Hi, My Name is Valerie

The year 2011 was a crazy year for me. On January 1st I started dating this guy who was leaving for his mission on July 27th. We dated and things got serious, so i decided to wait for him, and I was going to wait for him. I loved him and truly believed that he was the one. But then he came home on November 1st because he no longer believed in the Mormon church and things sort of just fell apart for me. The weekly letter and email writing stopped. The sending of packages and love notes was no longer. He was tainting my perspective of the Latter-day Saint church and my values were continually being tried and compromised. So I ended it. I stopped responding to texts and calls, I was done living in a world that made me feel so uncertain and insecure. I miss blogging and being excited about counting down days so I am starting a blog today for me because I have 100 days till I graduate high school and I intend on making them count :) I don't know what these next 100 days has in store for me and I don't know what those 50 days after graduation which will bring me to my 18th birthday will show, But I am ready to start the journey in discovering why I am a Mormon and why I have enough faith in this religion to say no to those who wish to destroy that part of me. This blog will be about my thoughts, talents, and days that I have been blessed with by my loving Heavenly Father, who never gave up on me even when I was finding excuses and reasons to leave and walk out on him. This is my life, my testimony, my sense of belonging, my knowing of the infinite worth I have, and my divine potential to live and become who I have been sent here to be. My name is Valerie and I am a Mormon.