Halee pt 10

I really like country music. Thomas Rhett is by far my favorite, but Dustin Lynch is really high up there too, along with Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood. They're my favorites. They all have amazing voices and the way they got to the top is so cool. I saw Thomas Rhett last July in St. Louis and in October, I'm going to see him again AND Dustin Lynch. I cried when I got the tickets. I was so excited. I didn't think I was going to get to go, but my parents surprised me at Christmas. I really cried like a baby. It was the best present I received. I'm so so so excited. Anyway, when I was younger, I didn't really listen to country music, but one day, I came across Hunter Hayes, and the rest is history. I don't know, I guess when I was in Montana I was really missing Arkansas so that's all I listened to. Glen Campbell sings "Arkansas Farmboy" and it reminded me of my Papal and just being in the South and I'd cry everytime I heard it. I was really struggling with being so far away from home. If I could choose, I'd never move away from the South again. Until God calls me somewhere else, I'm not leaving. I don't think I could do it. It would be torture. Listening to country music is home. It makes me remember when I was little and all I wanted to do was play outside in the heat, roll around in mud and play football. It makes me remember July 4th cookouts, fireworks and Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue." It makes me remember how my uncle would fix ribs and barbecue and at Christmas we'd all be together celebrating and loving each other. I missed that for 3 years. 3 YEARS. 3 years of my life I'll never get back. I guess it was worth it though, because we saw people get saved and their lives were changed. I think we may have left an impact. Whether it was good or bad, it was still an impact. When we went to visit, people ran up to me and hugged me and we hung out and played mud volleyball. I do miss them sometimes, but I'm much much happier to be home. All of that said to say, country music helped me get through those 3 hard years. That music, no matter how many people hate it, helped me remember that there are good things. It did so by reminding me of home, friends, family and love.