When I lived in Tennessee my room was the attic. It was extraordinarily spacious but it was mine. Anyway, my room had two skylights in the ceiling, and at first I hated storms. I was by myself in this huge room and my head was right below one of the skylights, but then one day I watched the lightning streak across the sky and I could only think of how beautiful it was to watch.
Storms also show the awesome power of God. It reminds us that He has power as well as love and mercy, I think that we sometimes forget that.
It's funny, I've only recently told Robert about my obsession with storms. I'm not obsessed as in a storm-chaser or that movie Twister, but as long as I'm in a building I love to watch a good strong storm. Anyway, I only told Robert about my obsession a few weeks ago but as I was doing my homework in the MC while he worked, he came up behind me to tell me that I should move to place where there was a window so that I could watch this great beauty. Even where I sit now is not the best spot, but I don't want to travel to far from the main lobby of the MC so I'll stay here and wish that I could turn off all the lights, curl up with a blanket and rest in Robert's arms as we watch the lightning play across the sky and listen to the thunder rumble across the landscape...I'm such a hopeless romantic.
I added a picture of a fork of lightning at the bottom of my post. It's not a picture that I've taken, I'm not that awesome. I just did a Google search and found what I thought would be the most realistic looking one that popped up.
This past weekend was absolutely wonderful. Robert made my world when he told me that he wanted to marry me. I don't think he even knows how much that means to me... A month ago I would have expected a ring to come with this revelation but I've grown since then- sounds like something a teenager would say. Now, I've realized that I need more than that. He and I have decided- TOGETHER- that we need to make some changes in our lives.
1. We need to be better with money. Robert doesn't really have an issue with this but I know I do. I'm budgeting. He's going to have to get a bit better at it now though, because he got a job working on the cleaning crew in the MC (why I'm doing my homework here, alone) and he keeps talking about how he has extra money now. He's still a college student, working 15 hours a week at a fixed income...he's still poor. I'm going tomorrow morning to see if I can get a job as well but cleaning a different place, apparently, if you're dating you're not allowed to work together which is understandable.
2. We need to eat better and become more health- conscious. Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes runs in my family, and frankly, I don't want to go out like that. I lost about 20lbs last semester but I'm pretty sure I've gained a lot of it back. (I'm not completely sure though, because I'm avoiding scales at all costs) I found out today that my mom is sending out my P90X DVDs. Robert has been telling me about some of the workouts and what we'll look like after we've completed the 3 months (we want to try to do this together, although with our schedules I'm not sure how we're going to accomplish that). I'm truly excited to get started on it, but I'm scared too. Apparently, it's intense.
We are also going to start watching what we eat. I've decided to completely cut out sodas and caffeine from my diet. Robert eats pretty healthy but he needs to make sure he doesn't do a bunch of snacking. I'm just going to work on losing weight and being healthy and he's going to work on muscle training and muscle mass.
3. We want to be more Spiritually in tuned. I've been pretty good about reading my scriptures and saying my prayers but I still forget sometimes and so does he so that is one of our goals. Also, on Friday, he and I decided that if we wanted to be in tuned to the Spirit together we should study our scriptures together. Right now we are both reading in the Book of Mormon for our personal study but we decided that we would read Jesus the Christ by James E Talmage. We are trying to read at least a chapter a night. We obviously can't always read it in the same room at the same time but what we decided to do is to read it (I take notes) and then we can meet the next day and discuss what we learned or I can ask questions, explain discoveries, and just tell each other what we thought. I really it so far and I'm excited to see what else I learn from this.
I also want to start going to the temple together. I don't mean getting sealed or something like that, but I want to go to the House of the Lord to help receive inspiration and revelation both for myself and for our relationship. I think once every couple of weeks together would be a good plan for us but I also want to try to go once a week by myself.
So those are our basic ideas on how to better ourselves for each other to have a better relationship and marriage and live happily ever after for all Time and Eternity. I'm excited to get started on changing myself and watching him change- though I love him just the way he is, I know we'll both be happier if we do these three things.
Stay safe, stay happy, stay good.
<3,
Heather and Robert
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