Today was a hard day for me food wise. For some reason I woke up and just didn't want to journal my food. I wanted to just eat and not worry about it. Almost every day since January 1 I have journal'd my food and not eaten beyond my daily calories. I went to the gym on Tuesday and did body pump class that was awesome, but then Wednesday morning I woke up and couldn't get out of bed let alone sit on the toilet without being in pain. It's still affecting me, and with the icy roads I didn't make it to the gym in a couple of days which is always hard for me. Tomorrow is back to the grind, I have to run 4 miles to stay on my running plan.
Well our ward split last week and combined with some families from Little Elm 1st ward to make Little Elm 2nd ward. We met for the first time on Sunday and it was a little weird. I'm okay with everything but I miss our old ward. I loved every family in that ward and felt like everybody got along and literally everybody was wonderful! Drew was excited to get up and bear his testimony in the new ward (as he does every month) and introduce himself to everybody. He's such an old soul and such an amazing boy. Sets such a great example to all ages really. There weren't any callings last week so hopefully this week Bishop gets it together and calls some of the main presidencies. It's always a little hectic before that happens.
Today I paid off a credit card that has been looming over my head for literally 10 years! It felt so great!! I have accepted that debt is just a part of me and will be for another few years or so but little by little it gets paid off and just feels so good. I feel like I'm just that much closer to the surface though each time I pay money towards it. Sometimes I look back and wish that I would have had money when we were in school and training so that we didn't have to go into so much debt, it would be so much easier right? Then I see how much I learned from it and continue to learn. Right now sacrifices need to be made in order to pay off debt and we learn many lessons from that. If everything was paid for us we wouldn't be able to learn these lessons together. It's kind of like having our choices made for us. What would we learn if all our choices were made for us and we weren't given the freedom to choose? It also reminds me of trials. Often times we are quick to judge people for the choices they make, only because we haven't experienced those same things and in turn don't understand why they do what they do. But I've learned that the more trials people go through, especially people close to me, the more I learn from those experiences and am more empathetic towards others who may go through similar things in their life. All these instances give us experience. It's like the scripture in D&C 122:7 ...know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.
