Laura has a boyfriend...

It is true. Stephan and I are officially a couple.

While we were driving to the farewell, we had something resembling a DTR. I actually had to explain that acronym to him because he does not go to BYU. It was the least awkward DTR ever, I must say. I remember asking him how he was going to introduce me, because I didn't feel like "friend" was going to cut it. We didn't feel comfortable with "girlfriend", so I just instructed him to introduce me as just "Laura" and have the relatives connect the dots.

Initially, we weren't going to announce anything (or so I think) because we didn't want to take away his brother's spotlight, since it was his farewell. What was funny about this Sacrament meeting was that not only was Brent (the missionary brother) speaking, but Stephan's other brother Alex was the scheduled youth speaker, and their dad was the bishopric member conducting and he gave a few remarks. During his dad's remarks, Stephan put his hand on his leg, kind of indicating that he wanted to hold hands. I saw this signal, and moved my hand to a reachable proximity. After his dad finished his talk, Stephan offered his hand to me, and I took it. It was the first time that either of us had ever held hands with the opposite sex.

We didn't take away Brent's thunder, but relatives were curious about me. I made a very favorable impression, apparently. After the farewell was over, we played games. His family was very cruel to us in "Apples to Apples", for reasons I will not explain now. They were giving us a hard time.

So yeah, I have a boyfriend. It feels very natural, actually, and I'm happy about it. A little scared, but happy.

And now he's got facebook, ha ha!