Moving Forward

You guys, last night was my last time going to institute before I run off and get married. It made me sad. I love institute in Moab! I love having Brother Jackman as a teacher! He gets so excited about the Gospel and it just makes me smile. You also don't have to worry about making a stupid comment because first of all the class is so small you all know each other and probably each others families well enough to not care and second Bro. J has a way of making most all comments apply weather they do or not, so you don't have to feel stupid! I love that! I love how comfortable we all are. You know who shows up early, where everyone always sits and when you hear the door open during the prayer you usually know who it is that's late. I love that too! We are like a little family, old, young, married, single. Some preparing to go on missions, some just back, some preparing to marry, some converts, some lifetime members! Its awesome. We can stay after class and chit chat, ask Gospel questions and just hang out! Ill miss that. Ill miss it all! That's not to say that institute in Cedar wont be good but I'm sure it will never exceed  Bro. J/Moab style! I've learned so much in my 3ish+ years of institute from Brother Jackman and my fellow classmates, its been a lot of fun and I'm grateful for the opportunities I've had to go and learn!

 

On a different note, did you know that Clint and Athena are engaged? I'm sure you do, I'm late getting around to this post.  I'm excited for them and super excited to experience this with my brother! I would say I am pretty close to all of my siblings, close in different ways with each but I am particularly close with Clint in most every way! We are close in age and like doing the same things and can talk about pretty much everything. It was always fun when we were both dating someone at the same time and could go on double dates... and it helped a lot that Clint and Dallen are friends and that Clint "approved" of Dallen :) I can remember more than once Clint telling me to be good to Dallen because he was a "pretty alright guy."

When I first got engaged I told Clint to hurry up and get married too so we could be newly wed people together! I never would have imagined that he would be getting married 4 short months after Dallen and I, almost to the date! (Jan 9th) Isn't that exciting though! Its especially nice for me because now Clint can relate a little more to my situation and we think so much a like. We worry about the same things and have a lot of the same fears and concerns. Now that I think about that, I'm not really sure if that's good or not but its comforting just to have someone who understands, I think for the both of us!

I am going to miss seeing my families faces everyday, showering in cold water because Kenzie took all the hot water (ok I'm not going to miss that ha ha) and having Jessica kick me out of the bathroom when she just really reallllly has to go and me moving as slowly as possible to make her wait until she just pushes me out! ha ha! My moms great cooking and a patient loving ear and my dads goofiness!

Ok so I make it sound like I am going to die and never see them again and although I am going to miss all these people terribly I know they're never too far away and I am excited to get married and experience and live a new life with Dallen! It will all be worth it!