Visiting Roommates

Throughout my single days, I had around 50 roommates between college, my mission, more college and career single life.  For the most part, I was pretty lucky with the various girls I lived with and I'm still friends with many of them.  Last weekend a couple of my past roommates were in town, so we met up to catch up.

First was Michelle, my past roommate from BYU.  We lived together (with Jessica, Marianne and my cousins Julia and Heidi) the year before my mission. That year was such a blast!  Michelle was in town for a wedding, so we met up and went out to dinner.  We laughed and laughed, just like the old days.  (And saying "just like the old days" makes me feel really old.)

Me and Michelle!

Our second visit was with Mallory and her husband Daniel.  Mallory was my roommate the year after my mission in Provo (with Eliza, Lisa, Megan and Janine).  Funny story, Mallory's husband Daniel was in my ward my Freshman year at BYU-Idaho and my FHE brother.  I take a little credit in Mallory's and Daniel's marriage, because they met through me in Provo.  It's so great when two awesome people you know marry each other.  We went out for frozen yogurt and had fun chatting.  Also, small world, we found out that Danny knew Mallory's cousins while on his mission. Good times.

Daniel, Mallory, Me and Danny

I should also mention two weekends ago I went out to lunch with my past roommates from Provo, Joni, Rachel and Melissa.  I love those girls so much.  Joni recently returned from her mission to Honduras, so we all got together and talked mission talk.  Joni was a 20-year-old placed with three returned sister missionaries when we were all living together.  We tried not to pressure her at all and when she turned 21, she told us she felt a mission wasn't for her.  About a year later she called all of us and said, "Well, your stories and the spirit finally got to me, I'm going on a mission!"  We were all delighted for her.  It was so great to spend time with those lovely women.  I can't want to see them again!  (And unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of that lunch; however, below is a picture from our epic road trip to Moab.)

Me, Joni, Rachel and Melissa, back when we were roommies!