Perfect Moment

Ive been trying to be good at coming up with moments in my day where I saw the hand of my Heavenly Father. Today this was the easiest task because it was so present in my day! I had an interview with the Cheesecake Factory and I have landed myself with the position of cashier! I am so excited to start training and working. I feel so grown up and mature to begin a job like this. I am so proud to have gone from where I was to this spot. I am just so grateful and thankful to all my previous employers and the opportunities I have been given!

 

The second aspect of my day was on a more personal level. I am taking this class by a Brother Neilsen on Sales. I have had a hard time in this class because of all of the presentation. I have bad to sell different products and services to the class and I have had a hard to being prepared. I mentioned this to my teacher last week and so this week we had an opportunity to sell to one other person, he asked me if Id sell to him. I was extremely nervous. I knew that I had a hard time closing my conversations and finding their problems so I could meet them. Well with Brother Neilsens feedback I was able to really do well. He gave me some powerful feedback. Told me that it might be in my best interest to write things down, because he said he could tell I am a visual learner and need a pen and paper to feel that I am getting down all the information. I thought this was quite interesting because I have seen that in myself. I also was told that I should try harder to listen and not think about what to say next, then restate what they said so that I can better understand what is being said and to really be paying attention, this way I can find out how to help them and what benefits they are needing me to fill. What REALLY was the reason this experience made my night was something he said. He looked at me and told me that he had something that I really needed to hear. He said your brain operates at such a fast speed Sophie, but what you need to remember is to listen because "Sophie you are so intelligent". I nearly lost it. I was so touched! I really needed to hear that and I was so happy that he was saying it because he felt that was true, he didnt just say it because it was a nice thing to say, no he MEANT it! Best day ever. I am so grateful that I really earned the A he gave me. I know I deserved that grade entirely!

Family is Forever!

 

To my sweet siblings:

Annie:
Oh what a sweet young lady you are growing up to be. Every time I speak to you I am amazed in some way by you. How smart you are and how kind your heart is. I cannot express to you how much I adore you and admire your tender ways. I want you to know that your big sister loves you. I am so glad that we are going to be apart of a family forever. I am so happy to call you my sister. I wish I could take back every harsh word I said, but all I can say is I love you, and none of those things matter because of how we are now. I cannot wait to see you again here soon. Until then we will continue to text, and talk about boys ;) xx

Oliver:

It makes me really sad that all my memories I have of you wont necessarily be things you'll remember because you were six years old when I moved out of the house. Little man I have such a connection with you and it has been really tough being away from you. The best way I can describe our connection is how you acted when I came home from London. I saw your little face peek out the garage door and I knew I was home. You looked so happy. You went inside because you didn't want me to see you cry. I came in the house to give you a hug and you buried your head in my shoulder and sobbed. It was the most tender moment I have ever experienced. Whenever I come home you don't leave my side for days. I used to get cross with you, and often begged you to play with your sister but now when I visit all I want to do is spend every second of your childhood together. Oliver Christopher I love you. You are such a special boy to me and I will always treasure you. Dont worry we will have eternity to be best friends!

Benjamin:

How grateful I am that we are so close. I love that you laugh at my silly jokes, and then tell me Im so dumb two minutes later. I love that we can Facetime for hours and hours..to the point where I might as well be home. I love that we have similar likes and dislikes but at the same time find about a million things to fight about. I love that you are so driven and that you are such an example to me and annie and ollie. I cannot wait for us to be in the same state once again, because boy do I miss you brother! I love you soo soo much!! Continue being you, because that is the guy that makes me so happy to have as a brother. I really love you brother, and eternity will be such laughs with you by our sides! :)

Never Grow Up!

Yes, Im 20 years old and I still want to be 5. Today the weather was just perfect, so spending a few hours outside playing with Mindy's kids was exactly how I wanted to spend my time. How precious it is to be apart of their lives. How treasured those times are when they ask me to push them on the swings, or play catch, or to throw a ball at them while they swing and kick it as far as they can. How happy those moments made me, and of course having the sun out made the experience all the more enjoyable.

As the title of this post says, Never Grow Up. Well tonight we went and played at NickleCade, its an arcade place where everything is played with nickles instead of tokens, Man, it was SO fun! Ammon took me and Mikhail took a girl named Taylor. We all had a blast! Between the 4 of us we made like 2,000 tickets! We got a weird Pig haat, a blowup ax, some handcuffs, and a pretend cigar, as well as lots of candy! When we went and saw the movie Act of Valor we all took one thing in...i got to wear the pig hat. Wow the looks I got were classic. I was happy I could be a kid for the night and just have fun with my friends.

I know Ive quoted T-swift in past posts but I love her song that I have to post some of the lyrics! 
What truth is spoken in this song, and how much it hits so close to home with me.

Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room
Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home
Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
And all your little brother's favorite songs
I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone
So here I am in my new apartment
In a big city, they just dropped me off
It's so much colder that I thought it would be
So I tuck myself in and turn my night light on
Wish I'd never grown up
I wish I'd never grown up
Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
I could still be little
Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
It could still be simple

Kindred Spirits

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

I am not sure how I ever came to deserve my best friend April, because she truly is the one I feel is my bosom friend, the friend I can confide my inmost soul to. A phrase I often hear from April is "I am such a horrible friend", well Ape-Ape I'm here to say otherwise! I truly feel you do all you can to be the best friend I could ask for.
April realizes that neither of us are great at distance and keeping our friendship strong, but she is always willing to do more, and that isnt limited to when we are far apart. When I had my wisdom teeth taken out April was there with supplies to heal, and the laughter to comfort me. When I turned 18 she spent the entire day with me doing the things I like to do, starting with my favorite drink from sonic and ending with movies! If you knew April then, you would understand how much she would rather be doing so many other things, but she gives in that department in our friendship, together she will watch movies. April forgave me when I dated the boy she liked. Although it was rough for  a while the two of us valued the friendship more than any boy! April was the first person I saw when coming home from a long six months in England. Moments after saying hello to my family there was a knock at the door, but there was no pause because our bond picked up right where it left off.
April is there through the good and the bad the happy and the sad. I have always treasured the letters we exchanged as young girls, and the thoughtful pictures on birthdays. She knows my likes and my dislikes. She understands me better than anyone could, sometimes I feel she even knows me better than I know myself.
Tonight though, at 2:30am I have to write because what truly takes the cake today is that from all the way in Ohio, she sends me a text telling how great I am and how beautiful I am and that SHE loves ME! I felt so much love. Here I am thinking she is an example to me and she goes and does yet another amazing thing for me, for how could she know I was having a rough night? In all the years we have been friends she has always been one for an early bedtime yet in Ohio she sent me that text at 3am not realizing the impact it will have on its recipient.
So to April Turner, thank you! Thank you for every little thing you have done for me. Thank you for the happiness you have brought to my life, for I know that I will always have someone I love that loves me equally as much! I hope that I have been able to be at least half as good of a friend as you have been to me! I cannot wait to grow old together and for our children to be friends, and for us to rock on the porch laughing about the good old days. Reminiscing on all the laughs and joy we shared!
Although Taylor's words were meant in a different context:

"Take me home where we met so many years before
We'll rock our babies on that very front porch
After all this time, you and I"