Friday Night Fright Night

THE WEEK BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!

Oh hello there! It has i must say been a while. Lately ive just been doing a whole lot of random things. But the start of this weekend was incredibly fun. After a gruelling 10hour shift at work (even though it was super easy) we were all very excited to head to Movieworld on the Gold Coast for Fright Night. This is where Movie World is open from 6pm til 10:30pm at night to entertain us with the Halloween side of things. And it only happens for two weekends of the year!!! Okay for me personally, I HATE RIDES AND SCARY THINGS!!! But I thought it would be a fun night so we went along and had some fun. I was going to conquer my fear people. I WAS GOING TO DO IT!!! So we finished work, me, my sister and our friend Sharon went back to her house to get ready. Went to get the face ready for the public eye and wallah I was looking fab I must say ;) haha I'm just kidding. I don't think I ever do! But yeah and then it was photo bombing people's phones time. All the photos were of me doing selfies! I'm just that great to look at! Haha got you there again. Pride is so bad ;) 

Waiting for our ride and this is what we get up to. We were getting mocked for this night at work because our ride who was coming with us to Movieworld has or had the fattest crush on my sister. Always messaging her and just really genuinely liked her. She was so not up for it. Turns out being rude the whole entire night but it was funny. Well I thought so anyway. When our ride turned up, this is what happened...

More photos!!!! That's what happened. Well we decided to have a photo shoot with his new truck but can't seem to find them anywhere. And it was incredibly funny because on the way down the coast, being crazy passengers and everything... The girls were like waving and doing signs to the cars we were passing. There was one vehicle and they waved back and were doing signs themselves. We would overtake them and they would overtake us. Yada yada yada. Sharon got a picture of her as she was shocked Sharon had her phone out taking a photo!!! It was gold and the funniest moment was seeing they had come to same place as we had. MOVIE WORLD. We were forever seeing them everywhere. They were even on a ride right behind us! 

On this rollercoaster ride below. And let me tell you the ride is over in a blink of an eye. It's over so fast. I bet it only lasts 1minute like legit and I can tell you now... I'm excited to go on rides now even though this ride almost made me CRY!!!! I was fully terrified but extremely AHHH about it all! I WANTED TO GO ON IT AGAIN IN FACT!! I cannot wait for Dreamworld NEXT WEEK! Lets just say I was like a pregnant woman with mixed emotions. Not that I've ever been in that position... Like anyway....

This phot is CLASSIC!!!! I hit a woman in the face doing this pose... GOLD!!!! Oh and the photo didn't catch it in time but they had bolts of fire come out on both sides of the movie world sign. And the place was totally sold out so lucky we booked our tickets online!!!!!! Just goes to show how many people were there. The best part of the night was DEFINATELY NOT the waiting in line at long queues at the rides but the whole theme around Halloween. Movieworld went all out. Staff were all scary. The had zombies walking around like legit freaky ones and scary people who were chasing you or sneak up behind you. Guys with chainsaws and knives and like just totally freaky that I had shivers up my spine. The grounds were all covered in smoke that you couldn't see where you were going a lot of the time. And then you might casually see demons and zombies walking throughout the mist. It was normal there. But also normal people got dressed up in costumes. 

Lets just say I had a great FIRST experience at MOVIE WORLD AND FRIGHT NIGHT. And now going to go to SCREAMWORLD AT DREAMWORLD next month. Now I think I will cry at Dreamworld haha wish me luck <3

All Laid Out <3

NATALIA RUTH MCFLINN, BROWN EYES, KIWI DECENT, 150ODD POUNDS, 161CM TALL <3

BORN IN PALMERSTON NORTH, NEW ZEALAND APRIL 29th 1993 BUT AM FROM GISBORNE, NEW ZEALAND <3

GOING ON AN 18MONTH VOLUNTEER MISSION FOR THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS aka THE MORMON CHURCH! BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR 3YEARS OCTOBER 30TH <3

I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE THINK IM PRETTY BECAUSE IN MY EYES IM LIKE UHHHH. I KNOW THAT EVEN THOUGH LOOKS AREN'T THAT GREAT, IT'S THE SPIRIT INSIDE THAT COMES ACROSS TO PEOPLE AS SEEING YOU AS THE BEAUTIFUL PERSON YOU ARE AND HAVE BEEN DESIGNED AND BROUGHT UP TO BE <3

