April 08, 2007
Well here i am at the end of the day and i really didn't get much done. actually you could say that this day was a bit counter productive, see i was kind of hoping that i would be able to get some more work done cleaning my room, when in fact what actually happened was i made it even worse. I spent most of the day hanging out with PoE1 and all we did aside from finale getting my taxes mailed out, was screw around, i did however manage to get a picture of all three PoE Guilds men today so that's a plus, you can check it out here. oh and i actually remembered to get my cloths from the cleaners. anyhoozits, we went to Bajio Grill for lunch and ended up leaving the plates and bag lying around. If that's not lazy i don't know what is anymore. its not a big deal though, i can pick the plates up easy and i am already using the bag to hold the M&Ms that i ended up launching all over the place reminiscent of Homer Simpson opening up a bag of potato chips. well i got a few things to take care of before i hit the sack for the night, or lye in bed and watch a movie, which ever. so that's all for tonight, ill make another post tomorrow night, see ya then.
April 10, 2007
Well I was set apart as a missionary today. Boy I hope my hand writing improves in 2 years time. Oh Burn! My mom just called my dad a dickhead. thats gotta be one of the funniest things I have ever heard. But any way, so I was set apart by my Stake Pres. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Josh, Kensie and last but not least PoE1 were all there. Dang man, my handwriting just keeps getting worse and worse. It's almost as bad as my spelling. So my Dad and I took PoE1 home and I said goodbye to his family but first I showed him the layout for the journal part of my site. Unfortunatly I forgot to convert the template. But he's smart, he'll figure it out. Thats all for tonight Laters
April 11, 2007
Well i'm in the MTC now. My Pres is a little weird but the other missionaries are cool. I'll explain more later but for now I have to go to bed. G'Night
April 12, 2007
Man... for as long as yesterday was, today was even longer, literally and relatively speaking. For awhile there I though this day would never end. But here I am right before bedtime. I was in the same classroom all freaking day except for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And most of the time there wasn't even a teacher. They called it personal and companion study. But despite how long this day has been it's actually been fun. But it's time for bed. 'Night
April 13, 2007
Well today went a little faster. Breakfast was kinda blah but the grits were good. After breakfast went to class w/ bro. Hales and we discussed the first lesson, after which we had an LGM (Large Group Meeting). After which I went with my companion, Elder Takapu, to pick a package. Then lunch. We then had personal and companion study (PS and CS). Once that was done we had another LGM. Then a health orientation, which was kind of interesting but not really. After that we had another class followed by MDT (Missionary Directed Time) which is basically group study. After that I showered and wrote this. 'Night
April 14, 2007
New pen new pen tra la la. Well everything was pretty much business as usual accept we went outside to study and even sang our closing song out there. We also said closing prayer out there. It was pretty cool and we sounded great. But anyway it's lights out now. 'Night
April 15, 2007
Well as it turns out Sundays are very different from the rest of the week. We started out w/ priesthood meeting, then we had breakfast, then district meeting was called as district leader. It was a good choice in my opinion. After we had study time where we prepared talks for later. I chose to do mine on "The Saviors Earthly Ministry". Afterward we had sacrement in which my district, 7A, blessed and passed the sacrement. Afterwards we had more study time and we decided to go study on the temple grounds. We followed that up w/ lunch and more studying, until dinner. After dinner we had 2 fire sides in succession. The first one was a weekly thing and the 2nd one was just for us newbs. Following that it was shower time, then bed time. 'Night
April 16, 2007
Man today flew by so fast, I barely remember anything that happened, especially since everyone in my district is out in the hall right now arguing about which movie or game character would kill which. I do remember however that we went to a class on study journals. After that we pretty much just worked on Lesson 1 which I basically finished, accept for the last 2 points. I'm actually kind of excited, I've learned so much. It will be interesting to see what i'll know in 2 weeks. And in 2 years jeez i'll be Bible Man. But any hoozits it's bed time. 'Night
April 17, 2007
