MY MEANINGFUL CHRISTMAS

I hate to admit it, but growing up i was always the selfish type around Christmas time.I was always asking for ridiculous things, way out of our price rang and if i didn't get it...i was "destroyed". Last year i decided that i was going to change and try for a better experience. I made a goal to finish the Book of Mormon on Christmas day! Before everyone woke up to open gifts as a family (guessing it was around 5 in the morning) I read the last chapter of the Book of Mormon and found out for myself  that it was true. That was by far the greatest gift i was ever able to receive on christmas. It helped me to open up my heart to the true meaning of Christmas and i was able to center that day around christ. That turned out to be the great christmas i have ever had! This year i went home for thanksgiving to visit my family and for black friday we went to walmart. My mom told us before we shop for ourselves, we need to pick a name off the walmart tree. We picked a 4 year old girl. She asked for some blocks, a snow suite, and a baby doll. It was a wonderful experience to step out side of our selves and focus on someone else. I'm sure that we are going to make that little girls christmas unforgettable, and i wish i was able to see her face when she opens the gifts. I hope all of us can focus on the true meaning of christmas, and serve someone else. The lord said that when you are in the service of your fellow men, you are only in the service of your god :)

To Help Me Grow Stronger

This week i have been really really stressed out about money and trying to find a job so i can pay bills! So many things are going on right now in my life that are just waying me down. I caught my self asking heavenly father "why me?" as if he didn't know what i was going through already!
He knows what each of us are going through and that it is going to only make us stronger if we have the will power to get through it. Christ promised us that he would never give us a trial that we weren't capable of overcoming! GOOD THINGS ARE TO COME and that's what should keep us going!

Beautiful Heartbreaks...

This song really touched me a lot! We all go through tough times in our lives at one point or another. Some go through harder things than others but that is not the point! The message that this song is trying to portray is that through times of trial you can find great life lessons. Rather than taking a certain trial and dwelling on it, you can take it and have it change your life and let it mold you into the person heavenly father intended you to be. The trials in my life have only helped me grow spiritually and realize that i have the lords hand in my life! He is carrying each of us threw our lives and he wants to help us. It is up to you to let him.  

I AM...

I AM A CHILD OF GOD

kamille Louise Maschue

AND HE HAS SENT ME HERE

June 21st 1991

HAS GIVEN ME AN EARTHLY HOME

Thatcher Arizona

WITH PARENTS KIND AND DEAR

Kristen Mouritsen and Jim Maschue

7 keys to being HAPPY...

1. Know that Jesus Christ has already felt that pain...and that you dont have to bare it because he already has.
2. Realize that it only a short time and that things will get better.
3. Make righteous choices.
4. Believe in your abilities.
5. develop positive habits.
6. Serve someone in need
7. Smile even when you dont feel like it.

I know that if try to be better at this list of things, you will be happier. Yesterday i was having a pretty hard day and i was feeling a little down, so i decided i was going to do an act of service for someone else. Not only did it make her day, but my day got better as well. It feels so good to help someone else! Just when you think your life is hard and you cant take it anymore...you see someone else who is having an even harder time.

Teething days... Aren't over!!

This was me last week! 

Just when you think all your teeth have grow in....Your wisdom teeth show up!!!! I feel like a teething Child! time for the dentist! Now everytime i remember my little siblings crying due to teething..i understand why! I didnt have to yell at the poor kids! Man it sucks growing up!  

Definition of SPIRITUAL GIANT

SO i know this girl named Katie Maschue! You could say that we are related...lol she's my twin! Today she gave a talk in church about the power of the atonement. I don't think there was one person in that congregation who wasn't feeling the spirit! It was amazing! She talked about an experience she had with my little sister Alex. Alex was having a hard time and felt as though she had no friends. When she got into high school Katie and Alex became the best of friends. When Katie graduated they were both so sad. Once we started college we would call Alex every once in a while and she would tell us she was doing good and would leave it at that. When we went home for Christmas we would go hang out with our friends that we went to high school with. One night Katie got a call from my mom. She was asked to come home because Alex was crying and she needed someone to comfort her. Katie began to talk to her and asked Alex what was the matter. Alex started balling and replied " I feel like i have no one...i have no friends" Katie went on and told her that she is not alone, and that she has a loving heavenly father who knows what she is going threw and knows how she can get threw it. Alex has been doing better! It was a testimony to me :) To see how heavenly father works. I know that he knows what we are going threw and that he has the power to heal our broken hearts. As alone as we may feel at times, we have to remember that Christ is really there, and that he is carrying us threw our lives. I love the atonement and the blessings and comfort it brings to my life. I'm so glad i was able to go listen to her talk. Love you Kate!

