February 4, 2018

My parents are in Japan.  They left 2 weeks ago.  We went up to Utah to see them one more time at the MTC.  Bob and Danny had to stay for Danny's basketball game, but the rest of us went up Friday morning.  We ate at the creamery and then picked them up at 3:30.  We spent the afternoon at BYU and went to the Museum of Art, bowling, food court and then to the Men's Volleyball game.  We had a great time with them. We stayed with Wendy's family.  And we ended up getting to stay until Sunday because Saturday they got a foot of snow.  It was such good timing for the kids to get to wake up to snow and play in it all day long.  Then we came home on Sunday after Sacrament meeting.  It was especially lucky because we are having an extremely warm winter and there isn't any snow to go play in at Mt. Charleston.

I started my Holistic Health Coach certification.  It's been good.  It doesn't take a ton of time and it's been good to get to talk with other like-minded people.  And I've started getting more into essential oils since I have to buy them every month as part of the program and that's been fun.  I've also been working on healing my hip and eyes.  I talked with Cynthia about my issues and she talked about how emotions are usually at the root of chronic problems.  So I've been working on that and taking some herbs she recommended and I really think it's going to heal. I want to be able to hike Mt. Charleston with Rachel this year because she's a 4th year.  And I want to be able to run a little bit for exercise.  I'm working on strengthening and stretching right now and hope to start easing into running in a week or two.  I also talked to her about my eyes.  She thought that was the bigger issue and it has to do with me not spiritually seeing because I was afraid or maybe the adversary is blocking me in some way.  So I've really been working on that and using some herbs in my eyes.  I'm feeling like I'm going in the right direction and have hope that it's going to work. 

I did Dr. Christopher's Candida cleanse in January.  I cut out all dairy, meat, sugar, fruit and grain.  I had to get really creative about what I ate and Stevia became one of my best friends. But I feel like it helped.  My skin definitely looks clearer and brighter, which was a nice side effect.  I'm finishing the extended herbal cleanse now.  I'm hopeful that as I continue what I'm doing the effects of the epstein-barr will go away.  My sleeping and breathing are probably 50% better.  And I'm definitely better at listening and looking for answers.

I'm liking my primary class. I teach the 10 and 11 year olds in primary.  I wish I got to go to RS so I could get to know people, but it'll happen eventually.  Bob and I are taking another self-reliance class.  We took the personal finance one in the fall and loved it.  I felt like we got a lot of direction and learning how to apply the gospel to our finances.  Toward the end of that class we felt like we should combine our freelancing skills together to create some kind of business and that it would be another avenue for the Lord to be able to bless us.  We're not really sure what that business will look like, but we are starting the self reliance class for Starting and Growing your business tonight to try to figure it out.  They are a big commitment of time, but we get so much more out of these classes.