After the meeting she stood up and to my wonder and amazement, she was more gorgeous than I possibly could have imagined. A feeling of light and excitement reverberated through my body and I knew that I had to meet this blonde beauty. I stood in my pew in a daze trying not to stare. Then she turned to walk down the aisle towards me. A lump formed in my throat. I knew it would be difficult to form a coherent sentence in my nervous state, but I knew the risk of making a fool of myself was worth the potential of getting to know her. As she approached I reached out to her and introduced myself and asked if she was new in the ward.
She seemed very hesitant to respond, but eventually said that yes, she was new. I asked a little about her and found out she had just gotten home from a mission and that she had gone to BYU. I could tell that she was still adjusting from her mission, but that fact helped make sense of the heavenly glow and the awkward body language. I mentioned that I had gone to BYU also, and that seemed to put her a little more at ease. However, she was not at ease enough to carry on the conversation, and motioned to leave. I knew I couldn't let her disappear forever, so I stammered to ask her for her phone number. She awkwardly hesitated, which lessened my confidence. Trying to recover, I followed with... we'll need it to transfer your records into the ward. She quickly shot off a phone number, and slipped away.
At that moment I had the greatest feeling in the world. I don't know if I believed in love at first sight, but that day I felt a feeling of excitement that I hadn't ever felt before, and hoped more than anything that I would get a chance to get to talk to this glowing girl once again. I was suddenly obsessed with an angel, Laurie Angell.
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| Laurie dancing angelically at BYU. |
