missionaries!

so i am at that age where all or most of my guy friends are gone on their missions. i have been writing a few of them already. i absolutely love getting mail and i look forward to their letters everyday! now that some of them are out of the country, it is going to take a long time to get my letters out to them and then for them to get back to me. i guess i'll just have to be patient, a trait that i wish i was better at. anywho, so i have been getting some fun letters from my friends. for awhile i started using dearelder.com. for those of you who dont know what that is, its where you can type out your letters and for a small fee you send them to your missionaries. they print them out and then send them for you. well i got bored of that quickly because i missed handwriting my letters and adding pictures and drawings and all that personal jazz. the prices are the same so i'd rather just have fun writing my letters and sending stuff too. in one letter to a very good friend of mine i wrote a very colorful letter and along with a few pictures i also sent a couple of fake tattoos. haha. to another missionary, my cousin actually, i sent a couple of sudoku puzzles. lol! i have also colored pictures of disney princesses and sent those out as well. i like making my letters colorful with lots of different colored pens, as well as adding random drawings of inside jokes with each friend. i miss my boys... i wish they werent gone, but i know that they must be out doing the Lord's work because that is what they are supposed to be doing. i am ecstatic for the day when they get back and i get to see them again. i know its a long ways away, but i hope things havent changed too much that we arent as good as friends anymore. see, a few of the guys im writing i am very close to, they were some of my very best friends in high school. :)

p.s. the picture on the right is from one of my friends' farewell and this was taken of all of us together :) the one on the left was taken at our Senior Baccalaureate (probably just butchered that word, but you get the idea), it was right before graduation. oh the nostalgia...