My First Year Waiting

Summary of My Year from Desiree Moore on Vimeo.

Angel, One Direction, New Hair? My Roomie, Lithuania, Preston, Randomness, etc...

It's Wednesday night.

I just finished my finals :) 

So I thought to myself, "Now that I'm not studying like a mad person... What should I do?"

And the idea popped into my head.

BLOG.

So here I am :) I'm going to throw a lot of random ideas and thoughts at you. Probably a little venting too. But here we go. 

This has been one of my favorite songs. Cody is adorable and if you haven't listened to him yet, you totally should. Just sayin'

Speaking of beaches (ok well we weren't talking about beaches, but I just watched Cody's video and there is a beach in it, so I got the thought of beaches in my head. Anyway..)

Me and my roomie who is leaving for the summer got our pictures taken at our beach the other day. 

I never wanna leave this place.

Anyway...

Preston sent me this picture during our email chat on Monday. He's still the same Preston he's always been :) And he's wearing the BYUH shirt I sent him.. hehe :) 

So, I really don't have that many baby names picked out. But ever since the first time I saw A Walk To Remember, I've always wanted to name my first son Landon. And I'm seriously going to. Preston is ok with it :) But now, I've decided on my second favorite boy name. Are you ready? It's...

Liam.

I just love it. And of course, my inspiration came from.... 

Liam Hemsworth!

Although I'm "team peeta" I have always loved Liam Hemsworth, ever since The Last Song.

And my next inspiration came from Liam Payne. Ya'll know One Direction, right? Of course you do. Well, I think Liam is just freaking adorable. I kinda like him a lot.

Speaking of One Direction. I'm sure you've all heard What Makes You Beautiful. It's an amazing song. If you haven't listened to it yet, go do it now. But i also loooooove their song "One Thing" and think the music video is quite cute. 

p.s. I love the way they dress. 

Ok, moving on.. :)

I think I'm ready for another change in my life. I've been a pretty big fan of change every since Preston left. He's been gone 14 months and out of that 14 months I've only lived at home for 6 months of it. I like change :) So here's what I'm thinking. 

I wanna dye my hair.

I've been blonde forever.. I look the EXACT same that I did two years ago. It's time to mix things up. I'm thinking this color might be cool... :) 

Thoughts? Comments??? :) 

Also, while we're on the topic of "change" I've really really been thinking about going back with ILP to Head Teach in Lithuania summer 2013. Yeah... That's the summer after Preston gets home. And I know I'll want to spend every second with him. But for those of you who really know me, you know I have this appetite for traveling. I love it. I've always wanted to live in Europe too.

How could I pass up an opportunity to live in Europe for 4 months for FREE? 

I literally wouldn't have to pay anything.

Plus, they'd give me money to spend while I'm there

Plus, I'd get to visit places like Sweden, Latvia, Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Estonia.. etc..

Plus, I'd get to be around little kids :) (my FAVORITE!)

Plus, it'd look good on my resume, seeing as i'm majoring in Elementary Ed.

Plus, It's the same type of place where Preston is serving. Hungary wouldn't be too far away.

Plus, yeah...

It looks beautiful to me :) 

Anyway, I think this post is long enough now.

To those of you who read it, thank you for listening to my random rambling. 

Only one semester left until Preston is home. CRAZY!!! 

I love life and everything Heavenly Father has been blessing me with. I really am SUCH a lucky girl. I'd like to close this post with this quote that I've been trying to live by:

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It's TODAY!

It's finally August 25th!! You know what that means? I leave for China tonight!!!

I will hopefully still be able to blog all the time. If you would like to follow all the experiences and adventures I embark on while there, you can follow my China blog: http://desireegoestochina.blogspot.com/

But no worries, I'll still write on this blog :) just not as much... :) 

As far as me and my mish go, we are doing wonderful and still more in love than ever!

I highly recommend living your own life and experiencing different things while your missionary is gone. I know this experience is going to be one of the most amazing experiences of my whole life. 

