I Stand All Amazed

Today is the first full day I've been back in Rexburg, and let me just say, however much I loved this place my freshman year, I love this school with all my heart now, and I never want to leave. I love my apartment complex (a LOT nicer than the dorms I lived in last year), I love my roommate (yes, there is basically only one right now), and I am so glad that I am living right where I am. I'm just about 2-3 blocks from the temple, and the view from my window gazes right onto the Education building--it's my own little pep talk each morning, that I'm here to become a teacher, and that building is helping me get there.

I don't feel nervous about being on my own, I'm not sad or lonely without my family--even though I do love them tremendously, I feel much more myself, and things are just turning out a lot better already than I would have expected--and it's only my first day fully on my own. I haven't even gone to the classes, which are always amazing!

Today in church, I actually already came to the realization that I absolutely love my ward. My bishopbric is hilarious--seriously. I have never laughed so much in church and felt how much they already loved each of us, as well as being able to feel the Spirit in incredible amounts. We have Relief Society first, then Sunday School, and then Sacrament Meeting. I think I might actually like this set up better--at least in Singles Wards--because of all the great things you've focused on all day, to then finish spiritually high with the sacrament. I just liked it so much better today.

Alright, this is where the title of the post comes in.

The sacrament song today was, "I Stand All Amazed". I have always loved that song, but today, I actually almost started crying when people were singing it. My ward is not afraid to sing, and to sing loudly with devotion either. I felt the Spirit so strongly today in that meeting, than I probably have all summer total. It was then that the song came to have so much more meaning to me than before, and I now truly treasure that song.

I think one of the main reasons that that song really hit me today, besides the devotion of everyone singing, was the fact that it correlated so strongly with what I had been studying for homework the day before. It was talking about how we truly needed our Savior, and without him, we couldn't have anything--basically. It was such a powerful article, and I am already looking extremely forward to this Family Foundations class--as well as all my other classes, since they usually all invite the Spirit to be with us in the classroom and as we study the material to learn.

I truly love this school, and I am so excited I get to be up here again for school. April seems too soon to go back home. 2 full years after this year seem to be too short to leave school. I know it's because of the wonderful Spirit and the learning model that is here at the school. I always leave school feeling so spiritually high, and I love that feeling more than anything else.

Happy Sunday everyone.

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