Don't ask me how I'm feeling.

It's safe to say that I'm peeing my pants a little.

Out of excitement or out of nervousness? I'll let you decide. (The answer is both.)

I'm really excited to start my service in the Costa Rica San José Mission. A mission was sort of out of the question for me at the beginning of this year and here it is, June, and I'm leaving in 2 days for the MTC.

This is something that I feel very strongly about and I'm super excited and grateful for the opportunity to go serve the people of Costa Rica. I think that God loves them just as much as he loves any of us. So I can't wait to go and feel more strongly his love for them.


God be with you till we meet again.
-Hermana Turner

You know what'll help that?

Do you ever get so busy and stressed that you don't really have time to feel things? You know? Like...emotions? I sometimes do. And even though I'm so ridiculously busy right now, things have kinda caught up with me and I'm just feeling a lot of things.

I've missed my sister the whole time she's been on her mission but during times like these, when I feel like I need a lot of sister advice, I feel really sad.

I texted my mom about it and she reminded me of the wise words of my dad.

Me: Dad, I think I'm getting a cold.
Dad: You know what'll help that?  A good night's rest.

Me: Dad, I think I broke my toe.
Dad: You know what'll help that? A good night's rest.

Me: Dad, I don't have any friends.
Dad: You know what'll help that? A good night's rest.

Me: Dad, my arm is super swollen.
Dad: You know what'll help that? Probably some ice. And a good night's rest.

And that's the answer to everything. So, why shouldn't it be the answer to this? So..here I go. To bed.

Goodnight.
(Thanks for the advice, Mom and Dad.)

That one time I went to Hogwarts.

Well folks, I figure it's about time for another life update wherein I dump a whole bunch of pictures all over your faces. (I don't like the way that sounds..but I said it. What's done is done.)

Remember this post about my undying obsession love for OneRepublic? Well, it is as true today as when it was written. And guess what! ALL OF MY DREAMS FINALLY CAME TRUE AND I SAW ONEREPUBLIC LIVE IN JUNE.

Unfortunately I didn't have a device with me that had the ability to take pictures. Unless you count my phone..which wouldn't work. And I'll tell you why. I have not yet updated to a smart phone and I also don't own a camera. So that would be one awful picture. However, I was with my brother and sister-in-law and they took a few pictures! So here ya go:

A few weeks ago, my parents, sister, and I went to Utah for a little vacation. We started off at Lagoon.

This is the only ride my dad would go on. Probably because it's the best. Or because it's the only one that doesn't make him sick. Old people, amiright?

The next day we went to Mary Poppins in the Hale Theater. It was really great fun but we didn't get any pictures. The night after that, we went to a Utah Symphony concert. It was amazing! It was only Disney music and there were four vocalists that sang all of the songs and it was some serious fun.

The last day we went to Olympic park and watched the skiers practice on the jumps that go into the pool. It was super neat! Then, we went on the Heber Creeper. IT WAS WIZARD THEMED SO IT WAS LIKE WE WERE ON THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS.

Well, that's about it! Good thing I'm a super diligent blog updater!

Goodbye!

15 seconds is not long enough

I just watched this over 9000 times.









You're welcome.

MERTHER'S DER

You know how today was Mother's Day? Remember that? How fun, right?!

Well, the best thing about Mother's Day, besides celebrating how awesome moms are, is being able to talk to your missionary siblings through Skype! (Shoutout, Skype.)

So, today, we got to chat with these two kool kids via the interwebs.

Kaycee, being the spiritual beast that she is, decided to share two Mother's Day scriptures with us. So, here they are:

"And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son."

-Kings 6:28-29

"It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman."

-Proverbs 21:19


Soooo...yeah. Happy Mother's Day!

Forty Thousand Million Things

You know when life throws a thousand things at you all at once? Yeah, me too.

I know you guys don't really wanna read about what's been going on in my life, cause that's kinda boring. But, guess what I'm going to do!! I'm going to write about what's been going on in my life anyways!

So, I haven't written on this little old blog of mine since before this current semester. Now that it's coming to the close of this semester, I might as well tell you a little bit about what's been going on!

As you should probably know, I'm going to school for Cosmetology. I MAKE PEOPLE LOOK PRETTY!!!! This semester has been super awesome! This was the first semester that I was out on the floor, working on real life clients! It was the scariest! It IS the scariest! I get the worst anxiety! What if I mess up a haircut and the client gets angry at me? What if I do an awesome job on the haircut and the client is still angry with me? Then my feelings are hurt! Anyways, those are just a few of my concerns. But, I still love it. So much!

