Happy Mothers

What a fun mothers day weekend it has been even though I was unable to spend it with my mother. I have been thinking about her and what a WONDERFUL mother she has been. We have had our ups and downs but I'm grateful for the AMAZING things my mom has taught me, such things as...
-Hardwork
-charity
-kindness
-love
-forgivness
-determination
-understanding
-sacrifice
-forgetting about yourself
There are many more that I could list because I think my mom is pretty darn special. I have many mother figures in my life. My aunts, cousins, mother in law, friends mothers, sister in laws. I'm grateful for each one of there examples.
I will admit this day has been hard, I didn't want to go to church because all the talks were going to be on mothers and how we need to be better mothers. etc.... I was right, but I held the tears in and I think the Lord planned it right for me to work today. I don't usually work on Sundays but for some reason I was scheduled to work today. I hate working on Sundays, but I think working today has been a blessing and that I don't have to sit around at home being depressed. I have recieved so many texts today from family members just making sure I am ok. I also recieved two cards in the mail one from my mom who was thinking of me and letting me know that she loves me and then one from my sister in law Britney. Britney went through the same thing I am going through and she knows how hard it is to be around all these mothers and not be able to experience it for youself is the hardest part. Britney thank you for the card and thank you for thinking of me and being there when I need a shoulder to cry on.

Yesterday, I went shooting. It was kinda scary because I had a bad experience with guns. After I got home off my mission my brothers went shooting so I taged along. They gave me a gun (shot gun) and they didn't tell me how to use it and that I needed to hold it tight. Make along story short it ended up giving me the biggest bruse on my shoulder blade. It hurts so bad. My brothers got a good laugh out of it. Ever since then I have been afraid of guns. So yesterday a bunch of my friends went out, and they taught me how to shoot a gun. I was still scared, but I over came my fears and shot a few guns. It was TONS of fun, minus the wind.