Hello, everyone. My name is Casey, and I need your advice, because I don't know who else to turn to. My problem starts with meeting my good (female) friend at high school graduation. We got to talking and started hanging out, until after a while i found out that she was LDS. So I went to church with her after some prodding, and for about two months now I've been investigating the church on my own. My issue is that I had a bit of a crush on her, but I was OK, I was dealing with it just fine. The problem stated when one night recently after going running together, we admitted to each other that romantic feelings are present for both parties. BUT, we cannot do anything until I'm a member and baptized, say her parents. So now here I am a month later, and we still hang out, and not being able to act on mutual feelings is killing me. So my question is: I want to join the church, but how will I know when I'm truly ready to join, and not have other motives(her) subconciously moving me along too quickly? Any advice is greatly appreciated.