limit it and keep it in a box with church/scripture study but being at BYU really let me make it a central influence on every aspect of my life. I love being outside on Sunday and seeing so many people in church clothes striving for similar things.
Of course you don't need to attend a religious school to recognize and learn these things but that's the way I went about it. In my college career I gained a great amount of secular knowledge, but more importantly I learned how I was going to LIVE the gospel and for that I am very grateful.
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