This semester, I also auditioned for institute choir. I loved it so much! We practiced every Wednesday and it was so nice to be in a choir again! I met a lot of great people in choir and had a lot of great experiences.

Anyways, remember when I said that sometimes life throws ten million things at you at once? Okay, I said one thousand. But, I actually meant like maybe ten. Well, last Friday, we went to good ole' Salt Lake City for institute choir. We got to perform in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square on Friday night! It was so exciting! We met in the morning, practiced, left, practiced on the way, arrived in Salt Lake, practiced, ate, and then performed. It was super great except for the fact that I WAS SO SICK THE ENTIRE TIME SO I WAS NO FUN! I'm typically a pretty fun person. But not when I'm sick! So...that kinda sucks. Anyways, my amazing brother and sister-in-law came to hear me sing! I was so pleased. They even took me to get food afterwards with my cousin, Jason, and friend, Chris! What wonderful people!

After that was finished, I was like, "Yay!! I don't have to stress about anything else for a while now!" Nope. We had another choir thing the Sunday right after. Not that that was stressful, but the day was stressful. I went straight from church to ward choir practice(not even my own ward), to stake choir practice, to institute choir practice, to the performance. But, it was so great! My mother, father, sister, and grandmothers came to listen!! What gems! We sounded so good. I'm sad that choir is over.

ANYWHO, once that was over, I thought, again, that I could relax for a little bit. But, then I remembered that we had a fashion show for school! A few dress shops from here had a fashion show to showcase their dresses and one of the shops asked our school to do the hair for their models! So, I did finger waves on my cute model, Makena!

I was super happy with how they turned out. All of the girls that did hair for models did such a great job! They all looked so amazing!

These are only a few of the models. Also, this picture doesn't even do the models, the hair, or the dresses justice. Everything was absolutely stunning.

Here are all of the models. But, once again, the picture just doesn't do it justice.

Once that was over, I had a few whole days to kind of do nothing. Key word, Kind of. I still had things going on. THEN I WENT HOME FOR EASTER AND GOT TO SEE MY FAMILY AGAIN!

When I got back to school, I got to jump right back into the madness. We had a hair competition last night. A bunch of surrounding schools came and we had a competition and hair show. There were a few different categories like mens' haircutting, womens' cut and color, ladies formal, fantasy, and avant garde. I entered the ladies formal and did finger waves again. They didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. This hair was a bit harder to work with, which was a bummer. But, it still turned out beautiful, I thought. Anyways, they announced the winners and then one of the judges came up to me afterwards and said that they all had me as their number one and that they were all confused when they announced a different name. So, in my brain, I won. Fair? I think so.

Now maybe I can relax again! Except, I have to move soon..by myself. If anybody feels like coming to help me move here in the next few weeks, feel free!! If not, that's cool, too.

I love you all!

Some things never change.

When I was about ten, I was in charge of a family home evening lesson and I decided to play a little trick on my family. I told them that they were going to draw a name of a family member and then they had to write 5 nice things about the family member whose name they had drawn. When we were all done, we would read those things out loud. But, instead of putting every person's name in the bowl, I wrote my name on every piece of paper. So, they all had to write five nice things about me.

When my dad started reading the five nice things that he wrote, my older sister was the first to say, "Wait! I had Becca!" It didn't take more than a second for everybody to realize that they had been bamboozled into writing five nice things about me. That's when I started laughing hysterically. Just imagine little ten year old me laughing maniacally. (My laugh has been described many times as a "cackle," just in case that helps you to imagine this.)





Owned.

A Great Calf Workout

Last Monday, I went to Salt Lake with these hooligans to see Bastille in concert.

I don't know exactly how to describe it because if I describe it exactly the way that I feel about it, you'll probably think that I'm exaggerating. And, I never exaggerate. Ever. I've never exaggerated in my life. Not once. Ever. I've literally never exaggerated even once in my whole entire life.

Anyways, I'm just going to say that it was an extremely fun night and an AMAZING concert. That's really the only way that I'm going to describe it but please just know that I mean so much more.