I'm just so excited and wanna leave now! Just 5 more hours til I leave for the airport!!! :) 

We fly to California, then Korea, then Hong Kong and then finally China!

Wish me luck!!

39 Days-ish

I leave for China in about 39 days :) Am I freaking out because I'm so excited? YES! This week was training. I'm going with a fellow MG, Kaydee. We met a couple more people from our group going to Kaiyin. I can tell we're going to become great friends :)

I learned a lot and I cannot wait to get there :) 

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In other news, Preston is on his 3rd transfer today! :) You know what that means? Only 13 left! He is getting a new companion who is only on his 6th transfer. So they are both going to have to work even harder. I'm excited for him though :) Also, this past week he finally got my anniversary package that I sent him :) He said he was so amazingly happy. He even said it was the happiest day of his mission so far. Hopefully he was exaggerating about that though :) 

Another thing that happened this week was the Harry Potter premier. I had to work the midnight showing. I'd never seen so many people at the theatre in my life. All I could think was, "Where are we putting all these people? There's no way they'll all fit in our theatre" but somehow, they did.

(source: Kendra's Domain)

Honestly, this week has been one of the busiest weeks of the summer for me. I love it :) Time is flying. Staying busy really is key. I'm so happy every day and before I know it, I'll be at 6 months :)

p.s. I really love Elder Wright <3

"You've Been Accepted" CHINA!!! :D

I could not be more excited :) I got accepted to the ILP program to go as a volunteer and teach english to little kids in China this fall!! Aug - Dec :) I'm freaking OUT!!! :D

I got the acceptance email last week. But I got assigned a city today :) I kinda felt like I was waiting for my mission call! :p

It's crazy because Zhongshan is the city that I felt like I would enjoy the most, and it's the one I got assigned to! :) I got the email while I was waiting for the bus at UVU and I started freaking out. Pretty sure the people around me thought I was crazy. I'm just so happy! I thought things couldn't get any better, but looks like they have :)

WHY:

Why am I doing this you might ask? I am going with ILP to teach English for multiple reasons :) 

1) I want to travel! Preston gets to live in Europe for 2 years. I have to live somewhere other than Utah while he's gone :) 

2) Just because :) You didn't think I would just sit around and do nothing while he's gone did you? 

3) I want to experience a completely different culture. I'm obsessed with different places in the world and learning all about them.

4) I'm hoping to minor/get a certificate in TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) which I will use when Me and Preston are married and move to Hungary :) And this is something that will teach me a lot about that, and also look good on my resume 

5) I love little kids! It's also a good learning experience. I know it'll help me learn some things that will help me when I'm a mother. 

6) I've always wanted to be a volunteer for something like this. If anything, I want to help change the world. Even if it's just one child at a time. 

INFO: 

If you aren't interested in knowing about the program, you can skip down :) ILP is a non profit organization based out of Orem and they send volunteers to Russia, China, Ukraine, Mexico and Thailand. All of them only go in the spring, and in the fall. The only summer one is in Mexico. So, they are all 4 - 5 months. Honestly, I was tempted to pick Ukraine because it boarders Hungary and I'd get to visit Hungary while being there. I could have been in the same place at Preston. But I prayed about it and China just felt like it's where I'm supposed to go :) Anyway, It costs $2,520. But get this, it covers your food, airfare and housing. That's cheaper than a semester of college. They provide 3 meals a day except for during travels. That's the other great thing, we get to travel everywhere! Ok not everywhere but we get to travel a lot. I'm probably most excited for the Great Wall of China :) We have a lot of free time. We only teach for a few hours everyday and the rest of the time is for us to do whatever with. We can also take Chinese, cooking and Kung Fu classes. Kung Fu!!!! I'm sooooo excited. 

Now it's picture time :) 

This is my city!!!! Zhongshan :) 

It's super green. I love it!

:)

This is part of the school

This is where teachers stay :) 

How could you not want to be around this everyday? :) 

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Video time :)

(this is a video from a former ILP group in China)

In other words. I just can't wait. I feel like I'm already in love with the kids. 3 1/2 months and that's where I'll be :) China here I come!!!! :D