WE ARE SO BLESSED :)

I LOVE GENERAL CONFERENCE! WE ARE SOOOO LUCKY AND BLESSED TO HAVE IT :)

~Christ Can Heal Emotional Sadness~

So i have a cool story to share. Lately I have been going threw a pretty hard time and i have been putting my self down and finding all of the thing i wish i could change about myself. My grandma is really sick and probably wont be alive much longer. She is someone that is very dear to me. Last week i called her and we had our goodbyes. She told me how great of a girl and granddaughter i have been, not even knowing my situation. It was an answer to my prayers! I NEEDED to hear that from her.

Two weeks ago i was really down...I don't even remember why. I have this friend named Kari Christensen and i was messaging her on facebook. She started saying all of these nice things...things i have been needing to hear. I just started to cry because i know it was inspired of god even if she didn't know it. 

Last conference Elder Scott gave a talk on the Book Of Mormon. He mentioned that the scriptures can heal emotional sadness. I otomatically reflected back on the worst times of my life. I could remember ONE thing that helped me get threw it all. Threw the scriptures i was comforted. 

Heavenly father can heal all emotional sadness...whether its threw the scriptures, prayer, or random people. It was just such a testimony to me; to be able to turn to a random page in the Book Of Mormon, to logging on to facebook and to receive comfort! I know that heavenly father knows what we need and that he sends random people to you at the right time. Threw Christ you can find rest :)

~changed for the better~

• Conference was this weekend! It's amazing that just 8 hours of listening to the apostles and prophet speak, i could feel a change in myself. Or a desire to change! conference was amazing! There were sooo many things that stuck out to me! My favorite talk was given by Dieter F. Uchtdorf! It really touched my heart! He said something along these lines..."Heavenly father doesn't care if you walk in marbled halls or stabled stalls"! That really stuck out to me a lot! I'm so thankful that heavenly father knows my heart and he doesn't care where i come from! he also said we are not ordinary...no matter where you live, no matter how humble your circumstances, how meager your employment, how limited your abilities, how ordinary your appearance, or how little your calling in the church may appear to you, you are not invisible to your heavenly father and he loves you :) i just loved that so much! I'm sure all of us feel like at times we are unimportant and ordinary! WE ARE NOT! We have the true gospel and the ability to share it with others :) take advantage of it! I'm grateful to have been able to watch conference this weekend!  It inspired me to be better at certain things i have been struggling with. I'm excited to start fresh again. That is the beauty of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints. We have the chance to start over again.I love waking up every morning and telling my self..."It's a new day, and i choose to be happy and make righteous choices" I am really hoping to develop a better relationship with my savior by reading the scriptures and listening to music that is uplifting! :) I cant wait till April's conference!

I really have no idea what i want to talk about but i know i should say something. It's been to long since i have wrote anything! NOT that anyone reads this anyways haha. Life...is ok! Things have been a little ruff lately but i know that its just a trial im going through and that it will only last a short while and that i will be a stronger person after its over :) School is going really well. Im taking classes i really enjoy! Last weekend i tried for homecoming queen and i WON!!! i was soooo surprised but it felt great to win something in my life. I lose at EVERYTHING! no joke... haha :/ i have gotten really used to losing at card games, bored games, sports, and singing comps! Its my life :) I have been making a lot of new friends :) but i still cant seem to stop missing the ones that left this summer! Bonnie Bodine is my bestie and she left this summer! It has been really hard to be away from her. SHE IS A 10! i love her so much. Since i have been at college i have strengthened my relationship with my family and heavenly father A LOT! when your away from home you really have to rely on the savior for guidance and strength :) He has helped me so much this past year! Its crazy to look back to my life even two years ago and to see how much i have changed! I just love jesus christ :) after EAC i plan on going to ASU or BYU provo! in order to do that i have to get good grades and really push myself! i cant wait to get out of thatcher. its been good for me but sometimes i just feel like there is no progression for me here at this time in my life. we'll see what happens! THERE i filled you in with some info :)

things i LOVE

My Family

Friendships :)

i met elena and leslie this summer! amazing girls! i love them so much! 

they are great examples.

