I finished up my first year of college Thursday the 9th of April, and the next day my family and I drove to Idaho Falls where we went to the Museum of Idaho and took the "tour" of the Titanic exhibit that they have going on there. It was fun. We were all issued boarding passes and got to be people who were actually on the Titanic. Once we got to the end, we found out if we lived or died. My whole family lived, I died. Sad huh. But that's ok because Keiton came and saw me which was awesome because I got to see him before I left. Then we went to the Potato Museum in Blackfoot, ID. haha, yeah, a potato museum. We got "free taters for out-of-staters". bahaha. it was a little box of dehydrated hash browns.
When we got to Provo, we went passed it and headed on to Payson, Utah, where "Elder Lange" (or Kristopher) lives and our families met each other. They fed us dinner too. It was fun to hang out and meet them.
Today my family and I got up early, went to the Bean Life Science Museum on the BYU campus and watched a live animal show that my cousin Katie did (because she works there). Then we met up with Kristopher and drove up to temple square in Salt Lake City. We had an AMAZING spiritual time, starting off with watching the Joseph Smith movie. I cried so much at the end... AGAIN. Then we found some Sister Missionaries and took a tour of Temple Square. We went into the Tabernacle and learned about how awesome their acoustics are. Then we went into the Visitor's Center that has the Christus and got a family picture in front of Christ. SO HAPPY.
After this the other people in the tour left, and those sister missionaries took Kristopher and my family to go see the conference center. Now Kristopher knows a lot more about the conference center then us, but he was just along for the ride. And when we were in the Hall of the Prophets.. yeah. It was just a really good experience.
For dinner that night, my family decided to go this place called the Brick Oven. Kristopher was no longer tagging along, but Katie was now. So we get seated, and a couple minutes later my mom hears a lady go by saying something about an apostle (one of the top leader's in the lds church) was there. THEN a minute later, Elder Jeffery R. Holland and his family pass by our booth on the way to their table! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! I was ecstatic. Definitely starstruck. It was then that Katie and I decided that we were gonna "get lost" on the way to the salad bar. However, we for some reason went to the salad bar first, and there was a line, and next to our line my mom and Brad were in the pasta bar line... and Elder Holland and his granddaughter come down the steps! He patted Bradley on the head and was like "hey you. Do you know what kind of pasta you're getting?" And Brad, having no clue, just shrugged his shoulders and said "eh. I don't know." After that, Elder Holland came over to where Katie and I were, put his hand on my back and gave me a side hug, and shook Katie's hand and asked us how we were. I was just about to die of happiness at that point. NEVER in my entire life did I think that I would get a hug from a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles! That right there made my whole life worth living. That right there is actually the whole point I decided to write this blog. This man right here, is an amazing man, and I was fortunate enough to receive a hug from him.
Well, to finish off my story, Sunday my family went to church down in Payson with Kristopher's family, and then we ate an Easter dinner over at there house. After that, we headed back home, driving all through the night. We reached home at 5:30am. It is now Tuesday (yes, it took me a couple days to actually write this blog) and I today is my first full day home! I'm off to find a job and work out.So until next time!
ash <3
