Less Than Three Holidays

Happy Holidays!! I love this time of year! Christmas is my favorite holiday by far! I love the music, the lights, the decorations, the movies, just everything!
Sorry I haven't written in a while. I've been preparing to move to Rexburg in January :( I'm still having a hard time with that. I'm really going to miss everyone in Provo. I've made a ton of friends and I really love my roommates and I'm really sad to go. It is what it is I guess! I AM excited to start classes again though! Not taking any this fall has been absolute torture! So I'm looking forward to that! Anyway, I'm a bit on the tired side so I think I'm going to hit the hay since I can't think of anything else to write about! Haha! Hope you all have a great night!

Less than three,
Hessy

Less Than Three Miracles

This summer has been possibly the fastest and the busiest. It's interesting how I feel like I've really needed this time, that I'm not the same person who left Washington back in June.
Anyway, so I've put in my application to be a full time student at BYU starting in January! I'm kinda nervous, not gonna lie! But I really feel like I'm going to end up wherever it is that I'm supposed to. I mean either way I'm going to be going to school somewhere in January! I can at least look forward to that right?!
I'm actually liking Provo. Who knew? I've made some great friends out here.
It's so weird that Sister Hall gets home at the end of this month and that everyone is coming home soon. I'm looking forward to getting to see Moose again that's for sure!
Things aren't perfect (but honestly, when ever are they?) but I can see the miracles happening in my life and I feel extremely blessed. I'm exactly where I need to be and I'm grateful for it. Well, it's rather late and I should probably get to bed since at this point I'll probably wake up in the morning and read this and wonder what on earth I was thinking when I wrote it! I just realized that it has been quite a while since the last time I posted anything so I figured I might as well fix that now!
Thanks for putting up with my ramblings!

Less than three,
Hessy

Less than three New Beginnings

SO! I'm at school! I'm crazy nervous about it and ya...Provo is CONFUSING I will NEVER be able to find my way to school, or if I do I have no idea how long it will take me :S But! Half the struggle is over! I'm here! I'm all settled in and my school is paid for and I've got the classes I wanted and whoo everything should be just fine! I just have to remember to breath every now and again...
Anyway! It's BEAUTIFUL outside! I feel like this is one huge new beginning for me. A chance to do some things differently. I feel I changed so much on my mission but that I've changed a lot since I've been home. I'm certainly not the same person I was a year ago or even six months ago. So hopefully all of this is a recipe for success and everything will work out. Well, scratch that! I know everything will work out! I just have to remember that!
Well, anyway, just wanted to catch ya'll up! I can't wait for school to get started! I've waited so long for this! It will be great!

Less than Three,
Hessy :)

Less Than Three Simple Things

Wow! It's been quite a while! Sorry about that!
Things have been crazy around here! I'm getting ready to go to school, saving every penny I make so that I can make my rent for the summer, which I'm still not sure I'll be able to do. I was really looking forward to getting a job just for extra money so I could go and do stuff and not have to worry about living expenses, but as always life never turns out the way I plan!
I was sick for a few weeks and that really did me in! However! I DID make my tuition! It is such a good feeling to know that my classes are paid for and that I don't owe anyone a cent for them. It did hurt though to write out that echeck for 1,079 dollars! But I'm so grateful I get this opportunity to go back to school. So it's worth it!
So I've been pretty much just working and that's about it! I haven't even started packing which is kinda weird since I was ready to start packing about two months ago! Haha!
Things are starting to get crazy, I leave in a week and a half and I'm starting to stress just a bit! But I know it will all work out.
It's kinda weird to try to think of myself as there, in Utah, going to school. I'm so excited though!
Anyway that's about all that's new on my end! Ah the simple things in life!

Les Than Three Gratitude

I hate seeing people take the blessings in their lives for granted. I'm guilty of this all the time, I know. I just, I hate to see someone not realize what they have. I know that it's easy to take something you've had all your life for granted, and sometimes it takes seeing people who don't have what you do to make you realize how important those things are. Sometimes it doesn't eve click THEN, I just wish it didn't take so much for us to be grateful.

So do me a favor, think of something that you take for granted and make a decision to try to never take it for granted again. I'm going to do this too.

I'm really lucky, I mean life isn't what I want it to be, but whose life is exactly the way they want it? We don't always get what we want when we want it, but we always get something we need and probably something better. I'll admit, I have a tendency to focus on the things that I don't have. I think it's easy to get discouraged when you see others getting everything you've ever wanted and you don't, but maybe there's something else coming, something better? Maybe the secret to happiness is to just ride the wave, go with the flow, put your trust in Heavenly Father and let him steer you where you should be. Maybe that's something I haven't been doing enough. I mean it takes some effort on our part, we have to do what we can and just let the rest go. Faith is an interesting thing, it's something I've done a lot of thinking about in the past few months.


Wow I've gotten on a tangent. I can't even remember what I started this out as!
Anyway, I'm just grateful for so much. I'm going to work harder on focusing on that!

Less Than Three,
Hessy

Less Than Three Music

I have a thing for music. As I'm sure you can figure out since I've named my ipod F.R.E.D. and claim him to be the love of my life... (by the way F.R.E.D. stands for Freaking Rad Electronic Device)

Anyway, I just updated my music list on here, at first I just wanted it to be country, but I decided a play list of only Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and Kelly Pickler songs would probably get a bit boring. So I added. I don't have all of the songs on there I want, but that's all I could remember at the moment!

