This is going to be a MONSTER blog, not that my other ones aren't huge to begin with anyway.
I couldn't even begin to begin to speak of how great this weekend was for being the last weekend of a great semester and great year for that matter.
Saturday began early with a 7am calculus exam. As much as I was dreading getting up that early, I was actually very happy that it was that early so I could get it out of the way and still have the whole day ahead of me. The exam actually went really well! I was pretty terrified of what the heck they would put on it but I'd say there were only a couple questions that I was unsure of. Glad that's over with though.
I spent the rest of the day cleaning out excess garbage in my room and cleaning stuff since Jordan was coming to stay the night. Then I had to take care of all the stuff for the bishopric's gift that needed to be ready by the next day. I was pretty much busy all the way up until our date that night, but it was a good thing. I've been so anxious and excited for this date to happen that I couldn't wait any longer!
I don't remember if I explained how this date would work so I'll go over it again. Watching A Walk to Remember this past week gave us the idea to let the girls kind of plan out this date. We let them make up a list of things they wanted to do before the semester ended and here's what they came up with:
- Visit a nursery
- Walk a dog
- Paint
- Feed the homeless
- Ride a motorcycle
- Visit an aquarium
- Shoot a gun
- Burn something (preferably old homework/notes)
- Roll down a big hill
- Break a social norm
- Watch a funny youtube video
- Make someone smile
Needless to say there was no way we could get to all those things in one night so we had to pick and choose what we'd include to plan this date. So here's how it all went down.
Everyone was running late somehow including me so we didn't get to leaving until around 5:00pm, an hour later than we had hoped so we had to sacrifice a few more things to make everything work. Jordan took one of my very best friends, Taylor, and I was lucky enough to go with Taryn. We left and made our way to Sandy for the first part of the date: Salt Lake City's aquarium.
The next one was kind of fun to watch the girls try and guess what we were doing. We stopped at a Carl's Jr. and told them that we were driving through and having dinner... expect I was ordering all the meals. I wish you could've seen the looks on their faces. So I ordered four number ones and of course made it completely complicated for them. Then we stopped at the four way stop at Gateway mall. They had no idea what was going on until we finally told them. Jordan told Taylor to take a look at the four way stop and spot the man begging for money or food: we were going to feed the homeless. There weren't many more people we could find there so we drove to a park and found more there. There was one guy that me and Taryn found that really hit me hard. Taryn asked him if he was hungry and he said yes so we gave him the meal and when she proceeded to wish him a good night he replied:
I was planning on it, I always do. Tonight will be better because it won't be cold.The things we take for granted today. How good we all have it. If we could I'm sure we would've fed the whole homeless society in SLC but time called for the next part of the date.
We drove up to Nun's Park in the canyon to set up a fire and burn some old homework and what not. I had a series of videos lined up to show Taryn, Scarlet Takes a Tumble being my absolute favorite. Then I had something to show Taylor but we ended up getting kicked out of the park before we could get to the end of it and even let Jordan play his guitar. It was late anyway and I already felt bad because Taryn really needed to prepare a lesson for church. So we took the girls home, gave them and signed our paintings, and then all went off to bed.
Of course, if you put me and Jordan in a given environment that facilities talking, we will talk... for a very long time haha. I love it though, mostly because he talks just as much as I do. Its good to have someone around to catch up with especially when they understand and care. We stayed up until probably 4am and had to wake up like three hours later for 9am church but it was definitely worth it.
Church on Sunday was really, really sad. It was the last time our ward would ever all be together. For me, it was even worse then graduating. The level that all of us are friends here is just so much greater than any high school friend I've had, with the exception of a handful of course. The talks were great. Brigham gave a great, heartfelt talk, and Jessie of course made us all laugh, cry and want to be better people. It is always great to hear from this Bishop too. He's the greatest. You just can't help but feel good about yourself and feel the sincere love whenever he's around. He gave us some great scriptures to go off with and bore a great testimony.
Brother Moir taught Sunday school that of which Jordan absolutely owned. I use my convert card as an excuse for ignorance but it certainly shouldn't be that way. I, along with many other students in the class, was really impressed with Jordan's knowledge of the Old Testament and it really made me want to do better in scripture study and take more religion classes here at BYU. Other than that, it was extremely obvious that every girl in that class wanted Jordan's bod haha.
After Jordan left, I had dinner with Aaron which was great. It's been been awesome to have him around since we're both kind of in the same boat being converts at BYU. It was nice to catch up and see all the things he's got going for himself right now. I'm really excited for him to be able to go on a mission and can't wait to hear where he ends up going. It's been kind of rough for both of us here at BYU not growing up as members of the church, but I don't think we would have it any other way.
I guess this is really it. This is really the end
Such a fun weekend man! A "date" to remember, I must say! Even though we never watched A Walk to Remember. What were we thinking? That's what should have went on the invitation! A DATE to Remember. Lol, but thanks again for having me down. Vegas will be EPIC!!
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