Faith and prayer,

Food is so yummy, haha I love food.. now I just need to eat food in portions and know that when i'm full that means stop, not keep eating till you feel sick! I actually woke up this morning to run! Crazy I know and it probably won't happen again! I am going to follow my loving friends advice and not become a work out Nazi cause I do tend to do that. I will work up a regular workout routine and healthy diet and post it on here so my readers can see!

I had such a wonderful night at young womens we had a standards night and it is so amazing to be in a room where the love people have for each other is literally tangible! I have such a strong love for my young women. I recently found this book of mine titled Our standards are guardrails not fences. I wrote my testimony and how much I cared for this particular young women and gave it to her because I knew she was facing a hard time. I challenge everyone to do something nice for one another without expecting anything in return, I know we do it on a daily basis, but sometimes we get to busy wrapped up in all the things of the world we forget the little things that truly matter most. Like how amazing you feel when you get a simple note saying "hey your beautiful!"

When we are in the service or our fellow beings we are in the service of our lord. Very little brings the spirit stronger then when we are doing charity with love in our heart. You can do as much charity as you want but if you don't have love in your heart and your head in the right place you might as well have not done it at all.

I love all my fellow brothers and sisters and I don't think I could ever thank you guys enough for being my support system and always being that example in my life. Whether you realize it or not people are always watching each other hoping to find the strength in each other to help us carry on. In a world surrounded by such hatred we need to stand strong as witnesses at all times and all places and help one another as much as we can.

I love you guys!

Breeee :)

DAY 1

Crazy how hard it is to resist something as simple as food. Something so simple but can be everything to someone. Being addicted to food is a serious thing, I just got done reading this book about how to handle food addiction. Not that I am addicted to food but my mom thought it would be good for me to read some books about nutrition. Food is a basic need. Food is not something to be abused and overeaten, as hard as it may be! It is so hard to get back into shape.. I want to be in the best shape of my life that so when I enter college I can have the best years of my life.

Speaking of college,I am so ready to be done with high school. Yes I know story of every senior attending high school, but high school is just SO hard. Peer pressure and temptation at every corner-I am constantly wishing I was already at college surrounded by people with the same standards as me. I have a strong testimony that the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints is the only true church on earth and the standards I uphold were given to me so that I can return and live with my heavenly father one day. I just wish it was easier to share that message. Lately in church you can't start a conversation without missionary work, the atonement, and repentance entering your conversation. I want so badly to share my testimony with my peers at school so they can feel the love I share with my heavenly father, but it just seems every time I try I get shot down I just need to perceiver and have faith that heavenly father will give me strength and KNOWLEDGE I get so scared when people ask me questions that I will give them the wrong answer or that I won't know the right things to say. Faith and prayer, faith and prayer.

Back to day number 1 of my diet! So today went okay not the kind of start I wanted, I need to plan out my meals better so I can be more prepared for when devil food tempts me! I am about to work out for the night then study and go to sleep. I sound so responsible but lets be honest I will probably do some crutches look at my books and laugh and go to sleep. Faith and prayer, faith and prayer hahaha heavenly father give me the strength to kick me back into shape!

Leave comments of encouragement and how awesome I am and how much you love me!

Haha I am so humble ;)

Give up something good for something better,

Today at church one of my young women leaders gave an awesome lesson about nutrition and it meant a lot to me because lately I have been struggling with trying to maintain a diet and not give in and completely devour those rice crispy treats sitting in the laundry room..don't do it Bree!

