Reporting to the MTC

I, Megan's sister Becky, am taking over this blog for the next 18 months or so while Megan serves as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hopefully we will get her digital pictures without too much trouble while she is in the MTC and then later when she is in Italy, but here are some pictures from my camera from today as she entered the MTC. (For those used to Megan's long-winded entries on this blog, please do not be disappointed, but the future entries will probably be mostly pictures since I am not Megan and I have a blog of my own to keep up. But, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I will try my best to keep the photos coming.)

On the way to the MTC.

With her 3 siblings who are here in Utah: Becky, Neil and Jenny.

With her brother-in-law, Daniel and nephew, Spencer.

Amy, This Is For You

Amy, this is the picture I was talking about tonight. I love Annabelle so much and I'm going to miss her so much too!

Recharging Myself

This is one of my most favorite music videos. Enjoy!




I'm sorry I'm not very lively and festive right now. I took about a 2 hour nap and woke up close to 8. Then I ate some dinner, not much, and got started in packing; well, I had started earlier in packing my smaller suitcase but then I got quite tired and had to go to sleep. And then this second packing was for all my "worldly" things that I would not be taking with me on my mission. If you've seen the photos of my room, and the fact that it has taken me this long and it's still not clean, then you can probably guess how horrible it was for me tonight to pack. And it was hot. Oh, I just have too much junk. But that's not true because I don't really have any junk just a lot of papers, and cards, and letters, and all sorts of things. And while I was packing and moving and doing all sorts of things, I was listening to Narnia: The Magicians Nephew. I really do love listening to these books because they are so wondrous and the words they use are quite lovely and the way they are put on paper and the way they are spoken is almost like an enchantment of kind. The words are delicious in your mouth and you just want to eat it all up and never have to eat again. And then after you've listened to these books for awhile, you tend to speak and write differently. But it is a very good differently and very lovely indeed. Well, that was most extraordinary: At the beginning of this post, I did not feel creative or clever or lovely in any way. I felt very draggish and stupid. Amazing how that has changed in accordance to talking about Narnia.





I'm listening to Ashley's music on her blog while I'm trying to upload some self-portraits; and I REALLY like her music. Like it's just what I need right now. Thanks Ashley!





I know I've been spending a lot of time on the computer lately. But I think I'm just trying to get everything ready before I go on my mission, that's all, or at least I think so. I think I may be also trying to find myself and perhaps define who I am. And maybe also, like Ashley and I talked about, to recharge myself and have some me time. I rather like it and am surprised at how much I like to blog. I think it's my new hobby and talent. I think it's also another way to express myself. I am actually really, very grateful for blogs. They're different than journals, much different. For one, no one usually reads anyone else's journal. This is a public journal and it's almost like a journal meant for our friends and family and loved ones to see what truly goes on in our lives and what we think is really important. I am glad that I can have this to sort out all my thoughts and really see me. To be me and to see me and to breathe me. I had talked about earlier what my love language is. They say that you can't love others unless you love yourself. Well, why shouldn't we speak the same love language to ourselves that we wish others would speak to us in order for us to feel loved? We do need to be loved by ourselves. Everyone should love their own self. My love language is quality time and I think I give myself a lot of quality of time, with myself. I need a lot of alone time and I just thought of it now - maybe that's why I like the computer so much: Because then I can focus on whatever I want to on the computer and I am not obligated to speak with anyone else because in a sense I'm 'speaking' to the computer. This is making so much more sense to me now! I am truly blessed and truly happy!!!

I have also noticed that often times, or most times really, I'll start my blog and not mean it to be long at all, just saying a few quick things and then my mind starts turning and I start POURING myself out. I really do like it. And I really do feel most happy; and I feel loved by me. Isn't that amazing? That we can love ourselves that much and not be vain? Because as you can see this blog is a lot about me and it's deep and rich and I hope that you can see that I love myself, and what with all these pictures of myself, one would /might think that I am a very vain woman. But 'tis not so. It helps me to define myself, to discover who I really am, to see that this is who I am and I love this beautiful young woman called Megan DeVocht. Again, you may think I am vain, but I am not and I do not care what you think, no offense meant.



Well, here are some real pictures of me. Self-portraits, this is what I really think of myself and this is who I am and who I want to be.

This Is Whom I Am

Ok, I don't care what anyway says, I really like this one song by Miley Cyrus: See You Again. And you have the option of listening to it:

So, how did you like it? Was it the best thing you've ever heard? Did it kill you? I'll tell you my responses: It was very enjoyable. No, it was not the best thing I've ever heard but it was still really great. And no, it did not kill me. See? It's not that hard.

Then, while I was trying to find a good version to post on here, I came across this one:

I thought this was pretty cool and they are awesomely good! They call this one: I Can't Wait to See You.

Becky, I think I finally figured out why I am always on youtube and listening to music and watching little videos and then posting them on my blog: Music, videos, movies, media is my life. Like I told you yesterday, it's my way of expressing myself. And I want to share that with other people. Even though I didn't make the music video or whatever, it still speaks to me in a way I can't describe, plus I really like it and I want to be able to both remember it and have easy access to it. And Becky, I'm not hounding you, if that's the right word to use, but I just want to make it clear, to you, and to anyone else you reads my blog, that this is who I am, and this is my way of expressing my deep, deep feelings.

Oh and by the way: I LOVE to DANCE!!! I know that sometimes I can get really shy about it, but I honestly love to listen to the music and let it speak to me and then in return I speak back by dancing! And I may not know all the techs, or whatever you want to call it to dancing, but I love moving my body and feeling that energy that comes from music!!! Something I learned from my good friend, Ashley: Just let the music speak to you, just let the music flow through you and dance! It doesn't matter if it looks silly or anything. This is for you!

I love music that has an awesome beat and great rhythm. Just listen to my playlist and you an get a taste of what I like to listen to. I also like soft music like Enya and church music.

Well, I'm going to get off the now because my computer is being very stupid and I can't even see half of what I'm writing it won't appear onto the page until after I've typed it up and it's just STUPID!!! So, good bye for you, i MEAN NOWi but i will definitely come back and post some more later today, I'm quite sure of that.