Education Week

Education Week is kind of like the classes they do at EFY on steroids. That's all Education Week is from Monday to Friday. Classes. Classes, and more classes. They are so amazing! Okay, so Education Week was August 17-21. I knew some people that were going. Most specifically, homeschooled friends. Zach, Landon, ( I love those young men SOOO much! ^_^ How I miss them. ='[ ) Kelsey, Matt, Lizzie and Dakota. Dakota isn't actually homeschooled. He lives in Utah, but he used to live in my stake in Dallas. That's how I know him. Anywho...

I don't think I've ever felt as good as I did at Education Week. Really. The Holy Ghost was with me all week long. I've gone to things before that made me want to be better, but never of this intensity. I've never felt so much hope in my life before. It was exactly what I needed just having moved from the only place I've ever called home. My favorite teacher is Scott Anderson. Oh, he is so amazing. I'm going to start a new paragraph now so I can talk about his classes. =P

Brother Anderson taught perfectly. He could get us to laugh, (which makes us teens teachable, you know) and he always had stories that fit perfectly into what he was trying to teach us, and he taught by the Spirit, and was able to let the Spirit teach us. Sometimes he would even go off of the lesson he planned, to tell us something the Spirit was telling him to tell us. He has one of the strongest spirits I know. He is super strong in the gospel. He told us about this son of his. Oh wow. This son. If he wasn't old and married, I'd swear I was going to marry him. He has the best sons. They are so righteous, with such a burning testimony of the gospel, I've never even heard of a man like that that actually existed! His sons just sound so perfect! Well, not perfect, but pretty dang close. Anyway, the point is.....I want to be the kind of woman that is worthy of a man like that. I have a lot of work if I'm going to be worthy of such a man, but I think I'm on the right path, and that's encouraging. =D

At Ed Week there was a youth dance. That was probably my last dance with Zach and Landon. I love them so, so much. I don't think I've ever cried over friends like I have cried over them. Just that I won't get to be with them the same as I did when I lived in the Dallas stake. Now I live so far away from them. The whole week, I was trying to enjoy being with them. Just, remember every happy moment while I was there. I don't know if other people do that, but I am sooo guilty of it. I just don't want to forget how they make me feel. They make me feel like a very special, talented, sweet daughter of Heavenly Father, and that I make a difference if their lives. If only I made as big of a difference in their lives as they did in mine. Well, maybe I do. I can't ever know that I don't. But I really love Zach and Landon so much. They are two of the best young men ever. I know it. They are worthy priesthood holders from a chosen generation who try to do what they should. And they love me! How amazing that is! I will miss them so much. Good thing I know we'll keep in touch. They are some of my best friends in the whole world. Forever. <3