lets swap.

so, last monday we had our ward opening social! haha, this usually isn't very exciting, we eat some food, meet some people, and the most important event, we get put into our fhe groups. this semester they decided to make it a little bit more exciting than just shouting out "nauvoo ### is with brooklyn ###" so the saturday before people came around and asked three people in each apt some random type questions. and they did the same for the boys. and then they typed them up, gave them to the apt you were to be in an fhe group with and made you run around the gym trying to figure out which group was yours by asking the boys (or girls, if you were a boys apartment) if any of them had answered the answers on your sheet. (sorry for that really bad explanation of what happened, i'm not sure there is a simple way to explain it. haha.) but so they called our apartment and we got our paper and so i read it ...
1. This boys car is a 1996 mustang.
2. This boy wishes he could make a career out of living in the woods.
3. This boy is a social work major.
and instantly, i knew. 1. buddy, 2. zach, 3. matt ..... we were with the same fhe boys we had last semester. what? i mean, don't get me wrong, we love these boys! but, it is just fun to get a new fhe group, and get to spend time with people you haven't already spent every monday in a semester with. so, needless to say, we were a little bummed. how in the world had this happened? when we got home from the activity we decided to try our hand at getting a new group. we didn't think it would ever happen, but we decided to try anyways. we started off by visiting one of the fhe coordinators, who informed us that she actually had nothing to do with assigning fhe groups, and that she thought the bishopric did all of that. so, we pondered, and pondered and decided our best course of action was to call brother kuhns, the second counselor. now, we decided on brother kuhns because it is a well known fact that, we are his favorites. :) we decided that all of a sudden we had a pretty good chance of this actually happening. so we called him on up and he informed us that it was JUST THE BISHOP who put together the fhe groups. hopes shattered! we thought for sure that bishop was going to tell us to just suck it up and accept the will of the Lord. we prepared ourselves for disappointment. three days later we get a phone call. from brother kuhns. he tells us he did his best, and that he warned us not to get our hopes up (we were set for failure) but it was okay if we'd gotten them up because bishop changed our group!!!! what?!? seriously?!?! we could not believe it! we were so happy. so we swapped out nauvoo 304 for nauvoo 301! i am pretty excited! i think it is going to be an excellent semester for fhe!

scripture of the day:
Jacob 5:59 And this I do that, perhaps, the roots thereof may take strength because of their goodness; and because of the change of the branches, that the good may overcome the evil.

today i am thankful for:
* change.
* blessings from the Lord.
* bishopric members who do their best to help you.

<3.