The important thing I keep in mind is that it's not just something I want to do so that I look smoking hottt, it is a commandment from my heavenly father to treat my body as a temple. I was blessed with amazing health and I need to feed my body only good things, whether i'm feeding my stomach or my spirit. Being physically fit affects all aspects of our lives. We need to always be prepared to meet our trials head on. If we do not keep our body's physically and spiritually healthy we will not be alert and ready to fight off satans temptations.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy. 1 Cor 3:16-17

Wow. I know I am a daughter of my heavenly father. Having the knowledge that I have been blessed with means that more is expected of me then someone who lacks the knowledge I have. I know that my body is a temple, it is a holy being that must be fit for the spirit to reside in. If I stuff my face with unhealthy foods and sit on my rear end all day how will I feel? I will feel lazy and grumpy. How am I supposed to accomplish all the things my heavenly father wants me to accomplish if I am lazy and grumpy? I can't it is physically impossible, I must be strong in my faith that if I do as the lord has asked of me that I will be blessed. I know this will be a huge struggle because I love me some yummy unhealthy foods, but I love my heavenly father a million trillion billion times more. I am willing to give up something good for something better. I will be recording my crazy healthy adventures starting now! I hope that by having my six followers reading my blog entries that this will help me stay accountable for what I just promised. I am praying for strength that I can not only talk the talk but can also walk the walk, if anyone wants to join me in my health adventures I would love to have company!

This next couple of months my goals are:

Exercise regularly

Relax and rejuvenate

Eat a well-balanced diet

Join me I will make it fun and it will be oh so worth it!

Thank you so much sister Stevens for you lesson it was inspired me so much! I love all my young women leaders, past and present, and all the women in my branch! They inspire my life daily and I owe so much to them thank you!

Sorry it's been so long!

With summer coming to a close I have been so busy all I can out of summer I have been neglecting my blog :/ sorry guys!

I'm nervous for my senior year to start. I am in the process of scoping out my number one college choice BYU Idaho and figuring out their amazing nursing program and what all I need to start working towards. I am also doing a volunteer program up at sacred heart hospital and trying to get a job and i just hope everything I'm doing is what is meant for me to do. I don't want to go to a college I wasn't supposed to go to in a field I shouldn't be pursuing. I have a strong testimony that God's will is a lot more important then my own. No matter how badly I want to attend Ricks if that's not where heavenly father wants me to attend then I don't want to go their. So please keep me in your prayers that I will have the strength to figure this out.

This Sunday after church I have an appointment to get my patriarchal blessing and I am so excited!! I know with such surety that this is the time I need to be getting my blessing. I am starting my senior year and about to head off to college and start my life and having that guidance in my life will be such a blessing! I have no idea what's going to be said and what I will find out and I'm soooo nervous!!! ahh!

I got to have my first missionary experience today. I mean I have always had my time to share my testimony and being friends to church but on Monday my mom vol-untold me to go over and invite the neighbor Lauren to young women's on Wednesday and I was actually very nervous because I had never been inside her house or even really hung out with her besides the time i met her. To my surprise she accepted my invite and went and I could tell she had an awesome time and was meeting new people and broke out of her shell and exchanged numbers with some friends she had made and she is excited for the pool party next week!! I hope gradually I can ask her to join us during seminary in the mornings and even come to church with me! It felt really good to know I had helped her make friends since she is new at my high school and opened the door to inviting her to more church activities!

Its The Motion of The Ocean

Ahhh!

I am trying to decide which colleges i'm serious about attending and what my major is going to be and getting through my senior year without completely losing sense of who I am. Everything is just so confusing and just so absolutely frustrating I just felt like I wanted to do this all on my own. Sometimes it's hard not to feel alone when making tough decisions in life, yes people will freely give you their opinion anytime it is asked for, and even when its not, but in the end you must do what's right for you. I have been praying and praying and when I was at the temple I was having awful stomach pains but while I was waiting to do confirmations I was reading the Book of Mormon that was available for me to read while I was waiting and came across this verse. 1 Nephi 7:12 where Nephi was chastising Laman and Lemuel for lacking in faith when asked to return to Jerusalem, Nephi said unto them that all things are possible through faith in the lord and that all things are possible according to his will if men shall exercise faith in him. After having read this scripture I realized what I needed to do.

