date night and some more

what could be romantic than eating veggies from a plastic bag on your patio at 10 o'clock on a mattress that you recently dragged out in celebration of the hot weather?



and for some much needed depth to this blog [i look like a total loser compared to amy's blog] let me just share something that i have noticed since being in taiwan more than anywhere else.

it seems like when i am actually looking for answers, strength, whatever, answers are placed everywhere. i could go on forever about this. mostly i have noticed the amount of the Lord's presence and mercy in my life. He loves me and through Him, i am healed. moral of the story: i love my faith. and the love that HF has for me. and my ability to feel that so deeply because of Him. enough of me, down to the good stuff.

"this type of hope in God, His goodness, and His power refreshes us with the courage during difficult challenges and gives strength to those who feel threatened by enclosing walls of fear, doubt, and despair" infinite power of hope. president dieter f. uchtdorf
1 cor 2:9
"sometimes the very moments that seem to overcome us with suffering are those that will ultimately suffer us to overcome" come what may, and love it. elder joseph b. wirthlin
D&C 84:88
"get on the path and never, ever give up. you never give up. you just keep on going. you don't quit, and you will make it" the way. elder lawrence e. corbridge
Moroni 12:27
"The tests we face are going to be real. We will know them deeply and keenly and pervasively. Christ's cry on the cross shows that the very best of all His children found the trial so real, the test so exquisite and severe that he cried out not in doubt of His father but wondering why in the moment of supreme agony he felt so alone. We too at times might wonder if we are forgotten and forsaken. We might at times try to pray away an impending tragedy but is really an opportunity. At times, He will not be able to let us pass by that challenge because if he has, everything at that moment will be wiped out. It is because He loves us that He will not intercede." but for a small moment. elder neal a. maxwell. byu devotional address.

by the way, has anyone actually read corinthians? i am finding more treats in that book than anywhere else in the bible. it is amazing. i urge you all [christian or not] to read it.