I don't know if you know Kelsea Park whoever you are, but she is the real deal. She acts like she doesn't have it all figured out but she always does. She handles situations better than I ever could. She will be an amazing mother, Anna can attest to that. Busted knee-cap? Kelsea will say rude things about my pants while you scream in pain, holding your hand the whole time. She is such an amazing friend and is so able to juggle her complicated and difficult life so perfectly. She will underestimate herself until she is dead because she feels like she could always be doing better. I honestly envy that about her, she always has the will and drive to improve on something about her. She would drop anything for me if I had ever asked her to, I know a lot of people say they would do that, but I know its not completely true for all people. I just am thinking about it right now and I just cant believe how amazing of a friend she is. To everyone.
Kelsea got her mission call today, San Diego California. She started hugging everyone after she read it and I was sitting there after I got my hug and realized that I have never had someone so close to me serve a mission. It blew me away thinking about it. Out of all my cousins, any family member or friend that has gone, I've never had as amazing of a relationship as I have had with kelsea, and she's leaving for a year and a half to do the thing that I wish I could be so prepared to do. I have always been so thankful for her example to me and I love that I will be able to write her every week and have her be able to tell me all the awesome stories she will have to tell. She's one of the greatest living examples to me. I needed her a lot more than she needed me these last two and a half years. I am so happy that one day in English she thought it would be funny to ask a boy she had hardly said 5 words to, to a girls choice dance. That one choice easily changed who I am and I am so thankful she had the guts to form the friendship that I never thought would happen, and never would have happened had she not made Abbigaile Hulme write "Gavin, will you go to Spring Fling with Kelsea Park" I'm also glad I wasn't dumb enough to mess it up and was quick to walk to the front and write, "Yes"
I love you Kelsea Park, and I hate how sad I am about you leaving. I will hate it and it will be so hard for me to say goodbye to you because I cant lose you, and I want to still be here when you get home but I'm so scared that I wont be. But like I said, you know what you're doing, and everything works out. It just does, and I will still love you even when you come home all weird and dorky and I'm off living in some stupid place that isn't Utah.
Thank you for noticing me, pulling me into your life, and for not letting me fade into the background.
