A new leaf...

Okay I say this every time but I want to blog more and I want to make it a new goal to blog once a week. That should be pretty easy as I see it and I know that when I go to look back at my first semester at college this will be a good journal. I still am loving college life although I find myself getting a little homesick now. It has been almost a month of being here so I feel like this is pretty good for having gone a month before feeling this way. I try to focus on the positives of being here as much as possible but sometimes it is so much easier to think of all the problems. So I am going to take some advice of my room mate and make a pro-con list haha, she would be all too proud to see this!
Pros:
There are awesome people here!
All my classes and teachers are very helpful and good
It is kind of fun to just be away
I have an amazing ward and Bishop and counselors!
This is going to be one of the biggest growing periods of my life
I get to live in a different area and experience more of the world... if you could call Rexburg the world haha
I get to appreciate the people at home more and they get to appreciate me more :) I must admit I like the second part more because I get more compliments
I am getting lots of stories to tell!

Now I am pretty sure that there are more pros than this for college life but of course when you want to think of things nothing comes to mind...

Cons:
My room mates and I have very different standards of clean (besides my room mate that I actually share a room with)
I miss my family, friends and pets at home
I have to actually do everything myself haha it was nice not having to cook every meal and also having a laundry room in the house!
I have no car here and I am having some serious withdrawals from driving!
Oh did I mention that my room mates are messy?! Cause I can not mention it too much! I know that they are not trying to do harm, but come on who wants to live in a mess?
And one minor detail, the water sucks here! I am very glad that I got my filter station for Christmas!

I know that most of the things on the list look petty in the long run but like people always say it is hard to have them not bother you when you are in that moment. I know that my family is here to support me as much as they can from Seattle and I am so grateful for that! No matter what I need they try and help, whether it is advice, to send me something, and of course my mom sending me baked goods that are too spendy to make myself!
This all seems crazy as I write it all out, but sometimes you just need to clear your head by seeing it in writing, well text in this case. That is basically my point in this blog, I need to blog at least once a week to clear my head and record all the things that I do so that I can have peace of mind and have a record of college.

Now that I have that all typed up, onto what I actually did this week! It should be pretty short as this week was pretty boring! I went to school of course and had some great discussions in BOM and Education. Elder L. Tom Perry gave a devotional this week and it was amazing to have someone so influential at school! Then over the weekend I went to Megan Bigelow's wedding reception and she looked so Beautiful! I got to meet her new husband! Sounds weird! I also met Emily's other brother-in-law, and got to see her family. It was great to see people from home as I feel homesick. Makes all the difference to see people who care for you when you need it! Now I only need my cat and my mom to come out and we will be good! haha

That's all I have to tell for now, as you can probably tell I was bored most of the week! I will report next week! After all this is a new leaf!