why not smile?

Hello ya'll. well this is fun isn't it? 

before i start on my shhpeel, i hope you enjoyed our christmas card and also i hope none of you are thinking about getting married anytime soon

anyway,

I titled this "why not smile" because I have been feeling especially grateful lately

Firstly for all of you girls. We seriously have the best friends 

I am grateful that I could call any of you and I know I would have a good friend there to just listen

I don't deserve it.

so... thank you :)

I am secondly grateful for byu....

ya, ya make fun of it all you want but I love it here, I have seriously become a stronger person

I thought it was weird at first to say a prayer at the beginning of each of the classes or be required to take religion, but without noticing it's strengthened my testimony! (not to get all spiritual)

Thirdly, I am grateful but more importantly soooo proud of our guy friends

how lucky are we?

they are not only respectful of all of us girls but they actually care about our feelings

I have taken advantage of that and honestly not even thought about it until late

some have come a long way and others have a little bit of work to do but ultimately, GOOD GUYS

and dont let me forget all of their commitments to serve missions!

so that leads me to my fourth thing that i am grateful for and that is mr. cox

he is doing so well and absolutely loves the DR!

when i talked to him on christmas he is pretty fluent in spanish and it creeped me out! 

He has had five baptisms so far and I hear about a new investigator each week

i look forward to letters and emails each week! 

and has 19 1/2 SHORT months left to go!!! 

i promise to anyone dreading sending a missionary off or still in their first month, it goes fast! 

so why not smile?

smile and be grateful for things that you usually wouldn't be

lets plan a sleep over soon and stay up way too late and get grumpy and eat unhealthy and just talk

love all of you... SO MUCH! 

xoxo, mccally

smile :)