Sunday, September 18, 2011

Paraguay's Favorite Missionary

HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY to my BEST FRIEND and LITTLE SIS HERMANA LEWIS! (a.k.a. Paraguay's favorite missionary)  I miss this girl probably more than anyone else I know. I write her every week cuz I love hearing from her and can't stand not to talk to her. I remember the day my parents and I dropped her off at the MTC, I didn't think it would be that hard until we acutally got there and had to say goodbye, on the outside I was strong but on the inside I was a mess, my best friend of 21 years was leaving for 18 months "what was I going to do without her?" and the worst  part was that I would be having my first child in a little over a month and she wouldn't be there. It was a surreal day and I'm so glad I got to be a part of it even though it was extremely hard to let her go.

We have so many memories together, we are just two years apart and such close sisters. I can't believe this girl is all grown up and on a mission speaking spanish. I was just thinking the other day about how we used to play school and church with all our dolls and barbies (we seriously had like 50 of them), I knew all their names and Misti would always have to ask me "what's her name again?" There were many nights we stayed up talking and talking, or watching "what a girl wants" while eating red vines, cleaning the house on saturdays then ordering dominos and pigging out cuz we were exhausted, waking up super early on school mornings so I could do her hair and she could do mine, I used to have the "cute clothes" that she would borrow now it's the reverse I covet her wardrobe, everyone at eagle elementary called me misti and her kara they always mixed us up, summers at cascade w/her, chelsea, and shae, us doing the "candy dance," many sledding nights down our hill (we named all the different trails), our march 1st diet that never happened- we called ourselves large and massive, calling her many times a day just to talk cuz she was the only person I felt like talking to, we got our first cell phones together when we figured out how to text we were like two kids in a candy store, more recently before she left calling her to talk about certain things and we'd just laugh and laugh instead of cry about it cuz it was too depressing, her telling me about the first boy she liked and I was so stoked to hear about it (if anyone knows misti they know she doesn't talk about the boys she likes), and I would tell her about all the boys I liked and my b/fs she probably got bored of that, her hanging out w/me and all my high school friends they all love her, her deciding to go to ByuI even though she really wanted to go to Utah State- (I'm glad that was the Lord's plan for her)....I was so happy cuz I got to spend 3 years with her in Rexburg. When I was dating Keith and I came home for the summer I would play this one cd he gave me over and over and over and over again a billion times on her cd player cuz I was staying in her room w/her and she was like "why do you keep playing that? cuz of Keith?" and I just laughed  she ended up loving the cd later on hahaha. making muddy buddies and enchiladas and having girls nights w/misti's roommates in Rexburg, monkey rock, many trips from Rexburg to Boise on one of them Keith wouldn't stop saying "no hay signal"  over and over again misti and I couldn't get that out of our heads! misti's vocab consisted of words like nast, what the junk and random, and a few more that I can't think of at the moment, so many many memories with this girl these are just a few and boy are they random....

This is an old pic I believe I was 18 and she was 16 but it's one of my favorites. (I miss my long hair)



At my wedding reception (one of my bridesmaids)


I love this girl like I love muddy buddies (well maybe a little more) it's funny that she is younger than me because I have always looked up to her, anyone that knows her knows that she is beautiful, incredibly smart, and so spiritual. She has a heart of gold. I miss her so much. June can't come fast enough!

Love you Hermana Misti Lewis!


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