Hope

Lately I have been super stressed. once one thing stresses me out, then everything else that could stress me out crashes over me and i have a meltdown.. this is good sometimes so i can get back on track with everything but it still sucks. Saturday night i was feeling just terrible and i went to bed early but i could not fall asleep for the life of me because the stress thing happened. the way i get things like this off my mind so i can sleep peacefully is by writing it down and so i was up and down writing things and sitting in my destressing position on the floor in the dark (sitting on my shoulders with my legs and butt in the air) but nothing was really working. it did give me time to think through a lot of things. Anyways i have been freaking out about everything since but slowly (especially with the help of my family, namely my amazing mother) taking it one day at a time i am figuring things out. I have been blessed that some amazing things have happened and pulled through such as my host family helping me with my trip to France to get my vise renewed, and my host mom working with a guy who needs to practice his english and is going to pay me pretty well for a few hours of working with him a week. Well my branch president talked to me and advised me to study topics in my studies instead of just reading through the scriptures. this week we decided i was to study hope since i have been stressing out about so many things. tonight i read an amazing talk by President Uchtdorf about it. I suggest anyone and everyone to read it. He is an amazing speaker and I always love hearing his words and stories. http://lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/the-infinite-power-of-hope?lang=eng&query=hope

Here is also a great scripture in the Book of Mormon that i looked at and i love Ether 12:4
take care! i will write more soon!
Ana