Picking Up Guys At Institute

I went to Institute last night with my friends, Kristin and Hali. It was a great combination of spiritual and social… AND there was food :) We have previously been driving up to UVU’s institute but we decided to try out the one in Provo at the MSB instead. We were surprised by how many people showed up! There were 4-5 classes that were all very full and afterwards everyone met up to socialize and eat food. What could be better than cute boys, food, the spirit, boys, friends, learning about the Book of Mormon, and CUTE boys!? I know. I sound boy crazy but I really am not. I am just a single girl at BYU trying to get married, just like every other single girl at BYU who is nearing graduation hah!

Anyway… After the spiritual lesson, Kristin, Hali and I were huddling together eating our bagels and scoping out all the cute guys in the room. We started watching all the other girls around us talking to cute guys and we kept wondering how we could talk to the cute guys too! Girls are so forward and we are all scardy cats! Then, Spotted. Across the room there was a group of extremely attractive guys and we all kept making awkward eye contact. We clearly wanted to talk to them and they clearly wanted to talk to us! We stayed there huddled talking about what we should do. We are so silly! We looked like we were huddled together having a serious meeting or something! None of the boys are going to talk to us if we look like that! We decided to do a walk by and hopefully say hi and start talking. Nothing happened. Hah we are ridiculous. We were all so mad in the car driving home, so many girls are so forward and we just aren’t good at it! Girls who aren’t forward don’t thrive in the Provo dating world.  We tried to come up with a plan so that we could approach cute guys. We needed to figure out how we can talk to the cute guys next week! We decided we need to look more approachable in the big group settings and we need to just smile, be brave, and say hi. Who doesn’t like a smile and happy greeting? That’s not weird! Right?... I dropped my friends off after having a big conversation about being brave and dating and I headed to Smith’s to go grocery shopping. Lo and behold, one of the cute guys was there from Institute! Ahhh! Time to practice what we just talked about! So what do I do? Well just like any normal human being would do, I follow him around discretely of course. For like.. 15 minutes... Duh. I finally got brave and I was going to walk past him and make eye contact and smile and say hi and….. he stared down at his phone and wouldn’t even look up. Epic fail. I was so mad. Needless to say, our socialization at institute ended up being a flop haha. There is always next week I guess!

On the bright side, we had an awesome lesson and spiritual thought that night! We talked about agency and grace. Our institute teacher shared this video and I thought it was so touching! I am so grateful that I was born in a family in the church. It is so easy to forget how bad some people have it out there. This world is a scary place. The gospel extremely blesses my life and I am grateful for it each and every day! Watch and enjoy :)