Nauvoo mission address :) :) :)

Dear everyone I love, friend and family, I know it's a little early to be giving out this information but it's on my mind and I don't want to forget to do so. I have been called to embark on a 4 month service mission to Nauvoo, Illinois starting May 6 - August 16. I will be serving the Lord as a Nauvoo Performing Missionary. I will be performing in 5 shows/ 6 days a week in period clothing in the heat and humidity. Here is my mission address if you would like to write me some letters telling me about all the fun things you're doing this summer or just drop a hello (cause I will miss you while having loads of fun) .I would LOVE to hear from anyone who is willing to sit down and write a few lines and I will do my best to write back :) and since I will be a missionary, I have rules to follow: so no Facebook for me :) If you have time to write me a letter or send a package, please send it to one of these two addresses: YPM Sister PettitP.O. Box 215 Nauvoo, Illinois 62354 (for packages if you feel so obliged to send me a little treat or pick me up) YPM Sister Pettit 975 Young Street Nauvoo, IL 62354 I am very excited to have this opportunity; to share my testimony through performance. Maybe you'll stop by for a visit! Nauvoo is an incredible city, filled with history of the Latter-day saints and fun! I love you all and I hope your summer is fantastic!! Write me :) Keep the Faith Build the Kingdom - Brianna (soon to be) Sister Pettit p.s. I have also set up an email just for family members. You all can write to it but make sure to leave your home address seeing as i'm only allowed to respond to family. email: sisterpettit@gmail.com

Nauvoo in 5 days...

I have SO much to do before I leave, pair that with LDC tour...

Am I ready? No

Am I prepared? No

Will time continue to move forward even though I've procrastinated getting ready?

Unfortunately So

Will I be there in less than a week? Yes

Will the Lord provide a way? Yes

So what do I have to worry about?

A: Lack of sleep :)

A: An overload on wonderful spiritual experiences while singing my testimony through song..

Now THAT is NOT a bad thing.

Who needs sleep anyway

11 days

I feel spiritually low.

I don't understand why people can't respect what I believe when I try my best not to force my religion on them.

I don't see why people have to fight, call each other names, and rag on each other's beliefs. It doesn't do anyone, any good. I don't see why we can't just take each other as people and not force opinions or have to be right.

I think if people want to know, they will seek it out. That's what missionary work is; God preparing those people and the missionaries being there when the person's soul is seeking for the truth.

If the person doesn't want to hear it then they won't hear it.

No matter how many scriptures you throw at them.

No matter how many times you pray for them.

No matter how many times you wish they could see your side clearly.

If they don't want to hear it...they won't.

They will try and find every last lie and try to make it into a right.

Religion is based on faith people, you can't decipher if a religion is true or not by mortal means. You have to search and learn with your heart, you have to learn with your soul.

If God, my Heavenly Father, in heaven doesn't reveal it unto you then you are not prepared for it. You don't want to hear it.

If you want to hear it, you would seek it out.

D:C 4:7 "Ask and ye SHALL receive; knock and it shall be OPENED unto you."

I hate being knocked down because of my beliefs. I live in a free country but it still feels as though religion is still being oppressed. When will we ever get a chance to express ourselves freely without repercussions like other religions. Why do people want to put down my faith so much. It is who I am. I'm not going to argue when you aren't going to listen to me. It doesn't make me high and mighty, it just makes me a peace maker. I don't need to prove anything to you when you don't have an open heart to what I am saying.

I am Brianna Jean Pettit. I was born in Colorado and moved to Utah when I was younger. I have one younger brother. I am a singer, dreamer, lover, and member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know this gospel to be true. I know that Christ died for me. I have a testimony and nothing anyone says can change the way I feel about my faith. I know that I have a father who is in heaven, looking out for me and my family. I know that I am on this earth for a purpose and that purpose continues beyond the grave. I know Joseph Smith was an imperfect man, who had a question, who saw God and the Father, and was DIRECTED by God to bring about the restoration of the gospel. He knew what he saw and he could not deny it, even down to his murder. I know that Thomas S. Monson is the prophet, the only man on this earth to speak with God and receive direction for this whole church that spreads to every corner of the earth. There is light in a sometimes dark and unsure world. That light is Christ and it lies with in each of us. I know all of this to be true and I would die for it. I love this gospel and the person it has helped become, even though I am imperfect and will be always while on this earth. I know that I will be with my family forever, with Christ and with MY Father in heaven.

I am a Latter-day Saint and will always be so.

So have you ever wondered (??) about me? A-Z

Here are a few things you may or may not know about me, but I thought it would be a fun thing to let you know a few things using the alphabet as my guide.

Age: 22

Bed size: Twin

Chore you hate: Doing my hair. Someday's when I know my hair needs to be wash I would rather run 2 miles around up hill both ways than jump in the shower and have to dry my hair.

Dreams: See the northern lights, ride in a hot air balloon, read lots of books

Essential start of your day: Sunshine and bodily food, usually oatmeal

Favorite color: Sea Green

Gold or silver: Silver.

Height: 5'2"

Instruments I play (or have played): Piano, Guitar, Spoons ;)

Job title: Student, Life pursuer, Sister, Daughter

Kids: I have none...hope to someday. But I think my kitty kat counts

Live: Orem, UT

Mom's name: Tamara

Nickname: Bri, Briannajean, Poopana, BJ, Skeezit, Blackjack, Bananabutt

Overnight hospital stays: Hmm not since I was born

Pet peeve: People not trying new things (at least) once, Being late, People whining about things over and over.

Quote from a movie: "Oh, it's not the first time I was tossed out of a window, and it won't be the last. What can I say? I'm a rebel."

Right or left handed: Righty tighty.

Siblings: Oldest of Two. Brother and I.

Time you wake up: Depends on the day. But usually between 7:30-8:00am

Underwear: Yes. There were moments in my life where I have experienced "commando". No go, my friend.

Vegetables you dislike: I like most vegetables, not whole tomatoes though. Yuck.

What makes you run late: Being lazy, reading instead of getting ready, dancing in my room

X-rays you've had done: Teeth, Collar Bone, 4 Fingers, Pinky Toe, Wrist

Yummy food you make: Hamburger Noodle Soup, Turkey/Cream Cheese Sandwich (mmm)

Zoo animal: Siberian Tiger, Penguins

So I know this isn't part of the game initially but i'm going to ask a few friends to do this little adventure. I would like to know more about them even if they didn't about me :)

So I tag: Liesl, Erin, Ashleigh, and Georgina :)

24 days until Nauvoo...

Do I feel:

Spiritually ready? NO

Financially ready? NO

Emotionally ready? NO

..............why am I doing this?

anyone know why?.............

BBC Big Read

I have decided that I want to read all the books on the BBC 100 Best-loved novels. It may take me a few years, but it will be done. I have wanted to read these books for awhile, so now I want to take the plunge, start and one day finish everyone of these books. So here's to 100 books (I'll have a tab at the top to mark my progress, I have however read some of the books already, so i'll mark those off :)) Ok....

THE LIST!!!

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie