Alright so rewind about 3 years...it is now fall semester 2007 at the beloved Brigham Young University! I live with the most wonderful roommates known to mankind...WOmankind! (see photo...Left to Right: Sara Picard, Aubrey Potter, Alix Davies/Wilson, Liz Clark, Tati Thorkelson and myself)
This was my semester to shine! I was getting ready to apply to the Social Work program and determined to serve a mission in the near future! Well little did I know but Heavenly Father was going to have none of that!
The semester proceeded like any other and I did my best to survive the awful combination of taking Econ and Stats in the same semester! By October my application for the School of Social Work was all ready and I was determined that my life plan was going to work out! November 1st was the deadline so I got all my documents turned in by the 28th of October and I was feeling on top of the world!
On the blessed day of Halloween my life came shattering down into a million pieces and I did not think it would be possible to put the puzzle together again! I received an email, along with many other eligible social work dreamers, that BYU would no longer be offering the Social Work program and that I had one of 2 options. I was kindly informed to either change my major or transfer to another school!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH BYU BUT I WAS BORN A COUGAR AND WILL DIE A COUGAR! Hence the battle began and I fought for my major day in and day out for the rest of the semester and the next! Unfortunately my Econ and Stats grades suffered far more than necessary and I only got half of what I was fighting for! BYU decided that myself and the other social work dreamers would be the last class of graduating BSW's and then the program would be phased out as we know it.
Well logically this left me in quite the little predicament! My life plan was not going as planned! (and for any of you readers who really know me, my life not being planned makes for a very disgruntled Natalie Faye!) For so long I had waited and wanted to be in the social work program at BYU! For so long I had desired to serve the Lord on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and yet all of a sudden doing both of these wonderful things seemed impossible! And indeed it was! If I served a mission, by the time I got back my program would be gone! If I did my program a mission was out for at least 3 more years!
I thought long and hard about what I should do...I prayed that I would be led to my answer and that Heavenly Father would help me know if choosing Social Work over a mission was the right thing to do or if I should go on a mission and figure school out later! Luckily for me I have a Heavenly Father who is ever watching and ever caring! I decided that I needed to go with Social Work and that the Lord would make everything else work out!
Well 3 years later I feel like the world's luckiest lady because Heavenly Father certainly made it work for me! When I came back from Christmas vacation with a new year ahead of me I was determined to make the best of my decision! In February of 2008 mister Broderick V Buttars asked me out on our very first date and I guess you could say he was the answer to my prayers!
Heavenly Father knew I wouldn't consider marriage unless he got rid of the Social Work program thus making a mission not possible for me! So there you have it! I believe I have confessed it all! Thank you Broc for making me the world's luckiest gal and thank you Heavenly Father for being so intricately involved! Without the Lord I certainly could not claim luckiest girl in the world because than I wouldn't have my wonderful husband!
Moral of the story...Don't challenge the big guy because chances are when you think you have it all figured out He will come in and flip things upside-down! Thanks for the flipping because life is great now that I have all the pieces of my puzzle put back together!
And to think I was there through all of this... You fought harder than anyone I know! Congrats on beating the system :) love those pictures!!
ReplyDeleteA true tragedy that the BYU BSW program has been cancelled. We are SOOO lucky to be BYU BSW's huh?! What an amazing story of how your life worked out so perfectly even though it wasn't what you had planned.
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