Time is Running Out!

With the end of the semester drawing to a close, tempers are hotter and stress is laid on thicker. You would think that after 2 years of college we would be used to it already! Wrong.... It seems like there is a new challenge around every corner.

We are excited to be moving and packing is just over the horizon, boxes are lining up, and the worry about how we will find jobs is starting to get frustrating. Every night is packed with final activities with family members, friends, and final places to visit.

We are doing great though! We are pushing through and with two weeks left in the semester we should survive and pass with semi-flying colors!

We know we are in the right place and we are moving where the Lord wants us. Wish us luck on surviving the next couple of weeks!

The Joys of Graduating!

Today I took it upon myself to apply for graduation. It was going to happen sooner or later, and now, its done! There are many things involved with getting graduation applications filled out. This process includes many interviews with Advisors and Directors of various programs.  The time came to meet with my academic advisor and her assistant looked at my transcript and proceeded to tell me that I was missing a class! Not only did my heart stop and all feeling in my body fled, but the dreams and plans we have been making to move to Missouri started to seem so far away and a distant memory. After stewing over this new information for a few minutes, I decided to meet with the Program Director and see if he approved me to graduate.

And... He did! Bro. Finn was shocked when I told him the story I had just heard. He commented on all the credits I have taken and the many qualifications I have to recieve my degree in Financial and Managerial Accounting. So of course, he signed off and I was able to see the dreams come flooding back to me and my heart started beating again at a normal pace. All the worrying was for nothing!

So... After all of the events of today, the plans continue and we are still moving in April! (Justin's fate is still undecided!)

Winter 2011 Semester

Classes started today. Justin and I only have three classes together this semester! And they all happen to be accounting courses. I am also taking a religion class, the continuation of the Church History course I started last semester, and Advanced Quickbooks. Yes... That is a total of four accounting classes! Total of 13 credit hours.

This semester will be a little more laid back than last semester but I have a lot of personal goals to work on this semester for improvement in my life and in my outward appearance! Good luck with the new semester everyone who is in school!

End of the Semester!

TO:             LDS Business College

FROM:       Furnell Family

DATE:        End of Semester

SUBJECT:  Thank You

Dear LDS Business College,

Thank you so much for the wonderful learning enviroment that we had the opportunity to experience from September 13-December 16, 2010. Having such wonderful instructors such as Bro. Schreiner, Bro. Finlinson, Bro. Newman, Sis. Ward, and Bro. Krauel, really enhanced our learning experience! Not to mention the amazing ties to the spirit that were felt during every class. Thank you for the loads of homework we experienced and the painful carpal tunnel incurred while writing all of our essays.

Thank you for the warm atmosphere and the wonderful technology currently present in the college. Throughout this semester, we have learned that all of the blood, sweat, and tears accumulating on our textbooks were not in vain due to our wonderful grades and increase in testimony, and definitely a stronger testimony of prayer has been built.

From this wonderful experience this semester with 17 credit hours, a spouse, and 18 hours of work, I have learned that education is important, but sleep is even more important than we give credit. As a result of taking all these wonderful classes at LDS Business College, the semester break will be spent sleeping, eating, Sleeping, showering, SlEePiNg, visiting, and SLEEPING!

Looking forward to our last and final semester here at the college!

Sincerely,



Justin & Mitzi Furnell

**In all honesty, this semester was really amazing! I met some amazing people with strong testimonies. I also met several people who got married, are getting married, or should get married soon. It is wonderful how strong the spirit is right as you walk in the building. I am so grateful for all that we have been given and I plan on taking all that I have learned and teaching my children (when the Lord sees fit).

Happy Holidays!

Furnell Family

School Starts!!

So... It is now Fall 2010 semester at LDS Business College and we are lovin' every  minute of it!! It helps to share the same classes:

This semester is a little more complicated. We are taking:

• Intermediate Accounting
• Cost Accounting
• Nutrtition
• Business Fundamentals
• LDS Church History I

I have one class different from Justin and I am so grateful for it! It is Business Communications. In this class I am learning how to effectively communicate with business personel. I love it!

Sometimes I think our teachers worry about the effect we have on the other students. Yes, we are a married couple, and yes... We do sit together!

You may say we are crazy for taking all of our classes together, but it is the only time that I ever get to see my husband! Justin works in the West Valley Staples as  Customer Service Lead. He works an average of 38 hours a week on top of our 14 credit hour class schedule! And I forgot to mention, we do our homework together so we have a constant tutor by our side! Often Justin understands something more than I do, or I understand it more than he does and it helps to ask each other our questions.

Between School and work you might ask when we have time for our families! Sunday afternoons are dedicated to dinners with the Furnells, and off and on at my Mom or Dad's houses. Life is Great!

I am so grateful to live in this world at this point in time. I am so grateful for my knowledge of the Plan of the Salvation and I am eternally grateful to be married to such an amazing man for time and all eternity! I am grateful for the opportunity we have to listen once every six months the the words of the prophets and the apostles at General Conference. I am grateful for the atonement and for all that it has made possible for me. I am worth dying for!

Have joy in your lives! I sure have joy in mine!

Yours Truly,

Mitzi Kay Furnell