animal crackers in my soup

Animal crackers are beyond delicious.  I bought a bag yesterday. 

Yup, you guessed it.  It's gone.

Onto more "important" things.

In two short days, I will be headed to Oakcrest Girls' Camp.  Again.  Round Dos, I like to say.  What a journey Round Dos has already been!  Starting way back in November was the interview.  After feeling I had bombed it (really bombed it), I was offered the position.  Since then I have been to countless meetings, even more hours of interviews for potential staff, decision meetings, registration, and staff training meetings.  What a whirlwind!

Throughout this journey, I have questioned my dedication to the job.  Not because I don't want to be there, but because since getting the job, some really great things have been happening for me at home.  Awesome externships for SLPness, temple endowment, a great boyfriend, my ideal job offer, trying to train for another half-marathon, the list goes on and on.

Yup, you guessed it again.  I don't want to leave the boyfriend.  (I'm such a wimp!)

When we (the directorship) started planning and working on Oakcrest for the 2012 season, I came across a quote from President Monson.  It says, "The Lord expects our thinking.  He expects our action.  He expects our labors.  He expects our testimonies.  He expects our devotion."  I also came across a scripture that I had found during one of my hardest weeks of EFY a few years earlier.  It states, "And now, my beloved [daughter], notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God."  (Moroni 9:6) 

As I sit and wonder what the summer will bring, I can't help but think of those two charges from the Lord's chosen servants.  The Lord not only wants my devotion and diligent labor, He expects it.  And after everything He's done for me, especially over the last year, doesn't He deserve it??

So here I am, to publicly proclaim that my entire heart is going into His camp and serving His daughters.  It's the least I could do.  I know that it won't be easy, and some days I'll wish I had chosen otherwise.  BUT, it will be beyond worth it. 

Just try and stop me.