Michael comes home in 13 days. holy. crap. these definitely are not in order, but here you go. :]

I know I know..

I know that I whine and complain about not having my boys just a phone call away. I miss them a lot. I'm watching Made of Honor--lame movie, I know--and it opens with two best friends, a man and a woman, who are doing their daily things together. From taking her her morning coffee to going to his father's sixth wedding. It's a little heart breaking to have E. King more than 4100 miles away, along with Daniel being 6500 mile across the Atlantic. *sigh*

I feel so alone with them gone. It's a little cool, though, because I'm growing more so than I thought I would with Michael and Daniel not around.

Michael is coming up on his one-year mark in December. Crazy crazy. He's been in the same area since he got there in February. I hear that it hardly ever happens, from what other RM friends and family have told me. He's doing super awesome! He's having a lot of success and he's loving every minute of it. I read his mission president's blog. It's pretty cool. I like that his wife updates two to three times a week. The just had Zone Conference right before General Conference. Here's a picture!



haha, I think he looks like he has a nasty 'stache, and so does Marisa. The guy to the left of Michael was his companion, Elder Mecham. He's a pretty cool missionary. They were saying that E. King and E. Mecham were the "celebrity" elders in Wanica. Silly things are happening that close to the Equator.


Elder Watkins is doing well according to his letters. I've received two since he's been in Berlin. His companion is from So. California. he seems like a cool guy. E. Watkins misses mexican food. haha. Poor kid; it hasn't been a year yet! Oh well. Berlin offers a ton of cool things, I'm sure.

Anyway. Off to matching socks.

Almost a Year

Where has all the time gone?

PS come home soon.

Wandering thoughts

First Subject

So I've been trying to catch up on my online World Civilizations class. I'm a unit behind, and four sub-units behind. Although I am behind the rest of the class, I do love "being in school" again. I love learning.

Different Subject

I check the mail every day. I love getting mail. Especially from my dear friends who are serving missions. I've recently notice that I write letters a lot, but never send them. Why, you ask? I couldn't really tell you, it's not like the letters are super juicy with sentimental phrases and expressions of love. Maybe it's therapeutic. I like writing because I can let my mind flow the way it usually does. [Random, jumping from thought to thought with obscure and unexplainable ties to the previous one.] I think that is why a common sentence in the letters I receive from my friends is "I love your letters. You make me laugh so hard!" or something like unto that. I'm glad I can be some sort of comic relief.


So, I lost Elder Watkins' mission address. Some would think that I'm close to the family so I would be okay with giving them a call [seeing as I still have their home phone number] and asking for his address. Sometimes I feel like they still don't like who I am and what I've brought to mind in Elder Watkins and Amy. In short, his father scares me, and I feel constantly judged by Dr. Watkins. His mother is quite nice, but she's a hard person to read. Maybe it's my paranoia getting to me. All I know is that I'm glad that I'm not set on marrying him anymore. I'm glad we stopped dating, although I didn't act like I was happy about it for a long, long time. I'm happy that we're still friends, even though I find it more casual then some people think.


I hung out with Valory, Ammon and Rees last night. I love being with them. I love making new friends! I didn't really know Valory until last night, and she's so fun. I am a little sad, though, that old friends are becoming past friends. it's not really something I can control. I don't mean to lose friends, they just find other things to occupy their time with. Boyfriends, girlfriends, more friends, alcohol. Sad.

I'm going to catch up on WorldCiv now.

white noise.

I love slacklining. I love Michael King.

That's all.

Everyone should listen to Kate Nash.

I find myself reminiscing about old friends. So, here is this dedication to Elder MJKAwesome Dude. haha. See you next December, my friend.