Spring Semester!

Oh my, it is close to midnight and I really should be finishing my math homework before going to bed right about now. BUT I just had to write an update. I am loving this semester. I am learning so much. About secular things spiritual things, and myself. I am truly to blessed to have the Gospel in my life. I don’t know where I would be without the knowledge that I am the daughter of a loving Heavenly Father, who sent His Son to mortality to fulfill the Atonement by suffering and dying for me. And for you! Isn’t it amazing!

I love my classes this semester. They are so interesting. I’m taking Intro to Chemistry, Nutrition 1020, Math 1050 (again) 😦 , Ballroom Dance, and two institute classes: Doctrines of the Gospel and Book of Mormon. My extracurricular activities include: Marketing Manager for a club called “Dance United”, Publicity Committee for the Institute, Institute Choir, and I’m also working two days a week. 🙂 I love to be busy! Especially with activities that are exciting and challenging. I am grateful for the opportunity to develop my talents and find new talents.

I am especially grateful for trials and challenges. I know that I can learn the most from them, than if nothing is ever hard for me. My new favorite quote: “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill …In the movie, “Meet the Robinsons” the main character fails when he tries to fix a machine (a peanut-butter and jelly gun to be exact), and his family cheers and is so ecstatic about his failure, “You FAILED! Hooray!” and then one of the aunts explains that we learn the most/best from our failures, from our successes? not so much… I love that. It is so true.

So with the rest of the semester ahead, including my trials and challenges, I will remember in Whom I trust and be happy for all my many, many blessings! Hooray!

FALL Semester!

I love fall! Especially here in Logan, it is so beautiful and I can’t believe that the semester is already half way done! I don’t feel like I have learned as much as I am supposed to be learning. But I am grateful for school and that I am able to attend a great school like Utah State. This semester I am taking Economics 2010, Math 1050, Creative Arts and Biology 101. For my creative arts class I have had to go to performances and write about them. So far I have really enjoyed them. My math professor is very amusing. I enjoy his lectures. Economics is really hard. I don’t have a lot of time to study the material (again!) and it is difficult to keep up. My Biology professor is also in the bishopric of my ward. I enjoy his classes too. So far it is a pretty easy class. They have Supplemental Instruction sessions for this class, but I don’t really need it. What I could really use is SI for Economics.

I am one of the Stake Extraction Co-Chairs and so far it is enjoyable. I am grateful to have a calling. It is such a blessing in my life. I love this Gospel and recently I asked a co-worker if she would like to listen to the missionaries. I have never done that before and it was a great experience! Even though she turned me down, I am so glad that I took the chance to invite her. I thought she would be rude about it, but she wasn’t! I was thrilled! It was exciting and I hope that I can get more opportunities to invite people to hear the good news of the gospel. 🙂 It is fall break this weekend and I have been preparing a Sunday school lesson that I was asked to teach. I am not a regular teacher, I was randomly asked to fill in for the teachers who are gone this weekend. I loved preparing I just hope that I will be able to teach with confidence and how the Lord would have me teach, which is by the Spirit. The Spirit is the true teacher. I just hope that I can be an efficient instrument to help carry the message of the principles into the hearts of the students, including my own. 😀

The Happiest Place on Earth…

…is NOT Disneyland as everyone presumes. But is actually Lagoon! Last Saturday was an eventful one. It started with the Summerfest. Mark and I walked around for a bit until it started raining, of course i didnt have a jacket 😦 After we left, we picked up free tickets to Lagoon and then went to Old Grist Mill for lunch before leaving Cache Valley for Lagoon. The weather was nice when we first arrived, but soon began to rain extensively throughout the day. We were soggy by the time it stopped around 7pm. But the good thing was that by that time, most of our fellow Lagoon-goers had left and so the lines to the coolest rides were short! 🙂 it was the best. I wish I had taken my camera with me because Mark and I don’t have any good pictures together 😦 oh well.

I want to learn French.