All right all right so I forgot to mention some thing kind of important about yesterday. We went to the referal center (RC). Basically I just sit at a computer and call people to make sure they got the stuff they ordered. And then teach that a little about the gospel. Anyway we did that again today along w/ the normal regiment. But the real good point of today was later in the day when we had a fire side w/ a very special guest speaker. It was none other then Robert D. Hales. It was awesome, and I could really feel the power of the message that he had to give us. Well, bed time. 'Night
April 18, 2007
Today was hilarious. Ok so we have these polycarbonate water bottles and Elder Nelson was bragging about how strong they were. So Elder Gurr held the bottle in the air like he was going to drop it, saying "If this breaks, you have to clean it up" *drop* *crack* *splash* it shattered. We all laughed so hard we couldn't do anything. Later it started snowing... and I guess Elder Takapu had never seen snow because he excused himself to the restroom and instead ran outside and started jumping around like a kid at Christmas. Other then that the only real notable thing was the new missionaries arriving today. It kind of made me think of my first day. Bed time. 'Night
April 19, 2007
Well today was a little different, and what was the difference? It was P-Day. We started the day off with a temple visit. In which I screwed up royally but that is no ones business but mine. After the session we went to the cafeteria and had breakfast so big we couldn't eat anything the rest of the day. When we got back from the temple we basically just slept and wrote letters. Oh yeah we also did laundry. Bed time though... 'Night
April 20, 2007
Oh... Same oh Same oh. Yeah my day was pretty much the same as usual except for the end of the day when the class next door joined us and we taught each other. But it wasn't as simple as that. The teacher told her class that we had all come on a mission for the wrong reasons. So we played along, and it was all fun and games 'till one of the Elders told us that his mother had died of cancer shortly before he came on a mission. But oh well, alls well that ends well. 'Night
April 21, 2007
Well another Saturday gone. Pretty uneventful except for when I had a flash back of highschool. Hehe "Why don't I just show you a flashback" "Whoa whoa whoooaa". But I took care of it and things are cool now. Oh we started on lesson 2 the other day and we had a T.E.C. today and discussed it further. Other then that we had a T.R.C. that I bombed. But I got things to do. 'Night
April 22, 2007
Just another Sunday as usual. We watched "Testaments" after the fire side. When it was over there was a small pool of tears in the room. Rather boring day though. Not much to write about. 'Night
April 23, 2007
Blah Blah Freakin Blah. Man, as much as I like the MTC, it's getting way too repetative. Every day is the same thing over and over, man I really need some variety in my day. Man, and today was especially droll. We had some dumb health meeting that lasted 75 minutes. I swear, if I could die of boredom I would have, i'm not even kidding here. Man i'm tired. 'Night
April 24, 2007
Basically, refer to yesterday. Minus the health meeting. Oh yeah, how could I forget we had another apostle, M. Russel Ballard came and spoke to use. For our Tuesday Devo. That was pretty much the only exciting thing today. 'Night
April 25, 2007
Ok. Now i'm scared, people that I thought were "mostly" normal are talking about their favorite boy band, ok, your not here but trust, it's straight up terrifying. My day on the other hand was pretty normal, new missionaries today, T.R.C. too, I did pretty well there.........................Ok things just got worse, apparently Nelson is wearing a doorag, oops not Nelson, Franklin has the rag. Bed time. 'Night
April 26, 2007
Well today was good, it was P-day again. So, temple, eat, sleep, write letters, eat, sleep, laundry, write letters, sleep. Ok, so I got the greatest name in the R.C today: Goku Saiyan. I had more then a few people in an uproar over that one. Unfortunatly I never got to make anything of it, answering machien. Oh yeah Elder Brunson twisted his ankle the other day and now its twice as big as normal he's currently sitting on his bed dressing his ankle with the cold pack I gave him. Well bed time. 'Night
April 27, 2007
Seriously read the past 10 pages and you'll know exactly how my day went. 'Night
April 28, 2007
Well today wasn't bad but it could have been better. We had T.R.C. after lunch and I personally feel that I bombed it. The teachers say it was good but I still feel that I could have done a lot better.
Anyway, other then that I forgot to mail out the camera cards like I had wanted to, which made me swear out loud in the lunchroom, it was pretty funny but I felt bad at the time.
