Back to the real world

Well, I'm back from the mission.  It's weird. I'm trying to acclimate to civilian life as best as I can, but it's still weird.

I'm dating the young man who wrote letters to me for eighteen months while I was living in Louisiana.

I have a job that pays the bills and keeps me moderately busy.  I teach with the sister missionaries in our YSA branch at least weekly.  I renewed my temple recommend.

I have a calling. I have a gym membership. I share a one bedroom, one bath apartment with a couple of periplanetae. I am taking a graduate course at UNM to see if I want to go to grad school one day.

I have to admit, that every aspect of my life is NOT focused on serving God. I try to involve Him in it, of course, but my main reason for dating my boyfriend is NOT to invite him to come unto Christ by helping him receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.  Of course, I know that families are essential to God's plan for His children.

The Palmer clan! A few years ago...

But if God didn't want to choose someone who would make us (as individuals) happy to be our spouse, he wouldn't have let us do our own courting. Anyways, I digress....

I'd like to just keep writing on this blog, but my posts are gonna have to be a bit more secular than they were while I was a full-time missionary. Is that okay with y'all?