Its true. As of last night, we say LOVE!
Ok, here is the story. So. Last night. He comes over, we had colored pictures for my brother who is on his mission with my nephews. We went and chatted with two of my best friends who were in town for the day. Then we came back to my house and went downstairs to talk (and kiss).
We kind of do a bit of companionship inventory every so often. I love it. Every now and then he asks me how I think things are going, do I have any concerns and is there anything he can do for me. He's too cute. I love dating a return missionary. And he's super honest. He'll tell me if he has any sort of concern or exactly how he thinks things are going. It's really the greatest thing ever. I love it. I love him!
But he added a new question last night, "Do you think there is potential?" Potential? Yeah buddy I think there is potential! Things have started getting a bit more seriously lately. I was invited to go on a vacation with his family in March. We're switching into more long term thinking. Things have been changing the last little bit and its very exciting.
Any who, we then had a talk about lots of different things. Future things about ourselves and what are our concerns with life. What we want in life. What we want to avoid. Lots of things. Good things.
Any who, we're having this great night. And at some point we were kissing and he just sort of stops and says, "I'm falling in love with you." And I responded with a "Good. I'm falling in love with you."
Then he said it.
"I love you."
And I couldn't help but say it right back!
I do. I love him.
Later he asked me if I thought it was too soon for him to say it. I said no, I had been thinking about it for a few weeks. He said he had too.
Seriously?! I'm dying. I just adore him.
Chase is so wonderful. We have so much fun together and we can be goofy and weird together and it is all good! We just laugh and have so much fun.
This week we decided to go on a night hike.
I'm super out of shape and was worried. He's a mountain climbing, camping type and I'm not. Haha not to mention I've been on a mission NOT hiking mountains. But it was a super easy tail and mostly flat. It was really fun. Isn't he so good looking?
Also, it's crazy we could go hiking in January. There was no snow and almost no ice. So crazy. And it wasn't very cold.
In other Tribe news, my brother, Chase, who was in the car accident, had surgery on his eye this past week. He's kind of been acting funny since so we're not really sure what's going on. He seems a bit down. We think the anesthesia messed with his head pretty good. He's not following the doctor's orders so stay laying down so we don't know if the things done in the surgery will hold. We just keep praying for him.
The new callings are going great!
For compassionate service, we asked our ward to write happy thoughts/scriptures/personal messages or draw a picture for a guy whose dad died this past week. This is my mom and I posting them on his door.
I get to teach my first lesson in Gospel Doctrine next week and I'm so excited. I was set apart on Sunday and it is always the greatest thing to receive a priesthood blessing. In my blessing, I was blessed with the gift of tongues. I've been thinking a lot since coming home about how I need to continue to learn and improve my French and stressing a little about how best to do that. This may seem like a small thing but as I was driving home I had the thought to say the alphabet in French. So I did. I was able to say it well and quickly. I kept going over it and was so excited that I still remembered it and could say it properly. Then it hit me, this was the gift of tongues and Heavenly Father was fulfilling his promise to me. I started to cry. I'm just so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who is watching over me and trying to help me accomplish my righteous desires. I am so grateful for Him and the gospel. It gives me so much guidance and meaning to my life. I would be lost in the eternities without it.
I love you mes Soeurs! I'm praying for you and for the work. You are amazing and I'm so excited to hear about all the many mighty mini miracles that are going on in your lives. You are such amazing examples to me and I'm so proud of you.
Bisous,
Sister Tribe
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