lets get aboard the friend "ship"

well i dont seem to have written on here for a while, life on the winter board walk is okay! but this heat has been getting to me for sure! i have to be thankful for all my friends though...ive had my former missionary buddies visit and call me over these past few weeks, some are married, some are dating, some are just happy living the single life but its been awesome to hear from them! i always have been able to talk to all sorts of people, ages and cultures! i am so thankful that my photography gives me the opportunity to speak to and work with people...i hope everything has been having fun at institute because i havnt been for a couple weeks, i am just enjoying time to myself, reading is wonderful! :) but ill enjoy getting back to things too!

Friends have been an ispiration to me and i know who are my true and close friends, who will by my side whatever i decide to do! and im always grateful for that...im hoping i can post more things soon like my photos and poems...keep smiling everyone! love bex

Live 8 and my experience...

im still sat here watching and listening to the LIVE8 performances, and im so glad i am apart of what is going on, it really touched me when the girl on the video in africa near death 20 years ago, was on the stage in Hyde Park beautiful, strong and thriving. To me that is what makes all the difference, i think Bob Geldoff is a wonderful man to use the influence he has to influence this mass carnage thats going on in the 3rd world countries, as a child i would cry and still do, at the poverty and stavation, pain and suffering these poor people are going through! i wished then that something could be done for thes people, i felt i wanted to help them but HOW? today i got answered that question, by signing my name to the LIVE8LIVE website, and i also wrote a letter to Tony Blair...ok im only one person but as Davina said, if we all do it together we can make a tremendous change! i am very happy this event across the world has gone ahead, billions have watched attended and supported this event, the main thing is not the numbers in the sense of attendance but im happy that many more than myself have a heart and want to help those who are suffering so much. Annie Lennox really got to my heart, and i told my mum how stunned, and depressed that i was. leaders of influence have seen all of this, have seen the wonderful good from the produce of one girl to survive and still havnt been moved to change, i really hope and pray that they WILL see this world effort and WILL stop the hurt, that is going on...again i am pleased to be apart of this effort, i hope we ALL support it.

http://www.live8live.com

thoughts from Institute...

• i was sat in the class tonight thinking as i always do, i probably never say anything because im in sheer fascination at the example from the scriptures and especially tonight, how Joseph Smith coped getting surgery on his leg with no pain relief, basically being prised apart, and we discussed that we dont go through hard things in our life for nothing, we need things to try us and thats essential for our growth, man i dont think i could do what he did! it truly was a miricle, i loved how Brother Rickford taught, it really hit me personally, would i be so valiant?...
• ...i was also thinking how hard some descisions are in our lives, not between good or bad but good and better. as in for our education, our career path and our progression, the most thing that needs to happen is to follow the spirits promptings and also be obedient to what the Lord desires for us, sometimes that can be the most unrealistic goal, or something you couldnt do your naturla self. i think even if others tell you your silly for the choice you have made, if you are meant to go there will be a way prepared for you! i think myself especially faith, obedience and nourishing my testimony need to be deepened to carry out my quest...
• ...alot of these thoughts have been circulating my mind recently, like trying to make the best of what you can do in your own circle of influence, being the best you can - service, charity, love and deepened understanding for those arround us. maybe im being too random. but i know i need to trust in my own nature and my self to be able to do the best i can do right now! and thats what is important, WOW alot from that lesson its always nice to ponder on these things everyone should BLOG on how they liked the lesson!

AND CLAP.... 

LETS DANCEEEE 

Seminary Grads...2005 

Start of the ball 

Supporting the Family!

This weekend was really important for both my friends and family for me to support, i got given a topic to speak on next sunday and so its prompted me to think furthur on what im going to be speaking on, Honoring my father, but i also likened it while thinking about my whole family, all i can say is what we always have done together is SUPPORT one another we havnt boasted or tried to put our place above the other, when ever we have been there for each other! My Dad asked me to help him out with the Seminary Graduation as he was catering, i knew he was really nervous so i wanted to help in everyway i could, so yeah we got loads of people in my family to help, extended less active and close friends, we all got stuck in! i am realy grateful for good example of the DOERS! not the thinkers not the ones who talk alot, they DO "action is a verb, ITS DOING SOMETHING!" i always remember that, its a very special motto for me! but yeah i wanted to write that, so wish me luck on my talk next week! i should be fine :) Thanks for the complements chris your ACE!

• Watch out for the Seminary Graduation photos! it was fun i graduated twice what a priveledge!

What in the HECK is that?....

while i was travelling in america i had the rare opportunity to experienc a REAL mosquito bite multiple times on my leg, WELL! i was laying in my inflated bed at my brothers and was like ARGH ive been attacked! if anyone has ever experienced one im sure you know how im feeling! but yeah my brother was like jumping over his couch saying lay still and he scraped an 'X' into each of the huge holes in my calf, this memory was not to be forgotten, as i was screeching in pain, but you know what IT WORKED, i had them scab over really fast. why ive shared that with you i will never know. but i also know that you have to be prepared for foreign objects or animals you have never encountered, me being silly as i am thought it was like a snake bite or something to that nature, i think my point is, you never know whats out there so you have to be prepared to encounter these things in you life, not just insects...i mean in a spiritual sense too, i know there are Anti-mormons and those who would love to send us packing as member of the church, but i know that we can be prepared for anything nasty if we armour ourselves with our prayers reading our scriptures and attending church, if we know the truth and have a firm testimony of it, no one no where will be able to take that away from us! :)

Leeds Institute...i love that place  

through the key hole!! 

I love to see the temple.... 

Aly sterling photographer...LV YA! 

The Beauty of a Holy Place....

....i got the priveledge to walk arround the temple yesterday, and it was an unusual day because the mower men where out doing the lawns and others doing the flowers, from week to week i noticed as im going there alot these days there are different features practically all the time i go, maybe in the gardens, maybe next to the temple, or near the distribution, all of it is beautiful. i was also thinking how the temples always seem timeless that you dont need to do anything for its beauty to suceed, but it was actually really nice for me to realise even the temple needs constant care and attention (like us all) to retain its beauty and sacredness. It was really wonderful to be able to experience that, i also thought that to have peace it doesnt need to be quiet, as long as your doing things that are right - peace is something you feel when your busy too! so thats my lil piece for you today :) hope you liked it....

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