This is from a friend. I just wanted to put it somewhere I wouldn't lose it :)
I just i wanted to say Happy Birthday!! I know i said i was going to send you 35$ to get your nails done, but, I just have to say, that I am so broke, but! thats not going to stop me from sending you 35$ for feeling like a princess, the thing is, you just have to wait till my paycheck gets in.. and thats like in 3 weeks!! i know.. kinda stupid. I didnt get paid this week, and i would thought that i would be on the payrol esp when ive been working for a week!!! I feel awful for not sending it in time, and i hope that this sad news didnt really upset you!! I really wanted to send it to you, but i was also waiting on my paycheck to come!! AHH CRAZINESS!!
ANyways! lets change this sad news around, and make it happy!! Here how it goes!! I just wanted to say how grateful I am that you, and i are such great friends! Im sure I have annoyed you so many times in the past, and present, and maybe in the future.. :D haha. But, I just want you to know, that I will not regret the day when we first all met up! Sure, i was really shy at the begining, but i was able to open up, and get to know someone so wonderful! I told jen, and bekah.. this. and i havent told you yet, and i tried to, but your phone is busy, and i kinda got lazy to trying again. hehe. :D anyways. After we all talked on the phone on Sunday, and as i was laying in my bed thinking about you guys. I had such a wonderful confirmation saying.. these are my true friends!! these girls are the one that can help me walk on the straight path, and that they will always be there for me, whenever i need them, and if i need to smacked in the buttom. :) and that my patriarchal blessing was starting to make more sense. :) before i talked to you guys, I was struggling so hard in trying to be strong with what i know is true, and whether being a good girl is worth the shot, and what not. I have many friends who are doing drugs, and have been loosing their virtue. for so many weeks, I was jealous. I wanted to be just like them, and why cant i be bad just this once.. but everytime i tell myself just one sip, my testimony is saving me from not doing those things. I wanted to fit in so bad, and didnt want to be always the good girl. being a good girl is always hard, and having friends who does the opposite, makes it even harder. But then after that night, I told myself, you know, i can do it! I have friends who keep their standards, i have friends who loves to do the right thing, and that its not bad!! It just gave me a realization, that i didnt i have to be bad to fit in our circle. We have each other, and the testimony that we have creates our friendship something even more than expected. I just want to let you know that I love you so much, and Im just grateful for you, and your determination to choose the right, and through your example it had saved me from making the biggest mistake of my life. And i just wanted you to know that. And. Happy birthday!!! I wish every min to be there with you! But im truly grateful you get to go to the temple. Let me know how it goes. And no worries, the money is coming!!
i love you
vanessa
