The semester is coming to an end.

these are a few of the things that go with the end of the semester in my classes

My 2nd to last insight

Name: Erin Christina Elliott Rel. 122 Section: 25 Word Count: 428 Date: April 6, 2009
1) What is the reference of the insight?
Moroni 6:8
2) What principle or doctrine is taught?
Repent
3) What message for improvement is taught?
Repent often and as often as you need to. As often as you repent you will be forgiven as long as you repent with full intent. As long as you seek repentance and you repent with full and true intent you will be forgiven. How great the power of the atonement is.
4) How can I apply this principle, doctrine, or message in my life?
This process has changed my life. There were times in my life that I would just repent because I knew that is what I was supposed to do and had to do. There was a time that I did truly repent but refused to do what I needed to do to really repent about it. Seeking the power of the atonement was the greatest thing I ever did. I know what the difference in feeling is between just repenting and then truly with full intent to want to be forgiven is. I have felt the power of the atonement in my life, and I have been brought to tears through it. I find myself looking at my life and hating myself for what I have done knowing that it was me who cost my Savoir to spill more blood for what I am doing. “I read his words, the words he prayed, while barring sorrow in Gethsemane. I feel his love, the price he prayed. How many drops of blood were spilt for me” – This is the Christ “Our cup was filled with darkness. Our cup was filled with death. Christ took our cup and drank it, and gave us life, and gave us hope, gave us himself.” – Thy Will be Done. Two songs we sang this semester in choir, that hit me hard and made me think of the atonement and the price that the Savoir paid for me to be able to repent for all that I have done wrong in my life. I feel so greatly blessed to have the opportunity, but I know, I know with all my heart that if I don’t pour out my heart and truly repent, truly regret and truly want to be forgiven for what I have done I will not be forgiven. Ever since I have felt that feeling, I know that I must always repent that way, go down to my knees and pour out my heart just as the Savior pour out his life for me.


2 papers in child development

Cliques
In high school I was all over the place. I was in color guard, I was in choir and a lot of my friends were in band. I can remember my name on facebook for a while was Guard Freak, Choir Nerd, Band Geek Wana-Be. Those people in those groups are who I normally hung out with and they made me who I was. People knew I was in guard and that is what I was known for.
I often thought of what I would have been if it wasn’t for me being part of those “cliques”. I think that being part of something is important for someone, gives them a good set of friends and an identity, and gives them a feeling of belonging. On guard we were like a sisterhood. We knew if something was wrong with someone and we wanted to help them. I belonged with them. I didn’t leave that “hat” behind, it is part of me, and it made me who I am today.
So I wasn’t the best person in the world, peer pressure got to me. I loved who I was though, it was a time in my life that I had to get to know the world and get out of the dumb bubble I had lived in my whole life. Today I am very careful in choosing my friends and found the happy medium in life, but still hold strong to the person that was made those years back in high school in my “clique”.
“Cliques” in my life have played a HUGE role, they made me who I was and who I am. I am very grateful for that happening in my life, I don’t know what I would have done in life if those were not part of it, because they were and still are a huge part of me.

Letter to Adolescence
Dear,
This is going to be the hardest time in your young life. You might not want to believe it but it is. Ever choice you make and every action you take will affect you. You hear all the time about peer pressure and how your friends can change you, but you don’t think much of it. You know what you believe and you won’t let that bring you down nothing can ever change how you feel.
The world is not a walk in the park. These years you are going through is when I lost myself. I just wanted to fit in so bad and make a name for me. I loved my friends and I knew what I believed, but the little things I did changed me. It can all start with an immodest shirt, 1 cuss word, a little bit of curiosity, and the wanting to just feel something.
The reason I care so much and put so much of myself into this is because I let myself fall for all of it. I lost my way for a long time, and I don’t like seeing others repeat what I went though, most of all those I love so much.
The most important thing I can tell you is to always remember who you are. Yes, you hear it all the time, but it is the thing that will help you through it all. Never lower you standards, please. Know what you will and won’t do and don’t let the thought cross through your mind, “oh just this once”, because I have been there, done that and lost it all.
Always & Forever

The Final Blog for Communications

Final Blog
Crucial Conversations have helped min the dealing with my family members. For some strange reason a lot of arguments seem to arise in my family and many situations seem to go wrong. I have learned a lot from how to stop that think before I act, not masking, don’t attack, don’t react to silence, and when I should and shouldn’t react ways and what the best way is to act.
I have had many conversations since the start of the semester talking with my family. Each conversation gets better and better, though I tend to make the mistake on pointing out their conversation errors and what they are doing to make this not a working conversation and turning it into an argument.
Many of my blogs have talked about the arguments between my Father and I and also along with my brothers. Through this class, I worked my way to safety with my brother Ryan. It took a month but we went from not talking to talking, and we haven’t fought since, and can talk to each other about things. The knowledge I have gained, the things that I learned that I do, and what to do in those situations, they really have changed my life. My dad and I still fight, but, I know this is against the rules, but it is him yelling at me and me defending myself, it is a one way argument, him yelling at me because I wouldn’t answer my phone because I was watching conference and that is why the ticket prices went up in 5 min. I was able to get him off from bashing the church and being brainwashed to the reason we were on the phone. Many times he tried to take the conversation out of safety but I safely moved it back to what the conversation was about.
The biggest thing that I always need to remember when in my conversations is keeping faith that it will work out. I have lost faith before and once you lose faith in the conversation you have lost it. The biggest problem I have with having faith in my conversations in with my dad. I don’t believe that he will ever change, he will never let the fact down that he left the church and won’t ever be happy until I too follow him, and stop believing what I believe, and doing what I do. I have to have faith in my conversations with everyone that they will work out and I will find my way back to safety and that we will both come to agreements and good terms.
I don’t think that I can pick one thing that has changed my life this semester from this class. It has all been the most important. Everything in Crucial Conversations and Harvard Manage Mentor has taught me so much, I even learned a lot about persuasion that I had totally persuaded myself in our speeches and in conversations that I have had with people. The things I learned this semester in this class really did in a way change my life. My communication skills are better and my relationships are better. Everything is perfect but has started to change and that is to me the most important thing. Things are on the way to becoming better and being better and that’s all I want in life: To communicate with my family and to not fight and to not argue and to have healthy conversations. Without this class, that would not be possible.


This semester in many ways in my classes I have learned so much, about myself and many things around me. I would say it has been a great semester .. and 3 days left.
I will leave this at this, not get into how stressed I am. ^_^



<3 Erin Christina