Life is good :)

Do you ever just feel so happy that you can hardly contain it? Well that's what happens to me when I do well on math tests :) Biostatistics isn't necessarily easy, but I think I finally discovered a math class that I'm capable of understanding- and thankfully it's the only math class required for my major! Overall I'm doing really well in my classes, I still have almost all A's with an annoying B that seems perfectly happy to stay exactly where it's at. I'd be completely crazy though if I sat here and told you it was all my own doing, because it's not. I've seen the hand of the Lord in my life a lot these last few weeks, this semester has already proven itself to be overwhelming and stressful between balancing classes and homework with the desire I have to be at home right now. I'm not really homesick, I just don't want to be in Rexburg because I would much rather be with my family. Thankfully I've been given some of the best roommates I could've asked for and I know that the Lord knew months ago that I was going to need them and made it so that when life got hard we'd already have built the trust with one another to be able to support one another. In the last 2 months I've worked really hard at being better at studying my scriptures and my testimony of how it draws us closer to Christ has been strengthened significantly. I'm finally coming to understand what people mean when they talk about having a personal relationship with Christ and I'm starting to better understand how it requires us to have the desire to make the effort to draw nearer unto Him and when we make that effort He will bless us and we'll feel His love more prominently in our lives- not because it wasn't there before, but because we've become more aware of it.
I think it was 2 weeks ago now, but there was an armed robbery at a Walgreens up here- which took I think everyone by surprise. I discovered it because I was out with some friends and we couldn't get onto Main Street due to everything being blocked off- it was at least 4 hours later and they were just still taking prints. Of all the places to rob the guy picked a store (next to 2 or 3 banks mind you) on the same street as the police station and the court house- and since there isn't a huge amount of crime out here there were plenty of officers available to deal with the situation. It was kind of a startling discovery, but all is well.
Last Tuesday in devotional Elder Nelson came to speak to us- it was another amazing opportunity that we've been given up here. While he was here he announced that President Clark would be released as the President in April after graduation and that Clark Gilbert had accepted the assignment as president of the university and would take over during the next semester.
This weekend I went to the Idaho Falls temple with 2 of my roommates, it was so beautiful. I'm glad that we went before they close it down for renovation next month!