The highlight of the concert: TOUCHING THE LEAD SINGER, DAN SMITH, RIGHT ON THE SHOULDER. NO BIG DEAL, BUT I LITERALLY TOUCHED HIM. PHYSICALLY. HE WAS REAL. My only regret was touching his shoulder instead of his hair. Why didn't I go for the hair?

The lowlight of the concert: Being too short to see anything and having people over a head taller than me standing directly in front of me. My calves hurt the next morning from jumping the whole time and standing on my toes to see the stage.

If you don't know who Bastille is, you should. You'd probably recognize this song:

Also, watch this:

You're welcome.

My two favorite songs by them would probably be Laura Palmer and Oblivion. Feel free to look those two songs up. Once again, you're welcome.

They also do covers. Here's Blue Jeans, by Lana Del Rey:

Other covers that they do include We Can't Stop, Of the Night, and I Just Died in Your Arms.

And, AGAIN, you're welcome.

Have a nice night. Spend it looking up Bastille songs and falling madly in love.

Peace & Blessings

Mediocre. At best.

The story of a lifetime, people.

Once upon a time,  we were going to a corn maze. I love corn mazes, guys!

Anyways, my cousin, Jason, was driving and we were with our friend, Pono, and a random guy that I had just barely met, literally 2 minutes before.

Don't ask why, but Pono was texting his friend about all of my "good qualities" and so he turned to the random guy that I had just met and he said, "Hey, you've only known Becca for a few short moments. What would you say is her most attractive quality?"

Listen to how this tall, bigger, bald, not handsome man answered. He said, "I'm going to be 198% honest right now. She's mediocre. At best. But, if she did something with her hair, she could be kinda pretty."




That's literally what he said.

And you know what I did?

I laughed hysterically. Then he went on to say, "I mean, I've liked a lot of mediocre looking girls. They just had something about them that made them super attractive."

And, I said, "So, you're saying that I need a new personality, too?"
 



Some people just don't know how to use their words correctly, guys.

All Hallow's Eve

Halloween was pure party.

We dressed up for class.

After class, I went to a High School football game with my homegurl Breanne to watch her brother kick butt. (They started playing What Does the Fox Say? at the game and her brother stood down on the field and just started dancing. I was so proud.)

Then Breanne, Mickayla, Makena, and I went and ate FREE food and then we went to Texas Roadhouse where it wasn't free..but it was good.

THEN, we went and had a dance party!

And a small photo shoot..

So...that happened.

Please don't hate me, mmkay?

Hey, guys! I'm a Mormon.

Don't hate me for it. 

I love being Mormon. I really do. I enjoy going to church, family home evening, institute, and other church activities. I love participating in choirs, service projects, and planning activities.

Are Mormons perfect? Absolutely not! We make mistakes all the time! Nobody is perfect and everybody struggles with something different. And, I appreciate that. I appreciate that every single person has their own struggles. I also appreciate that something that I struggle with, you may have no problem with and vice versa.

Are there Mormons that have done some horrible things and have made some really big mistakes? It saddens me to say this, but yes. Yes, there are. But, does that define all of us? Does that define our religion? No! It sure doesn't.

I just want to extend an invitation to anybody out there who is not of the LDS (Mormon) faith. The invitation is this: If you want to know something about the Mormon church, ask questions. Ask a member of the church. I would be more than happy to answer any questions. You could ask a missionary. You know those guys in the white button up shirts and the black name tags? Those are missionaries. They want to answer all of your questions. Another good source that you could go to is mormon.org.

I know that you've probably met some weird Mormons. We all have. I know that you've probably met some Mormons that seem like real stuck up jerks. We all have. And, I'm not just saying that. But, guys, those people don't define all Mormons. And, they most certainly don't define what we believe. We believe that Jesus Christ is our savior. We believe that we are children of God. We believe in the Bible and we also believe in the Book of Mormon.

The reason why I'm bringing this up is because I never realized how many crazy myths there are about our church until I came to college. Being here at college where not everybody is Mormon, I've heard some crazy stuff. It saddens me every time I hear some crazy gossip about the church that is not true at all. That is why I would implore everybody to find answers to their questions from within the church, not from crazy rumors that come from outside of the church.

Love you, guys!!

Have a good day!

I guess you guys deserve to know.

Well, there's something that I need to tell you all. I'm sorry that it's taken so long to get this news on the blog.


I'm engaged.





Just kidding. Did I scare you? I sure hope so. I wish I could've seen your reaction when you read that! Good golly gosh, I'm funny!