BONNIE :) she is my bestie! i love this girl with all my heart! not a bad bone in this girl! 

she is soo amazing and i miss her so much.

tyler and dallin are just amazing! i have known tyler a while but i just me dallin this summer

and were really tight :) love these two!

Hahaha oh katie! i love love love my roomie whit! shes the best

That night was a blast!

The best of times! just love how we can be our selves

 Claire is what keeps me in thatcher! love her soooo much

kylie wilkins is amazing!

ROUND VALLEY (my home)

this is a little taste of RV in the summer! 

I LOVE GOING HOME!

WHEN I GET BORED

 

Ok so i am pretty much the type of person who does some really weird things when im bored! one night kylie and i were just walking down the main street in round valley  trying to find something to do, and we cam up with this song! can you say AWESOME???? 

~HE KNOWS ME BETTER~

 

its soooo comforting to know that there is someone out there that knows you even better than you know your self! We often lose sight of who we are and we forget our purpose. Heavenly Father doesn't. He know's each of us so well! He knows what were capable of becoming and he has a plan for us! I really like this song because it helped me realize how important we are in heavenly fathers plan and to know that i am never alone!

My Family

katie is my twin! she is just soooo great! funniest person i know! im so jealous of her obility to make people laugh! she doesnt care what anyone thinks about her! i admire her for that! She is my other half! :) she such a great person with a beautiful testimony!

maddie is the best! shes such an awesome example to me! i love her to death! i can honestly say she's my best friend! she's always here to listen to me! i just love he SOOOO MUCH :)

JESSICA!!! she and i get along very well! you can say we are a lot alike! i that case...shes AWESOME! lol jk jk but she really is! she is extreamly talented! plays the violine and softball! she is a spiritual rockstar and i love it :)

My mom is one of the best people i know! she has been threw EVERYTHING you could imagine. She is the definition of strong! she has taught me so much! If it wasn't for her i wouldn't be half the person i am today! I am so grateful for her and raising me in the gospel. because of her example i can say i have my own testimony :)

OHHH ABBI! i love this girl! she is one of the funniest people i know! she always livens up situations! i have seen such a huge change in her this year! she has always known the church was true but i can see it in the way she lives her life that she now has her own testimony! its great seeing her excited about the gospel! :)

this is my little brother Joshua! He's the best :) i just cant even get over the fact that he's actually acting semi normal in this photo! josh has the biggest heart and he's such a laddies man! i love him sooo much!

This is my little sister alex! she is the greatest girl i know! she's 16 and has a solid testimony! can you say spiritual giant!? i never thought that i could learn so much from someone so much younger than me! :) i love alex! she will do great things!

THIS...this is my lovely family! i cannot lie we are pretty awesome! notice in the picture that not one of us was ready for this picture! haha we asked my step dad mark to take a picture of all of us kids and mom! he took about twenty photos in a row without us knowing it! we were all so annoyed because the whole time we thought he just didnt know what he was doing! lol this right here is the real deal! THIS IS MY FAMILY :) and i couldnt ask for more!

SHARE HIS TRUTH

Lately i have had soooo many awesome missionary experiences. I have this friend at work who is dying for something that can bring her happiness. One sunday (about a month ago) i was scheduled to work. I hate the idea of working on the sabbath, but for this case it was way worth it. We got talking about each others lives. she is a member but is just less active. She told me about everything she has been threw. I can honestly say that her story is inspiring to me. she has been threw soooo many situations that i am not so sure i would be able to get threw. we talked for three hours! It felt so good to know that i can help her! She told me that she believes i can help her. I KNOW i can...because i have the gospel and a person relationship with my savior Jesus Christ :) i just love missionary work! I love being a tool in the hands of the lord and helping others realize that everyone has a second chance to change and that everyone can be happy if they just let Jesus Christ guide you. HE WILL NOT FAIL YOU!

