Training!!!

So I leave for training in less than 48 hours. Actually, I will be at training in less than 48 hours. I am getting very excited about it. I have been really anxious and nervous, but I am past that point. I am just ready to get there and get it started. I know very little about the training, but I do know at one point I have to give my testimony in front of everyone so I hope that goes well. I also know that there will be some tests (not sure what that means in the end, like if you have to pass to continue) so I hope that I am able to do well on them. I excited, I just hope that it also goes smoothly, especially the flight, and I return safely.



In the last few weeks, probably because of the approach of the new year, I have really been thinking about what the next year means for me. In one year I will have a B.S. in Criminology and Sociology and I will have spent six months in Japan (I should be back a year from now). What an amazing this year is going to be! I will miss so many things, mainly family time, but I will be a better person (hopefully) at then of 2009 than at the beginning. This is going to be a year of change. I hope that I know what to do after it is all over. I know what I would love to do, but God will have to open the doors for it to happen and I know if it is His will for my life, He will.



So as this is the new year I have made a new year's resolution and I am going to tell all of you so that maybe you can hold me accountable! I am going to try to wean myself off of soda. I drink diet soda (doesn't matter what kind) like it is going out of business! I would say that I am addicted and if it where alcohol I would be in AA! It would save me so much money and since I will be in a place where it may not be available every second I don't want to have to wean myself then. I want to be able to focus on my mission, not on when can I have a diet coke. Also, do you know how bad that stuff is for you! It may not have calories, but it is killing my brain! I would like to be able to remember what I did five minutes ago when I am 35! So that is it. I am going to slowly stop drinking diet soda. I will let you know how it is going. Today I have had one, which is almost perfect compared to four or five I normally would have had!



Well I will stop rambling on! I will post when I am in Michigan!