Homework for Days

This week can be summed up in one word: homework. Jake and I are getting close to the end of our semester, so we've both been busy working on projects, writing papers, and creating presentations. It's been an intense week!

On Tuesday, Jake and I did our monthly grocery shopping. Normally these trips cost us around $100-$150, but apparently it was our lucky day because it was only $55! I kept double checking my list and making sure we had everything, and we didn't forget to buy anything, so somehow my meal planning for this week was really well done! Hopefully this becomes a more regular thing, because I'd definitely love to save more money on a monthly basis!

Saturday was a day filled with homework, no surprises there. Jake had to work the whole day so I had a quiet house to work in, and I was able to accomplish quite a bit! That night when Jake got home from work, we were relaxing at home when I saw one of my friends post on Twitter "someone please bring me ice cream" and I thought well, ok! I asked what flavor and got her address, and we dropped off some ice cream for her. It was a small act of service for us to do, but she was so grateful for it that it made Jake and I feel awesome! Service is a great bonding activity for us :)

This Week's Spiritual Thought

Today in sacrament meeting I was reading in Psalms again, and read chapter 139. Verses 1-18 really struck me, and I've copied them below so anyone interested can read them easily. I love Psalms because the language is so beautiful, and reading these verses about how God knows each of us individually in such poetic language was awesome.

1 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.