And ONE DAY, as of planning today, I want to be a successful person in this world. Whether it be motherhood or career, I am going to succeed. I have been thinking a lot of how I want to plan my future. I know it won't work out the way I want it to or when I want it to as The Lord will have his hand in ALL things. But this is the general scope of things that I hope to work out. I am 20years old. I hope to be on my mission by the time I turn 21 but if not allgood. But it'll be mission and then come home to maybe university in Australia if there is someone here that wants to marry me otherwise best decision will be to move back to NZ and study my heart out. Maybe even go for a transfer year to the united states. I want to go into medicine or biomedical science but then I would love to go on to the business side of things. Like I really want to own my buisness but I want to get into the health side of things. Decisions, decisions? Whilst I am studying or once I have graduated, I hope to get married and at least have 1child. ONE CHILD PEOPLE!!!! When I get home off my mission, I will be 22 almost 23 so uhhh takers to marry me straight away please? I will be getting way too old and therefore baby right away. It's okay, I can have a baby and study at the same time ;) I will have it down. So chill okay, I got this all sorted. Then I want to live my life, go on vacations, have more babies, have a career, be rich enough so I can serve a full time mission with my husband, own a few homes but also build my very own home. I want to also live in Utah, New Jersey or somewhere not big city like in America. Wouldn't mind going to England for a bit. My mum will end up coming with us when we move anywhere so the homes have to be big enough to cater for everyone. See like I said, I can have babies AND a career because I can have my mum to help me look after my babies. CANNOT WAIT TO HOLD MY BABIES IN MY ARMS <3 and then live and die peacefully knowing I accomplished everything!!!!! Oh and I want to be able to at least once every 2years, once I am married, go on a family vacation to somewhere new each time. With a different sort of adventure and that'll be amazing to look forward to... African Safaris, European tours, the pyramids of Egypt, eating pasta and pizza in good ol' Italy baby, relaxing in the Bora Bora hotels on water. And with best friends that will be so much fun! See with us besties living in different countries (or even in the same country ;)) it'll be a good way to reunite one with another with our families - and our kids can hang out too!!!! Olea Lloyd, you down?! Cause I know I will be! Where is my amazing husband to be? He has to be amazing for him to deal with my craziness, spontaneity and plans ;) I know that even though plans may not go the way I plan, I know that the road laid out for me already without me knowing, is the best plan for me as Natalia Ruth McFlinn. Heavenly Father will guide me and lead me to where I need to be and who I need to be. Lets see how far I can go. 

WITH THE LORDS HAND IN ALL THINGS, YOU CAN ACHIEVE ALL THINGS. HE IS THE WAY. HE IS THE KEY <3

Wants, Wishes, Bucket List

And this the beginning of a bucket list that I thought I could have fun with and putting all my ideas into one area. I don't know what I really want to do so we shall see where his spontaneous post leads to.

1. Serve my Heavenly Father and go on a mission

2. Never leave the Church (tick it off in the next life ;))

3. Become a Mission Presidents wife one day (fat chance)

4. Go to General Conference in the states by 2018 (5yrs)

5. Go to an open house for a temple

6. Be sealed in the temple to my husband

7. Visit all the temples in the world!

8. Baptise my mum and dad

I don't know why but all my bucket list things seem to be on a spiritual note. Must be due to conference this weekend and listening to the prophets speak haha. Change the style of things now...

9. Live in America for a while

10. Go to university and study biomed science or some sort of degree

11. Watch the whole series of gossip girl ever made, within 1week!!!

12. Go to Italy with my dad and family

13. Trip overseas (supposed to be italy) with my best friend Olea

14. Stay in a resort in the lagoon waters

15. Skydiving

16. Bungy jumping

17. Eat an insect

18. Have children 3or more

19. Do a hamburger race and you eat as many burgers you can in a minute

20. Going on an African safari

21. Hot air balloon ride

22. Be able to speak another language

23. Randomly pay for somebody's meal without then knowing

24. Go on the biggest rollercoaster in the world (by the way I'm terrified on the smallest ride ever made)

25. Go down the tallest waterside in the world which happens to be in brazil!!!!

26. Go on a jungle trek

27. Volunteer somewhere for a day

28. Complete a marathon.

29. Run 15kms straight (can't even run 1km hah)

30. Build my own home

31. Write a story of my life

32. Slumber party in a penthouse suite!

33. Go on a shopping spree with $1000 spending on clothes

34. Learn how to salsa, tango or belly dance

35. Learn to ride a horse

36. Buy my own motorcycle and learn to ride and get my licence

37. Learn how to play piano

38. pyramids of Egypt

39. The Niagara falls

40. Live in a foreign place for 6months to 1year

41. Visit the European historical sites

42. Read 50books in 1year

43. Keep a journal

44. Keep up my scrap booking with Olea!!!!

45. Love my life at all times.

46. FINDING THAT POT OF GOLD AT THE BOTTOM OF A RAINBOW

47. I want to cliff jump into deep waters

48. Eventually let someone give me a pedicure as I hate people touching my feet. They will probably get knocked out touching them haha