Since tommorow is our last Sunday we sing during sacrament and today durring practice I screwed up. See I sing the 1st verse solo w/ the group humming the harmony. But I accidentally sang the 1st half of the 1st verse and the 2nd half of the 2nd verse. So I stopped unfortunatly no one else did and they were all depending on me for the timing so every thing went all skiwampus. I laughed. Well.... 'Night
April 29, 2007
Sunday as usual, singing during sacrement went well. We deviate a little, there was a departure devo for all the missionaries leaving the following week, 210 in all. The movie after the fireside took a bad turn. I had managed to snag some great seats for the show, when suddenly one of the fellas from the farewall devo that sang, came up thinking he was special and tried to steal our seats. Naturally I fought for them but everyone else relinquished. So I found more good seats. but one thing led to another and I got shafted after everything I did. I was more then a little ticked, but whatever. 'Night
April 30, 2007
Today was bitter sweet, we saw Bro. Tuttle for the last time, but on the other hand we spent all day after dinner lounging around. All-in-all...pretty uneventful if you don't count not seeing Tuttle again and teh photo op. anyway. 'Night
May 01, 2007
Well today is my last day in the MTC. Once again bitter sweet day, I want to go out and get to work bible slapping people, but it's a little nerve wracking to be traveling that far. Also i'm gonna miss the MTC, kinda. All things considered though, i'm glad I decided to come out on a mission. Well, I have to get up at 4:00 am tommorow to get to the airport to catch my 8:15 flight. 'Night
May 02, 2007
Well here I am, at the end of my first day in Georgia. We got up at 4:00 am and did some last minute clean up work to get the room ready for the next set to come through. After the clean up we hauled our bags out to the front gate of the MTC and loaded them onto the busses, after we had some cereal at the lunch room that is. For some odd reason though we ended up on the shuttle instead of the bus. But it's all good. The drive was nice and quiet. When we got to the airport and made it through security I was able to call my friends and family. I first called my mom and dad and chatted w/ then a bit, then I called PoE1. It was still like 7:00 so he was all kinds of groggy when he picked up. Anyway the flight was about 3 hours and then I was in a freaking sauna, I mean I was in Georgia. Pres. Evanson and his wife met us there and we all took pictures, went to the mission home, had a delicious meal, wrote home, and I get to sleep in the "princess" room. 'Night
May 03, 2007
Day 2 in Macon...gone.
Nothin', doin' orientation, transfer meetin', drive to Nashville, meet my companion (western hick gone southern if you ask me) and dinked around unpacking all day. Oh my companion's name is Elder Mortensen. 'Night
May 04, 2007
Another day gone.
Man it's passing like mad, but hey it's cool. The smoke from the 2 forest fires burning here in Georgia is getting pretty thick, at least i'm finally getting used to the smell. Anyway we didn't really teach any real "lessons", we did however talk to some of the investigators, there all pretty good people. Doing the "OYM" (open your mouth) was a little nerve wracking but once I got started it got easy. We did the OYMing in between tracting and teaching. 'Night
May 05, 2007
Ok, so i'm an idiot, Elder Mortensen and myself went with the spikes to get dinner and I planned to leave a passalong card, as it turns out though all I had were SPANISH passalongs. That means that everyone I OYMed yesterday got a Spanish passalong. The number on the Spanish card is different from the number on the English card :-(.
Oh well, it's raining right now (9:50 pm) and I mean HARD. Lightning, thunder, the whole 9 yards, it's great.
We didn't really do much teaching, except for Lynda Wood, because we went to the Griners and helped them build a playhouse for Taylor. It was fun, hot, but fun. 'Night
May 06, 2007
Well, as you can tell from the date above, it's Sunday, PEC, church, corolation. Nothing real exciting, pretty boring actually. During gospel principals I kept comming up with all kinds of applicable scriptures. but I couldn't remember where any of them were at. I was all bummed out and stuff.
Anyway after corolation meeting we came home and studied for awhile, and by study I mean slept.