I was so upset over my upcoming decisions that I forgot to put my faith in heavenly father, yes I prayed and prayed but never asked him with my heart full of faith and asked him according to his will. Earlier when I had gotten home from my movie I was so upset I was just fuming and then I remembered this scripture and went and read it and I had this sudden urge to look at the BYU Idaho website and all my tension and all my dread was replaced by excitement and overwhelming love for my heavenly father. The lord works in mysterious ways I may still have no idea what I want to do with my life but I know if I stand strong in my faith of the Lords will and never doubt that the decisions he makes for me are what are best for me, no one else can be the deciding factor in what I do in life besides me and my heavenly father. Together we are unstoppable.

I have had so much fun this summer I can honestly say it was the most amazing summer ever! But now as it is coming to a close I am at peace. For once I am at peace with my life and everything around me. My senior year will go by so fast. I am growing up and I don't know where all the years went by..it's sad but I know my parents have raised me to be the best and more. I have been gifted with so many wonderful people in my life that inspire me everyday. The Lord has given me my own gifts that I will share with the world to make it a better place, as I am writing this my hands are shaking and my heart is racing. I may be ready for the world but the world needs to get ready for me I am full of endless possibilities and I am never going to let an opportunity to help someone in need or better my life pass me by. After my senior year I plan on going to Denver, Colorado by myself and stay with the family I have up their. I am nervous to be on my own but I know I have been given the skills and knowledge to do whats right. I plan on climbing every mountain whether it be big or small. I plan on being me Brianne Fay Carree' no matter where that will lead me. Because remember faith is a powerful tool, and with faith Brianne Fay Carree' can not only climb those mountains..she can move them.

Skeletons in the Closet

There will always be things in life you just want to keep to yourself, but their comes a time when those skeletons are tired of hiding and they get so big and scary it's all you can do to not go run and hide. Their is nothing that is kept from heavenly father. He knows everything. He gave us that agency to make our own choices and he will be their to help us choose the right. Jesus Christ atoned for our sins so that we can seek repentance and be able to live with heavenly father again and not have to keep all those things hidden.

Today at Black Water was AMAZING!! It's so much fun to get together with all the crazy branch familys. Everyone brings their own personality and it just makes us one big happy family..floating down a river! I love the youth in the church I can honestly not tell them enough. Keeping me safely tucked away in my spiritual bubble is hard when the world comes beating down on you and makes you feel trapped but when you have friends and family around to protect you and want nothing more in life then for me to stay strong and hold onto the iron rod your not only in a spiritual bubble you are wrapped in spiritual armor.

Joshua 1:9

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God will be with thee whithersoever though goest.

We have been given this scripture for a reason. This life is a test and compared to the plan of salvation the worlds happiness cannot even hold a light to eternal happiness. Trials are no easy feat to overcome, but if you stand strong and have faith in the lord Jesus Christ I bare my testimony to you that all things are possible with faith no matter how down and out you are, no matter how tough life gets heavenly father knows that pain and Jesus Christ went through that pain and they are here with loving arms waiting to engulf you in their love. It brings a smile to my face when I here people talking about loneliness and they hate being alone all the time. We are never alone as children of our heavenly father we will always have our heavenly father and that will never change. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen.

Just another beautiful dayy,

My mom always used to tell my sister when Brittany used to have crazy curly red hair,which she hated at the time, that being original is so much better then being like everyone else. My sister never understood that having red hair was so much better then having straight blonde hair like everyone else and my mom put it like this; when you put everyone in a room you want to be the first everyone looks at. What's a better way then to have gorgeous red hair that attracts everyones attention, then when you have them you mesmerize them with you wonderful personality and charm. So having something that no one else has or doing something that no one else does is not something to be ashamed of its something to share with the world. Being a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ and following the standards heavenly father has set for us makes it where there are a lot of things that I don't participate in and things I do that stand out like huge elephant in an room. Because I do those things and am so original I will be blessed and when people notice that i'm different I never take it in an negative light because I enjoy being different :p!