I am NOT engaged.

Anyways, remember that one time that I wrote on my blog about a month ago? That was forever ago. Seriously. But, the reaction that I got from that post made me realize that a few people do read my blog! That blows my mind! But, one suggestion that I got was to ignore school and blog instead. All I have to say to that is this: OKAY!!!! Gladly.

Honestly, a lot of stuff has happened while I've been here at college. I just don't know what kind of stuff I should update my blog with, you know? What kind of stuff do I feel comfortable sharing and what kind of stuff do people even want to hear?

That being said, here are a few upates:

• I did my first haircuts this week! Who's proud? You? Okay, cool. Thanks, mom. But, seriously, they looked good, guys!
• There are a few things that a girl should only have to go through once..and one of those things--I will not name what it is--I had to go through again this week. I've done this before and I never thought I would have to do it again. TOO MUCH AWKWARD, GUYS! Sorry, that is all the information I can give you.
• I have new roommates. I moved. So..there's that.
• I love college. Remember that one time I hated it? I love it now. Honestly. 
• Some nights I tell myself that I'm going to go to bed early. Sometimes it happens. Other times, friends spontaneously invite me to do weird things. And instead of being a scaredy-cat and saying no to everything like I used to (curse anxiety), I say yes. JUST SAY YES, PEOPLE!! First of all, YAY to saying yes to things. Second of all, YAY to having friends!
• Every Thursday is Lumberjack Thursday. That means we wear plaid. Today, to celebrate Lumberjack Thursday, we went to Denny's to get some flapjacks. Lumberjacks eat flapjacks, right? 

Goodnight.

Have you missed me?

Have you guys missed me? I know I have! I've missed me!

If you would've asked me two days ago if I liked it here at college, I would've said, "Heck to the no!"

Ask me now. Ask me! I dare you! Just ask!!!!!

How am I liking college?! Oh, I thought you'd never ask! Well, as of right now, I'm liking it. I had a great weekend and I'm feeling ready to take on another week of school. This weekend was full of dancing like crazy, meeting up with an old friend (which actually made me a bit homesick), and going to a bonfire. I met so many people that I already love. A lot.

College, why must you have so many ups and downs? I love you, then I hate you? Make up your mind! Are you gonna stink, or be awesome?!

Whatever. Also, I guess I'm searching for a new older brother and a new older sister because mine abandoned me and now I have nobody to text about my concerns of college because my other older brother is married and my little sister hasn't gone through college.

Oh well. Life. Good ole' life. Always playing tricks on me! Silly Life! Tricks are for kids! (See what I did there? Nevermind..)

Alright...it's getting late. Goodnight, friends!

College life. Or something like that.

Well..I don't know if I've mentioned this..but, I just finished my first week of college. Wow.

Don't ask me if I like it. I don't know how I would answer.

Stuff Allen Says & My Biggest Regret

Alright, guys. This is Jackie:

Sorry for the horrible picture quality. It was taken on my ipod.

Jackie is one of my very best friends in the whole wide world.

Anyways, Jackie has a brother named Allen. He's outrageous.

The other day, while I was at Jackie's home, I said, "Jackie! Were you born in a barn?"
And, Allen said, "Yeah, Jackie! Were you born in the freakin first grade?!"

Hahaha. That's when I just about died.

If anybody can tell me what that even means, get back to me.

I feel like I should have started a segment on my blog a long time ago called, "Stuff Allen Says." Gosh darn it! What was I thinking?! Now it's too late since I'm going to college! Regret has a name!

I guess this is where I apologize, people.

Sorry!

Have a good evening. :)

I don't even know.

1. I went to sushi today with some of my favorite ladies.

2. I LOVE singles ward. I have far too much fun with these weirdos.

3. Every time I walk into a drug store, I HAVE to look at their makeup selection. I have an addiction. And, it could be getting out of hand. At least I'm not addicted to Mac makeup or anything. (Only because I've always been too poor to even try it.)

4. My sister is leaving for her mission tomorrow. Two siblings on a mission? That's too weird to think about.

5. I'm going to college next week. Whaaat?! I'm like six years old.

6. I'm also turning 18 next week. Is it weird that I'm turning 18 right before I go to college?

7. Today was my last day working with this pickle.

Boy am I going to miss her. She makes me laugh so incredibly hard.

8. Two weeks ago, I was in Oregon. I miss those days!