Palmyra Trip & YSA Conf!

These past 2 weekends have been the best times ever! I haven't had so much fun in months!

2 weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go on a spontaneous trip with Caitlin, Kiersten, Kallie, Shelby, Rachael, Parley, and Michael...a few people from YSA and institute people along with Brother and Sister Nehring. We left Friday morning and made it just in time to see the Hill Cumorah pageant. We got invited to go to a dance with the Rochester YSA branch ((which didn't even start until 11!!)) Saturday, we got to visit the Palmyra temple and go to the Sacred Grove. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. We then began our long drive home, stopping in Mansfield, Ohio to visit Rachael's family. We spent more time driving TO and FROM Palmyra than we did IN Palmyra, but it was super amazing and I would go on another trip like this in a heartbeat!

This past weekend was a YSA mini-conference. It included pretty much all of the YSA branches in the state of Indiana. I didn't get to attend until Saturday, right around lunch time. We had 4 one hour long workshops, all of which were awesome! After dinner, we had a dance. You'll never guess how long it was...4 HOURS! Crazy intense, but it was the most fun I've had in so long. I met some really awesome people and I'm even going on a double date with one of the guys I met. He's a non-member, but you know what they say...flirt to convert! hahaha jkjk

Here's the Palmyra temple :)



Here's the majority of the girls that went, minus Kallie and Caitlin



And the whole group! <3

new favorite band!

So, I know I'm probably SUPER late...but I've decided to jump on the bandwagon...lol
I watched the movie 'Just My Luck' with Lindsay Lohan in it the other day. In the movie is a band named McFly. Up until that night, I had no idea they actually existed, so I checked out some of their songs the next day and I've been listening to them NON-STOP since then. I'm gonna try to post a music player with some of their songs on it ((hopefully it works))

If not, you'll just have to take my word on this and see for yourself just how awesome they are!! :)

a post about absolutely nothing lol

Haven't really been on here all that much recently. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm alive and well! School ended about 3 weeks ago and I've done pretty much nothing worth commenting on since then. I ended up with 3 A's and a B+ with a semester GPA of 3.75 ((which I'm totally psyched about!))

Life has been pretty simple (and kinda boring) since basketball ended. Sometimes I don't know what to do when I'm not around my guys and girls...I miss them sooo much! I most definitely can't wait until basketball season starts up again :)

Hope everyone's been doing well!

--Much love!

~allison~

awesome song :]

this is my new favorite song by greyson chance. he was discovered by ellen degeneres and is totally amazing! it's called "waiting outside the lines" :D

...opportunities...

This past week and a half or so has been really amazing for me. Each day, I was blessed to have many, MANY opportunities to share about the church and the gospel.

I absolutely love being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!

We've had the missionaries over almost every Sunday for the past 3-4 months and they are soooo awesome! They have such a strong and sweet spirit about them and they have helped our family become closer :D

in case you didn't hear...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN IS GETTING A TEMPLE!!! :D

as far as i can tell, everyone is sooooooooo psyched for this new piece of exciting information! i can't wait to find out where they'll be putting it and when they'll start :]

yay for general conference!

Proof that Sportsmanship Still Exists

I saw this article on the Yahoo! homepage and just couldn't resist reading it. These teams are truly groups of individuals that still know what sportsmanship is and how to show it. The story and video most definitely made me cry and put me in a fantastic mood. It's about a student on a football team that scored a 51 yard TD in a Varsity football game last week. Normally, it wouldn't be all that impressive, but Ike Ditzenberger has Down Syndrome. His and the opposing team made it possible for Ike to score, probably making last Friday night one of the best of his life thus far. It's moments like these that truly make me proud to be an American and it gives me hope that maybe, just maybe...sportsmanship does still exist in this world.

I hope the videos work...

this first one is the one Ike scored last year in a Junior Varsity game.



this next one is the one he scored on Friday night.



you can read the whole story at:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Down-syndrome-football-player-scores-TD-in-Washi?urn=highschool-272803

Truly inspiring, isn't it? <3