BEING ENGAGED, by Andrew Beck

I really love it! It’s great! Saying goodbye at night is almost intolerable, but otherwise it is really fun. Planning the wedding and reception and honeymoon together has been really exciting and enjoytable. I have liked working together with Ashley on the details! It’s fun to be a team and learn how good we are at making descisions together (by the way I think we’re really good at it.) Today we had luch with newly married Rob and Kimberly Jepson – rob one of my closest friends from high-school. Also, Ben Alvarez and Josh Brown and his girlfriend were there. It was really fun to catch up with those boys and see them and learn about what they are up to and have Ashley be with all of us! She is so fun to be with. It is so neat that we really really really get eachother’s humor and understand each other so well. It is a great blessing from our heavenly father. Ashley is so wonderful. She is blessed with an incredible personality of compassion and humility and truth and honesty. She strengthens me in exactly the ways I need strength. Satan would have me look at our differences as a bad thing and tell me that they make us incompatable.. But what satan is trying to hide from my view, is that our differences are the one of the greatest compliments we have for eachother. Our differences create a great creative tension and strength of diversity. If I am weak in one area that Ashley is strong in, than as long as we remain one, WE are strong in that area. If we can remain connected and confidently One flesh, we can never be beaten!

This last week was a good week. By process of push and pull and up and down, Ashley and I grow closer everyday. I kind of have Christian Bale batman voice right now, because I am sick and my throat is really horse. Today, Debra Lowe called me and offered Ashley and I 1,000$ towards our honeymoon! Heck Yeah! So we’ve been talking about what cruise we want to go on! It is so cool to be such good friends with Ashley . . . As I trepidatiously let down my guard I find that I am rewarded, the more that I let us be friends.

Um . . . So I’m taking 2 psych classes, a dance class with Ashley (love it) and a French class and a Book of Mormon class. I have reresolved to try really hard and work really hard on my work. It’s also good to be working really hard on my work because it helps distract me from being engaged!

Had a great talk with my mom this morning for a bout 2 hours. Our relationship has become so wonderful over the last months. I really feel that we are friends and that we listen to eachother. I legitimately like spending time with her a lot. She is a great lady who is really giving and awesome and has her querks just like all the rest of us.

Sometimes I miss the Rodgers’.