I'M GOING HOME!!!
Every time someone asks me how I'm doing, I get to scream that blessed phrase into their faces. I cannot explain how excited I am to go home. I'm a little nervous (in all honesty), but let me explain. I've had this terrible habit of kind of losing my mind when I visit home. I spend all year progressing spiritually and in maturity, but when my senses get a whif of the Atlantic it all goes haywire. But not this summer. I am bound and determined to be the woman I know I can be. I have no reason to slip up and fall into old habits, but I have a million reasons to do better.
First and foremost, whether it be for marriage or a mission, I will be going through the temple within the year and I will let nothing stand in my way of receiving the fulness of temple blessings that I know I deserve. It's what I've worked for since I entered those waters of baptism almost 7 years ago. (Wow, it's been that long?) But I will be worthy to stand in that holy place. I can't wait.
But, on a less serious note, I am so stinkin excited for Jersey! I can't wait to see my parents, just thinking about makes my heart ache in anticipation! I'm also excited for some real food! Don't get me wrong, Utah is great when it comes to Mexican food, but for anything else it kinda sucks. I can't wait for fresh produce, fresh fish, and pasta dishes I can drown in! :)
One of the best parts about this whole trip is that my roommate, Sarah, is coming to visit for the last week I'm home! She's never been to the east coast before so I am super excited to show her around! (and have an excuse to go to NYC) She's such an amazing girl and she has lived in Utah her whole life, so I'm jazzed to get to show her a whole different world.
Well, I better hit the sack.
Ciao!
3 comments:
My Wildwood girl!
I'm excited you're going home too, I'm sure your parents are very excited as well--I think you look most in your element when you're in a pageant or on the beach. :D
I love this post! I am also struggling slightly to get over old habits; but drive for the future is what gets me through, just as you're saying. I've also been booyed up by a few ward members in the Stanford ward and by Preach My Gospel classes.
I sometimes worry that if I didn't have this church, I would not only be a basket case, scaredy-cat, and a compulsive liar, but also I would have no drive to do well in anything. i love you.
Yay for a new update ;)
Has it really been seven years since you've been baptized?! Half of my mind believes it, but the other half wants to say we're still WCHS freshmen...:D
i'm jealous you're going home booo yooo
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