I decided to update my blog for a few reasons, and to be honest the first reason is just cause I've always wanted a blog! Secondly, because for my final English project I needed to put something out there for the public, and what better way to do that then through an already existing blog that I have? Thirdly, I'm TERRIBLE... I mean just horrible at keeping a journal. So I figured that to make it a little more fun for myself I'll put some of my thoughts and feelings about life in general here.
As a starter, I obviously haven't filled anyone in since I came home from my mission. I got home from a full time LDS mission in Berlin, Germany the last week in April. (There is a link on the right side to see what that mission is still up to!) As I'm sure most of you have heard from me, and as you can see from my last email that I sent home, my mission changed me in more ways than I can express. I know that going on a mission was exactly what I was supposed to. Just as I knew I needed to go, I knew that I had to come home. A lot of people say.... "My mission was the best time of my life!" "The best 2 Years (18 months)!"... And I do believe that, at least up to that point. The thing is, missions are growth spurts! They hurt, they ache, and they happen quickly! But they make you grow into what you were meant to become. A mission is preparing you to have the best rest of your life that you can have. I had a missionary couple on my mission, the husband was a retired rocket scientist. He gave me an analogy that has stuck with me. He explained that before my mission I was just the rocket, sitting on the launch pad. On my mission, I got my engine started, warming it up, making preparations for take off. However, I wouldn't take off until I came home!
I've been home now for about 7 months! (7!! Crazy!) When I got home, I got a job about a week later at DishOne! This was the first job that I didn't dread going to! My Co-Workers made it so fun to go to work every day! I worked there, full time, from May until the end of August.
On top of working I made sure to take advantage of my new "no curfew" rule and don't think I came home before midnight any night that I was out with friends! (I"m sure my parents loved me for that one!) I am also pretty lucky with the fact that many of my mission companions live extremely close to me! Many of the missionaries from my mission would get together every week and have a movie night!
I did also go on dates (scary thing for returned missionaries!) and had a great time on all of them!As the summer went on more and more of my guy friends from Highschool started getting back off of their missions!
I decided to go to Utah State University while on my mission. Luckily, I had deferred my acceptance to a few college's so there wasn't much prep with me going to school when I got back. And thanks to my mom,, I had NO stress for getting registered for classes and housing! She was awesome and took care of that while I was on my mission! I left for Utah State on Wednesday, Aug. 24th. I remember this day because this was the same day we dropped my brother off at the MTC. To say the least, it was a rough day, with many tears. I would not really recommend sending your best friend on a mission, and leaving your family all in the same day. However, we did it, and I made it up to Logan, got my dorm all settled, met my roommates and found my way around campus. It was pretty weird to do stuff on my own, I found myself wishing I had a companion like on the mission, that would just be with me all the time! However, I lucked out and quickly became close friends with Kaitlin, who I knew a little bit from school! 
Well, I only made it about three days till I came home for the first time! Ha! Just kidding! .... Kind of. I had planned on it. One of my really good friends came home from his mission the week before I left for College. It was his homecoming and he talked me into coming ALL THE WAY back down for it. It took some convincing, but I did, I came back home 3 days after going up to college.
(please notice how I'm on my toes! hehe!)
Looking back, I'm sure glad he convinced me to come back, because about three weeks later he convinced me to be his girlfriend. In reality, neither one took much convincing. I had a crush on him basically all of Senior year, and when he left on his mission we were just "really good friends" (probably due to the fact he never knew about the crush...). Somehow, between when he left on his mission, and when he got back, I squeezed my way past the friend zone without even trying! So just know ladies.... It's TOTALLY possible! ha! I still don't know how it happened, but it did!
Zack is great, and we've been able to see each other every weekend that we possibly can! Being long distance sucks, but it sure does make for some good weekends!
This semester at College has been a fun one! I've made some great friends, learned I can stay up till 4 AM painting projects, and that to succeed, I have to work hard!
As of today, I have all of my art projects finished and now only have two tests next week! I will then be able to be home for about a month and I couldn't be more excited!
I plan to keep this blog updated weekly, and if not, then every other week! My next post will be on Monday, and it will be about an essay that I wrote on the country's problem with Traffic!
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