October 26, 2025

 Dearest Isaac and Lily,


I feel like this has been a pretty quiet week...

  • I had another group organ lesson.  I love these lessons!  And I'm enjoying the organ so much!
  • I played the organ at the temple on Thursday.  So fun to actually be able to play the pedals at least some of the time.
  • Hana and Emmy and I went to the temple on Thursday.  It's been a couple weeks since we could go together, so that was super nice!
  • Dad and I did some more work on waxing the fifth wheel - we'll get it finished some day.  ha ha
  • I watched a live stream of an organ recital done by a BYU professor.  It was mindblowing!  He made the organ sound like a full orchestra!  And I realized, for the first time, that the organ at BYU is in the middle of the wall - like halfway up the wall - surrounded by the pipes!!  It was so cool! I want to play on that organ someday...
  • Emmy and I went to see Pablo Sains Villegas play a guitar concert.  Yes, Lily, that's the same guys we saw at BYU last time.  This time he brought friends (another guitarist, a bassist, and a percussionist), and it was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
  • On Saturday I went to "Magnify: a gathering of women" with Rachel, Grandma, and Sammy (Matt's new wife).  It was such a fabulous women's conference!
  • Emmy had Monster Mash on Saturday.  Her group came here for dinner and some Jackbox.  It was fun to have them here.  
In my conference thing I got some interesting guidance.  I felt encouraged to continue to pursue going back to school and get either a Nursing or PA degree.  God wants me to step out and lead out and this is a good way to do that! It's ok for me to be bigger and stronger and more than I am.

Plus, this week I had a longer, more searching prayer about this life path.  I spent a good time talking with the Lord about whether or not I should pursue a medical degree.  I didn't get a clear answer other than that it would be good for me to pursue applying for school and looking at jobs. But the next morning I woke up with a hymn STUCK in my mind. It wasn't a common hymn.  And we hadn't sung it in forever, but it was totally in my head.  Here are the first two lines, which were the ones on repeat in my mind. "Know this that every soul is free, to choose his life and what he'll be." Sigh.  Sounds like the Lord is letting me choose.

Another great thought was a twist on the common phrase, "If something is worth doing, it's worth doing it right."  The change was, "If something is worth doing, it's simply worth doing - even if you do it badly for now.  It's worth it to be a mother badly while you figure out how to do it better.  It's worth doing missionary work badly while you are learning to do it better.  Ministering is worth doing badly while you're learning to do it better.  Loved this idea!!

And, if I'm willing the Lord will take my life down a path where I simply cannot do it myself and I need the Lord.  That's where I will find Him.

And I learned a variation on how to read the scriptures that I want to share with Emmy.  It was just a lovely spiritual feast!!

I love you guys to the moon and back!!!





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