May 28, 2009(This post was started on May 11, 2009, as the date above reads, but it took me a few weeks to finish because I was busy.)
I'm sure that by now you all know that we are moving, but if not, for those of you who have not heard, we are moving to Brewster when school gets out.
Last spring when my parents had first started talking about moving I didn't want anything to do with it; this is where I have lived for the past 13 years of my life. Then they were talking about moving to Oklahoma and I was really against that; there was no way they were going to move me that far away from the Northwest, where I don't know people and where I would never get to see my friends anymore, I would just move in with my grandma.
But after summer was over and I had to go back to school and everyone was back at home, which meant I didn't see anyone, then I wanted badly to move so badly that I almost wouldn't have minded moving to Oklahoma (except for those gross bugs that I've never seen). My 2 top choices of where I would want to move was Brownsville and Brewster, either one would have been fine with me.
Then they stopped talking about moving to Oklahoma and started telling people that we were going to move to Brownsville, which of course I jumped right on that idea. I love it in Brownsville, I even want to get married in the park there (it's written right there in our plans). I was so happy that I would finally get to go to school with Brandon and Shay and we were going to graduate together. Shay and I were going to do Blue Notes together, which is an advanced jazz choir. It was going to be so cool.
But then on the way over the mountain for Easter dad asked us kids what we thought of Brewster and by the next day he was telling people that we were thinking about moving up there. Not something I had been expecting, but still it was better than Oklahoma, it just wasn't Brownsville.
So, yeah, in less than a month I will be living in Brewster, Washington. Yes, it's still not Brownsville, but I have become very excited about the move, which anyone who has talked to me would know. I won't be graduating with Brandon and Shay, but instead I will graduate with Abe and Emily. I will be able to get to know everyone up there better. Everything will be new to me, which before would have scared me, but now I am so very excited and ready for all of the new changes that await me in Washington.
3 comments:
Yeah were moving!!!!!
I loved it when we lived there. The brethren there are so nice and fun to be around too. You won't be any farther away from us which is a big plus for me! Happy for you!
I had an experience similar to yours. When I was 20 and living in Tangent, Ben decided to move to Alturas. I would go (that's what wives are supposed to do), but I wasn't exactly happy about it. Several reasons - one was that it was much farther from my family. But then somebody invited him to go to Malott (that's where the church was then - it moved to Brewster later) with him, and he fell in love with it! So that's where we moved - and I was very much relieved, though it's not my favorite spot in the world, I did learn to like it (that's another story). But you know what the locals say about Brewster - it's NOT the end of the world - BUT YOU CAN SEE IT FROM THERE!
I hope that you enjoy living there; there are some very fine brethren there.
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