FAMILIES ARE FOREVER

Today at church we learned about temples and the huge part they play in each of our lives. It got me thinking! My family growing up was never sealed in the temple...and still to this day we aren't. You can imagine how horible that  must feel. To be so close to your family and to love them sooo much but to not know what will happen to them. To not know if you will be an eternal family! I know that my savior Jesus Christ has a plan for each of us. This was a part of my plan. I know that with the lords help we are all able to have forever families! Even my family can be forever :) I love the temple and the ordinences that you can partake of if your living a life and fallowing the path Heavenly Father has prepared for each of us! Let us all live a life that we are worthy to enter the temple.

I am his DAUGHTER!!

We young women often forget our divine purpose! we forget how important we are in Heavenly Fathers plan! you may often feel this way... 

“Sometimes I am not sure who I am. I don’t feel Heavenly Father’s love. My life seems hard. Things are not turning out the way I wanted, hoped, and dreamed they would.” 


it is all a test of faith and a way to grow a greater understanding of heavenly Father and his plan for each of us. threw these hard and difficult times, of what may seem to be never ending pitfalls and stumbling blocks, we are able to get to know our selves but most importantly our savior Jesus Christ!

When i was a little girl i had a hard time with this. I didn't realize how important i really was in his plan! The light i was capable of giving to the world and my friends seemed impossible. I felt like i didn't have a light! BUT THE TRUTH IS...WE ALL HAVE A SPECIAL LIGHT WITHIN US! i wanted to find mine...so i guess you could say i went on a very long search to find it! I learned some much about myself and others! attending young womens and  reading my scriptures became a normal daily thing. i wanted to share my light...and i wanted to seek after others light! 

Out of Darkness into His Marvelous Light

"The emblems of the Savior’s Atonement remind us that we need not stumble in darkness. We can have His light with us always."

Families Can Be Together Forever

TRIP to duncan! =]

WELP joseph had to gt surgery on his ACL so i thought...I'll go visit him in duncan...and bring him something that will make him laugh lol. So i put together a basket of the stupidest things i could find! IT WAS AWESOME! i hope he liked it! welp that was my day...

IM GOING HOME!

Going back to Thatcher today! THANK GOODNESS! This break has been nice and i was able to spend a lot of family time, but i'm ready to see my friends again. Its really weird going from seeing certain people everyday to being without them for weeks out of time! This break was fun...Spent a lot of time with my best friend KYLIE WILKINS! (who is still in high school) I also was able to become a lot closer to my lil sister Abbi. She's awesome. It snowed a lot here so i spent a lot of time playing in it...and driving in it. The last week of break my mom had to go to the hospital and found out she had to get emergency surgery on her gall bladder. I guess everything happens for a reason. It helped me learn to be a provider of service. I'm just glad that we found the problem when we did (serious, but could have been worse). I'm glad she is okay :) My mom has done everything for me...so this has been my perfect opportunity to give back to her. I love that women =]  its my lil siblings FIRST DAY BACK TO SCHOOL! so guess who is a wake and can't go back to sleep at 7 in the morning? ME!!! lol it's okay..im used to early mornings with them! haha and its kinda weird cuz kate and i woke up blasted music and stared dancing! maddie asks "what the flip are you guys doin" lol "we're just really excited to go home." than it was kinda emotional when my lil brother left to his bus. I'll miss my family :(

The healing starts within...JUST LET HIM IN :]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO :] 

its a new year! LIVE IT UP!!!

so at 12 o-clock everyone was yellin happy new year!

the whole day i was talkin about how bad i wanted a

new years kiss...welp i should have not sait that because

whits dog decided that he would do the honers. so

pretty much that is just my luck! I GOT A NEW YEARS

KISS....FROM A FREAKIN DOG.......