Megan

I cannot believe I forgot to include this beautiful girl in my post about graduating college.

She is one of the reasons why I'm so grateful that I chose to come to BYU.  I didn't really ever want to go to BYU, but felt like I should apply.  So I did.  I really doubted I would get accepted, I had pretty average grades and an average ACT score, and I'd always heard how hard it was to get in.  But I applied anyway.  I still remember the day I came home from school and my mom greeted me with a big smile. She said I had gotten a letter from BYU and I was accepted!  I was shocked but still didn't think I would attend BYU.

I was planning on attending Dixie with my cousin Ty, we both had scholarships, and planned we would go together.  But I just didn't feel right about it, even when Ty and I visited Dixie together it just didn't seem right.  Then I visited Utah State with Synth, one of my best friends, we stayed with her cousin, and that didn't feel right at all.  So of course I prayed and looked for an answer of where I should go.  But I still wasn't sure.

Then my cousin Megan found out I had been accepted to BYU.  Meg and I were close when we were little, playing at Nana and Papa's on Sunday nights, writing each other notes and leaving them in the cabinet for each other to find and read.  But then I moved away and then she moved away, and things were never the same.  I was always a little bitter towards her because I believed that she stopped wanting to be my friend.  I know this wasn't true but I just thought that she no longer cared about our relationship and it really hurt me.

Anyway, when she asked me if I wanted to be her roommate at BYU I was surprised.  Why would she want to be roommates with me?  We weren't close friends, I felt as though I barely knew her.

Well it's obvious what happened, I came to BYU, was roommates with Meg and it changed my life.  I will forever be grateful for the one semester that I had to really become friends with her again.  We talked late at night in our beds before we went to sleep, we studied at the library together (with Clark, of course, they were engaged), we ate ice cream together (we both love ice cream (it's a Wall thing!), although I never understood why vanilla was her favorite, chocolate is so much better!), we suffered through Music 201 together, we hung out together, we shared our struggles together, we held each other when we cried, I saw her and Clark's relationship up close and I truly came to know her and love her.

Sadly, we don't have very many pictures of us together at college, I can only find one (which is probably why I forgot to put her in my other post).  We were only together for one semester.  And even though that semester was challenging (adjusting to college was brutal for me, no one ever warned me that it would turn me into an emotional train wreck!) I think I cried every week-it was rough.  It is a semester that I feel privileged to have experienced with Meg.  I learned so much from her.  She was a great example to me of living the gospel and sharing the gospel with others. 

If you're reading this and you don't know, Megan passed away after our semester together.  We were roommates in Fall of 2005 and she passed away January 14, 2006 in a tragic car accident.  I feel so blessed to have lived with Megan for four months.  In those short four months I had the chance to get to know her and to become close friends again. I only wish that we could have shared more of our college experience at BYU together.

Love this picture of her, she loved lemons, just like her mom and sisters do!

The only picture I have of us and our roommates

I had the chance to go to her reception in California.  It was absolutely perfect!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from her wedding day.  She was only married for four short weeks before she past away. 

Love you Meg!  I can't wait to see you again.