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I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (find out more about my religion here). I was born into an active family, and raised in the church. I never questioned my faith or my parent's faith. I grew up believing everything I had been taught. I had the faith of a child, and it was AWESOME! You know that perfect faith, that what your parent's say something, and you believe it will happen, and then it does? That's the faith I had. I grew up, I got married in the Temple, and I started my little family of 2.

We wanted to make our little family of 2, and little family of 3, so just a few short months after getting married, we started to try to have a baby, and we got pregnant pretty quick! But, then I lost the baby. Shortly after that, I got pregnant with Little Man. I was 6 months pregnant when the unimaginable happened. The person that I loved the most in this world, my Hubby, got sick. He got really sick. It was hard. I didn't know what to do, I felt like I was being abandoned. I felt angry, abandoned, hurt, and lost. I had lived my life the way I was supposed to, and now everything was falling apart! I'd lost a baby, I was having a really hard pregnancy, and now I literally received a phone call saying, "Don't have a baby or anything, but you're husband is in an ambulance on his way to the hospital."

Life wasn't supposed to get to that point! At least not when I was 20! My Hubby was only 23, and his heart wasn't beating right. Talk about putting faith to the test. Life was flipped upside down in that one moment. I thought that my faith was strong. I thought that my knowledge of the Gospel was extensive. I thought that this whole "life" thing was WAY easier that it was always made out to be. Until that phone call, and then I realized that I was vastly unprepared for challenges.

Stewart was taken to the hospital that day, and his heart was shocked back into rhythm twice. I made a choice not long after that, that I was going to count EVERY blessing I was given! I vowed to pray more, to read my scriptures more, to serve more, and to think less about me, and more about others. I have slipped up a few times, and had MANY dark days, but I hope that I have lived up to my vow to myself. This is my journey. Written by me, as things happen and as they did happen. Welcome to my blog! I hope you join me along my Journey of Faith!