Different Roads

So I haven't posted anything in a while so I thought it would be a good day to sit down and write something about life. *Warning: could be long*

Just a quick rap about us: Joe and I are awesome! We are in our summer term so there is a lot of gaming going on in our home at this moment. (Good? I'm not sure but we enjoy playing together!) It gives us a chance to break in our new futon. This makes our house a little more cozy but we love it.
Joe is still at good old Wal-Mart, and recently received a promotion and a pay raise. I am working longer hours at the college, so all in all more money this summer. Which is good because that means we will be able to go on our vacations this summer with our families! One will be spent in Moab and one close to Boulder.

Today was our first day at our new ward! It was nice because a lot of the ward members are recently married and it was nice not feeling completely alone in being a newly wed.
In relief society we talked about how we all have trials and how we need them in live, and I started thinking about some of the trials Joe and I have had to go through in the past couple months and I have been really down about a bunch of different things, money issues especially. There is a couple that Joe knows the husband from work and they don't seem to have any troubles what so ever, they have a nice house, two vehicles that run just fine, etc. and I think why cant we have those things. But today in the lesson I realized that they may have those things but they probably are having trials that are unique to them and their needs. It kind of reminded me of roads and how no road is the same.

My road feels a little like this road winding this way and that. It feels like everything is going good and then suddenly the car breaks down or we are short on money way before pay days. However things work themselves out and yet again everything turns in the opposite direction.  Thus the cycle of our life.
The couple however, in my eyes seem to have the road on the left. a nice easy path. Some roads look like a straight line to the finish and seem to lead right where they want to go but who knows what came before the nice easy path? It could of been like my road or a spaghetti bowl for all we know, leading different ways and making life seem far harder than it really is.

I am so thankful for the savior in my life, and knowing he has given us these trials for a reason is the most reassuring thing in the world. Knowing Joe will be with me through thick and thin make the tasks a lot less daunting. With them and the rest of my friends and family i know that I will be ok and make it down my long winding road to eternity.