It has been so great. I only have 2 other roommates, which has been different, but I'm loving it more and more all the time. We all clean up after ourselves, we all do the dishes, they're both nice, we all get along, they both like and respect me. Alisha is my room-roommate, and Kayla is in the other room. Alisha I absolutely love. She is so sweet and fun, she's also our RS Pres. She is great, really easy going as well, so nice, I like her a lot. Kayla is quite the girl. We are friends and she likes me, and we get along pretty well. She is just different in many ways than me. She is very blunt, very particular..but I know she respects me, and she's told me she likes me on more than one occasion, so that's good. She cracks me up too. She is very smart, and if I haven't been around her yet for a long period of time, I find her really funny most of the time. The thing I like least about her is that she doesn't wash her hands after using the bathroom. GROSS!!!!!!!!! I can't think about it for very long because I can't handle the thought or understand why people ever don't exercise that habit. We kind of had a slight explosion of emotion the other night (some might call it more of an argument) over this issue. She was about to eat some of the chocolate I had bought for her to try, and I knew she had just gone to the bathroom and didn't think she had washed her hands, and I was eating off the same chocolate bar, so I just couldn't handle that. So I called her out on it, and it totally took her back, and I think even offended her (even though she said she wasn't). Anyway, later that night, after we both had some strong reactions toward each other over the situation (I was appalled that she didn't think that was gross, and she couldn't believe I would say something about it), she told me she would try to do better at washing her hands. But seriously, that is so disgusting. There are so many diseases you can spread or contract from not washing your hands! I mean, what mother doesn't teach her children to always wash your hands after using the bathroom??!?! She called me a "germaphobe" during all this. I'm not a germaphobe, but I'm sorry if I don't want your bathroom germs or to get ecoli or ebola virus from you. So nasty.
Anyway, I wasn't planning on going into that story.. It's past 1 in the morning, and I just wanted to write real quick because my life is so blessed right now. So many good things happen to me every day, and I wanted to jot some of them down real quick and start writing more about the hand of the Lord in my life, daily. Plus, Joel (Anderson) inspired me tonight on our way home from the library to write before I went to bed, because he had that goal.
So just to name a few that I can't think of right now, good things in my life:
-ELISE BECKSTEAD. She is my new co-director for TBT, and she has literally been my heaven-sent hero. Words cannot describe the stress relief it is to have a partner to share the load, to support me on my level of responsibility, to bounce ideas off of, to help lead and make decisions, and to just help. Plus she and I get along so so well, it has been so fun to become better and better friends. I would definitely consider her one of my best friends right now. I thank Heavenly Father every single day for her. And she got into my volleyball class, so we have VB together on tues, thursdays too, which is so fun!
-As previously mentioned, my move. My new apt., new ward, new roommates. I LOVE where I live, it's a few blocks closer to campus, but most of my classes are in the Smith Field House or RB, and I just live a block south of campus, at the southwest corner of campus, so I am so close to pretty much all my classes, it's SO great. Also I joined the dinner group Alisha (my roommate) was already in, and there are 12 people in it (wow, yeah), so I'm making friends with them, b/c we see each other every night at dinner, and people are already so friendly to me. And oh yeah, I already got a calling last week, RS teacher, and I already taught on Sunday, which I was really grateful to be able to do, because being involved in a ward, for me is the best way to like the ward and get to know the people in it. So I felt like that was a divine calling and assignment, to teach my first Sunday, because it made me more excited to be there (minus that I was sick and not feeling very well that day at church), and got me out of my shell right away. I love teaching, I feel sort of in my element when I do, so it was really great to be able to teach my first day there and so the girls could also get to know me a little right away. Oh, and I was so blessed and the lesson went well, I thought.
-My parents came down yesterday (Tues) to see my apt. and then for the TBT events, and I was so happy that they did! It was so fun to see them and have them down here, and that they got to see what I do every week with TBT.
-The TBT events of yesterday!! First of all, there was the flash dance/mob in the Cougar Eat at 11:30 am, which was SOOOOO COOOOOOLLL!!! Oh my gosh, it was seriously the coolest thing in the world! I think partly because it's been almost like a dream of mine to see a flash dance on campus for TBT almost since I started doing it, and it actually happened yesterday. It was so amazing, and one of the most fulfilling and rewarding things of my life.
Then we went out and did our usual weekly booth, gave out hot chocolate this week (mint and regular), and it went really well. It was so so so so so so so so so so SO cold, but so much fun! Yeah, the consensus was that while we were outside for nearly an hour and a half, it was somewhere between 2 and 9 degrees. Aaah! We nearly died.
-My new TBT committee members and how literally God-sent they were.
-Good friends, namely good guy friends I have had great interactions with this week: Robbie, Joel (love him), Cory (married physics buddy) today, Matt Witzel (in my Nut. class); then also have seen Andrew (Elder) Jackson, Elder Goodman, Ben Smith (all at the TBT booth). The highlight that day was seeing and talking to Robbie. He was in my ward last summer when I still lived in Crown. We're just friends, and he is so great. We run into each other pretty regularly, usually it's him stopping by the TBT booth, or I'll see him in the BYUSA office. This week I saw him on Mon. and we walked together for a min. and chatted, and then he came by the booth on Tues. and then came over and hung around and talked to me for a few min. We mostly just joked around, but he is such a great guy. I would consider him a good friend.
There is more, I know, but I have got to get to bed. But God's hand is in my life every single day. I am so extremely blessed. I joke about not having friends cuz all my friends have gotten married or are dating someone, but really, I am so blessed to have a lot of friends and a lot of great people around me. I may not have a best friend or significant other or people that I actually hang out with a lot, but I really am blessed with many friends at school, in my classes or just that I see on campus.
Anyway, life is so so good. I am so happy, and so grateful to have been led here where I live, and to this place in my life. Heavenly Father is so good to me.
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