June 2014

I have been having one of the craziest summers I've had In a long time. We go to Florida ever year as a family and we usually take that trip during the school year. This was the first year we have taken it in the summer and along with the road trip we take every year as a family, it has taken up a lot of time. I really do love spending this time with them, though I would prefer we take to Florida trips. It is nice to see the country though. On this road trip we are going to Rexburg, Idaho for a college visit. Were also gunna stop in Yellowstone. I'm excited to go because that could potentially be the town were I spend four years of my life. It will also be cool to the fault that will literally kill us all when it separates. I just got back from girls camp and I can honestly say this was the first year I actually enjoyed camp. However the first day was awful, so it had looked like history was going to repeat it's self until the second day. I loved the girls in my unit, they were really special to me for some reason. I became closer with the younger beehives whether I had wanted to or not. I think they look up to me. My sister has followed in my sunken foot steps and has hated camp for two years to. Are personalities just aren't built for it. I'm not complaining about the camping part though, I do like that. But if I got through if she can get through it and I guarantee I've had a worse experience considering I was the only fourth year in history to have to come back early from the hike. But that's another story. I saw a lot of myself in a camp leader that I wasn't that close to before. We would say the same little thing and I thought it was funny. She's the first person I could really say 'hey that's how I'm gunna be when I'm older'. My mom made the girls in out unit flip flops half of them loved it and half of them didn't really seem to care. I guess it's the thought that counts. I could go into everything that went wrong and made that first day miserable, but I think I've moved on. Girls camp gave me a lot of time to reflect on my testimony. Sometimes I doubt there's even a God. But it just depends on the day. I know what I want to do in my future I just don't know how I'm going to accomplish it all. But I think I learned this week that God has his own timing. Reagan shared a cool experience she had with me. And it made me realize in order to connect with sone people I need to be doing the daily things that God has asked us to do. I really miss Emmy and I know God will let me know when it's time to do her work. I need to be close to the spirit so I will know when though. Mom and dad might go on a surprise trip in early August, but we will just have to see. I haven't worked much this summer. In fact I'll probably only see max on Saturdays three days out of the whole summer. It's funny because most kids do all their work during the summer, but I'm opposite. I do most of my work during school haha. He is getting so big and I love him with all my heart. Youth conference was fun too. Although I feel like I learned more about a certain boy than I did about the gospel. Lol oh well.
Stay busy,

Melissa💛