Monday, March 15, 2010

California

Okay, its safe to confess now.  This weekend I took the liberty of surprising my girlfriend by showing up at her mission farewell.  If there has been an absence of blog posts, you can probably imagine that I may have been pre-occupied.  Anyway, the farewell is where a missionary prepares a talk  (speech, sermon, or whatever you want to call it) for the local congregation.  In a way it is to show how they have prepared for a mission and maybe excite the local congregation about missionary work.  She did a wonderful job.  I got to be there as she prepared her talk and I absolutely love her.  I'm so excited for the opportunity she has to learn, grow, and teach.

Let me tell you that surprising my girlfriend is nearly impossible.  We have a very strong connection and so we are very likely to sense that the other is up to something.  Believe me I had to jump through every hoop possible to keep it a secret, eventually even including a few white lies.  Even so, she thought I was up to something.  I distracted her by giving her an incomplete truth that some of her friends were coming to visit.  I knew who, and I was helping make arrangements for them.  This allowed me to slip in somewhat unnoticed.  I don't think I'll ever surprise her like that again even though she ended up being very happy to see me.  The flowers didn't hurt either.  Every time I see her though, it gets harder to go back to what I have to do.  I'm really going to miss her.  I already do.

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