Counting My Many Blessings

Lately I have been thinking about how blessed I have been in my life. How I have been lead and guided to the things I needed to do and the paths I needed to choose. I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father who has a plan. Who knows the best way for us and as we humble ourselves and allow him to take the reigns "How great will be our joy". He will make so much more out of our lives than we would be able to by ourselves without him. I am grateful for a young boy, even Joseph Smith who had a question. Who had the faith of a child to kneel in prayer and ask our Father in Heaven which church is true. I am grateful for a Heavenly Father who appeared to this young boy with his son Jesus Christ to give him the answer he was searching for. Heavenly Father called him by name. He knew young Joseph by his first name, and just as he knew Joseph by his first name I testify and know with out a shadow of a doubt our Father in Heaven knows each of us by name. He knows the desires of our hearts. I have no doubt he cries with us when we cry. He celebrates with us when we celebrate and he wants nothing else than for us to be happy. If we can somehow see the light at the end of the tunnel in our darkest hours HE has prepared a way for us to see the rainbow and sunshine after those dark rainy, stormy days. I have THE strongest testimony of this because one of my greatest challenges in life right now is not being able to start my own family, not being able to be a mother and love a little one, and not being able to provide my dear sweet husband with that opportunity. After each miscarriage, after each fertility treatment that didnt work, and after each adoption that didnt go through at the last minute, right when I thought I couldn't take the pain any longer, my dear sweet savior stepped in and took away the heavy burden. He lifted me up to my feet and carried me until I could walk again. Just as I have my struggles and challenges I know each of you go through those rainy days as well and I just want each of you to know that Heavenly Father is mindful of you. He feels what you are feeling and as you open that door he will be there on the other side of it waiting and willing to help, but the handle is on our side and we must be the ones to let him in. These last few days as I have been contemplating the blessings in my life I just am so humbled and grateful to have been able to meet such a sweet, caring, humble husband. He is the most christ like person I have ever met. He would give the shirt off his back to anyone and he has so much love in his heart. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to be a missionary in Montevideo Uruguay. To have the opportunity to take part in the culture there and learn the spanish language. I am grateful to the people of Uruguay for changing me. Naci en Nuevo Mexico pero naci espiritualmente en uruguay y estoy tan agradecida por la gente de Uruguay y por los ejemplos que han sido. Estoy tan agradecida que podia ser misionera ahi y ensenar las personas ahi de Jesu Cristo y de la plan. Deje un parte de mi corizon ahi en Uruguay y amo mucho la gente ahi. I left part of my heart in uruguay and I love so much the people of Uruguay. There will always be a special place in my heart for them. Below are some pictures of my mission:

Below are some pictures of when jay proposed to me. For those of you that don't know Jay and I dated for about 2 years and then he left on a mission to Toronto Canada. After he was out for about a year I got my mission call to Uruguay and then He got home six months before me. Two weeks after I got home he proposed in his national championship football game on the fifty yard line in front of thousands of people!! I was sooo embarrassed!!!

We were married in the Salt Lake Temple on May 14, 2004.

We lived in St. George for the summer and then my husband was recruited to play football in the capitol of Mississippi, Jackson. We lived there for a few years while we both went to school. We made so many memories and made so many friends that we miss dearly! We were there during Huricanne Katrina and that was an experience we will never forget!!

I love Jay Buck