Where were you when it happened?

I was going through some cds I have with pictures and films from my mission when I came across this favorite. I had forgotten it even happened. Good times huh?





This weekend was fun. We finished our classes, then we headed up north to Draper and visited a little place called IKEA... way cool, and way fun. We got a lot of cool little things to put in the kids room. I'm sure my old lady will get that up and show everyone soon, if she hasn't already.

Work is going good. I'm doing good. Everything is good. And I'm going to beat the socks off of JM in chess tonight or thursday night.

So stressed out it's soothing

So we are heading out of town again for the weekend... again. This will be the last marathon of training before we are done with it and then all we'll need is a Home Study, and for our Background Checks to pass to be licensed Foster Parents. Cool huh?

Work has gone so great lately. There is the one kid who I've been having some problems getting along with. He has serious anger issuses. These last few nights I had his family, and somehow he got me on the topic of Christianity and what it is about, and then he was asking me all sorts of questions, he was saying that he didn't know what he believed in and wanted to understand a few things. He really enjoyed the conversation. The next morning he woke up and told me the night before he had prayed for the first time in his life, and that he liked it. Then last night he came back and said that his prayed had been answered that very same day and he wanted to talk with me again on the same things. Of course, being the 15 year old he is, he wanted to know this time about the end of the world and such... I just gave him a bible, pointed at Revelations, and said get what you can from it. Kept him entertained all night, and the best part is... he didn't try to fight with everyone in the room like he normally does. It's so cool, and such a great feeling when you start to make progress with these kids, start to see them act differently and realize what they have been doing wrong. It has happened to me a few times now, and it's probably the number one reason why I stay.

My best mission companion asked me to send him some pictures from when we were together, and it is taking soooooooo long for it to load. Annoying.

Recently Me

I hope this works as a good look at what my current apperance is.


I've let my facial hair grown out a bit more since then, so it looks a bit darker, but the truth is that it is not at all as thick as it shows on the comic me... just didn't have the option of thinning it out.

Here's the picture off the back of my Costco Card



This week is going great. I'm getting really antsy about getting my test results back.

I see no one has taken me up on that chess game yet. Are you scared or just dont have the time?

Timeless tales of the woes from someone who knows

I am getting a lot of good pratice in at work on my chess game. I recently talk my old lady into letting me buy a cheap board from wal-mart so I could take it to work everyday. I have ever since used it to distract students, and also beat up on them in the game. Both have worked out pretty good. So, do I have any challengers on the board? Let me know and I will take you to Yahoo and put the beat down on you. Or very humbly take it.

This keyboard is having trouble with the "v" key. I have to hit it twice every time to get it to work. Times like this I wish there was no letter "v".

Comic Me

This is what I figure I look like right now. What do you think?

And when I see you, I really see you upside down

So, I'm not as good at this as I once was. But that is okay, I feel confident that this isn't the source of most peoples entertainment.

So to update, the postal battery exam went great. I feel like I really nailed it, every answer I answered I feel like I got it correct, now I just have to wait and see if i answered enough in the time that I was give to answer questions. They said it would be about 4-6 weeks... which is funny because of the fact that it is the postal system that is handling it... is there really no other way to grade and send out the results sooner?

My old lady and I are going up to Manti this weekend and next for Foster Care Training. It is going to be very intense, but a lot of fun. We are so excited. We have gotten so much done recently. We have resgistered our cars here in Utah, gotten our own insurance for cars and renters insurance for our house. We are getting closer and closer to something we really want to be doing, and it is a great feeling.

Work is going on like normal. I'm trying to get put on a 2nd position that would granitee me more hours, thus more money, thus less worry about trying to get extra hours... even though up until now I havn't even had to worry, it has always just been there for me, people call me up and ask me to work for them, so it has been pretty good for me.