Inspired by the Ashlero

I know an amazing gal named Ashley Schultz. I've only visited her blog twice, but doing that has made me excited about life and all the good things it has to offer. She is someone who is most definitely "anxiously engaged in a good cause" (one of my favorite phrases from D&C 58:27).

Today was my brother, Daniel's, LDS missionary farewell. He will be serving for two years in Guatemala. I'm so proud of him. What a great and noble act it is to completely forget about yourself for two years and place yourself in the Lord's hands. I get teary eyed just thinking about all of the good I know he's going to do. It shows such humility and such faith to be able to put your life on hold like that. I know that he will be blessed a thousand times over for what he is doing,but for now I'm sure it seems like a great sacrifice to leave his cute girlfriend, Kenzie, and travel to a foreign land and speak a foreign tongue. I'm so happy to come from a family of such admirable people like my little bro.

Speaking of humility, in April I have a week to give a thought on humility each day to an entire elementary students. I'm not much for public speaking, so I try to think of what I'm going to say way ahead of time. If anyone has any great ideas or stories, let me know :)

I'm a school teacher and part of the reason I'm still awake at this hour I rarely see nowadays, is because I'm still so nervous about what I did today. You see, yesterday I called my mom to ask her if she needed help with anything for my brother's open house, she told me everything was set except the musical number and would I be willing to do that? I have to admit I was really gullible and thought she was seriously going to have a musical number. I knew she was joking about me doing it, cuz I can't sing. However what started out as a joke, ended with me and one of my favorite roommates (I have five favorites:), Jacqui, singing and dancing to a song originally entitled "Good Morning Baltimore" but we changed the lyrics to be all about Dan's mission and renamed it "Good Bye Daniel". It was so much fun, but I still can't believe that we did it. When one of my Grandma's came later and asked for a repeat performance, my incredibe boyfriend, Levi sang it with me (Jacqui had left)!

I'm so grateful for all the excitement life has to offer!