Week 9

3/4 of the way through the semester and I feel like I am doing pretty well.  I am loving life right now and loving this class as well.  I have learned a lot throughout the semester and am glad a get to continue learning for a few more weeks.  Well.... I guess I will always be learning but soon school will be over for me and I will graduate.  I am so excited for that.  I am nervous to go out and find a job but I know with all the help I have from my boss with my internship everything will be okay.

This week I did work on my project more.  I am running into a little situation because I am now now in the area I was beforehand.  I am worried about it because it is kind of like starting over.  I know that I will be alright because I did fine before.  I know a lot more people here and I think that will make it pretty easy for me once I start spreading the word.  I am nervous and excited for this new challenge but I know it will be good.  This next week I will be working pretty hard for my family so I will not have a lot of time to sew.  All will be good though.

Week 8

This week has been a new experience for me.  I have felt super busy but at the same time I have felt bored. I worked (at my internship) everyday for at least 8 hours.  I worked long and hard but I am trying to get this internship finished up and I want to give it my all.  I think my boss notices that because she told me the other day if the marketing I am doing works she will bring me back.  That makes me want to work even harder. That has been the busy side of things. Being in the Marines, my husband has to do annual training every year. Since we got married in December this is the first time that I have experienced him being away.  I can feel him gone and it makes me sad.  I know that this is something that he loves though and it is definitely part of him.  It was interesting to listen to the videos this week because one of them talked about being a Marine and what it has meant to him.  I know that my husband feels the exact same way that he does.

For my $100 project I have supplies and have been working hard.  With my free time in the evenings I have time to work on it.  I just want to say that I love to sew and it is something that really helps me unwind and relax.  I love doing it so I know I chose a great project for myself.  I am even starting to get people who are interested in what I am doing.  That makes it all worth it.  I am having fun with this project/job.

Week 7

I am slowly getting to my $100 project.  I have been really busy with work lately as I am about to finish up my internship soon.  For my project I have been really spreading the news around through word of mouth.  I also have a small handout flyer that I designed that I will start passing out soon.  I am super excited for these next two weeks to really push out my project and put my all into it.  My husband has a lot going on so I will be able to focus on school and my project.  I love sewing and think this is just going to be wonderful for me.  I am ready to start making a difference in people's lives.

 I liked the video this week of Russ Rosenzweig.  He talked about some great things.  I liked how he talked about measuring our success and how we do that.  The true question though is “are we significant?”.  I think that question is so great to think about.  Am I doing things that are significant and making a difference?  I sure hope so.  I love learning about leadership and especially learning from the apostles.  Business was definitely the right major for me.

Week 6

Well here we go!  I am so excited for this new adventure in the $100 challenge.  The more I think about it the more I realize that I really do have a good group of friends in church.  I also have some family around that is here to support me in all that I do.  I wish that I would have chosen something maybe that I was a little more passionate about though.  I love babies and I love to sew but the reason is because I have a hard time going up to people and just asking them to help me and buy something.  I feel that they could do it themselves if they really wanted to.  I am trying to find an approach that I can take to talk to people without seeming desperate.  I know that if I was more passionate about the product I would have an easier time.  But because I don't this will help me to learn and grow.  I also know that my family will help out in spreading the word around.  I want to also be professional about it.

This week was a pretty good one for me.  I had one big problem with one of my classmates in another class.  I felt like he really doesn't like me and that became clear this week as he sent me a not very nice email.  I thought about how Bud Brigham talked about values and people we work with.  He said to surround ourselves with those people.  I try not to judge this person that I am in a group with but it is hard when he is judging me.  I know online classes are hard sometimes because I feel like people say whatever they want because they don’t have to see the face and talk to the person in real life.  To me that is sad.  I keep praying that I will feel better towards this guy and that I can still act Christlike.