Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, hey...EFY!

So I know that most of you know that I got asked to be an EFY counselor this summer but you probably haven't heard the whole story and I know you, laura, are going to be wondering how it all went down. Well so I had the interview, waited for what seemed like a million years to finally get an email from them end of January saying that they were interested in hiring me but needed the proper forms to continue the process. So I filled out the forms, sent them in the next day and once again sat and waited to hear back. About a week later I heard back from them and they had received my papers but I hadn't filled one out all the way so I had to redue it and send it in again...what a pain I know! So another week goes by and I get about 4 emails from them, meaning they were offering me 4 weeks of efy sessions all at BYU Provo, which is awesome, but I wished there would've been more. Well then I get to reading the weeks that they want me and one of them is the week of the annual family beach trip. Well I've already missed the past 2 years of the beach thanks to girls camp and then summer semester...so I did not know what to do at this point. I thought "well what if I'm supposed to go to this EFY session, what if I am supposed to be there to help a certain youth or what if...I'm supposed to meet someone special?" So all these things went through my head as I thought about what I needed to do. Then as I thought about missing yet another year at the beach I figured if I don't go this year I don't know when the next time I will be able to go. For the next 2 years at least I'll be in school summer semester and then what if I get married who's to say that we're going to be able to go and all that so I really felt that it was important for me to go to the beach and spend time with my mom's side of the family. So I sadly declined that one week of EFY but accepted the other three. I then sent them an email figuring that other people were going to need to turn down a week and so since I deferred summer semester this year why not ask for more weeks. About two days later I got an email from the EFY Offices asking for me to do 2 more weeks at BYU Provo! So I have a total of 5 weeks now which is great! I am so excited to work with the youth and to teach them more about the gospel. EFY is such an amazing experience and the Spirit is so strong there. Plus there's really cute guy counselors ;) haha just kidding family, but I'm really telling the truth, they're cute! I really lucked out with the weeks and where they fall during the summer. My first 2 weeks are from June 9th-14th and the 16th to the 21st. Then I have a week off and then I'm back on from the 30th to July 5th so I'll be there for the 4th of July which I am really excited for! I've never been there for the 4th so we'll see what happens. Then I'm off for 3 weeks which one week of that is the beach. I am then working July 28th-August 2nd and then my last week is the 4th-8th. So my plan is to just stay out in Utah for the months of June and July which is going to be awesome because I have so many family and friends out there to hang out with!! And that's the story with EFY. Hope all is well!!