Back in the Midwest now. It's weird how much the ward has changed not just because of the ward boundaries changing a few months ago (I heard it called gerrymandering today because there is a random "u" cut out of the middle, and everyone knows they were rearranging leadership. It amused me a lot.) but because some of the kids have gotten so much older. One of them came to home teach my family today. He's about three years younger than me, so I've always seen him as really young. When he started talking my jaw almost dropped from how low his voice was, and then he said that he is joining the marines in a few months. What??? And a little infant boy that I babysat over the summer is now huge and has a head full of luscious, curly, blond hairs. I know I'm super young and my FHE brothers never fail to remind me of it, either, but these facts serve to make me feel a little older. And then all the adults remind me of how small I used to be and how they used to be my sunbeam/young womens/sunday school teacher. Weird. What an odd stage in life.
Another interesting occurrence: I thought I was going to get lectured about not dating anyone since I'm going to BYU, and I did a little bit, but some random lady I had never even seen before lectured me on how tall my heels were. That caught me off guard, I tried really hard not to laugh in front of her. I think I succeeded. The shoes are the ones pictured above...
