My Friend, Michelle

My friend Michelle is a very wonderful person. She has been my friend for 7 years. Heavenly Father sent her into my life at a time that I needed someone to help me through the most devastating event. I had lost my Daddy to a fight with cancer in August and Michelle moved into our town in October. She came with her husband and 5 beautiful children. Michelle is my yin or yang, Hmm I'm not sure which. Umm you get the picture. She is the opposite of me in many ways but the same in more ways that matter. When she came it took us a couple of months to really get acquainted but once we did we were inseparable. I would visit at her house and we would do lots of things. Michelle is the project queen and always had something going on at her house. We had the same number of children and it was fun to get together with someone who understood a large family. I knew that when she invited me over that she knew what she was getting into and vice versa. Not long after we met I found out that I was pregnant with twins. Wow. She had already had twins and was there to mentor me through the experience. Man was she a lot of help!!! It was even crazier when I had boy/girl twins because her twins are boy/girl. The similarities didn't end there because not long after I got pregnant Michelle found out that she was expecting again, not twins but she did have a wonderful healthy little boy and then she got pregnant one more time and it evened us up to 7 children each. Not that she tried to match me but well lets just say Heavenly Father knows us so much more than we know ourselves. My dear friend and I made it through a difficult experience and wound up closer because of the problem. I just recently thought of the scripture in 2 Nephi that says, "there must be opposition in all things". In order to appreciate what we had we needed to go through a period of not having it. I am so thankful that Heavenly Father sent me such a great friend. I love her so much and know that she loves me. Michelle, thank you for all the laughs, hugs, tears, guidance, counsel, and well just everything that you have done for me. You are truly an eternal friend.