Wow...so it has been a little while. At the time that I wrote my last post I had no idea where or if I would be going to grad school. I was still kind of secretely holding out hope that i would be accepted to BYU. The future seemed so uncertain. And though I may not have openly admitted it, I was scared. More so than I can ever remember, but part of that is likely my sketchy memory. I had overwhelming feelings of doubt and inadequacy that I generally tried to ignore. I felt as though everything that I had worked for in my undergrad was not good enough and at times I even started to question if I was good enough to make the dream that I had for the last three years come true. Then I took one of the biggest leaps of faith I can remember ever taking. Some people thought I was crazy, but looking back now I can see that it really was a turning point for me. My perspective started to change and I was suddenly much more open to following God's plan for my life instead of mine.
Well here I am, close to six months later. The future still seems so uncertain and I still get kind of scared every once in a while, but I have never felt more right about where I am and what I am doing with my life. I am a student at the University of Utah. I know, who would have thought, right? But honestly I couldn't be more excited about it. I already am so grateful for the friendships I am beginning to develop with people I would have never gotten to know otherwise. And the career path I am on leads me to someplace amazing. I have heard so many times that communication and language are the essence of what makes us human. To think that I will have a opportunity to help people communicate, to engage with other people, to become more "human" is incredible. You can cure someone of an infectious disease, help them learn to walk again following a traumatic accident, or help them get a job to support themselves, but without communication, a means to relate to and interact with people they care about and love, all those other things mean very little. I am getting to my destination in a different way than I would have thought just a year ago, but I am excited about where I am and I cannot wait to see what the future has in store for me.
