Five

Summer 2011, I met one of the most inspirational people in my life.

But I wouldn't know it until almost a year and a half later.

K and I ended up in the same EFY group (and neighbors) by chance. That's how these things work. We took the cheesy pictures together. We had some late night memories. We gossiped and laughed together that week. And the end of the week came and we exchanged numbers and became facebook friends and parted ways. We'd chat occasionally - Senior year was busy of course. And we both went about the craziness that is life.

Being the procrastinators we are  Because we both were undecided about where we'd be attending school, we waited to put in our housing requests. We both didn't want to be at BYU and we both thought we had better offers. So once we went through the whole process of enrolling and choosing housing (which is a whole other story), we contacted each other to see if we were actually both going to be at BYU and where we'd be living.

We were in the same building.

On the same floor.

I was excited to see her that fall and I was glad I'd know at least one person before I got this school and become a number in the 32,000 student population. We chatted here and there before we got to campus. But I think once we saw each other again on move-in day, we were inseparable after that.

She became my rock those first few months - we'd sit and cry on the floor in my bedroom together. We'd change the lyrics to songs to make them applicable to us. We spent so many random, wild nights together. SO many memories.

She's been my example in more ways than one. She is selfless and brave and caring. She'd spend the night in jail for me - I just know it.