Making Me Emotional Today: Missionaries

I am a 20 year-old female in Provo. Consequently, most of my dude friends are also 20 year-old males from church. Which means that most of them are on missions. And therefore, all three of my best dudes are on missions.

Okay, that's cool, so why is it making me emotional today? Well, I realized Matty Patty gets home in two weeks. TWO WEEKS. I'm going home for his homecoming and I could not be more excited about it. Matty is my oldest dude. I've known him since I was four. You can read more about our friendship here. I would like to take this moment to point out that I did indeed follow through on my statement at the bottom of that post.

Anyway. I just started thinking about these three wonderful boys (are they men now? I feel weird calling them men.) and how important all of them have been in my life. And I'm so proud of them for their choices to serve. All of them have been ridiculously exemplary missionaries. Ridiculously. I'm so excited for them to start coming home so we can start new adventures!

Here are my favorite Mat quotes from our emails over the last two years:

-"I don't know how relationships are...just companionships and they are ALMOST the same thing. Minus the lots of hugging and cuddling and occasional kiss...it's just not the same."

-"I don't like boys either. I'm actually getting really tired of them, too. I just want to hang out with girls for once."

-"Kiss a boy and study hard!"

wow it has just become VERY obvious what we talk about...

ah, Elder Conner House.

The first words I ever heard Conner say were, "My name is Conner House. I love Russian choral music and fine cheeses." And that's when I knew. Conner is a stud. I cannot wait to set him up with all my friends when he gets home. No shame. I would have been lost Spring term without Conner's magical cooking and his t-shirt quilts for canyon movie parties. I miss those. I am freaked the freak out that he has been gone 18 months. It feels like two days ago that I was 18 and drawing him pictograms in Econ.

Favorite Elder House quotes:

-"Working like a dog, but not smelling like one."

-"At times a close my eyes and click the heels of my well-worn but polished dress shoes together and say, 'there's no place like the field, there's no place like the field, there's no place like the field...' But when I open my eyes there's still a long list of office tasks to be completed."

-"I love Curitiba. She's a bit moody when it comes to weather, but her only major flaw is that she doesn't have cheddar cheese."

And with the longest to go... Elder Joshua Black.

Black's my number one dude. And if you've read my blog you've probably heard of him.

I miss being able to sass him in real life. Officially accepting applications for my new sass-outlet.

#sokorean

favorite Elder Black quotes:

-"Well, I am really handsome. ...But like not in jest. I am a hunk."

-"My psyche is not very complicated, actually. 1. Food 2.Sleep 3. Missionary work/don't let the branch blow itself up. 4. Done."

Dudes. Come home soon. I need some sane, intelligent males in my life.