Miracle

On Kadens mission he used to send little FaceTimes of his companionships saying “It’s a Miracle!!!!” And then tell the little miracle that happened.  Like coming upon someone or how god placed the right timing of a flat tire.  I always loved them mostly because of the funny “it’s a miracle” statement and the fun joy that seeing god work in your life brings!!! 

So here is my “ It’s a Miracle” this week!  

Sunday I thought up using the TV to post Birthdays for the month and the announcements.  I thought it was a good idea but in the 5 seconds of stress at the beginning of the meeting I couldn’t figure it out.  There was a sign on the TV that said call Terry for help to figure it out.  I actually took a picture of that sign and said to myself “call terry this week”. Should be simple but sometimes the small things seem harder than they should be “when do I call terry, do I have time to call terry, am I bothering terry, can I just figure this out in my own, why call terry, what do I even ask terry when I call.”  Basically completely over think and a simple call to terry was NOT happening.  Well guess what… I had a meeting with Sister Richins Thursday morning.  She has a medical issue the night before and so her brother was over just to make sure she is doing ok.  I walk in and meet her sweet brother who is “TERRY” yes the Terry.  The Terry that I was not going to call ever!  Yep so that’s my Miracle.  

[Autosaved] Prayers for Kyle

I am in over my head!  I was telling Joanne a few weeks ago that I wonder if God even speaks to me.  I feel

Like I pray all the time everyday and when I need an answer I still don’t know if he’s speaking to me or not!  And then I have moments I try to keep track of because like I told her I know God speaks to me be he has to be completely obvious. 

I have been praying with all my heart for Kyle and the path he is taking.  18 there are so many paths and so many choices and I know what I want for him and I really want him to go on a mission and I want him to have the life I know he can have.  So many I’s in this paragraph and that might be part of my crazy. 

… I started this post and for some reason had to stop and come back to it.  

I was called to be the RS president and I’m scared to death.  My prayers have been a continuous blur of telling god that I’m full of fear and let him give me one thing to move forward.  It’s been a few weeks and I have been able to see him give me tiny things and small moments so I can keep going.  

I was meeting with the Stake R.S. president and she is wonderful and everything you would put in a box for stake R.S. president.  I walked into her living room and it was full of pictures of Jesus atleast 25 I immediately thought I am not in this league of RS.  Completely overwhelmed she asked me how I’m feeling I basically cried and told her I’m so scared and overwhelmed and have no idea where to start.  She listened and talked and quoted scripture and talks and showed me Google Docs basically flooded me with a fire hose of things that might help me and where to find help and different things I might come in contact with.  I heard none of it.  Since then I have asked her for things I think she showed me.  But somewhere in the middle of the meeting she said “tell me about yourself” .  I couldn’t remember anything I’m pretty much said my name is Tiffany, totally blank.  She said how many kids do you have.  I said 3  and started talking about kaden and she mentioned her oldest just left on his mission.  We talked about how hard that is. Which moved into influence LDS kids have.  

We didn’t get much further until she started telling me about How at football practice last week she was talking to a Mom who told her how grateful she was for the LDS kids in the community.  She said this family is a great catholic family and they were nervous and praying as their son was going to NMSU, that her son would get good friends and roommates who don’t party and drink so he would have a positive experience.  She told sister Collins that her son got an LDS roommate named Kyle and it’s been so good. 

Sister Collins had no idea the significance she didn’t even know Kyle was my son she didn’t know who Kyle was and she even told the other lady she didn’t know who he was.  

When she told me this nothing else mattered.  100% know that Heavenly Father knows /sees /guides/answers me. I was at her house in this moment so he could tell me this, nothing else. He told me that he knows Kyle and where he is and that he is where he’s supposed to be. He has him it will be ok.  

One day at a time and one step at a time.  

Strange statue

Today I had a really weird thought.  Not good not bad just strange how something you become seems to become normal.  I was scrolling on Instagram and a new article came up with this statue.  I looked at this picture and I honestly couldn’t figure out what was different about it.  Then saw the headline as a Breast cancer survivor statue. 

It’s a really weird thought that I noticed her abs and didn’t even notice her lack of breast. 

Kyle NMSU

Dorm room set up and then I said let’s do it different.  Kyle said ok and then we tried to move the bed down.  It seemed simple in my mind. The bed was to tall and impossible to make his bed and no room for anything.  Kyle agreed but Jared had run to the store so without his help, Kyle and I took everything apart.  I broke the bed it all fell down.  Kyle was mad and I started crying it was actually the worst.  Kyle is so kind and held it all together and I lost it.  Jared walked back in He calmly put everything back together he didn’t say anything to either of us he just fixed it all with an positive smile and we had a perfect room before we left to go to church.  

We went to church and realized that all YSA wards are a bit strange but it ok everyone is included.  We had ice cream and the whole trip was great except for the parts that weren’t and the fact we left my heart in Las Cruses.  

Don’t worry the whole drive down we had walkie talkies which I thought was silly but we had so much fun talking back and forth! Over and out!  

That’s a wrap!  Kyson  and Juli’s are married and off the figure out life!

5the wedding was perfect!  Maybe the sealer spoke a little to long for the crowd but same prefect sealing in the end

Set up and everything was a lot of work but it was magical 

Excited to see there torture play out!

The Best weekend !  Russ and Brenda had the farewell and we had all the family fun planned!  Baptisms in the Payson temple with all the Grandkids.  I’m pretty sure is was Brenda and Russel dream come true!

The OG cousins!  That’s what Tawna said anyway!  At the Goshen church after they spoke

Tawna decided Sarah’s needed to make a table and bench for Phoenix with Russ.  Cohen and Tayson helped Tawna stain it.   Cohen said the tawna is a carpenter just like Jesus so she pretty much is “Just like Jesus!”  He then decided that if Tawna is Jesus then he and tayson of the prophets for helping Jesus!  It was pretty much making us laugh!!! 

We did a simple hike to a tiny waterfall and just joked and had fun the whole time!   

I told Cohen to turn around and look scared!  This is the pose he did.  None of us thought this was scared!!!  

Don’t worry the hard work got done!  Everyone took a different shift!

This is just the beginning!   A two year adventure for Brend and Russ and the rest of us get to follow along!

Cute cheerleader

Yep that is Allie on top with all the muscles!

Cutest girl out there but I may be biased!!

Cheer shows up different at Volleyball!  They get to rock the student section!  I’m not sure why these long boy shorts became a thing but they do bring out a whole new side to Allie.  Adorable!  Her friend Bracie is definitely a sidekick  for the win!

Don’t worry being on the year book staff allows you to take as many shots as you want to get the perfect student ID !  Also Media Access so she can skip class.

I’m pretty sure in two weeks of 9th grade Allie has figured out how to RUN the school!  Love this cute girl! 

I may have a problem

Today at POP I ordered my normal drink the Payroll.  I got to the window and the girl said “ I have your Banana Berry Blast”. 

I was confused and said WHAT?  no?   She read the label again and then laughed and said just kidding of course we have your payroll.  “ we start making it when we see your car!  

So there you go I drink to much soda!