Well I really have no updates, but I have been instructed to update via Becky. =^) So here is the latest on my life...
I am now crutch-free!!! Whoop-whoop! The doctor told me to walk with 50% of my weight for basically a week and then to let go of my crutches and walk without them, full-weight bearing. Wow!!! I started walking without crutches a week ago today, school was in session and I have this thing with crossing the quad... I have to do it to get to classes... I have some good friends in my classes and they walked with me and they were like, "Jen! You look like you are in so much pain!... WOW! That looks so awkward... Ya, you look really stupid... At least you have the boot so people know why you are walking like that." LOL. Good times. It really did hurt so the rest of the day I used my crutches. In the mornings it would be really tender but bit by bit I have been able to walk on it more without problems. YAY!!!!
I am measuring my time like I'm pregnant... when I go back to the doctor to see if I can get my boot off it will have been 16 weeks! Whoa huh!? Nearly enough to be half-pregnant! Haha.
Oh so these first couple weeks of school have been MADNESS!!! I haven't been able to do anything fun! I would wake up at 6:00, go to school at 6:30, have class straight through until 1:30 or 2:30, 2 days a week have physical therapy, come home straight after and start during research for a company in Boston. I finished the research today and I am SO HAPPY!!! It was really tough! I was researching conferencing services in Latin America and since I don't speak spanish, there were quite a few barriers and the research often hit a dead end. It was a good learning experience. I learned that I will stick to editing and writing. (Or researching in English might be good... I just didn't feel like it ended up as good as I wanted it to...)
I am moving out this Wed. and I am so excited! Not because I don't like living with my family but because it is all about being social! I am switching ward boundaries and a couple weeks ago the Bishop asked me to stay in as Relief Society president for the year. I said that I would do whatever he felt like I needed to do. I was really worried about this because I was going to be living out of the ward boundaries and I have always gone to the ward that I live in the boundaries of. I didn't know what to tell the bishop and although I don't often get stressed... I was worried! It was such a simple thing too I probably didn't need to worry, but I did. So I prayed and prayed and asked my dad for a blessing and just tried to figure out what to do. On sunday morning the Bishop called me to come in and meet with him. My initial thought was, "Oh, I hope he has felt the spirit prompt him that I shouldn't be president anymore..." but I started getting together all the other information he would be asking for. Well I went into the meeting and he sat back in his chair and just sat in silence. I was like, "Is this good!?" He said, "It depends on what you think is good..." I was like, "Well... Let's hear it." He said, "We have fasted and prayed and have felt that we need to call a new RS President this year." I was like, (all smiles) "Really!? Well that actually works out perfect because I am moving and was going to be going to a different ward..." and I just started talking about a mile a minute. I am so so so thankful that
Heavenly Father knows us and knows our hearts desires. I was completely willing to continue serving but I wanted to go to the ward that I lived in so as I left I couldn't help but think, "What a testimony builder that
Heavenly Father answers our prayers." Like exactly what I wanted & had been praying for - for the spirit to tell the Bishop to call someone new! Haha! I know it doesn't always happen like that but it must've been a righteous desire! I have loved the calling though, I loved all the girls that I got to serve and I am going to miss it for sure. But I feel like moving on is what I need to be doing in my life. I really am thankful that Heavenly Father trusted me to serve and I know I needed it more than I was needed but now that chapter is closed I suppose. I will let you know how the new ward goes...
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The first presidency I served with: Brianna Harris, Danielle Cutler, Jenni Bingham, and me!
The second presidency I served with: Me, Abby Moser, Mandy Bowman, and Wendi Rock
Thursday night at like 2 AM my mission roommate flew in from Seattle, Washington and came to Logan to visit me. I was SO HAPPY that I had gotten my boot off on Tuesday and thought we should try to do something that I hadn't been able to do in a long time. So on my 4th day without the boot we went on a hike. To the Wind Caves. It is actually a really nice hike and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I loved all the changing colors of leaves. I felt like I could go up the hill forever and ever, it was so great. My ankle hurt a bit but not bad enough to stop. HOWEVER, the way down, that was another story. Man, it was like stinging. I did want to stop for a minute, I wouldn't have but I thought about it. Then I was like, "If I stop I will just be stuck on the mountain. I have to get down at some point!" LOL oh well. I was out and about and doing and there is no greater feeling in the world. It made me so grateful for all the things that we have to do in Logan. All the hiking trails, the mountains, places to fish & boat, bike & run & snow shoe and ski. Yeah. This is why I love Cache Valley. You really don't get that in many places. =^) Anyways Carly & I had lots of fun and afterwards we went to the hot tub and just lived it up! Next day.... SHOPPING!!!!
