We are Daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves us.

Today I had the opportunity to give the lesson in Relief Society. I used to be so terrified of giving lessons and today I can honestly say that I wasn't even nervous. It's so weird how much I have grown within the past couple of years. I have been blessed with so many good experience that have helped me come out of my shell little by little. Though I am still insecure about teaching the gospel to others. Teaching history is totally different, well it seems different and less scary but in reality I am still teaching history when I give lessons in church it's just a different way of looking at history. Each day I live I get to be a part of history. I love history ( I thought I would say this just in case you couldn't already tell...). If I could have when superpower it would be to be able to take a single step and be in any place in any time period. How amazing would it be to experience things that we can only read about? Well today I got to teach on the history of Heavenly Fathers love for each and everyone of us!

I got to choose my own topic for today's lesson, which is always a little terrifying. When the lesson is already planned out in the book all you have to do is read it. So I was looking through the list of General Conference talks from just this last April and Sister Elaine S. Dalton's talk just popped out at me! If you haven't had the chance to read it or listen to it yet you can click right here and you can read all of it's amazingness. In her talk Sister Dalton related an experience  when she was struggling in life and she ran into the saying "What-e'er thou art, act well thy part". This saying helped her get through her struggles and helped her remember that her part mattered no matter how small.

I just wanted to share with all of you wonderful people some sayings and things that have helped me get through hard times.

"The Future is as Bright as your Faith" Thomas S. Monson

Sunflowers! I love them! Where I grew up

they grow wild everywhere in late summer.

Every time I look at a sunflower I am reminded

of Heavenly Fathers Love for me!

He loved me enough to know that I would look

at this sunflower and think of him :)

Always Remember Who You Are!

I hope you are all having a beautiful Sunday. I love ya!

Love Ashley :)

Cousins, the first friends you ever have.

So today  my cousin Lyssa got her mission call! I am so happy for her but man am I gonna miss her. Anyways so this blog post is a tribute to cousins, who really and truly are the first friends you ever have. Good Luck Lyssa Lou I love you!

Lyssa, Me, and Raili

New Years Day family movie

Cool sunglasses, need I say more?

 5k here we come

Yep we totally cleaned the sink at Angies

I think I missed the memo of the big sunglasses :/

tehhehehe, Yay we graduated in the art of making funny looks! I sure do love my cousins.

Wait...what? We are old enough to have friends our age getting married?

Oh look at us little musical geeks.

I love my family so very much! I don't know what I would do without them or all of the amazing friends that I  have made throughout my life so far! I love this gospel! I am so glad that families are forever!!!!!

With all my love 

Ashley 

Missing You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDsfou6UfjUI am currently missing everyone!!!!!Spring Break is an evil sinister thing. It hold so much promise and joy and then it ends and you have to go back to reality. So right now I am sitting on my bed missing everyone it seems. Even the weather is trying to trick me today. It's so nice and warm it makes me belief that summer is really almost here but wait take a look at this weeks forecast and it says it is supposed to snow tomorrow. What? Oh this crazy weather of March, but that's okay I still love you. But still I am missing all of you wonderful people. Sometimes (okay a lot of the time) I wish I lived back in the regency era in England and I could just sit around all day and accept callers and go out visiting others it sounds so dreamy. But in reality I would probably belong to the poor class and be stuck waiting upon those lucky women who got to do that all the time. Plus there would be other setbacks like no modern plumbing, or electricity. Oh and I really do like going to school and lots of girls back then didn't get to have a lot of education. So I am  extremely happy to live when and where I do. Let;s listen to some awesome Lindsey Stirling and the Piano guys to cheer me up :).

Look for the little things

Today we had the most amazing lesson in Relief Society on Perspective and I just wanted to share some of my favorite things that were shared today. The teacher told us eight points on trials and gaining perspective.

1. We must gain a vision of ourselves as the Savior sees us.
2. It is your Reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life story will develop.
3. Experiences will allow us to Develop the traits and attributes we need to become more Christlike.
4.To Gain eternal perspective while we are going through tests we are spiritually refined and strengthened
5. Adversity teaches us things we cannot lean other wise.
6. Increased Faith.
( I didn't get two of them down, but they were awesome too)

"With your will you can choose to see either the darkness through the light or brightness through shadows"


Sometimes I forget to look for the small things to be happy about when I am  sad or just having a rough time in life. It is so amazing to know that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me no matter what! He loves each and every person that has every been or every will be on this earth. I know that he loves all of you!!! It is such a wonderful feeling to know that at least one person loves and cares about you and always will. That you can always turn to them for help and guidance. It's beautiful!

I hope you all have a lovely Sunday and a beautiful week!LOVE YOU!
-Love Ashley

An Ode to Spring! ( Revisited)

I was searching around on my Blog and I found this silly little poem I wrote... even though spring is still like a month away I figure we should celebrate the last days of winter with this poem! Enjoy :)

Spring , Spring you seem, so near.

Spring spring you give me cheer.

You bring hope of sunshine so bright.

That just thinking of you it lights up my night.

Spring I can see you now

Winter please don't have a cow

So please stop bringing more snow

And please stop making the wind blow!

Spring spring your finally here

Spring spring to bring everyone cheer

the grass is getting greener every day

and flowers are popping up to play.

By: Ashley Hansen

Happiness

So for the past couple of days I have had a song stuck in my head. You know the one that talks about "Happiness is two scoops of ice cream...." or maybe you don't. This cute little singing group from where I grew up sang it at one of their concerts. Anyways so I have been reflecting on the state of happiness and what it really is, and I have come to decide that happiness is not something you can define because it is different for everyone. For me happiness really can be two scoops of (chocolate) ice cream or it could be as simple as spending time with good company, whereas to someone clear across the world they could hate ice cream and what makes them happy is brussel sprouts ( I am not saying that I hate brussel sprouts.... to be honest I don't even know if have ever tried them). I hope wherever you are today that you can find your "Two scoops of ice cream" and I wish you all the laughter that this world can give :)

Oh the many happenings of my life since October in a brief blog post :)

Aren't we so Christmasy?

See I have lots of stripes!

My best Friend got Engaged !

Wow,so guess what? FINALS ARE OVER and another semester of college has successfully gone by! Can you tell I am ecstatic? Now I have time to just read books that I actually want to read! I know your probably thinking you crazy girl you just had to read a million bazillion things for all of those awesome classes that are know over! Yes I get you point but I love reading and now I can actually read some books that I want to read. So here are some random happening since the last time I posted. For Halloween I dressed up as a zebra, well I tried to look like a zebra, according to everyone that saw me I looked like a scary goth girl, but hey in my defense I had plenty of zebra strips, I guess wearing black lipstick and heavy black makeup against my super ghost- like skin just freaks people out. Regardless of everyone getting guessing my costume wrong I had loads of fun. My friends and I went and saw Dracula the ballet. I don't think I have ever been scared watching ballet in my life until that night, but I was surprised at how good it was. It was the classic story of Dracula the vampire, who loves to bite peoples necks and suck their blood. Ew, just saying that makes me cringe! The month of November ushered in a lot of beards. Is it bad that I am not really a fan of no shave November. Thanksgiving was super fun, I just spent time with family which is really the best thing in the world. And now it's December! Only two weeks or less then two weeks until Christmas. I am so excited and finals are officially over can I get a hip hip hooray?