I GET TO MEET HER.
IN DECEMBER.
FOR MY DAY OF BIRTHY.
I CAN'T.
I'M GOING TO DIE.
I LOVE THAT GIRL.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
D&C 4:3
I am so overwhelmed with gratitude right now, I'm not sure how to put it into words. But we'll try.
A few months ago, when I went to RFG, for our last devotional our counselor let us ask questions and she would answer them. She had us write them down the night before so she could think about them and then answer them the next night. At this point in my life, my testimony was shaking and my faith was as low as I hope it will ever be. I was miserable, and didn't know who or what to believe any more. With little doubt in my mind that asking a question could ever help me, I wrote down "When did you learn, for yourself, that what we're all being taught was absolutely true." She said that she had thought about this question a lot and wasn't sure how to answer it in the way that would affect us the most. She said that if we didn't have a testimony, she wanted her story to inspire us to gain one. She hesitated a little, then shared a story about when she was around 14, just going into seminary for her first year. In seminary they had a president to lead the class and conduct some of the meetings. She said that the thought never crossed her mind to even want to be in the presidency. Her seminary teacher challenged them at the beginning of the year to start reading D&C. She said that she started at the beginning, and read up to chapter four that night. She came across the scripture D&C 4:3 that says "Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work;". She said it really stuck out at her for some reason. She wanted to have a testimony to serve God, to know that He was there and needed her for some reason in the church. She said she got down on her knees and prayed for an opportunity, big or small, to be able to serve someone through God.
The next day, her seminary teacher asked her to come early to class. He pulled her inside his office and said that he had the president chosen, but for some reason, her face would not leave his mind the night before. He said he didn't know why, but thought he needed to put her in as the president. She told us that she lost it at that point, saying that she was so amazed that God had answered her prayer in such a perfect way.
She spoke to us a little more after that, telling us to gain a testimony, to be strengthened, to pray about it and to know that if we have a desire to believe it, we'll know it's true.
The next Sunday I was in church, the Beehive presidency got released because the president and second counselor were moving on to Mia Maids. They didn't sustain a new presidency because they weren't sure who to call yet.
I went home, thought about my counselor, and thought, I'm going to put my trust in the Lord and see what he comes up with for me. I prayed to be able to be put in the presidency, to serve these girls, because I knew I could influence them, have an impact on them, grow to love them. I begged Him, even if it was just for the few short month that I had left in Beehives, that I would be able to serve my class in some way.
Weeks passed before we got a new president and I was losing a little bit of my confidence. I thought that if He was going to let me serve, He would have called me already.
This week, the bishopric came in and asked if I would accept the calling as the president of the Beehives class.
I totally lost it.
He cared about me enough to let me serve Him and the beautiful young beehives in my class.
Yeah, it's nothing huge. It's small and it will only be for two months. But it meant so much to me that He would answer my prayers.
He answers prayers.
Little Miss Erika
A few months ago, when I went to RFG, for our last devotional our counselor let us ask questions and she would answer them. She had us write them down the night before so she could think about them and then answer them the next night. At this point in my life, my testimony was shaking and my faith was as low as I hope it will ever be. I was miserable, and didn't know who or what to believe any more. With little doubt in my mind that asking a question could ever help me, I wrote down "When did you learn, for yourself, that what we're all being taught was absolutely true." She said that she had thought about this question a lot and wasn't sure how to answer it in the way that would affect us the most. She said that if we didn't have a testimony, she wanted her story to inspire us to gain one. She hesitated a little, then shared a story about when she was around 14, just going into seminary for her first year. In seminary they had a president to lead the class and conduct some of the meetings. She said that the thought never crossed her mind to even want to be in the presidency. Her seminary teacher challenged them at the beginning of the year to start reading D&C. She said that she started at the beginning, and read up to chapter four that night. She came across the scripture D&C 4:3 that says "Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work;". She said it really stuck out at her for some reason. She wanted to have a testimony to serve God, to know that He was there and needed her for some reason in the church. She said she got down on her knees and prayed for an opportunity, big or small, to be able to serve someone through God.
The next day, her seminary teacher asked her to come early to class. He pulled her inside his office and said that he had the president chosen, but for some reason, her face would not leave his mind the night before. He said he didn't know why, but thought he needed to put her in as the president. She told us that she lost it at that point, saying that she was so amazed that God had answered her prayer in such a perfect way.
She spoke to us a little more after that, telling us to gain a testimony, to be strengthened, to pray about it and to know that if we have a desire to believe it, we'll know it's true.
The next Sunday I was in church, the Beehive presidency got released because the president and second counselor were moving on to Mia Maids. They didn't sustain a new presidency because they weren't sure who to call yet.
I went home, thought about my counselor, and thought, I'm going to put my trust in the Lord and see what he comes up with for me. I prayed to be able to be put in the presidency, to serve these girls, because I knew I could influence them, have an impact on them, grow to love them. I begged Him, even if it was just for the few short month that I had left in Beehives, that I would be able to serve my class in some way.
Weeks passed before we got a new president and I was losing a little bit of my confidence. I thought that if He was going to let me serve, He would have called me already.
This week, the bishopric came in and asked if I would accept the calling as the president of the Beehives class.
I totally lost it.
He cared about me enough to let me serve Him and the beautiful young beehives in my class.
Yeah, it's nothing huge. It's small and it will only be for two months. But it meant so much to me that He would answer my prayers.
He answers prayers.
Little Miss Erika
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
I Got You
So. Every night that I have a performance. I do this song. For one reason. It's a song that I've been singin' with this girl pretty much since I met her. And almost every night I call her during it (: Yeah. I do it for Sara. Because she's got my back and I've got hers. But tonight when I was doing it, pretty much my favorite thing in the world happened. I was in the middle of singing the second verse when a little girl right up close to the pulls out a poster and holds it up. It says "Erika - You're the missing piece that makes me fit! I love you!"
I have no idea who that girl was. But I love her.
So I recorded I Got You in soundcheck today... it's not my best, but I thought you may want to hear it. Enjoy. If you'd like (:
I have no idea who that girl was. But I love her.
So I recorded I Got You in soundcheck today... it's not my best, but I thought you may want to hear it. Enjoy. If you'd like (:
Sunday, October 2, 2011
"May we find in each other, we're not so alone.."
Miracles happen my friends. I don't know how. I don't know why. But I know they do.
Almost two months ago I received some of the hardest calls of my life within a matter of days. Two dead, 7 in the ER, 12 total in the hospital. The day the Indy stage fell was far beyond the hardest day of my life.
My friend has been in the hospital since that day, in a coma, day in, day out, and we had little hope for her waking up. Two days ago I got a call that she was beginning to come out of it, little by little, and was responsive by the next morning. Later that day, I received the most rewarding, most emotional, and absolutely the most amazing phone call of my life. I was able to talk to my friend for the first time in two months. My friend that the doctors said I'd probably never speak to again.
I am forever amazed, grateful, and so fully blessed that she is alive.
Love & light <3
Little Miss Erika
Almost two months ago I received some of the hardest calls of my life within a matter of days. Two dead, 7 in the ER, 12 total in the hospital. The day the Indy stage fell was far beyond the hardest day of my life.
My friend has been in the hospital since that day, in a coma, day in, day out, and we had little hope for her waking up. Two days ago I got a call that she was beginning to come out of it, little by little, and was responsive by the next morning. Later that day, I received the most rewarding, most emotional, and absolutely the most amazing phone call of my life. I was able to talk to my friend for the first time in two months. My friend that the doctors said I'd probably never speak to again.
I am forever amazed, grateful, and so fully blessed that she is alive.
Love & light <3
Little Miss Erika
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