I want to learn to speak French. It has always been a language that is interesting, yet complicated to me. In my humanities class, we are learning about the French culture, which is both fascinating and slightly disturbing, mostly because there values are so different from mine. The things they believe bring them the most happiness is very different from my point of view. But I would love to go to Paris and see the museums and architecture, observe the fashion, and especially experience the dining and the food. The French eat very well, but they eat small portions. Which makes an incredible amount of sense. I would rather pay for high quality delicious food that is a small amount, than receiving a lot of food on my plate that is mediocre and leaves me feeling sick and bloated. I hate that. Of course, it is up to me to choose how much to eat, but part of it is not filling your plate full, or else get a smaller plate. Anyway, I am really enjoying this class so far. It is kinda weird to learn about a people’s habits and beliefs that are so different from mine, but nonetheless, very fascinating.
I love to learn. 🙂

Logan Summers

This is my third summer here in Logan. I love it! The weather and the trees are the best. It can get pretty hot the end of June and July but I get used to it by august and september. I also love that it doesn’t snow here until about the end of november.
So far my summer has been great. Except for working so much that i have nightmares about work. But it has sorta died down a bit and i have been able to have more time to do homework and spend time with Mark. 🙂
I’m taking couple classes: Microeconomics 2010 and also Humanities (USU 1320). Micro is hard, more so because it is online, and i have a hard time motivating myself  to learn the concepts. The first couple days of humanities so far have been enjoyable. My professor is very knowledgeable. Her non-repetitive, extensive vocabulary and the clearness of her voice combine into most interesting lectures. I want to be able to have the intellect and speaking ability as she does.

I went to the doctor today because my wrist has been bothering me, i have tendonitis! 😦 no bueno…A month ago or so i had to go to the chiropractor because i hurt my neck on a blow-up jungle gym.
Hopefully i will be able to enjoy the rest of the summer pain free 🙂

Summer is here!

Today I finished my last final! I only got 4 hours of sleep studying for it and I was almost late for it because I forgot to bring a pencil with me! It was a difficult semester but my hard work has definently paid off. So far I got a B- in Math 1010, an A- in Physical Science, and I am sure at least an A- in Sociology. 🙂 I am excited for summer! New apartment, new schedule, new love, new goals, fun times and warm weather! I will definitely do better at writing more frequently, especially if I really want to become a better writer. 🙂 I’ll keep you posted! Thanks for reading!
-Cass

Happy Easter!

I’m grateful for Easter 🙂 I am so glad that i didnt have to work! I really enjoyed church, there were musical numbers and profound talks given on the Atonment and Resurrection. After church I ate lunch with my roommate Rachelle. She made a big lunch because her parents came up to hear her talk. I took a long nap after that. Then studied a bit before going over to me sister, Sherrie’s house to dye eggs and then eat them! 🙂 hehe. I couldn’t stay long because I went to the Church to do extraction with Mark. From there we went to an Easter Cantata ( i think that is what it was) it was  musical performance with spoken word, put on by the community of Cache Valley. It was amazing. I am so grateful for my Savior. I found a really great quote. It is the First Presidency Easter Message:

At this Easter season of hope and renewal we testify of the glorious reality of the atonement and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The empty tomb brought comforting assurance and provided the answer to the question of Job, “If a man die, shall he live again?” (Job 14:14).

Because of the Savior’s resurrection we will overcome death and become the beneficiaries of His mercy and grace. In a world of trouble and uncertainty, His peace fills our hearts and eases our minds. Jesus is in very deed “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).

We give our sure witness that Jesus is the Christ. Though He was crucified, He rose triumphant from the tomb to our everlasting blessing and benefit. To each member of the human family He stands as our Advocate, our Savior, and our Friend.

He is my Savior and Friend 🙂

Happy Easter!

General Conference

Was amazing! I am go glad that I got to watch most of it! I would have watched all of it, but i missed about the last 45 minutes of the Saturday Afternoon session, because I though I had to go into work at 330 but actually I didn’t have to be there until 430pm. Nevertheless, it was a great weekend.

