A beautiful day in the neighborhood!

I found the neighborhood that I want to live in when I'm older and have my own home. It's gorgeous! All the houses are older, but cute! They are all like little cottages. I saw one that I swear was the house they built Belle's house off of in Beauty and the Beast. They were all adorable and well kept, each completely unique, but each quaint and lovely. They all had gardens and huge trees in their yards! And there were more huge trees lining the roads that had grown up and over, covering the street and creating an arch of foliage that the sun shone through just perfectly. Oh it was perfect.

That is, if the people there weren't snobs. And everything wasn't so expensive. And it wasn't in Utah.

But other than that, the neighborhood was perfect, just the way I would want it to look. I used to think that I wanted to live in suburbia, where all the houses looked the same and everything was really open and uniform and whatnot. But this Utah neighborhood look, where all the houses are completely different, is really starting to grow on me! This way, you can be completely individualized, your house can be done the way you want it and it can reflect your personality! It can be anything I want it to be. It could be totally me.

And I'm all about being me. I think everybody should be! Not about being me, about being themselves. Yes, that sound about right :)

This morning, I also went to my friend Kooper's  mission farewell. That was really fun! I had never been to one before so this was a new experience for me, with the whole tons of people coming to sacrament meeting just to hear him speak and then the luncheon and all that jazz, it was just very... Utah. Not bad, but not something I was used to! We went to this park for the luncheon that was GORGEOUS. Oh man, it was a gem. It was probably the most picturesque thing I have seen in a very long time. I would probably, no definitely, build a house right there in that park and live there for the rest of my life. Forget my little neighborhood.

What I loved about Kooper's farewell though was that he sang the closing hymn right after he spoke. Whenever people perform in church, it always reminds me of how much I love to sing. I love watching others perform, it rekindles a fire inside of me and reminds me how much I love doing it myself! I was also thinking about those people who say that they don't want to believe in an afterlife because they think that all we become are angels, destined to sing and plays our harps for the rest of our existence and that isn't what they want for themselves. But you know what? I do. I want to be that angel. There is nothing that I would rather do than sing for the rest of eternity for my Heavenly Father.

I can't think of something that would bring me more joy :)