Tender Mercies

This past week has been filled with many little tender mercies that I am incredibly grateful for. Grateful enough that I have decided to blog about it.

For starters, I was able to clean my apartment for white gloves in a time frame that I would have thought would have been impossible.

My finals went really well, my mind was clear, and I wasn't nervous about any of them. In fact, I guess I wasn't stressed out enough with deadlines that I totally spaced my science final. Thankfully, as a tender mercy, my science teacher let me take the test the next day in the classroom next to his office and I was able to land a solid B in that class that kicked my trash this semester!

I was able to ride down with a friend for Christmas break, and it saved me from riding down on the shuttle with strangers for several hours. Plus, it cost a lot less.

This past week with sending missionary emails, leaving friends, etc, I received some really great words from them. All of them, for whatever reason, decided to send me an email (even if I didn't send them an email that week) and they told me they felt like they just needed to tell me how much they appreciated me and how special I was to Heavenly Father. I was going through somewhat of a difficult time at that point--getting ready for finals, being stressed out, and just trying to get through those usual hard points in life where it's hard to see the iron rod you've been holding on to, but are striving to move forward, even though you don't know what's ahead. It's a scary feeling, not knowing what is coming or what you'll be expected to do, but I am so thankful for prayers, as well as great friends and family that have always been there for me, and are in tune enough with the Spirit to know that I needed some uplifting words last week.

This tender mercy is definitely the biggest one I could have asked for right now. Money for this next semester is going to be extremely tight, and so I was able to come back and work at Dairy Keen for Christmas Break to help earn some extra money. Even with working at Dairy Keen, and working on designing a program for work, I was going to be cutting it pretty financially close. However, randomly today, I received a check in the mail as my Christmas Bonus, and it covered the amount I needed to save up, as well as a little bit more. It was definitely an answer to my prayers these past few weeks.

I encourage everyone to look for tender mercies in their lives, as well as making sure that they are thanking Heavenly Father for helping them in their life and how each day plays out. I know Heavenly Father is watching over every one of us, and wants the very best for each of us.

Live. Love. Laugh. Grow.