At 4:00 we had a home teaching round up which is basically a fancy name for splits. I went w/ Bro. Golden the 2nd councelor in the Bishopric to do a Spanish referal, and seeing as it was Spanish I just sat there and twiddled my thumbs. Well... 'Night
May 07, 2007
Another day gone by, it was a good day though... It was P-Day. We spent the first part of the day as usual, studying. Then we went to Harvies to get milk. Then it was off to Valdosta to give the car to the missionaries. We hightailed it to the mall to find me a Camelbak. No luck though. Apparently, here in Georgia, if it doesn't have anything to do w/ baseball, football, or hunting, you won't find it. So we just went to the park and met up with the sisters and played baseball. For the first part, I just sat out, then I decided to have a bit of fun and show 'em how a martial artist plays ball. After the park it was off to the Wall (Wall-Mart for those of you not in the know) and finished our shopping. We found a ride back with Bro. Solomin to Nashville. Then I met Van and we taught him about the degrees of glory as well as D&C and Pearl of Great Price. Well, i'm out... 'Night
May 08, 2007
Weird, weird, double weird, John Spikes, our branch mission leader, is out in the front room buzzing Elder Mortensen's hair. I can hear the shears buzzing away as we speak. Anyhoozits, teaching as usual today. Well, if you don't count meeting the Davies for the first time only to find out that there grandmother is dieing of cancer. It's sad but it's probably best in the long run. She isn't all that healthy anyway.
Later we OYMed this drunk dude who talked for like a half hour about "feeling the spirit". Killed most of our OYMing time, so we really had to high tail it to finish up in time. Well... 'Night
May 09, 2007
Well I'm a little sore. We biked out to the Morcrums and it was only 6 miles round trip, but it felt a lot longer, but on the other hand sister Leet gave us a freaking awesome roast for dinner. It was yummy and the cupcakes for dessert were awesome too. Well.... 'Night
May 10, 2007
Journal tiiime. Today was zone meeting. We had what they called a zone blitz, basically we ran around with a new companion, temporarily of course, and did missionary work as well as a million other useless things like: run around a car 10 times, get some one to do a cartwheel, trade belts with someone, greet everyone in the room within 30 seconds, and eat a Zero candy bar. As well as a plethora of other...things.
Anyway, after the blitz we had the actual meeting which was more like a training session, and well, it was, but whatever.
Once we got home we went to a baseball game and had a ball. Well i'm getting tired. 'Night
May 11, 2007
*Cries* I forgot to write this day, and now I can't remember *cries more*
May 12, 2007
Not a lot goin' on today. Kinda boring except for when we went to the Woodys and I gave the oldest boy (6) a "mock" martial arts lesson. Although i'm a little worried that I may have done more bad then good. Oh well, all I can really do is pray and thats just what i'll do. 'Night
May 13, 2007
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...again.
Well today was mother's day and I got to call home. I did so from the Spike's house. We talked for about 45 minutes. Then everyone ran out of stuff to say, so we all said goodbye and ended it. I didn't really want to but it couldn't be helped.
I spoke in church today, it was basically just an introduction, and telling how my mother influenced my coming on a mission.
Other then that stuff Lynda Wood came to church for the 3rd time this week. We have high hopes for her. We're thinking of Baptizing her in a months time. 'Night
May 14, 2007
Yay! P-Day! We did a little shoping at Harvies, then scrambled around for a bit to clean, eat, and find a ride to Valdosta. I never mentioned it before but we share a car with the elders in Valdosta, aka, V-Town. So we switch off every week.
In V-Town we played a little ball, but had to find a ride back, taking the car back to Nashville would have been pointless. We would have just driven it back the next day for our district meeting. Once back in Nashville we ran around OYMing and junk, headed back here and proceeded to make my head hurt by planing for tommorow, seriously, it will be a miracle if I survive the day. 'Night
May 15, 2007
Well, district meeting was today. It was a bit different zone meeting though. We still had the training but after we came back to Nashville with Elders Florance and Rich and did exchanges. I started out with Elder Florance trying to be useful but wasn't. We ended up going back to the apartment and talking about seraphim and stuff. Next it was Elder Rich, we went with Pres. Spikes and met with a few random people. We came home and goofed around too. 'Night
May 16, 2007
Anywhozits Elders Florance and Rich went back to V-Town this morning. Not much going on after that. We did OYM the people at the local Gamestop type place. It was fun THEY invited US in. But other then that, pretty boring day. 'Night
May 17, 2007
*Editors note: Justin put this one in stack after the 18th, he says for a reason*
Today was the. wait a tick. Some thing wrong here, oh well. Yeah today was the day that did not happen. Nothing got done the last half of the day. We stayed in the whole time and played Risk. Ah whatever, 'Night
May 18, 2007
*Editors Note: Justin put this one in the stack before the 17th, he says for a reason*
Oh fudge, I just swallowed a bunch of air and now it won't come up. Oh well, today was good. Planning for the first half, walking around town for the second. We ended up at the Woodys planing a movie just to shut the little ones up.
