Becca's Mission Call

My best friend, Becca, got her mission call. I'm so excited for her and for her decisions that have led up to this point in her life and for her to be able to take this step. She is going to the Houston, Texas South mission and she leaves April 10 and will be speaking Spanish. I knew she would speak Spanish, I just knew it. I'm so excited for her but I'm going to miss her so much when she's gone. It will be pretty hard but I'm just glad that we'll get to write each other and our letters will actually get to each other! Love her!

Temple Square

It was an absolutely beautiful night with some amazing people. The lights were gorgeous, the sky was clear and the temple was magnificent as always. The boys also kept us pretty entertained with their humor as evidenced by some of the pictures. 

Pumpkins and Bowling

So at BYU, you have real fun. The kind you remember because you do something spontaneous and maybe kind of dumb and its possible that its really weird. On both of these nights thats exactly what happened. When we carved pumpkins, we may or may not have saved all the guts and the boys may or may not have thrown them at some girls window. Use your imagination and just laugh. On the other night, we drank lots of lemonade, took the cans down to the long, long hall in the basement and threw a baseball at them. I'm not saying that we're professional bowlers or anything, but we looked pretty good (even doing the potty dance from our drinking contest). Actually we were all terrible and in our maybe 7 rounds, we all knocked down about 15 pins. Kind of pathetic. But it was so fun!!!

Conference

We got tickets!!!

My friends Lydia and Haleigh came down from Idaho for General Conference in October. It was my first time actually being at conference so that was pretty exciting in itself. Then President Monson announced that the mission age would be lowered for boys to 18 and for girls to 19. Lets just say that the only thing that people at BYU talked about for the two weeks following (and really the rest of the semester) was missions. This changed my life a lot, not because I am planning on going on a mission, but because all my friends are. Two of my roommates are moving out tomorrow because they will be going on their missions in March to Taiwan. My best friend, Becca, was just call to Houston, Texas yesterday and a million other girls I know are in the process of submitting their papers, or already have. The demographics at BYU are going to change so much! It could be a good thing because that means more boys for me. It stinks for the boys because the girls they want will all be gone. 

I feel like this is the first major change in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that I've seen up close and personal, even though I've been a member all my life. I'm so excited to see the effect that this change has on missionary work. I can't wait to see all the growth and all the lives that are touched because more missionaries are out in the world sharing the true gospel of Jesus Christ. I know a mission may not be the best thing for me, at least not right now, but I know that anyone that goes will have their life changed and will have the opportunity to change other's lives. 

Hikin' the Y

Earlier in the semester some friends and I hiked the Y. When you go to BYU you have to hike the Y. I'm pretty sure when you accept your admission to BYU there's a fine print that automatically pledges you to hiking the Y at least one time while you're there.

I have to admit I was kind of scared at first. Everyone told me how horrible and steep it was and that I would never want to do it again. It was a little steep but it was only like 2 miles so it wasn't bad at all and the view from the top.... Sublime. I guess the people around me kind of made it great too. I have some of the best roommates and friends that make me laugh no matter what. Life really is better when you surround yourself with people that make you happy. :)