So, I hope you enjoy it, Sister Hall said that you can tell a lot about a person by the kind of music they like and their favorite songs..I'm not so sure what my play list says about me... :S

Less Than Three,
Hessy

Less Than Three Blessings

Yay! The temple has been closed for a few weeks (longest weeks of my life!) and it's opening up tomorrow!

You know, I knew that we were lucky to have a temple so close, but going on a mission and not being able to go and realizing that the only temple was hours away made me especially grateful for the incredible blessing of having one so close!

I really hope that everyone who has the opportunity to go there appreciates what they have.

Anyway, just late night ramblings!
I'm really missing the mission right now. I guess everyone has the tendency to remember only the good things, but there's just so much good on a mission you really wonder if there was anything bad. You forget the hard times, you don't forget what you learned from the hard times, but I love remembering the good ones. I love remembering the crazy rain and the times tracting and the friendships I found there. You know, I even kinda miss riding a bike in a skirt...I know, I know, I'm crazy! But I do miss it.

Anyway, I just hope we all remember how blessed we are to have what we do. Family, friends, just anything. Don't take any of it for granted.
So what are you grateful for?

Less Than Three,
Hessy

Less Than Three Sundays

Oh dang, I had a good idea for a blog on my way home from church today and now I've gone and forgotten it!
Well I guess that's nothing new! Haha!

Anyway, so it's Sunday! I survived another singles ward, I'm not sure yet which one I'm going to settle on, but I really like the one that I went to today. I'd just go to my home ward till I go to school or something, but I just don't really feel quite right there. So I guess I'll just bite the bullet and give something new a try.

AH HA! There's my blog idea! I knew it would come to me!

If you know me, you know I'm a shy person, a lot of you might say that I'm not but I really honestly am. I try not to be, I hate it, but it is what it is! So I'm sitting there in church trying to pep talk myself into not being shy and I start thinking about how you become friends with people, it just seems so weird if you think of it from like the edge of getting to know people, like when you walk into a brand new place where you know no one you know you'll make friends, it just happens. But how do you cross that boarder between being a stranger and being someones friend? It's just something interesting to think about I guess.

Anyway, I'd make this longer but my mom is yelling at me to set the table. It's been a not too bad Sunday. I hope you've all enjoyed yours!

Less Than Three,
Hessy

Less Than Three Sunshine

It's sunny today! Yay! I personally can't wait till it's summer! Summer has got to be one of my favorite seasons! The longer WARMER days, there's just so much more that you can do during the summer. Everything just seems happier in the summer. I don't know what it is, it's like an anticipation in the air like anything is possible.

Haha! Make fun of me if you want for that last paragraph but it's true!

So, not too much is new today, I mean the day has practically just started! I don't have much planned, but that's the usual! My parents generally take off and enjoy each others company for the day, and I enjoy my quiet time! It's nice when the sun is shining and there's not much to do but just watch a movie on my own (a rare occurrence) or listen to the music I like (another rare occurrence).

I probably won't be in too much longer though, a day like this practically DEMANDS taking a drive! One of my favorite quotes is from the movie "Elizabeth Town", at the end Claire has Drew take a road trip because he's never taken one before. She makes a map for him along with pictures and places to stop and things to do at those places, and she gives him music to listen to, because we all know- what is a road trip without music?? She tells him "Some music needs air, roll down the window". I love that, it is so true! There is nothing like driving down the road with music playing, the windows down, and the sun shining. Instant uplift to ANY day!

So, I'll probably go do that later on, haha! Anyway I'd best get goin! I hope you all get out and enjoy the sunshine!!

Less Than Three,
Hessy

Less Than Three Beginnings

Yay! Geez, I'm so indecisive! It's ridiculous! It took me FOREVER to find this freaking background! Oh well, all done! So, it's now really really late, not that it's a new thing for me to be up all hours of the night...but it's later than I'd like it to be! It's like it passes midnight and I just lose all track of time! Whew! So I'll make this short!

So, not much is new since I've been home. I got back about a month-ish ago? Just looking for a job, and waiting to find out what schools I got into! I'm crossing my fingers, let me tell ya! HAHA! It's a bit nerve wracking! I really REALLY want to go to school. It hasn't been very long I guess but it feels like FOREVER! I guess I probably needed this break to really appreciate school ya know? I never liked it much, and now I can't wait to go back!

I was trying to get down to Florida for two couple's baptisms at the end of the month, but right now it's looking like it probably won't be happening. It's just been so hard to find a job! I am NOT very happy about it, but I guess that's just life for ya! I really miss Florida, I miss the people, the beaches, and just being on a mission! This whole transition thing is NOT all it cracked up to be! Haha!

It's been so hard to come home early. It was such a shock to me when my mission president said that he thought it might be time for me to go home. I'd been sick since I had gotten to Florida and nothing seemed to really be working. I know that it was the right thing. Other than when I was praying about going on a mission, I don't think I've ever prayed that hard. I am so grateful that I was with Sister Hall when everything happened! I don't know what I would have ever done without her! It all happened so quickly! I mean we had our Zone Conference on Tuesday by Friday the final decision was made, and I left a few days later.

The more I think about it though, the more I know that there must be a reason why I'm home now instead of December. Who knows! It's been quite the growth opportunity! Haha!
I can't wait to see what's next!

Less Than Three,
Hessy <3

First Less Than Three

Hey everyone!
Since I'm home from my mission, I decided to start up a blog! :S
Who knows how THIS will go! Haha! I figure it could go well, and I'll post regularly and it'll be all cool and stuff, or.... meh I'll stay on the positive! Haha! Anyway, I'm going to go customize this baby! I'll be back soon to really start this up! Hope you enjoy!

Less Than Three,
Hessy <3