I got a package from home today, and it had my speakers, but CD player? Oh well. 'Night
May 19, 2007
So tired...day...hazy...Saw Browns...Saw Mays, cool car...other...Brother Brown...Badly Burned...ZZZZZZ *Snore* 'Night *Snore*
May 20, 2007
Holy cow did I really write that last entry, oh well. P.E.C. was the same, church was the same, no corolation study. sleep, Davies, Josh Ellis, Mileys not home. We wanted to go to the stake priesthood meeting but the zone leaders, here on going is ZL, wouldn't let us so Elder Mortensen just fumed all day. 'Night
May 21, 2007
I had a crazy dream last night. The moon was all big and stuff and it glowed green, then blew up, then I woke up.
Anyway, P-Day again, no b-ball just shoping and waiting around pretty crappy day. Oh well. 'Night
May 22, 2007
Dist. meeting today not as fun as the last one but whatever. After the meeting we came back and read with Martha, we also taught her a second. I've come to the conclusion that being bold comes more natural then timid.
Anyway after Martha we went to the baseball field and watched some gator/member games while there we managed to teach an investigator that we picked up earlier in the week. Her husband coaches the t-ball team that Taylor Griner plays on. Well my arm is about to fall off so, 'Night
May 23, 2007
Nothing real notable about today, except for finding out that an old guy, in a nursing home, that we have been visiting every week is a survivor of d-day. Frontlines even. Elder Mortensen had a hay day and I really wanted to pop him in the face. He kept talking about it like Talmage, the old guys name is Talmage Davis, was a kind of god. Man he pissed me off. 'Night
May 24, 2007
Bah humbug. I forgot to mention yesterday, I had forgotten my back pack in the apt. so I went to get it. I tried to go up the curb on my bike but I wasn't able to pop the tire high enough so I biffed it and flew over the handlebars.
Anyway we went to the pre-k grad ceremony this morning and watched little Taylor graduate. It was funny and boring at the same time. 'Night
May 25, 2007
We met Bro. Miley's kids today, they're all girls, 'cept one, and they're all cheerleaders, 'cept one, and i'll tell you what the oldest one has some wicked skills. H.S. graduation, lotsa jerks on the road. Most try to insult us but to no avail. On the other hand I found that I had left my back pack open twice while biking. So I felt pretty dumb at that one, oh well. 'Night
May 26, 2007
Well today was entertaining. We spent the morning with the Spikes but the afternoon was spent at a branch Bar-B-Q at which we completely pissed off Lulu. She kept asking Mortensen about John and he just kept ignoring her, it was funny.
After the BBQ there were a lot of leftovers so we ended up with a lot of food that night. 'Night
May 27, 2007
Well Sunday with a twist. We went by the Davies house yesterday and no one was there, and there was a note on the door saying that they were in Adel. We had our suspicions but we didn't think much of it. Well today we found out that we were right. Sis Davies mother finally passed on. Which made today pretty hectic. Mortensen spent all day playing phone tag trying to arrange the funeral, which I just found out that we can't even go to, and this came all the way from SLC. Anyway, it doesn't sound like a whole lot but trust me...it was. 'Night
May 28, 2007
P-Day as usu...no, it wasn't completely normal. We had the Spikes take us to the Wal-Mart in Valdosta, where we met Elders Florance and Rich. A little of this a little of that. Some baseball, tractin, whatever. We came home and went to see the Davies and were suprised to see that they had made a complete 180. Everything was different. They were all happy and junk.
Anyway we then stoped in on the Mileys and they were playing Guitar Hero, and the music was driving me nuts. I felt like just droping everything and going home and putting on some metal. But thats OP (off the plan) any whozits we weren't able to e-mail at Joshes so we're just going to go to the library tommorow morning. 'Night
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