49. And also the same with a massage at a beauty salon

50. Oooooh do a beauty weekend with girls where we do saunas, mud baths, massages, tanning etc.

51. Shave my hair off argh

52. Fast for 1week!!! I can't even fast for 1day

Tshirt Lovin'

What more do I need to say!!! Its quite self explainatory to me :D

Try it. You might actually (i guarantee) have the time of your life. For reals. People think, "uh Natalia, you know how to have fun? But youre a mormon. You cant do anything." And that is where you are wrong!!! I promise you the time of your life!!!  Think im talking smack? Then prove me wrong ;)

A Sunday Miracle

This entire weekend I spent my time down the Gold Coast serving the community. A little minor interruptions like going shopping and getting distracted but my main focus was to help those in need with my fellow Brisbane YSA! We had a mini service convention. Saturday morning we were helping out with the RDA and fixing up their arena. What they do is teach the disabled children how to ride horses. So we made it a WOW place to go to by revamping the entire place. This included digging, painting, scrubbing, fixing. You name it we done it. But last night hit me the most.

Sunday, we went to the beach to kind of chill for an hour or so before we had church at 3:30pm and well that was fun. Just being together and talking was actually really fun. But I didn't realise how much of an effect Sunday night would really have on me. I thought it was going to be uh testimonys and it'll be like a normal Sunday. Hardly tuning in to listen. Wasn't I proven wrong. The testimonys shared just blew me right out of the waters. I asked people after how did they think of the meeting and they were like it was so incredibly boring and couldnt feel the spirit and i was like are you serious?! It truly was there with us. I certainly felt it as i gave each one my undivided attention. It's like each speaker had something I needed to be listening to. I was so in tune with the spirit and it was so incredibly strong I felt like crying through a lot of the testimonys. And even if a person just got up to say a normal testimony, I could see the sweet innocent spirit of this person and I knew they were speaking of truth. The first two speakers I shed tears. Once it was open to the congregation to speak, the first speaker, her name was Debbie and she has Down syndrome. She has such a pure spirit and could get up in front of everyone and despite her speech impairment was able to speak the things on her mind. She showed me her love for our Heavenly Father and I certainly felt it. Her friend, also had Down syndrome and you couldn't understand anything but the fact he got up and the smile on his face when he left the stand... It was like a smile that he just WON. His smile did not once leave his face, not once whilst listening to the other speakers. Their was just a glow about each speaker. One girl got up and was so upfront and it made me tear. She's like go and serve that mission, if you don't, you WILL NOT recieve those blessings that were intended for you. Someone else will take them from you. Go and get them. And there was this boy who shared wi is that his trials are so hard to bear and they were heavy. He said that he will conquer them, he will go on his mission and the one thing he wants to see is, he wants to see each and every one of us in celestial kingdom. He was so firm that I had to look away. The love this boy had for his fellow men that he didn't even know just blew me away and I realised those that do me wrong, they just don't know what they are worth as of yet and I should have the same mindset. They are as much a child of god as I am, whether they are baptised or not, we are all the same. I chose to come to earth and so did they. They deserve the same right as I do to gaining a spot in celestial glory. But the number one boy that made me like cry is a recent convert of 6months who got up and bore his testimony. He said he will serve his mission and he's working hard and trying to go temple each week. He said when he goes on his mission he hopes to by the end have converted one person. I was like okay then. Then he continued on to say he hopes to have converted himself. That shook me. That's exactly the same as me. It's just each person had something for me to hear and I'm glad i listened to the promptings and went as I was just going to go to my home ward. Everything sure happens for a reason. My trials and starting to get hard. I have realised that now since submitting my mission papers. Sometimes I want to cry as they are at times so hard to bear. The feelings hurt. The things are wrong. I just want it to be over and I know that when I'm on my mission it will be. Well hopefully forever but for 18months they will be gone. I sure hope but i know that without a shadow of a doubt that my Father in heaven will help me when the time is right. He knows exactly what im going through and as i rely on Him, i know i will be fine. I know that now I know where I want be, and I know a little bit more of who I am and who i see myself becoming and know more of the qualities I would like to find in my eternal companion that is waiting for me.