March 2, 2015

March 2, 2015

Dear Liza,

I am so sorry that I have been so bad at writing. I know wedding planning is kind of a lame excuse (trust me you didn’t miss out of much fun there… I strongly suggest eloping). But I do think about you a lot. I love reading your emails and you seem to have figured out why you’re out there a lot earlier than I did. I don’t think it was till I was about half way when things started to click for me and that I was doing things because I 100% wanted to rather than knew that I should. The atonement makes quite the difference. Coming back home is interesting. Somedays I just get frustrated with myself because I’ll not be as good as I know I can be. I’ll be impatient or unkind and I’ll think back on how hard I worked to develop those things and then I’ll get annoyed at myself. It’s a lot easier to be a great person when all you get to do all day is talk about God. So I’m still working on that balance.

And this wedding has eaten away all of my time… I am so glad I will never have to do it again. There are about three things to plan that were fun, like the dress, actually that’s all that’s coming to mind. Oh wait, regestering at target with the scanny things was fun too. Thats the secret to taking Trent shopping. If you give him the scanny thing, he’ll be all into it. Haha there were these fox cookie jar and salt and pepper shaker things and he registered us for them, but no one will believe me when I said it was him. We’ve had like 4 wedding showers and girl, if you ever need to borrow any small kitchen appliances, we got you covered. I have to keep adding stuff to the registry because it will start getting low. I don’t even know what we could need any more. But that’s a nice change from the earlier weeks of this year where we only had 2 bowls between jess, me and trent (he’s here so often, he basically lives here).

But anyways, I had my bachelorette party ayer. It was a small group, but it was fun. I didn’t get too much scandalous stuff. Actually Jess and I went to Victorias Secret to try on some stuff and after 2 years of garments, it was like a revelation that I actually don’t look too bad underneath the old  off white garments. So if you gain any weight on the mish, don’ t worry about it, it comes right off and 2 when you get back, I’ll take you so you can feel like a beautiful woman again.  Haha I remember being on my mission and we would have to wear pants for some reason and I would just keep checking myself out and thinking, “Wow I have legs and a bum”. You’ll have to tell me if you ever have moments like that.

So the wedding that is this saturday. I don’t know what mom has told you, but I’ll give you a little bit of the deats. Wedding reception is friday and the sealing is saturday then we’re going to the grand america downtown for our first night and then off to st george the next day, till tuesday night. The churches have a mansion down there (with a movie theater and bowling alley in it!) and so we’re going to stay there.  Haha I have a funny story, sorry if this is a little scandalous, but I think you’ll laugh. So ever since I’ve gotten home, Stephen has been insufferable about me and Trent even touching. If we so much as sit next to each other he’ll groan and complain as if we’re making out right in front of him. So Trent and I have devised a little payback. Our family is going to the same mansion the week after our honeymoon, so we’re going to make sure to tell stephen how great every single of the beds are in the whole place. If I know stephen, if there is any chance in his mind that we could have touched any of the beds, he’ll be sleeping on the floor the entire trip. haha

Liza, I think I wake up early every morning and I’ll just lie in bed and think, wow I’m really getting married or about how I’ll be sealed to someone for ever or that instead of Jessica sleeping next to me, it’ll be trent. I would do that the last couple weeks of my mission. It still doesn’t seem real to me. I think in my mind I can’t process what it will really be like and that the rest of my life starts on saturday. okay, I don’t want to make you feel trunky at all, but I just want you to know that you’ll be dearly missed. But you didn’t miss out at all on wedding planning mom. I love her to death, but this has not the funnest thing. Imagine water walk mom, only you’re the water walk. Crazy stuff right? (ps, this might be a little tmi, but I got that birth control rod thing, so you won’t be missing out on any nieces or nephews on your mish if you know what I mean)

Anyways, I love you sis. You’re my best woman (that’s what spencer calls bridesmaids). Hope all is well and that you can enjoy your fresh fruit.

Love you!!!!!

Katie, 

Bahaha. Garments.  Sometimes I forget that you just barely got home, yo understand the cosas of the misson so well.  Ya, there is a phrase in paraguay that says you are always wet, either from sweat or rain.  They werent kidding in the slightest.  Water walk mom but you are the water walk.  Bahahaha.  Ya, I actually was thinking that I am going to be really sad on the day of your wedding, but I am not going to be missing being home for the next 4 days of pre wedding. I am sure that this is about the time that mom is calling out everyone, saying that during their wedding, they are going to want the family to help, and stevie is questioning the social institution of a wedding, and why society deems them a useful part of society, and anna is gushing one minute, frstrated the other, oh the teenage angst.  And CAroline is preetty chill.  So is dad, but then betwewen work and the bishopric he isnt home much.  Stupid e on the keyboard barely works.  But ah, katie, it is so good to here from you.  You are just my favritote, and I am really sad that I am missing the wedding.   I want to celebrate you and trent so bad!!! 

Ya, I was thinking I wanst going to see any neices or nephews.  But didnt it hurt.  When trent was telling me about it before (jen had it right) it sounded . . . like something straight out of captain america.

But I just love you so much.  Have so much fun. And when I come back we can do cilings together ok.

Liza