We need a Push

I want to tell you a story of Ashley.
I remember the first time I saw her. It was in the Singles Ward. She walked into Sacrament meeting wearing a classy grey dress and carried a black bag.
She walked tall, proud, she knew who she was and she wasn't going to let anyone tell her otherwise!
Despite these being good qualities, together, I felt then that she was snob! Always classy, and not really talking to anyone except for the other chick that I also felt was a snob. So she must be one, right?
My first impression of Ashley being a snob couldn't have been more wrong!
We were given our new Visiting Teaching Assignments. I was her Visiting Teacher. Well, at least she would smile at me at church, so she couldn't be too bad.
O my days!!!!!!!! As I taught her, I came to find, that she taught me so much more! She is older than I and had already been thru, what I was currently going thru, so instead of me visiting her, it was more of her visiting me!
I grew to love and adore her!
She wasn't a snob! She had a very kind heart and is the most optimistic person that I know. If you are upset, never will she say 'thats sucks' and move on. No, she is full of encouraging words that despite you wanting to, you smile. :)
She became a very dear friend of mine. Not only is she a friend, but she is my rescuer and a sister.
I had just broken up with my fiancé and where I was living, the contract was up and I could no longer afford it and I feared I would be homeless. I spoke with her about this and I asked if I could stay with her for a while. Thankfully it was not to be a problem! We were roommates for 7 months. We are both night owls and it felt so good to have someone to talk to every night when I came home from work. We would talk for hours.
Since moving away, I often think of those nights. I have no one to talk to at night anymore and I wish that we were still roommates.
She is happily married now tho and is 7 time zones away, so our chats are just emails.
But when I see I have an email from her, a smile forms and happiness fills me!
When we talk about Visiting Teacher at church, Ashley is the one that enters my mind. I have thanked God  so many times for allowing me to be her Visiting Teacher. Otherwise, I don't know if we would have become friends. And if it wasn't for Visiting Teaching, and us becoming friends, I wonder, out of all the times Ashley has come to my rescue, and many times, not even know it, if it wasn't for her, would I have been rescued at all?
She has often told me of how God has to push and shove us in the right direction, and a direction God has to push and shove because we ourselves would not have done so otherwise.
How grateful I am that God pushed me towards her!
I love her dearly and I am thankful to call her a friend! <3