Wow...just...wow

So, today I was pondering.  Okay, no, it was yesterday, I'm giving up the whole pretense that I am deep and insightful in the morning.  Heavens, I can barely stumble from my apartment to work and I have already been up for an HOUR by then.  Morning person I am not.

BUT, I digress.  Yesterday I received a package in the mail.  A package, you say?  Who receives unexpected packages these days?  Not I, usually.  My parents live less than an hour away from me, so if they want to give me something, they just give it to me when I go home.  So, I was thrilled when I opened my door and found a package with my name on it.  And a return address from...

Burke, Virginia.

That's right folks.  My dear, darling mission companion Sister Abigail L. Holt sent me a package full of love!  I was shipped right back to all the times that we spent together opening packages that she had gotten from her family and oh what joy and love came flooding back.

BUT, again, I digress.  You are not here to read all about how sentimental I am.

So, I got this package and do you know what was in it?  All the things that I had been thinking...man, I really should go get that...but never do go get.  Now, there were some...added surprises (like my new wall plaque that says I heart bacon, or my "Virginia is for Lovers" tee shirt that I could NEVER find while I was there) but we all know I neeeeeeded those too...deep down.

Anyway, I was thinking just how lucky I am to have this girl in my life.  She got me through the hardest times on my mission.  The times when I was so sick I barely left my bed, she was there telling me all about her favorite movies.  The times when we were tracting all the live long day and not finding anyone, she was there helping me laugh.  Seriously, Sister Abigail L. Holt is my rock.  I doubt I tell her that enough.

She comes home on May 25.  Don't tell her, but I am secretly counting down the days until I can talk to her every day again.  It's a secret.  ;)  Okay, maybe NOT a secret because I just told all of you on the internet, but still...she doesn't know yet.

Anyway, this magical package got me thinking about all of the other blessings in my life.  My loving family.  My wonderful mom  (have you gotten your mother's day presents yet?)  and my fabulous dad (seriously, how these two survived raisisng me I will never know).  My friends, the ones from So Jo and all the new ones I am making now.  My mission buds.  Just everyone who has been sent in to my life to bless it in some way.  And well...wow.  Just...wow.

I don't know that I take the time to do that often enough.  To really be grateful for my blessings.  So, I am going to do that more.  Really be grateful for what I have.  Because, even though being sick is tough and finals suck and starting Spring Term isn't something that I wanted to do (sorry it took so long to blog again) well...I am still so blessed.

And that is some heavenly success if I do say so myself.