Humility and appreciation

Last week a girl from my ward asked for my phone #.  This was a pleasant surprise considering that doesn't happen very often 2 days later we went out.  The date had gone well and I was hoping things would continue to progress.  We then went to devotional and then on Thursday I asked her out only to get her voice mail.  She texted me the next day to accept the invitation.  I had planned it for Saturday right after the ward activity.  At the closing of the murder mystery dinner she pulled me aside and said " I just want to be friends and I don't want to go out tonight".  I replied calmly yet a little confused.  She then expressed her large amounts of homework she was going to do that night.  Then she asked "Well actually what did you have in mind tonight".  I told her how I was planning on going and playing air hockey and then watch a movie.  She said maybe we could still play air hockey.  So we did for about 15 or minutes and then I walked her home.  As I was leaving I saw some my friends who lived at the same apartment complex outside.  I started talking to them.  After conversing for 15 minutes or so I hear the door open from the floor beneath us and out come two girls (one of them being the girl who said she was going to do "homework" that night).  At that time I understood that although the girl who previously said she was going to be "busy" that night probably wasn't telling the whole truth I understood better the concept of opposition.  I know that life doesn't go the way that you want it to.  There are bumps along the way.  You probably won't find that special someone right away.  Much of the time you will be humbled in the process, but I know when I find that I will find that right woman, at the right time, at right place and will appreciate her even more because of the lesson I have learned previously.