Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Blessings for days

So I realized recently that I will never really comprehend how blessed I am. I look around me everyday and see such beauty and I go out in the water and participate in one of the most dreamed about activities (surfing on the North Shore of Oahu). To be here has been a blessing and has come at the cost of others, both directly and indirectly, but still because of them. I have worked hard at my schooling these past 2 1/2 years here at BYU Hawaii and I have worked a few jobs while I have been here to help support what I can of myself, but the reality is, there would be no way I could have finished my schooling so fast if it weren't for certain individuals and tithing from the church. Recently I have been really short on money, leaving me to have two scoops of peanut butter for breakfast and sometimes dinner. I don't want to make this more than it is, but it has been for about a week and a half now. I have had $30 in my desk drawer set aside for tithing, which has proved to be very tempting at times, but since I have been withstanding the temptations I have been receiving blessings like crazy. I have had a few friends offer to buy me dinner, even at my refusal they still insist. I have had groups in my classes present on their project then bring food for refreshments, I have had my boss at work show up with Polynesian bread and lilikoi jelly, and today I had someone leave a note on my car with $2o in it. I can not stress enough the blessings of the Lord. I have faith and trust in the Lord that as I am faithful and keep his commandments I will be blessed and taken care of.