Shakin' My Zumba

I've been learning how to Zumba so that I can take over for our A.M. Instructor when she goes on maternity leave. Oh how I love concrete aerobics! Alas, Zumba has been quite the learning experience. It's interesting. Very interesting. If you've seen me at a YSA dance recently, you know why I'm saying that. I really enjoy the work-out that is "run x miles, step up x stairs, jump for x minutes with this rope, swim x laps, etc."--very concrete. Zumba is flow-y. Shake around, "feel the music" (I hate when people tell me that!)...but I'm learning. Maybe I'll get super duper hot and buff! Zumba could turn me into a Latin goddess...maybe it will give me permanently golden, tan skin, too! ;)

Anyhow, my official certification date is Saturday, 11 December 2010 in Breaux Bridge!

Wish List

This post turned out backwards. I'm on Mom's laptop, so I can't figure out how to fix the arrangement of the pictures. Ah well. The book below was the supposed to be the first half of the post, and the rest of the pictures are supposed to be the rest of my CHRISTmas wish list.

I'm low on coffee cups. And as you all know, it's hot chocolate and chai season!!!

Did I leave my black scarf in Utah?!?! I need a new one! Any scarves, gloves, beanies, slippers, boot socks, etc. will do. I heart them all...almost equally! I also need a red coat. Burlington Coat Factory is the bomb. That's what I always buy when I'm sad or when I'm craving spending cash...when I have cash that is...being broke smells. Bad.

If Santa is feeling generous or finds a super sweet sale, I'd like a laptop. If not, no biggy. I don't really need it. However, I could sit in my bed and do genealogy...or blog.

A power window motor for Reba. Might make life more convenient...for driving up to fast food restaurants, speaking to cops that pull me over, checking the mail, etc.

If I'm ever gonna practice the piano again I need one of these...or a Baby Grand.

I want to take up sewing. Trying to discover hidden talents within. I want to start quilting!

Other list items:

*An eye examine (new pair of glasses, more contacts)

*A dental check-up

*Crown/Cap (?) on my dead tooth

*Reba needs a good detail and wax

*Space heater and/or electric blanket!

I want this book! I heart Brother Bennett! He and his wife are so amazing! This is definitely on my CHRISTmas wish list.

People are already puttin' up their CHRISTmas lights! Hooray!!! I already downloaded a few CHRISTmas CDs to my iPod! After Thursday (Thanksgiving) I will put up some lights in my room at Casey and Levi's. We'll put up the tree at Mom and Dad's! Dad will be home by CHRISTmas! I really love the spirit of this time of year. Everyone gets all serve-y and extra nice and generous. What a wonderful time of year!

The Iron is Still Swimming

In addition to my regular attendance at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday mornings from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. I have been attending Wednesday serves at Three Pine Apostolic Church (Pentecost) and Sunday night services at the Magnolia Church of Christ, Mennonite. I enjoy fellowshipping with others in the community and learning more about their faith and methods of worship.

Last night's worship service at Three Pine was really awesome. Brother Booth based his sermon on 2 Kings 6:1-6. His message was that we believe in a God that does (past, present, and future tense) the impossible.

And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim. (2 Kings 6:1-6)

A major theme in Bro. Booth's sermon was that often times we waste our time worrying about things we have no control over instead of turning our worries and our lives over to the Lord.

Lately I have been very stressed about finances. I am struggling to pay off my Air Force debts which practically devours my net income. Everything will be paid for in April, and I will be debt-free! (Hallelujah!) Essentially I just need to survive the next six months until this yoke is broken. However, that is easier said than done.

But I have been fasting and praying for spiritual strength and guidance. I've really been needing and relying on the comfort of the Spirit to just have hope that I can actually survive the next six months while living paycheck to paycheck. In other words, I have been [trying] to put this burden in the Lord's hands.

Thursday morning at I received some great financial news. Therefore, I want to testify that if you show Him where the axe head fell in the dirtiest even filthiest of rivers--He can make the iron swim! He did it then, and He does it now! And He can and will do it for you, too, if you will show Him the place.