Actual progress and FIRST LETTER!!

Hey, everyone. Yes, I still contribute. Just in case you were wondering with Kylie's obsession over our awesome blog. I have to admit it is really addicting. Writing gives me a sort of high, like a natural happy one, not a drug induced one, because those are dumb.  It's the kind of high that you get when you are hanging out at a movie premiere or something like that.  It feels so good that I have decided to start writing my book again. This may subside significantly when school starts again, but hopefully I can update the chapters here, in case you wanted to read.

Yesterday, Kylie and I made significant progress on our books. Like, we actually started gluing things into them!! Its totes exciting.  I did 25 pages of Emily's book, and Kylie did 16 of Amanda's. I did more because Kylie kept having problems with the glue. It was actually quite hilarious.  We wrote an introduction that had us laughing a ton, and we accidentally got salsa in Emily's book. But salsa and love are the same thing, they are both red and squishy. (so she doesn't yell at me: Kylie came up with that)  There will probably be a ton of dog hair in them because my dog sheds a lot.  Oops.  Anyway, on the back page we did something special. Take a look.

The first one is from Em's book, and the second (obviously) from Amanda's.  There are some definite mistakes, but that will make it so they know for sure that we made them by hand.  For example, the E on Emily's book is supposed to be decorated with yellow, but I messed up and did it in blue first. And you can't see the words "Hogwarts" and "there" on Manda's cause her book is red and dumb. The charms that you see are their favorite animals. A Dolphin for Em and an Elephant for Manda. The picture is of the four of us the last day we all hung out and went to the dinosaur museum. (Maybe our lives are a little full of dinosaurs. but only because they are cool.)  And the pic is bordered by the Hogwarts colors in the order that we are standing. The rest of the book is pictures and quotes and scriptures put in where ever we want. Some of them coordinate, some of them don't. Good luck figuring out which is which. Muahahahaha.

Today, I received something special.

Yep, a letter. Actually, it's two letters from Hermana Lloyd.  She wrote one before she got my letter and then one after.  She loves the MTC and her district, even though all of the elders are right out of high school and weird.  But the Sprite machine is apparently giving her trust issues because the soda is not always good. I had the privilege of being the first to write to her.  I don't know why I am talking about all of this because this blog is for them to know whats going on with me, not re-reading what they wrote to me. But it's the first letter I have gotten and I'm just so flipping happy.  I have been watching for this for days.

I also made my mom watch AVPM! And she liked it and thought it hilarious. I'm happy, she might actually trust my ideas of what is hilarious or not now. *fingers crossed*

Other than that, all I have been doing is preparing for my sisters baby shower on Saturday. We made cookies today because it may rain and is actually pleasant weather outside.  Baby showers are HARD.  Too much stuff to do, but I get butter cream mints out of it so I am good.

Later,
 -Korrin