Dear Future,
Warning: The following is spiritual and lacks my sense of humor.
I remember looking back on my mission and working with the members. Many would say that it was hard to fit in times for spirituality because life gets busy. Some would tell me to just wait and I would see. I thought to myself that my life could never get too busy for me to have personal prayer and gospel study. A week or two ago it hit me hard that I was falling into that excuse. I would be laying in bed at night realizing that I haven't been reading scriptures or the words of our modern leaders. Recently I have tried my best to find ways to incorporate gospel study into my life. I went to our book case and realized we have a whole shelf dedicated to the gospel. I picked up a little book called to draw closer to God by Elder Eyring. I looked in the front cover and saw that this was a christmas gift to me from 2005. It was from one of my young men leaders. I figured it was about time for me to see what this book was about. I have done my best to read from this book every day. I can not tell you the wonders that it has done on my past days. I just feel a peace, I feel like that by taking a few minutes to study and pray I am putting on the armor of God and that nothing can touch me. One of the best things about this book is that it is small and I can fit it in any of my school bags. I think that will be the key to my success is to have small gospel books for me to carry around so that I can pull it out whenever I have a few moments to read. I am glad that I noticed this hole in my life. I am really writing this down for my future self to help me remember how to make time for the important things in life. And this is the one of the most important things in my life.
Love,
Andrew
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
5/12/12
Dear Future,
More specifically Dear baby girl.
I love you so much. I worked all morning, a Saturday morning, to keep putting your room together. Well we got more organized but we cleaned up some of your future belongings. I am super excited for you to come into my life baby girl. I felt you kick my hand this morning. If I can already feel you now I can only imagine the pain you will put your mother through when your kick gets stronger and stronger. We got you some clothes as well. I picked you out a cute little hoodie. You will love it. I hope that you have your mother's eyes because her eyes are one of the most gorgeous things in the world. I also hope that you have her smile. Well maybe I don't want you to have both of those traits. Because if you do I will have to constantly scare all of the boys who are after you. But of course that won't be until you way later in life because as for now, I am the only boy (man) that you will need in your life. Baby girl I will always take care of you. You have the best mother to look up to. Get ready for the best life ever.
Love Andrew
( Your Dad)
More specifically Dear baby girl.
I love you so much. I worked all morning, a Saturday morning, to keep putting your room together. Well we got more organized but we cleaned up some of your future belongings. I am super excited for you to come into my life baby girl. I felt you kick my hand this morning. If I can already feel you now I can only imagine the pain you will put your mother through when your kick gets stronger and stronger. We got you some clothes as well. I picked you out a cute little hoodie. You will love it. I hope that you have your mother's eyes because her eyes are one of the most gorgeous things in the world. I also hope that you have her smile. Well maybe I don't want you to have both of those traits. Because if you do I will have to constantly scare all of the boys who are after you. But of course that won't be until you way later in life because as for now, I am the only boy (man) that you will need in your life. Baby girl I will always take care of you. You have the best mother to look up to. Get ready for the best life ever.
Love Andrew
( Your Dad)
Saturday, May 5, 2012
5/5/12
Dear Future,
I know what you are thinking. You have waited over a month to receive yummy goodness from non other then me, myself, and .... . I digress. In more recent and important news I told Katie that the perfect man would be Ryan Reynolds with Ace Enders singing voice. She drooled a little bit then said no way Jose, nothing can top you. On with the best news of my life, I found out the gender of my baby yesterday. My baby is a ....... (drum roll with your fingers on the table)....... A GIRL! Just what I wanted. Now everyone for the next year has to always listen to me because I guessed correct on this one. I am so excited to have a baby girl. I don't know why but I pictured myself with a baby girl first and I want nothing more then to have Daddy's little girl. So pumped about that. So the past month I took the OAT and scored a 340 overall and a 360 on the science portion. That should be good enough to get me into schools. I am getting my application read because I will be putting in my applications come July 1st. That is so close. Crazy awesome. Quick shout out for Meagan to be the first person (besides my wife) to find my blog. She is one of the few, the proud, the followers. I am basically just working many hours and taking two classes. The classes are not bad but my days have been longer. BABY GIRL! Sorry I am just so dang excited about that. Today I have been organizing my baby girls room so that we can have it ready soon enough. Oh my goodness I love her so much. I love it when she is full of energy and kicks her mommy. That's right take that mommy haha. Well I will try to be better and write to my future self more.
Thank you heavenly father for trusting me with one of your beautiful daughters.
We bought a ZOO!
Andrew
I know what you are thinking. You have waited over a month to receive yummy goodness from non other then me, myself, and .... . I digress. In more recent and important news I told Katie that the perfect man would be Ryan Reynolds with Ace Enders singing voice. She drooled a little bit then said no way Jose, nothing can top you. On with the best news of my life, I found out the gender of my baby yesterday. My baby is a ....... (drum roll with your fingers on the table)....... A GIRL! Just what I wanted. Now everyone for the next year has to always listen to me because I guessed correct on this one. I am so excited to have a baby girl. I don't know why but I pictured myself with a baby girl first and I want nothing more then to have Daddy's little girl. So pumped about that. So the past month I took the OAT and scored a 340 overall and a 360 on the science portion. That should be good enough to get me into schools. I am getting my application read because I will be putting in my applications come July 1st. That is so close. Crazy awesome. Quick shout out for Meagan to be the first person (besides my wife) to find my blog. She is one of the few, the proud, the followers. I am basically just working many hours and taking two classes. The classes are not bad but my days have been longer. BABY GIRL! Sorry I am just so dang excited about that. Today I have been organizing my baby girls room so that we can have it ready soon enough. Oh my goodness I love her so much. I love it when she is full of energy and kicks her mommy. That's right take that mommy haha. Well I will try to be better and write to my future self more.
Thank you heavenly father for trusting me with one of your beautiful daughters.
We bought a ZOO!
Andrew
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