On Sunday Sherrie made the most Wonderfully,  Amazing cinnamon rolls ever! My mouth waters just thinking about them! hehe and between session, Sherrie and I went to Mike and Shannon’s house to have a pot luck lunch. It was so good that I ate too much and thus became way tired during Sunday afternoon session. It didn’t help that we had to listen to it on the radio, (although the sound was amazing compared to my dinky tv at my apartment) because their cable tv wasn’t working.

I am so grateful for the leaders of our Church who declare the words of the Lord, and what He would have us do in this day.

In my Teachings of the Latter Day Prophets institute class, we talked about conference. One girl shared an experience she had while in Salt Lake: she said that while she was walking to the conference center, there were of course the protesters/picketters but she told about one sign she saw that was positive. It said something like: “California thanks you” …or something of the like. I thought that was really cool. There really are nice people in the world today. I really believe that everyone is nice, unless proven wrong, not the other way around. I don’t think people should be treated as mean, until proven nice. I believe it is important to be nice to everyone. 🙂

The Earth

So I am studying Geology right  now in my physical science class, and I must admit that I enjoy it. I really liked it when i took it in high school (though before I thought it would be boring-who wants to learn about dull rocks?). There really is so much more to it than rocks and minerals. The whole earth’s history is found upon the Earth’s crust. I think that one reason I really enjoy it is because I get to learn about all the wonderful creation of the Lord. I’ve kinda always taken for granite (which is metamorphic limestone – no pun intended) that fact that the Savior created the Earth. To me that is a completely uncomprehensible statement. The more I learn about the Earth and everything in and around it, the more I understand how ignorant I am, as well as how omnipotent God and Jesus Christ are. Heavenly Father does exist. The Savior is the Only Begotten Son of the Father. I know for myself that this is true. I also love learning the importance and signifigance and truth of the eternal truths of the plan of salvation. 🙂

thank you for reading!

-cassie

Spring Break!

OH my! it has been a while.

So far this semester is crazy busy. I work about 25 hours a week and study just as much with 10 credit hours of class. I reallyenjoy it here ay Utah State. The campus is really nice and the city is growin’ on me. I’m begining to recongnize people as I walk around campus, and my classes are going well so far.

I took a Spring Break trip to Boise, to visit friends and family. Though I couldn’t stay very long, I was able to spend time with friends. It was great to catch up with everyone I saw.

I couldn’t leave on Monday night as I has planned because of a HUGE snow storm that came through Cache Valley, we got dumped on with at least 10 inches of snow!

Allison was generous enough to let me stay at her apartment. Tuesday night, we had a “girls night out” with Clair, Ashley, Maddi, Allison and I. We went to dinner at Cafe Ole then to a movie: “He’s Just Not That Into You” which was really funny, though a bit too much inappropriate content, it was relate-able on a some levels – which made it even more funny.

The next day I accompanied Allison to her institute class: “Book of Mormon II” with Brother Spjuit. He talked about opportunities and how we should not miss them, and take them when they come. It was a really good lesson. After that I went to lunch with Yeng and Sunny to Baja Fresh – I got Mahi Mahi tacos. They were amazing! Allison and Sunny and I went shopping at the mall later, and I saw Trina there. That night I went with Lynette, and Carol, to TCBY because it was “Waffle Cone Wednesday”, we met up with Trina and Sunny and a couple of her friends. It was fun. After that I rented “Madagascar 2” and watched that with Allison. I loved it! I want the soundtrack!

Thursday morning I went to Proto’s with Allison, which is my favorite restaurant ever!, then later I was able to have time to talk to my sister, Michelle. She is doing great. I am glad that she is graduated and working hard, starting her career in her field of study. I wish I could see her and Colt more frequently. I left at 3pm on Thursday in order to make it home before dark and also to have time this weekend to do homework.

Welp! spring break is over, for me anyway. I need to get back to homework. The good thing is that I don’t have to work for the rest of the week which gives me time to catch up on homework. Hopefully I won’t be so incredibly busy that my blog becomes neglected! ah! I’ll do better, I promise!

Thanks for readin! Have a fabuloso day! 🙂