of the blue

Uh, so you know how I was complaining last week? Well never again! I am really going to get better at that. After all, I really have nothing to complain about? I have too much to do, and that just wastes my precious time.

Sunday I was sitting in  my usual evening sorority meeting when I got a text from an unknown 801 area code. We all know where that is from, and the messages turned out to be Elder D from last year. If you don't remember he was the Elder who baptized me then went back home to Utah early do to a health reason. He is fine now, but as he said "served a sister mission." Ha! But all is okay, it was just because of a health thing, nothing juicy.

Back in October right after Jana and I found out he went home we were pretty worried and called to see if he was feeling okay. He turned out to be much better, but didn't think he'd come back and serve the last few months. After that we didn't speak.

So fast forward to Sunday and I am getting texts from him. We talked on the phone a little bit, and he was really nice and offered to pick me up from the airport when I get there and take me to my new apt for the summer. After that conversation I just assumed we might talk in a few weeks and then again right before I came out to Utah.

Turns out he kept talking to me, a lot. Some things came out, about how he felt about me, and I was pretty shocked. I had no idea he had certain feelings, etc... I asked him if he felt this way on his mission, and he did, but of course, never acted on them. Anyway it was a lot to take in.

Last night he asked me how I felt, since he had spent nearly two days telling me his story. I told him I was overwhelmed, which is exactly how I feel. But I said that I was interested in exploring that option with him (dating), but would never want our friendship to be ruined, etc... as a result of things not working out how he wanted. And that I don't expect to be exclusive with anyone, at least not at the start of my summer. He was really good about that and said that he thinks that is okay. I guess I am having a hard time transitioning so to speak from thinking of him as an elder to that of just a regular guy.  So as I always say, we shall see we shall see.

Comments

[emily kate]

Wow! Well I hope it goes ok. It would be a really cool story wouldn't it?? :)

[Keya]

As I said before, you have nothing to worry about. You haven't even gotton to Utah yet & you already have guys hunting you down.

[JenC (aka Kate77)]

I'm so excited to read all about your adventures in Utah.

And, just so you know.. my Mom & my step-dad met on his mission. (He didn't baptize her but he did teach her.) The most perfect married couple I know, my in-laws, also met while he was on his mission. He was in New Zealand, she was a cute young girl. Nothing happened, but he did tell his mission president that that was the girl he was going to marry! So.. I'll be interested to hear more about you & Elder D!

[noelani]

How exciting!! We know some couples (now married) that meet while he was a missionary and when he got home they would meet again out of chance....even though he has those feelings for her when he was serving, but never acted on them.

See, BYU will be great you aren't even there yet and you have someone already calling you!!

hope you got my email from before...i used your link on your blog page.

noelani

[Shannon]

Hmmm, this sounds interesting to say the least. And exciting. I can sense you apprehension though, which makes sense, but I guess you never know until you try, right?! Keep us posted :)

[Brittany]

very interesting! lol. i wish i could have seen your facial expression when he told u all that... would've made a great scrapbook page. j/k! seriously though, i think it's cool he's been thinking about u all this time. you must have really made an impact on him! :o)

[Becca and Kent]

I saw your post earlier about being discouraged, and I feel ya! I can't even count the times I too wondered what was "wrong with me." Kent was actually the first person who EVER asked me out on a second date... Being a girl can be rough sometimes! But I also know that the Lord has a timing for everything, and we are always going to be blessed for our righteous desires--if not now, at some point. I'm excited too to see what happens with this!

[Meghan]

I was just blog surfing & happened upon your blog.

I must say...Go for it with RM!!!! When I was 19, there was a missionary out here (NJ) & everyone knew how he felt about me & vice versa. Of course we never did anything about it (altho. we did hang out together a lot at his apartment...which I know is a no, no but I was young! LOL).

Anyway he went back home to Idaho & we planned on getting together but sadly it never materialized. He married someone else, so did I. So all this babble is to say definitely persue because you don't know how life it going to turn out!

Phew! That was a lot. I am going to bookmark you b/c your blog is fun & I want to see how things turn out!!!

[heidi]

i like how you are being... deciding that you don't want to date exclusivly right off that bat, that's smart.

but i will say my sister married one of our missionaries. their relationship was done in a good & worthy way, he didn't act on his feelings during his mission, so it was very good. he's a great guy! all i'm trying to say is that it does happen, relationships with your missionary

but get to know him & follow through with your intuition, very exciting!

[Lisa Brown]

Crazy. What do you really say to that? I had a very similar situation, but the guy was an old childhood friend who had moved away and got called on a mission to my hometown. While he was still on his mission, he wrote me a letter telling me he wanted to marry him. (I hadn't seen him in 5 years, although we kept in touch.)

The weirdest part, other than the awkwardness, was that I was home for the summer and he was serving in the same town I lived in. Definitely not a good situation. I tried to let him down easy, but it was very hard.