New Starts

I'm coming to realize that life is full of changes. Both good, and bad. And, the bad is not always necessarily bad. It's just different. Which is what a change is. It's something that is new, something that has changed, something that makes life more interesting.
Johnathon is now in Houston Texas, ready to start spreading the Living Word to those that are blessed to live where he will teach. Johnathon is going to be an amazing missionary, and I wish that I could just follow him around and listen to him. He is growing so much. He's such an awesome person!
I'm starting my final year at Brigham Young University-Idaho. I'm so close to the end, that I can taste it. It tastes good, by the way. It's like strawberries. mmmmm...I like strawberries....which means that I will like, and most likely, love, life after graduation. I must confess that I'm really looking forward to teaching. I am in an education practicum class currently, and I love getting in front of the class and bestowing my vast knowledge to the youngsters that sit in my class for those precious 45 minutes. I love writing lesson plans, and figuring out the best way to help my students to learn. I can't wait to be in my own classroom, and decide how to run my own classroom, to make mistakes, and to learn and grow.
The weird thing about getting older and getting closer to graduation-most of my friends from former years are graduated....I have lots of friends that are graduated and have moved on to better things. BYU-I, good. Post-grad life, better.
I'm really looking forward to the future of new starts that I will be able to have. I'm excited about the opportunities that await me. I'm anxious to see what lies ahead. What does lie ahead? I'm sure I have this path that is full of twists and turns. I love how my life seems to go. I start to get comfortable with how my life is going, and something is thrown in to make me change what I'm doing.
However, I've come to realize that these road blocks and speed bumps that I come in contact with are not to make me stumble. At first I stumble, but the important thing is to get back up, and to keep going. It's to help me to learn, so that I can avoid them, and learn how to get over the trial. The trials that I face are to help me to learn and grow. And the more that I learn and grow, the better I become, until I am the best.
So.....I'm excited for the new starts that have come into my life. My family has had to figure out how to live with less people in the house (which, secretly, I think they love. Because, come on....only 3 kids? It must be SUPER quiet!). We are all going to have our challenges for the next few years. But, it's going to be good, because we will be learning new things like Johnathon is. We're going to grow as a family. And in the next few years, we're going to encounter many new starts and changes in our lives. Our family will never be the same.
BUT-
It will be better.