Things London taught me:

• It is much harder to fall out of love than in it
• I have the capacity to make friends, despite my persistent belief that I didn't
• Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ know me personally, out of the billions of people that have ever lived on this earth
• Laughter heals most wounds, and time heals all others
• A mission scares me more than anything in this entire world, but I still want it so badly
• Sometimes you just have to get away from the things that are tearing out your heart, if only to realize how important they are
• I was born to dance
• New friends are wonderful and fun and exciting, but there is nothing better or more loyal than an old friend
• There is no reason to be angry at God for things that seem like the worst, because they usually turn out to be the best things that could happen
• Siblings are otherwise known as angels
• I am loved

And now, a plethora of pictures which you probably don't care about but that I love:

#sibsinlondon at Westminster Abbey

Constable Country with my favorite people
 

Hampton Court, probably most favorite picture of the trip

Sissinghurst Castle with the groupies

Awkwardness in Bath

My girlies at Robin Hood Bay

The Lake District with some more favorite people of mine

Chatsworth

Chatsworth with my darling Anna

The Louvre with my homegirls

 

Dancing at the Tour Eiffel in a torrential Parisian rainstorm and loving every minute

On top of the Arc de Triomphe on my BIRTHDAY with the two best older brothers around

You know, just wandering the Alps with my bros

You know, what I'm about to say is just full of all sorts of cheesy, but I'm just gonna do it, I'm just gonna tell you because this cheese is from the heart:

On days like this

when I'm not feeling myself,

and everyone's words seem to cut, in that oh-so-personal-but-not-on-purpose way,

I simply can't stop thinking about you because you always make me feel like the truest self I can be.

And that's just about the best thing you've ever given me.