Friendships!

So the last post explained a cute story of how I met one of the best people in the world. I noticed a comment one of you left that said funny how we did not like each other in the beginning. That got me thinking about my other really close friendships. Julie Spils and Ronny happen to be two of the most awesome friends I have had also. Both are really funny stories too. So here they are.

Julie- I met her at a book club we both were in. I was not really liking her to much. She talked way to much and I felt she was very ignorant/naive. I really did not know anything about her except that she was LDS and that I thought at the time was much younger than I. (only 4 years)I did come realize how wrong I was, thank goodness. In most book discussions I thought she had some weird ideas and of course there were some religious differences too. So not a great friend at the time but definitely tolerated each other (no drama). Until this very interesting night that is. A mutual friend of ours was having a little birthday get together at my neighbors house and we both were invited. The party was going great until we, meaning me and about 10 other girls, got into a religious conversation. that soon turned into a debate and by the time we finished we, meaning Julie and I, were going at it like you would not believe. Now I know what they mean by do not discuss religion with friends. The end result was both of us left very emotional and not in the best way. So the next morning being Thanksgiving I called her and wanted to talk this out. Jeremy said she was in the shower, which I did not believe at the time but later found out she really was. She did call me back and everything got smoothed out. Our friendship was OK from there but still not great no issues or anything. As we started talking more we just seemed to "get" each other and we really started to get very close. Here we are today talking on the phone 17 times a day and pretty much know everything there is to know about each other. We have the absolute best debates about religion and are able to walk away just fine disagreeing. We laugh at the funniest and stupidest things. We support our crazy lives together and are even complete goof balls. I absolutely love her and can not imagine life without having someone to understand me even when I am being completely irrational. Thank heavens my first impression was so off key and I DO NOT feel any of those things about her today!WE definitely have had our share of disagreements but it does not seem to make a dent in our friendship.

Ronny- Well she was actually one of the girls at the party mentioned above. She however left before we really got in the debate. We never really knew each other well and she was good friends with two of my neighbors but not me. She always rubbed me wrong and I felt like she had it in for me. I could never quite figure her out. I had never had much interaction with her so I was confused why I felt like she did not like me. Come to find out later after we became great friends she really did not like me! She thought I was like another person we know and do not really like to much but that is another story. She also knew I was investigating the LDS Church and did not want to be friends with me only because she wanted me to convert to the religion. I am really not sure how it all changed but I do know that we eventually started hanging out and after a few times of cracking up laughing together we realized we both were missing out on a great thing. We went to Utah together and that just embedded in us that our friendship is definitely something worth having so form there we have just got to be stronger friends. I can not tell you how much I learn from her and how much she enriches my life. She has to be one of the most giving people I know. She would give you the shirt of her back. When we were in Utah there was a girl who commented on how much she liked the ring she was wearing. At the end of the trip we dropped the girl off and she yelled out the car look in your pocket and what do you know the ring was in there. She had given it to her. Just a great gal.