Elder Woodland has been out for almost a year!!!
Thinking about it...I haven't seen my boyfriend for almost a year.
"That's a sad commentary, in and of itself."
-Captain Jack Sparrow
BUTTTTT only one more year until I get to see him again! :)
Few updates. He's been transferred...again. He's no longer in Tucson, he's in a small border town called Sierra Vista. In the letter he sent me right after he was transferred, he told me a few things about Sierra Vista. He said that many people told him it's the best area in the mission. He isn't too excited about it. It's a little border town in AZ. Besides that, he's doing really well. Gaining lots of weight and writing me at least once a week. We're currently having a confetti war. We put mounds of random confetti in the letters we send each other. It gets EVERYWHERE, despite efforts to keep it all in the envelope. In my last letter, there was a lot since I put TONS in the card I sent him for Valentines Day. ;) All I said in the letter I'm about to send was "game on". Good thing confetti is cheap for poor college students like me and missionaries.
As for me, lots of music stuff happening. I had a recital back in March and was incredibly nervous and shaking like nothing else. I played better than I thought after listening to the recording my grandpa took. Then, about a month later, I had to play for another recital for a scholarship audition. Again, I did better than I thought ater listening to the recording my grandpa took. I messed up a lot because I freaked myself out. It's pretty much a musician's curse. :P My flute teacher also wants me to audition for orchestra for next semester. The orchestra director is one of my teachers so I feel a little bit better about it. When I was getting music from him, we were talking about nasty ledger lines (only music savvy people would understand that) and I told him that I also play bass. He said that he gained a lot of respect for me...even though he had a lot to begin with. Haha WIN! He's also a bass player which is probably why he's one of my favorite teachers. I'm working on a few parts from Barber of Seville and it's HARD. I'm getting it though! Next month, I have 2 concerts, a jury (final for my lessons), and graduation to play for. I'm gonna be busy practicing for the next little while!!
I've definitely learned while being in school that when you're waiting for a missionary it's best to be kept busy. Work, school, and practicing have kept me busy and time goes by so much faster that way. Two years may not seem like a lot but for girls like me who are waiting for a misionary (I tried not to make that rhyme...), it's an incredibly long time. In a talk I listened to on Sunday in sacrament meeting, one of the speakers said to imagine a rope going all the way to the left and all the way to the right. The rope on the right is pre mortal life. The rope on the left is post mortal life. Then, right in the middle, is a thread tied around the rope. That is mortal life. In comparison to the eternities, mortal life is not a lot of time. So, technically, two years shouldn't be that long...should it? Time just seems to slow for those of us who are deprived of a missionary boyfriend. :P
"Wouldn't last a single day
I'd probably just fade away
Without you, I'd lose my mind
Before you ever came along
I'd was livin' life all wrong
Smartest thing I ever did was make you all mine."
-Eli Young Band "Crazy Girl"
