Our Savior's love.

God does not hate Nabisco for posting a photo of a gay pride Oreo cookie. God does not hate any single person that is a part of the LGBT community.

There is only one God and that same God loves every single person, being, and soul. In fact, He loves everyone perfectly, completely, indefinitely, and infinitely. God cannot love any single person that has lived, lives now, or will live any less or any more than He already does.

"No death, life, angels, principalities, powers, things, heights, depths, or creatures will ever separate us from God's love, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord." -Romans 8:37-39

Think about it.

♥ Melissa.

P.S.: If you're wondering what I'm referring to, please read/see this.

Random news:

• Two days ago, I was approved for a student credit card! Woohoo for building up credit and growing up!
• I can't believe we've only been in school for two weeks.
• I ADORE MY SCHEDULE SO MUCH. There is not a single class I am taking that I don't love.
• LDS Marriage & Family with Brother Goodman (with whom I took Mission Prep freshman year) is my teacher and wow. Just wow.
• I love being sore. Is that weird? No. Sarah (my roommate) agrees with me. It's that good sore when you know you've been working hard. In my case, dancing hard. I LOVE my Contemporary Dance class. I am always sweating bullets afterward. And sore.
• I am working ALL day Friday. And I mean ALL day: 10a-9p and that isn't even including closing, which takes longer.
• I am working Saturday night, too. With Sarah, of course! I work Fridays with her, too.
• Liz, Sarah and I are absolutely LOVING living together. Now that we know each other, we are getting along ridiculously well. I love them so much. We're praying about finding an apartment (staying in the ward boundaries, hopefully) where we can all three live together (but we want to move out of this one).
• Speaking of praying, we've started apartment prayer. Sarah and I thought of it. Our minds are ridiculously in sync this semester, it's weird. Apartment prayer usually only consists of Sarah, Liz and I because Ashley's always with Oliver (they are dating).
• I have been eating peanut butter sandwiches every night for dinner the past few nights. And no, I'm not going to plead the lame "I'm a poor college student" excuse; I have money to buy food and I buy good food. PB sandwiches are all I want to eat for dinner! It's weird! It's because I eat two granola bars throughout the day as lunch; my body, however, craves PB sandwiches for lunch, and me not giving my body PB sandwiches results in me eating them later in the day.
• Today, I forced myself to eat broccoli-cheddar soup, though. Yay me!
• This Portrait Photo class is DEFF pushing me out of my element; it's all in the studio (for the most part) and working with lights. BUT IT IS SO, SO FUN!
• I should probably go to sleep. It's 12.30 am, I still have studying to do, and I have to wake up for a 9 am class. And no, I will not plead the lame "I never get any sleep because I'm a college student" excuse; I SLEEP WELL! Minus Tuesdays and Thursdays, my long days.
• I need to buy more milk, more orange juice, more bread, more granola bars, more grapes and tomatoes, red and green peppers. Hurray for healthy eating!
• It really is SO important to whole-heartedly do daily scripture study and pray on your knees multiple times a day; I have been finding myself relying on it more than ever these past two weeks- not because I have some major issues or problems and not because I need to check it off my "list", but because I want to. I sincerely want to and it's filling my heart with that desire more and more. God is just revealing such amazing, great things in my life and teaching me so much. It's unreal.
• I adore Indian food. It's probably my favorite.
• "Because I have been given much, I too must give."
• I just really love my life.
• It's ridiculous how much I love my life.
• I am so thankful God gave me life.

I treat this blog as a journal of sorts, if you haven't noticed. I enjoy it very much.

♥ Melizza.

New job!

Saturday night I officially worked for the first time at my new job: Tokyo Sweets.


Located in the Provo Towne Center's food court, it serves Japanese desserts that are DELICIOUS.


We have banana tempura (tempura: Japanese battered and deep fried goodness), Oreo tempura, cheesecake tempura, brownie tempura, tempura ice cream, mochi ice cream, Ramune, Hello Panda, Hi-Chew, Calpico, Pocky, Milkita pops, regular ice cream, and tons of other stuff.


It's extra awesome because:

1. My sister and brother-in-law own the place.
2. I took all the photos hanging up on the wall, serving as the menu.

In all seriousness, though, I really do enjoy working there and I really enjoy working period. It feels good: I'm being productive, I'm helping a business out (specifically my sister and brother-in-law), and I make money. I haven't worked a consistent, hourly-wage job since I worked at Cold Stone back home for a year and a half... a year and a half ago. It's been a while.


I'm also working with my roommate, Sarah, so that makes things extra awesome.


Now, what to do with this money? I can:


a) Save up for a car.
b) Save up for a mission.
c) Save up for a new camera body/lens.
d) Save up for a wedding/honeymoon (not that it's happening soon, but I should still probably save up hahah).
e) Save up for an iPhone (although this is most likely not the wisest of the five).


♥ Melizza.


P.S.: COME VISIT ME! I work Friday and Saturday nights after 4 pm.

Elder Mark Daniel's e-mail to me today:

"MELISSA!


can I just say, that you are fantastically, marvelously, expectacularly, seriously, awesome?
Enserio, you are wonderful. Don´t EVER forget that!! :) I miss you a butt load and all our amazing jokes and whatnot. Thank you soooo soooo much for being Meli :) So we had lunch at a member´s house the other day, and their daughter was blasting taylor swift from her room and it was SOOOOO amazing!! haha for three reasons, number one, it was taylor swift in argentina, two, it was should´ve said no, and so I thought of nichole337, and three, I was like, freak, I miss Meli SO much!


BUt yeaahhh :) you´re soooo much more awesome than me. No chiste. Hope your semana is FANTASTIC!!


I miss you and I love you Meli loo!
Elder Marky Mark"

My thoughts:

1. Ridiculous goofy smile on my face.
2. He is doing such beautiful, great work on his mission in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
3. I am so proud of him.
4. He is one of the best examples in my life.
5. I miss having my best friend nearby.
6. Mark has been on his mission for five months, already! Oh, how the time FLIES.
7. I pray for him and those he teaches every day.
8. I'm thinking I may not NOT want to spend eternity with him.

Meet Gary,

This is my Pug-O-Lantern. Yes, you read this correctly. 
Created tonight with a kitchen knife, carving knife, an X-Acto knife and my bare hands.
This is probably the piece of art I've created that I'm most proud of. 
Dead serious.

Challenge: Carve the most creative pumpkin you can within the month and send me the photo link; I want to see it! Push yourself to create more than you think you can. I was surprised with this pumpkin. I doubted I can do it, but here it is!

♥ Melizza.

I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

http://mormon.org/jesus-christ/

♥ Melizza.

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

—	Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Thoughts on a mission.

So I legit, seriously think I plan to serve a full, year and a half-long mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I want to dedicate that time to bringing people to the fully restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. I don't choose where to go; the Lord would call me to serve where He wanted and needed me. I could serve speaking English, Spanish, Tagalog, or any other language He would want me to speak and teach in. I have to be 21 years old to be able to serve this mission, and that's a year and a month away, but it's never too early to start thinking about it. If I decided to go through with this, I would submit my papers next summer and be able to enter the Missionary Training Center (MTC) by November, when I'll be turning 21.


It's all very exciting :}


♥ Melizza.