Week 1 - "You Stand On the Edge of a Knife"
Hi, all, So my mom asked me to do something interesting for my email subject lines — something that would give an order and character to the emails I send home. I think what I’ve landed on is movie quotes. This week’s is from Galadriel in The Two Towers. My sister told me to be honest in my emails home. So let me be honest. I’m not going to lie—this week has been pretty hard. The first few days were pretty good: They didn’t give us any down time—they just put us straight into class, so I didn’t have a lot of time to be worried about anything. The first two days were also full of insights to me. I filled up 3/4 of a notebook page with thoughts and concepts that came to mind. But then we got to day 3 and things got harder. I was stressed and angry. I was mostly angry with Heavenly Father. I felt like he was asking me to do something that’s way too hard for me to do—something that felt like torture. I think I was just in a lot of mental and emotional pain. Our schedule was ...