Work and progress

I haven't had the motivation or energy to update this blog in a long time, so I'll fill you in on what's happened since I got back from my trip.
I went through some very serious life changes that made me really reevaluate what I'm doing with my life and where it's going. By that, I don't mean that I was necessarily doing anything bad that was taking my life in the wrong direction. I just mean that I wasn't fully living up to my full potential and not getting all the juice out of life. At least a part of that can be blamed on my chemical depression, but not all of it. I realized that even if I have depression, that's no excuse to just lay back and do the bare minimum in life. I only have one shot at being young, and my choices now will set into motion things that will affect me for the rest of my life. So I decided to get a job that would really challenge and discipline me.
My wonderful bishop offered me a job at his construction company. So, I went to work installing insulation and doing a few other odd jobs on the construction site. Man, it was HARD work! It's really physically demanding work, and I would come home every day tired, dirty, and with my eyes and lungs full of fiberglass. But, even though I didn't do that job for very long, I feel like it really taught me a lot about myself and helped me to grow into a more disciplined person.
The reason that I quit that construction job is that I got the job offer of my dreams! One day I logged onto Facebook and saw a post from someone I didn't know that was offering a job to any returned missionary that had served in Italy. The position was for an Italian-English translator for the website of a major credit card company. I immediately applied, and within a week I received a call from the company! I'm so incredibly excited, because translation is normally not a job that you do as a full-time position unless you're working for a big company. Before this I'd only done freelance translation here and there. But the fact that such an incredible opportunity just fell into my lap is proof to me that Heavenly Father really is guiding my life and wants the best for me.