Day 9

Well here we are... the end of DAY 9.

Today Beeline pest control came to spray the house. Sue (my mother in law) was there when they came and they did a good job. I feel so much better now about being in that house. I was going insane before hand. After the guy sprayed, I arrived and Sue and I cleaned up some things and found some cool stuff that belonged to Grandma Jones. Grandma Jones is Sue's mom. She passed away while Brad was on his mission. Sue found her journal from 30 years ago. It was really cool. I wish I would have had the oppourtunity to know her. She was a woman of great faith and great unconditional love for her family. She may be gone but the stories about her influence me in many ways. It is neat to see that some people leave behind them such a great legacy.
At 730 Brad and I met with his stake president. It was such a great meeting. We talked about spiritual love and physical love. He asked us to bare out testimonies to eachother. We did. It was so amamzing! It really felt amazing to hear Brad's testimony about how our family will be together forever. It was hard not to cry. President Shephard told us that this is where our spiritual love starts. Most people don't start to build upon that or allow their spiritual love and physical love to cross until 20 years after marriage. He challenged Brad and I to make that happen right away. To start building our spiritual love now. It was really amazing.
I know that what Brad and I are doing is sooo right! He is my best friend. I know I can always count on him and know he will be there for me. He will always be right by my side and I will always be right by his. It is going to be a wonderful journey. I know at times we all like to think that we have it all figured out. We all like to think that we know how to make a perfect marriage, how to raise perfect children, how to be nearly perfect about everything we do in our lives... well we definately don't. We may know things that can contribute to a perfect whatever.... but do we act on them? And that isn't the only thing that plays into a perfect whatever. I am happy knowing that I am not perfect. I don't know how to make a perfect marriage or raise a perfect family. I wish I did. I feel like everything is perfect right now and I would definately like for it to continue on that way for eternity... That isn't the case, and that is okay. :D The best part is that Brad doesn't know how either. Together we can help eachother to become better, together we can figure out how to raise the best family we can... TOGETHER, we can do anything, figure out anything, perfect eachother, love eachother, and do everything we can to make eachother happy. We will learn from out mistakes together. We will hopefully always hold a good attitude and be kind always to one another... I guess what I am getting at is that together we can accomplish and do what we couldn't do without eachother. And that is a lot. Brad always makes me want to be a better person. Just being with him makes everything better. He is my best friend, the love of my life, my christ like example, Brad is everything I've ever needed and wanted all in one package.
It's exciting to know I am marrying the best. How many people's husbands non-stop tell them how beautiful they are and all the many many things they love about them on a day to day basis? Brad tells me these things everyday. I can be cleaning the house after tanning and mowing the lawn, no make up, in sweats and Brad still looks at me like I am the most beautiful person. Ha even though I know differently lol... It makes me feel good that he feels that way. Oh how I love him. See what I mean about him being that best? I have a lot to live up to. I hope I can always be for him what he is for me. :)