Bad Muslimah

So up untill very resently I have been a very bad muslimah. Actually up untill now I guess I've been a muslimah only by name if at all. I had not been observing the daily prayers and didn't even know how to recite the Fatiha. It wasn't untill I met the friends that I currently have that I knew that this means I was not really Muslim because Salah is the seperation between belief and non belief. And Alhamdulillah{Praise G-D} I'm on the right track again. But it feels like I'm on the slippery steep side of a very big hill no end in sight. But anywas I am now learning what it really is to be a muslim and I have much to learn. Insha Allah{G-D willing} I will learn it all, or as much as I can with the time that G-D{Allah} has given me. Send me advice. PEACE, CHAN.

I am disheartned

My morale is low. I'm feeling down and out. I feel lonely. I really wish that I had someone {even a friend to just wrap their arms around me and tell me that it's all going to be okay. That's all I want is that asking to much? I am currently going through a faith slump and trying my hardest not to fall out of Islam. Please make dua{Pray} for me that I pull my self out of this hole that I have crawled in Insha Allah{God willing}. I have a question. When you first converted did it take a while before you felt any connection in prayer? When I pray it kind of feels like movements. Maybe it's cause I'm just learning and I don't really know what I'm saying so it just kind of feels like I'm giving lip service. And it's really hard to concentrate on just my prayer. A billion things flutter through my mind as soon as I make my intention and it's hard to push them out of the way and just focus. Any advice would be lovely. But even if you don't comment please remember me in your prayers.

P.S. Not that you wanted to know this but I think my period is starting soon and I may just be insanely imbalanced for the moment on top of everything else.