One foot on the right path, and another out the door

I am striving to start everyday out with something uplifting, whether it's from a talk, book, or scripture. This morning I feel so grateful to know of my divine nature. I started out my morning at work by reading the talk by Elaine Dalton tittled, "Guardians of Virtue" from a young women's broadcast. Since I gave my talk in church on Sunday about Obedience to the prophets I've also had a greater resolve to study the words of modern-day prophets. In the lesson I went to for Sunday school Daniel Jones talked about the difference between "a" prophet, versus "the" prophet. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ we recognize Thomas S. Monson as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and call him "the" Prophet because he is the Lords one mouth piece. However, there is also the term "a" prophet which includes the twelve apostles and others who are called as special witnesses of Jesus Christ. I am striving to search and study the words from our living prophets so I can do and be all that I can. I am so grateful for the beautiful morning when I walked out the door, and hope it stays that way. Hopefully anyone who reads this post enjoys it, if not that's alright. I just want my blog to be a reflection of all the areas in my life from the spiritual, physical, emotional. So look forward to more like this, plus ones about cooking endeavors, things I learn, stories, family, travels, etc.

1001 ways to die

I know the tittle of this seems very odd. So last night after I came home from work I was feeling great. So great if fact that I wanted to cook chicken Alfredo. I started by chopping up some onion, green peppers, and the chicken that had thawed out. After chopping the chicken I decided to go ahead and wash the knife since we don't have a dishwasher. While washing the knife, it took a slice into my index finger. I immediately told Russell to get a band-aid. At first there was blood, then burning all through my finger. It was aweful! Definitely shed a few tears. Russell, being such a great husband, finished cooking dinner for me. After dinner he treated me to some cookies and cream ice cream in the freezer, because we all know ice cream makes everything better :) While Russell was navigating netflix, he came accross the show 1001 ways to die and wanted to watch it! Not the greatest thing to watch after slicing your finger. I'm happy to report that I made it through the episode, without dying.

Happy Birthday Grandma Mingledorff

Congrats to Grandma Johnson for turning the big 80 today! I'm looking forward to celebrating this evening :)

No Root Canal..yippy

In my last blog I mentioned that I went to see Dr. Campbell last week to get a tooth seen about. While I was there he took an x-ray, and recommended I have a root canal. I was NOT looking forward to this in the least bit! On Wednesday I had the pleasure of going to the Dentist the my mom works for-Grant. I was ready and prepared to have a root canal done that day. After I described my symptoms to him, he recommended that I just get a filling for now to prolong the life of the tooth. I was Definitely ok with that! So far so good. Just having a mild headache, and I'm continuing to take the antibiotic to get rid of the infection I had in the root of my tooth. I also thought I was getting a UTI the same day I was at the Dentists office, so my mom gave me a pill that turned my pee orange-red!! Hopefully my body will work everything out and get back to normal soon.

The Mingledorff Move

Well, as many know by now, Russell and I moved into Family Housing this past week. I have to say is was one of the fastest moves we're likely to ever make together. Total moving time was right around 3 hours! Packing and unpacking time was 3-4x that...always the worst part! Speaking of packing, Russell was very little help. The day we got the phone call to move, he had an appointment at the eye Dr. to get his eyes dilated! Russ spent the whole night with 2 pairs of sunglasses on to keep out the light. Fortunately, his eyes are back to normal and was able to help with moving things the next morning. Unfortunately for me, I went to the Dentist the day we moved, and found out I needed a ROOT CANAL! Yuck! I'm going tomorrow to get it done at my mom's office. I'll see if I can get pictures to post after :)