Friday, March 29, 2013

His timing

I have had a lot of thoughts going through my head lately and I figured that I should write them down. I have been pondering a lot lately about life and what the future holds in store for me.  I am graduating from BYU-Idaho in two weeks with my associates and then in the fall I am starting at Utah State. This was a really big decision for me to make.  I love BYU-Idaho and I swore that I would stay up here and finish my bachelors, but I have recently discovered that the Lord has other plans for me.  During the Fall I was working on the grounds crew at temple square.  Every one I worked with there graduated from Utah State and always talked about how much they loved it.  They asked me all of the time, why I wasn't going to Utah State.  I always just said that I was content at BYU-Idaho.On my last day my boss called me into his office to tell me that he really appreciated the great job I did. Then he started asking about my plans for the future.  He asked me what I was going into and where I was going to school.  I told him that I was studying Horticulture at BYU-Idaho and that I was planning on going into Landscape Design.  He then asked me if I wanted to do Landscape Design or Landscape Architecture. I told him that I really wanted to do Landscape Architecture, but BYU-I only had a Landscape Design program. He then looked me in the eye and told me that I really needed to consider going to Utah State because they had the only accredited Landscape Architecture program in the state.  I kind of brushed it off, but I really loved BYU-Idaho.  As I was driving back home I couldn't stop thinking about Utah State.  When I got home I got on the internet and looked at their program. It really just made sense to me.  That night my mom and I went to get our hair cut. I really wanted to talk to my mom about it, but I was a little nervous (Mostly because I am super indecisive and I change my mind very frequently, especially when it comes to things that have to do with school and majors-That is why by my 5th semester of college I had already changed my major three times and was debating about doing it again).  I decided that I would just throw it out there and see what my mom thought. I just kind of casually threw it out there and we started talking about it.  My mom liked the idea and she told me that I didn't have anything to lose by applying. The more and more we talked about it the more and more it really started making sense.  I went home that night and I prayed about it.  I felt really strongly that it was what I needed to do. So, the very next day I started my application.  I realized how important the Lord's timing is.  I had debated about transferring from BYU-I before my mission, but it didn't really feel right and I was so stressed about school and preparing for a mission, that I just set it aside.  I realize now, that it wasn't supposed to happen then, but now it is right.  But, of course, whenever you try to do something you feel is right, Satan gets in the way and tries to make you doubt.  I kept thinking "what if I don't get in?"  Then my common sense said " Becky, everybody gets into Utah State and if you felt it was right, then you will get in!"  I just had keep reminding myself of that.  Then, last week for one of my Horticulture classes, we went on a field trip down to Utah.  We went and visited a bunch of different businesses in the Horticulture industry.  We went and visited this landscape designer that graduated from BYU-Idaho.  She just kept ragging on Utah State and saying that their Landscape Architecture program wasn't very good and that the people that graduated from there weren't very good.  I guess the reason it bothered me the most is that everything she said wasn't true.  She had never been there and she didn't know very much about their program.  As she was talking I was just thinking about how this was Satan trying to get me to change my mind and not go to Utah State. There was an elder on my mission and every time an appointment canceled or something bad happened he would stomp on the ground and yell "Dang it Satan! I hate you!"  As I was listening to this person talk I wanted to do the exact same thing as this elder.  I know that I am doing what the Lord wants me to do.  I just keep having to tell myself that every single day.
The most important thing is to trust in him and his timing.  He can see the entire playing field and we can't.  We just need to let him take us by the hand and lead us.

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