September 18 through September 23

The bucket list activity hit me hard. I was with my friend Clancey Black when I read about the assignment. I was watching the videos and listening to the songs. It brought a lot of feelings. Six months ago I was tested for cancer, luckily I am okay, but if I would have had the cancer I would mostly likely be dead by now. It is interesting to me how I spent my time just as the song says. I thought maybe if I was going to die I would live a crazy life go "skydiving, rocky mountain climbing" but no. My biggest desire was to do temple work. I thought at that point, for the amount of time waiting to hear back, that I wasn't going to have enough time to marry. So as I opened the assignment to create a bucket list of 50 things I wanted to do before I died I had my heart softened.  I realized how much I want to travel and how important my future family is to me.

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