There's no place like home.

  

December 30, 2011

Now I know why I missed the amount of coffee shops so much, because that's where everybody meets. It's a convenient place to stop and chat and you always run into someone you know. Tonight I met Micah Styers (soon to be Dahl) and she told me all about her newly engaged self. It was quite wonderful! She's one of my favorites and I thought it was so funny how me living in Utah and her living in Idaho could meet for hot chocolate in Alaska. It's funny how those things work out sometimes.

I had the chance to go to the temple with my parents ward tonight. I rode into Anchorage with the Summers and it felt just like old times, me and Cache talking about everything under the sun, Nan and Bart having their own conversation up front that would overlap with ours every once in awhile while Fischer and Levi talked or slept in the back. It was wonderful. Cache took out his endowments last week so he was baptizing this time and it was so sweet. My family was there and the Summers were there and it felt like the temple should feel like. I love that temple and I've missed it so dearly. I know I should go more, considering this is still the only temple I've attended. I'm going to work on that in the new year. It was a wonderful experience. 

When we got back to the church in Wasilla I took my dads car and headed to the Steiners where I stayed just catching up with Taylor and Tiffany and Dan, it was wonderful. They are such good people and I feel like I helped Taylor a little bit with her decision for schools. Just being around BYU I love the atmosphere and it has been so good for me. 

I realized it was 11:30 and headed home after a few more hugs. 

It's so good to be here, I'm sad to leave tomorrow. But then again I knew I would be.