My BIG Adventure: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is perhaps my favorite holiday. I think it is absolutely wonderful to have a day just to spend with family and count your blessings. (and of course watching and playing football too!) This was the first year I have spent Thanksgiving without my family (unless you count skyping with them at 5 in the morning while you watch them eat delicious food) China doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving so after school Kendall and I went to the closest place to Thanksgiving we could think of... KFC! After eating there we meet up with some friends and spent the rest of the night at a bar playing games. I guess I can check spending Thanksgiving at a bar off my bucket list!

This weekend we traveled to Nanjing for our branch Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't realize how big it was going to be, there was about 200 people there and REAL Thanksgiving food! Yes real food! I don't know if you understand the blessing it was to eat real American food. It was the BEST! We had a lovely time with our friends and our branch and we all were able to have seconds :)

This Thanksgiving I am especially grateful for the gospel and my country. I am grateful that I am even ALLOWED to have to knowledge that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me, and that I can choose to worship how I want. I am grateful that the farthest I have ever lived from a church is a 2 minute walk. I am grateful I can choose my own dreams and pursue my education how and where I would like. I am grateful for the opportunity I have to learn without limits. Being here has really opened my eyes to so much and has truly changed me. I could go on forever but basically it boils down to this

I am grateful for my freedom.