Falling Leaves & Failing Hearts

It’s the season for everything pumpkin, knit sweaters, and corn mazes. Fall is one of my favorite seasons because of all the holiday fun for Halloween and Thanksgiving; who can say no to the best meal of the year and all the candy you can eat?! Plus I just love fall fashion; any excuse to dress-up is my favorite :)

(These are some pumpkins Trav and I carved with some friends for FHE)

The leaves are turning the most beautiful of colors, so Trav and I decided to go up the canyon for a mini photo-shoot with our selfie-stick for fun. We did it last year when we were dating so we wanted to keep the tradition. And of course, our photo shoot wasn’t complete without some hipster and gangster poses. That’s one of the things I love most about Travis, his goofy side :) 

With all this play we’ve, of course, been working just as hard. Travy got a new job with Allstate and has been attending a morning class and studying a lot to pass his licensing exams (on top of school). Our mornings start at 6 a.m. getting dressed and ready. Trav drops me off at work and then heads to his early morning exam-prep class, afterwards he’ll do some homework and eventually pick me up from work; we’ll have a quick bite for lunch and then I’ll head to school and Trav to work, and all this before 1 p.m.!

One day in particular I felt like the world was turning on me. I had to deal with an annoying customer at work, my water bottle exploded in my face, I ordered something online and it wasn’t what I expected, and I fell getting onto the bus to campus. On top of that I had a really scary grammar exam I had to take, for a class I didn’t feel I was doing well enough in, and I got really sick and congested the day of the test. After my miserably, long day I crashed in our bed, feeling overwhelmed and teary-eyed. After saying a prayer, Travis turned to me and offered to give me a blessing. Hearing him plead for me filled my heart with so much love and gratitude. God put such an incredible man in my life to love me, he may have his flaws, but to me he’s perfect in every way. 

I’m so grateful for the restoration of priesthood power and the peace that it brought to me that night. It is so amazing that worthy men today harness the very same power that Christ had and gave to his disciples- the power to make the lame walk and blind see, the power to command the raging sea and  comfort failing hearts.