Change

I've gone through a lot of change in my life.
I've moved five times since fifth grade. 
But it's the last one that hurt the most.
I've moved so many times that if someone asked me what home is,
I'd have a hard time giving them a location. 

I said goodbye to almost every friend I had in one day.
That was a bad day. 
I remember one of my closest friends left town a week before I moved and I had to say goodbye to him at a high school soccer game.
I cried the full 30 minute drive home.
I went to school the first day without having a friend in the state.
I sat in my car and talked to an old friend on the phone during lunch.

Change sucks.
But it's great at the same time.

It was because of change that I learned that there are great people everywhere.
That life really is what you make of it.
That sometimes when you really feel like you can't succeed, you just have to put a fake smile on your face and try again. 

It was because of change that I realized that friends fade, but family is forever. 
That it's fine to want to tell a friend you can't do anything on a Friday night because you want to hang out with your family.

It was through the challenges of change that I developed a stronger testimony of my church's gospel.

It was because of change that I learned that home isn't your house.
It's not the building you've grown up in.
Home is where you're happy.
And Alpine, Utah is my new home.