a blast from the past...

throughout my life i have changed.

 i've had my up's and down's and i've slowly started to find out who i will be. 

-in my early elementary school yaers, i was an extremely shy little girl. i got scared being around people i didn't know very well, feared unfamiliar situations, and it scared to be have to be away from my mom. 

-in 3rd and 4th grade i opened up a little more. i started to make more friends and realized i could do things on my own. 

-in 5th grade, i developed my first real crush. which led me to get out of my comfort zone. i was no longer in a little bubble, i was lots more social and expanded to make a few new friends. 

-in 6th grade i was beginning to find out who i was. i was confident and didn't care what others thought of me, i was bubbly and talkative but kept to my own close group of friends. 

-in 7th grade, i was extremely outgoing and bubbly. i was loving this new life of junior high and all the new friends i was making. 

-in 8th grade, towards the beginning of the year, i finished the book of mormon for the first time by myself, my grandma died, and i started to gain my own testimony.
-i fell in what i thought was "love" for the first time. i got my heart broken but of course slowly put it back together. 

- about half way through the year, i started to get pushed out of the group of friends that i had made in 7th grade. people started talking bad about me behind my back which was new for me. my sense of belonging and confidence started to waiver, and the testimony i had started to fade. i realized what they were doing to me, and finally ditched them towards the end of the year
-through it all i had stayed close with old my friends and realized they were my true friends.

to be continued....