A Good start

Today has been good. 

Remember when I said sometimes my posts are more for me than you?
Well today, I just want to list all the things that went right.
I woke up and checked my i-learn.
Three 100% on different assignments
Comment from my teacher:

Made my day!
Our group only missed two questions on those crazy, hard CIT quizzes.
I studied for my Disease class.
I was so nervous and felt really unprepared.
We have to know the following per disease(This test was covering around 40 diseases.) 

a.) Description

b.) Etiology

c.) Pertinent Signs and Symptoms

d.) Diagnostic Procedures

e.) Treatment

f.) Prognosis

g.) Prevention

I took the test, some were pretty hard. 

Walked out and got a 92%!!!!!

I made crispy chicken salad for dinner. 

Clean ate all day. 

Finished the night off by going to the gym for the first time 

in 20ish months. Sad. 

Felt so good. 

The end. 

~Linz

Because 20 days wasn't enough...

This past weekend I was able to go home to California!

Chandler was going through the temple and doing all his farewell activities. 

I really loved being at home, I miss it!

Here are some highlights from the weekend :)

Chandler loves MB2 and wanted to race me.  

He beat me pretty good!

We celebrated with going to pizza after. 

Went to the Temple

Our whole family was inside the temple that night. 

Very cool!

Got frozen yogurt and 5 guys. 

Went shooting on Saturday. 

Chandler gave a great farewell talk. 

Then we took our last picture together for the next two years :(

It ended all too quickly, time to go back to Rexburg.

~Linz

Mission Series: God Knows Best

As I came in contact with more and more people

It became more evident how much God really knows best. 

Take for example the Word of Wisdom.  

We focus on the cant's. 

I can't drink coffee, can't drink tea, can't drink alcohol, can't smoke. 

When in reality commandments free us. 

They empower us!

Let me share a story.  

I met this lady she was so sweet and I loved her. 

She needed the gospel in her life.  

She did every drug known to man, used to be a drug dealer. 

She had a really hard life, one I'm glad I didn't have. 

She gave up all those hard drugs, cold turkey. 

She couldn't give up coffee and cigarettes.  

They had such a powerful hold on her. 

It was then I really realized

God created us, that means He knows what is good for us and what isn't. 

That when we live the commandments we are truly free. 

When we use drugs we are under their power. 

I am so glad I was able to learn and follow the Word of Wisdom from a young age. 

That I don't have to deal with addictions. 

That I am truly happy and free.

~Linz

Mission Series: Choices

So I'm about to get a bit honest. 

My mission taught me so much.

But it's crazy how fast I have forgotten those lessons. 

My mission president told me that would happen. 

That would be Satan's ultimate goal, to make me forget. 

Before I left on a mission, I had 4 classes and an internship left.

Essentially a semester left.  

I would be graduating with a degree in Healthcare Administration.

About a few months into my mission, I didn't really feel like I wanted to do that anymore. 

I put it off, I'll worry about it when I get home. 

Well, I am now home and it's been hard. 

I feel behind in life compared to others. 

I feel a bit lost. 

Unsure of what I want to do with my life. 

Everyone told me that it would be ok, I have time, no return missionary knows what they want when they come home. 

Which I knew it would be fine.
It's all in God's hands.
Does that make it easier?
But maybe, I was starting to use it as a crutch. 

To go backwards instead of forwards.  

This weekend I had the opportunity to attend Power to Become Conference.  

This conference was great! 

I learned so much and took tons of notes.  

It was both informative, inspirational, fun, and powerful. 

But the main message that I learned was this:

Don't be paralyzed by indecision.

I remembered learning this as a missionary. 

 God can't move a parked car.

As you are moving, course correction will happen.  

~Linz

A mini Update

The weather in Rexburg has been delightful!

I am so excited to go to California next week!

I got back from a great weekend in Utah!

I went to my first mission reunion.  

It was so fun to see people.
so Surreal.  

Wait I really served a mission. 

I know these people, because I served a mission. 

So surreal that I can now "legally" hug those former elders.  

I should have taken pictures. Oh well. 

I went to General Conference for the first time. 

It was so Awesome!!!

See pictures here:

In the past month, it feels like all I have been doing is sitting in a car. 

So I decided to roughly calculate the hours spent in a car. 

About 60 hours. 

Oakland, Fresno, Utah, Yellowstone, Fort Collins, back to Utah. 

It's been fun. 

Have a fantastic day!

~Linz