I feel Good!

***This is a bunch of mush and soley for journaling purposes. Just warning you.

Lately, I have been overly aware of the blessings in my life. I feel like my prayers have been heard and that they keep getting answered, even when I am not directly praying for a certain thing. I feel I am being directly taken care of by my Heavenly Father. I really have always felt that way throughout my life, but it wasn't until recently that I have been consciously aware of it. For the first time in my life I have truly felt that Heavenly Father knows who Lindsay Iverson is, knows that I am here in Lubbock and knows what I need. I was thinking about my need for friends this week. I am not someone who likes lots of alone time. I like to be playing, going and spending my days with friends...all the time. I need 1 or 2 close close friends and lots of good friends. That is the way I like it. For a long period I didn't have that. And I was very lonely. Then came Sara. She was exactly what I needed and A HUGE blessing in my life. She made me feel loved and appreciated, and I hadn't felt that in a long time(by friends. My sisters and mom are my bff's and I always feel loved by them.) Right when she came into my life, I immediately thanked my Father in Heaven. She was exactly what I needed.

Then I move to Texas. I was so scared of having no one again. I prayed and prayed for opportunities to meet people and for a few months I hadn't really met anyone, besides a few nice girls at church that I saw only at church. I was kind of starting to feel like maybe I wouldn't have another Sara or Teri(she is my forever friend too). Then comes Debbie and Chelsea who were exactly what I needed again. I have said it before, but they unknowingly really helped me fall in love with Lubbock, and made my transition into this phase in life a pleasure rather then something I just need to get threw until graduation. Heavenly Father really knows me and knows how much I value solid friendships and how much I need them to be happy. Along the way I met a few other girls in my ward that I really value as good friends too.

Then my ward splits and my two closet friends move away. I remember thinking while I was in Reno in June that I didn't want to come back to Lubbock without Debbie and Chelsea there. I was kind of dreading it. My new ward was interesting and not full of tons of young people. I was kind of discouraged. Then I am taken care of again and made aware that He still knows what I need. I start to build closer friendships with Brittney and Cori since we were all in the same situations of having close Friends move away. We play a few times a week and I love it, and I love them. And then to top off all my blessings I meet Dani. She is exactly what I need right now and we have become fast friends. I think we play almost everyday. Yesterday we played twice. Once in the day and then had a family dinner together and stayed up late playing games.

I am fine with all of this sounding cheesy and mushy. I don't love to post things like this all the time, but I feel that in a few years when we graduate and move again, I will need to remember the prayers that have been answered here. I hope I never forget that I am a Daughter of God and he wants me to be the happiest I can be. And with that, He knows what makes me happy and that is good good friends. The last few years I have been way too blessed and I feel good, because I know I deserve it. We all do! And I hope that someday I am someone's answer to their prayer. I pray for those opportunities too as I try being a good friend also:)

*Oh and a side note. Close friendships are not the only thing that make me happy. But they sure do make life soooooo much more fabulous!

And in an awful transition from talking about my prayers being answered, I will post some pictures of my fun Bachelor/Bachelorette nights.

This is a sign I posted on my door on the finale night of Bachelorette! Every Monday we get together with the Hansons' and the Strebels' and eat dinner and watch the show. I look forward to it every week and we have way too much fun. It started with all of us going to the Peterson's home and then they moved :( We miss you Shawn and Chels)

Cori, me, and Brittney. We seriously have ridiculous amounts of fun together. Thanks Wade for taking the picture with your head included.(He took it from behind.)