I have been incredibly busy with Young Ambassadors over the last few months! It has been so much fun! At the end of February/ the beginning of March, we went on our Mid-semester 10-day Tour to Las Vegas and Southern California. One of the best parts about tour was the host families. We split up and stayed with different families every night. It was so much fun to get to know them and learn from them. One of the worst/best things about tour is the amount of food we eat!! Every morning our host families make us wonderful breakfasts and sack lunches for lunch (which we usually aren't hungry for, but eat anyway). Then before the show, people from the nearest ward make us amazing dinners... and after the show our host families feed us again. I'm so incredibly grateful for how much other people do for us, but when I put on my skin-tight sparkly dress... I begin to regret it! haha I love TOUR!
My parents and I after our show at the Henderson Pavilion. As you can see, the Pavilion was incredible and SOOO many people were there! The only downfall was that the audience froze a little! However, we were loving how breezy it felt on stage. At one point I was singing a solo and had a perfect gust of wind blow my hair and add some excellent wind blown effect... I have never felt cooler in my life!
The cute Truman and Fife kids got to be in a couple numbers of the show! They were so adorable!
Maybe I love Brittany Worley more than anyone in this planet!
Ryan Margetts and I- Ryan rocks the guitar for the band! Ps- isn't the program awesome?!
Ryan Stasell, Whitley, and I in front of the Pavilion. It rocks my world!
Next stop!!!- LANCASTER, CA!
How can I describe Lancaster?... It was a mixture of awesome, hilarious, and touching. Weird mix, I know... let me explain. We did a show there on Saturday night then stayed with host families that night, then we went to a singles' ward the next day and got to know all of the YSA, then we did a fireside that night, and left on Monday. It was so awesome to stay with the same host families for a few nights. My host mom was a young single adult named Stephanie. She is the greatest person EVER!! Also living with Stephanie is an LDS woman named Zuley and her 3 girls. Stephanie and Zuley are converts to the church and their stories are incredible! I cannot believe how close I became with them in such a short time. I miss them so much! A girl on the tech crew, Becky, was my roommate. She just recently joined the crew, so I was excited for the opportunity to get to know her better as well. She is so much fun and so talented in what she does. The two pictures above are of the YSA ward "munch n' mingle" after church. I have never felt cooler in my life then when I was with them. Most of them had seen the show the night before, so the girls had already decided which boys they wanted to marry and it was up to me and some of the other YA girls to play match maker! It was hilarious! Who can blame the girls though... the YA boys are hottays!!
Becky, Stephanie, and I... Stephanie took the liberty of fixing the sign for me. Now it's Michele with one "L". What a pal! She's hilarious.
This is Zuley and her 3 girls. Zuley is such an incredible woman! I love her!
The next day we went to the LA Temple. We took pictures, had some down time, and gave a fireside in the visitor's center. Stephanie followed us there and saw the fireside again. She's the best mom ever!
Before this picture we took group pictures in our matching tour clothes, in front of the temple. Right then it really hit me that I was actually on Tour with the Young Ambassadors. WHAT THE HECK!! I'll admit I started crying a little and hugging Yo and Brit. Sometimes I look at Yo and can't believe that I'm actually friends with that cool black girl I always wanted to be like! haha it really is an surreal experience. What a blessing.
In LA we had some down time to hang out in Hollywood. So we went to the wax museum! Whitley and I took the liberty of kissing every statue... that's how we do.
Don't be jealous...
I did fire Marshall Bill just for the fam!
The next round of pictures is from the day we went to the beach and to the Ronald Reagan Museam. So LBH... (let's be honest. ha) when I heard we were going to this museum for 2 hours I was NOT excited. I didn't know how I could spend 1 hour in a museum, nonetheless 2.... but o was I wrong. IT ROCKED! I have this new burning love for Ronald Reagan. He was the coolest president ever!! Seriously, he was an actor before he went into politics, he helped the eventual fall of the Berlin wall, and he married the cutest woman ever- Nancy Reagan... I want to be her. The museum had some of the love letters he had written to her and it was SO adorable. I love them. He was also just a solid and moral person. He stood up for what was right and it was very incredible. I was so grateful for Brittany at this part of the tour. She became my museum buddy... we just went slow and enjoyed every part of it! Reagan had such strong beliefs too. In the picture below, we are standing in front of his grave. The quote says-" I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life." I love him.
He loved the arts too! Can you get any better?!
Okay baby... BEACH TIME! We only had like an hour to eat dinner and play at the beach, but we took full advantage of that hour. The above picture is some of us doing the famous "butt-squeeze leap." I'm not sure who exactly invented it... either me, Brit, or Carson, but there is no cooler leap in the world." Okay coolest leap ever in the history of the leap!!!"
Check out Max's split leap on the end... GET IT! I'm the one with the perfect Ballet hands in the middle... lol uncool.
Okay okay! You can't really tell how rocking my hair is in this picture, but the salt did something amazing to it! Each curl was like magic! It was the greatest hair day of my life!
Introducing Michelle Monson... She is the most hilarious person on this planet. We stayed together one night and she found this in the bathroom after her shower. You can't tell, but one tatoo is a devil and one is an angel! We were dying! However, the best part is that Michelle thought that the butts in the picture were our host parents' butts!! I had to inform her that they definitely belonged to a babies, not adults. I love her haha.
Okay... now the rest are just random pictures from some of our shows.
We had some great times in this dressing room.
I LOVE YOYO!
Brit and I were costume rack buddies a bunch of times... love it! Sorry about the awkward hand hold going on though...
Brad and Savannah
Max and Chris
So... a couple weeks after tour we did 4 shows in the De Jong Theatre on campus. It was so much fun! The audience was full of family and friends who were so supportive and awesome! Finally the show felt complete too! It was so great!
So maybe I shouldn't have put these picture up because I look pretty nasty, but I just had to show the world how sweet our dresses are! And we're wearing huge, silver heels... "I Love You I Do"
These are our "Come So Far" dresses!
Singing "I Am A Child of God" at the end of the show.
"It's Just Life"... fierce arm right?! ha
Sarah, Ferg, and Rachel came to the show! I was so excited to have them see it! Plus their comments on it were hilarious. I am so grateful for awesome friends!
Megan Bagley came from Logan to see the show! Isn't she the best?! love her!
Last weekend we did a show in Richfield! Last show before 30-day tour! WOO HOO!
