Finals!

Hello everyone! finals week is going well. I'm happy that it is almost over. i actually only have one more to go. I feel like I've done really well on them. The one that I got an imediate score to i recieved a 92% so that is really good. I'm loving life here in Hawaii, but time is running short. I will be home in less than a week. I've lived every minute, and I wouldn't take any of it back. I'm writing a poem about all the things I learned in Hawaii and how it has changed my life, once it's done I'll blog it. I have a huge surprise for my mom, but I can't say what it is. Once she knows I'll blog about it, but it's killing me to keep this secret from her. I'm ready to be home in the sence that I'm ready to hug my parents, and rub my bare feet on the carpet, and sleep in my big comfortable bed and have my own bathroom, and clean dishes. But, I will miss my roommates, the 3 minute walks to the beach, the afternoon naps, and the exceptance that a person feels here. You feel so loved not matter who you are, or what you look like, or what country you're from. That is probably the biggest lesson I've learned while here in Hawaii. That you can love and care for those who are entirley different then you, when your only common ground is the church, or even sometimes just the school you go to. Yet, you can laugh, love, and learn together. BYU-H is a special place where people that attended here are among the elect to help change and better the world, we will make a difference after attending such a school as this, and you realize how small the world has become. I do have friends in high and low places now, all through out the world and I couldn't ask for a better blessing than that in my life now. I'm truly a blessed person and it feels as though God as spoiled me rotten, but in the end all he wants is for us to find happiness, and as long as we listen to his promptings obey his commandments, acknowledge his hand in all things, and follow faithful and restlessly in his ways, then he will lead us to the things that will make us most happy. For that, I am forever grateful, and for just this experience alone...meaning my time in Hawaii, I owe my life and happiness to my Father in Heaven for the great blessings he so freely poors upon me. Hawaii isn't the end, it's just the beginning to a great life ahead, a life that where one door closes another seems to quickly burst open. I will only be home for a short time when the Lord will bless me with another great experience, that is to be in the Holy Land and see for myself all that there is to discover.