Have a Nice Day

Well, How do I say this? 

Oh I know. 

It has been the worst week of my entire life. Ever. I have never been this sad and depressed in all of my life. 

Basically I just feel lonely all of the time. 

Good thing for my best friend McKenzie. I don't know what I would do without her. Who else would leave the homecoming football game early with me to go eat our weight in IHOP pancakes. 

Who knows when I'll feel better. 

Soon, I hope. 

I look thrilled to be alive...

She's so attractive.

No smiles, at all. It was a terrible night. 

I'm trying to be happy. There's a thumbs up! 

I don't know why I am so attractive. or not.

Now here is the attractive one.

To top the whole week off I burned myself really bad with sugar/peanut butter. And now I look ridiculous.

If you can't tell by the pictures it has just been a long week. 

Today is Sunday though so a new start. 

And my ward is absolutely great. They are fantastic and I know I can get a hug if I ever need one. 

Sometimes

Sometimes Kenz decides to play the piano in the institute.

Sometimes I decide to go with her. 

Sometimes after I spend about 15 minutes singing Phantom of the Opera with her I get bored.

Sometimes I decide to draw flowers on the board.

Sometimes my flowers look awesome and I decide to share them with the world. 

Sometimes I spell "Statice" wrong. Embarrassing. 

Sometimes I forget Latin names so I have to use common names. I'm an amateur.

Sometimes I love that I can just draw plants like this from memory.

Called to Serve

My semester project: writing all of my friends that are on their missions. This is my binder that I have set up for all of the letters.

Don't judge me if I have them all organized by person and date.

I have to keep them organized. There's like 15 of them!

Elders Shreeve, Wasden and Mills

Elder Bentall

Elder Cowser

These are just a few of the awesome boys that I am writing! I love all of them!

I absolutely love sending them letters! Plus, it is not too bad getting letters back!

Edelweiss

What an exciting week it has been!

My classes are going AMAZING!

Have I ever mentioned before I love plants? Okay, I know I have but I'm doing it again. Get over it.

For one of my classes we get to go outside on campus and just look at all of the plants. For over an hour. With a teacher that knows everything there is to know about plants.

It's pretty much a dream.

I'm learning Latin for that class. Learning the scientific names of plants sounds better in theory. It's pretty difficult.

This is just a really, really cool plant we are learning right now. Its name is Chasmanthium latifolium. Try saying that 5 times fast. (You can also call it Northern Sea Oats, but that's not as fun.)

In that class I have learned where to go get some strawberries growing on campus, and if you ever have a hankering for garlic, I know where to get some of that growing on campus too.

Anyway, enough about plants. (Actually there can never be enough about plants, but you are getting bored. I can just tell.)

I went on a date last night! It was super fun! I went ice skating, and then we drove up to the Island and looked at all of the ginormous houses up there. (Well, he looked at the houses, I looked at the Landscapes. Oops, that was about plants. Sorry.)

AND! It was email day for the best friend! I love hearing from him.

What a wonderful week! I am so blessed!

P.S. Edelweiss is a white flower found in the Alps. How cool is that? The things you learn when you google "Songs about flowers"

Til Kindgom Come

You'll understand once you watch it.

Miss you like crazy.

I miss my best friend.

He left the MTC yesterday. He's in Canada now! I can't believe it has only been 2 months.

I miss him all of the time.

Why does he have to be such a good person and do what is right??

Oh yeah, its one of the reasons I love him.

Enjoy him Canada. You've got a good one.

Coming Back To You

So, in case any of you out there were wondering, I am not dead. 

I just was working.

So pretty much dead.

Anywho,

I am back at school and living the dream.

I've got my best friend, my plants, and good food. What more could a girl ask for? 

Oh yeah, my ward is awesome. Plus the fraternity "Sig Ep" is in my ward and they are great. 

Here we are. In our lovely little cave.

So. Goals for this semester:

1. Go to a fraternity party at Sig Ep. (I know, sounds sketch, but they are a dry fraternity. And they are almost all in my ward.)

2. Get straight A's. (This will happen.)

3. Sleep a reasonable amount. (What's reasonable for college? None? Okay.)

4. Take silly pictures with McKenz. (Done. See the following.)

5. Grow my Testimony. (I'm still working on it.)

6. Write my best friend. (I'm in love, I'm in love, and I don't care who knows it! Okay, I don't know about love, but I do know that I absolutely ADORE getting letters from him.) 

I <3 all of you that are reading this. 

Enjoy the rest of your day!