i hope they call me on a (real) mission

i'm finally done with finals and back to my favorite place on the planet: az baby! i feel like i drove back in time a couple months because the weather is sickeningly wonderful! i really enjoy the chance i have to spend time with my family, but i am really going to miss all my great friends in utah. it hasn't quite sunken in yet that i am not going back after christmas. it's going to be a sad day when it finally does.


but on a lighter note, my mission papers are officially in! they went in last tuesday, so my call should be coming in a couple weeks at the most . . . maybe before christmas if i am a really good girl. we'll see! lots of people have been guessing where i'll get called and everyone asks me where i want to go. every time someone asks me that i go through an internal struggle because i actually do have an opinion and i know i shouldn't! and i am afraid of what must be happening to my chances every time i tell someone my real opinion. i'm sure i have cursed myself plenty already, so i guess there's no harm in posting it. alright i'll just come out and say it . . . i don't want to go to a visitors' center. for the most part when people ask i tell them that and then just smile and we move on. i behave myself pretty well. but sometimes when people try to convince me that i'm wrong for not wanting to go there, i get pretty animated in explaining why i'd rather take ice cold showers than get facials on p days. one time it got pretty bad. i internally cringed after i declared to someone, "a visitors' center mission is not a real mission!" i'm really not trying to tempt god i promise. i repented of that one don't worry. i definitely see the need for sisters there, and i'm overjoyed that there are girls out there that want to go there, but i just don't feel like it's for me. which, yes, i realize is completely bad.

so, where do i think i am going? . . . salt lake city utah temple square. bring it on.

get a tude

k so it's officially thanksgiving season and it's time to evaluate our attitudes. we have so much to be grateful for. seriously. god is so good. i'm going to start a daily gratitude journal in the spirit of the season and just to be happier too :) i recently discovered this blog about an inspirational woman who lives in provo. if you need help finding some gratitude glasses, check her out.

lookie how pretty!

lately it's been so refreshing to stop and look around at the beautiful fall colors! i have found myself taking the long way home after school to have more time outside. ahhh :) right now, i love where i live. ask me at this time next month, and the answer might be slightly different. hehe.


the boy who lived is making is way back into my life again. my friend and i are preparing for the ninth hp movie by reading all the books by November 19 (this trailer gives me goosebumps every time!!!!). i started reading the sorcerer's stone five days ago. is this a wildly unattainable goal? absolutely. but i'm gunna shoot for the moon.

p.s. this is a bit late, but here was our apartment's halloween experience. most of us had never been anything dead before but we turned out pretty dang frightening i'd say.

things i'm grateful for today: preach my gospel, red starbursts, uncontrollable laughter, daylight savings, bananas.

Neglect

okay wow i don't know what happened but i just totally stopped blogging altogether. it's seriously been a year and a half since my last blog. how lame. i am going to fix that!

well, i am a junior at byu now and i am living with awesome girls, some of my very bestest friends. we live at a nice little place called heather cove which is five minutes to campus on foot (my roommates might tell you otherwise but that's just because i book it to school every morning. yeah. i value my sleep a lot) i love the fall weather for the most part, besides that weird snow we got this week. i am going home for turkey day which i'm super excited about. Also, today i applied to the business school and i will hear back from them next month.

in other recent news, i am working on my mission papers right now and i can turn them in on december 13, which i am going to do! that is definitely the most exciting thing on my horizon right now. i'll get my call either right before or right after christmas and i will hopefully leave in march or april of next year. yay! it's something i have been saying my whole life i want to do. and, my whole life, i have heard lots of doubters. but, it's happening! hah! :)

well, i have to go take an examen de español, so i will have to write more later!