So, I realized I hadn't written anything in... a number of months? I decided before I go on my date today to try and catch things up.
First thing is first - school is going great. It's rather hectic with the various classes. I still think that my Music 301 class is pretty much pointless but am trying to ignore this fact. Although my Doctrine and Covenants class causes lack of sleep - I still love the class along with my teacher, Alonzo Gaskill. I finished one composition for my theory class and have only one remaining before the end of semester. I... have to pass out of my piano class because I relied too heavily on what little skill I have on the piano (bad idea!). Needless to say, my piano class is one of the most frustrating at the time. However, with all that said, classes are going well and I am sooooo happy that it hasn't snowed horribly yet because that means a few more days of great, enjoyable warmth.
Secondly, I have my reasons for not liking the snow at the moment because I don't get to enjoy it in any normal way. I broke my foot walking down stairs, no good fall, no good story, simply walking down the stairs, rolling my foot, and realizing after I heard a pop that I wasn't going to be able to walk this rolled foot pain off. Snow and ice are phobias currently, can only imagine what... amusement I could have trying to walk uphill with my booted foot and iffy balance with ice. Although I have nightmares for the day it snows and ices here in Utah, I have found great benefits to having a broken foot (yes, it actually broke - the 5th and possibly 4th metatarcel). The first is that I have a number of really cute boys thinking me a damsel in distress. Now, I have too much pride to concede to too many chivalrous acts but as for driving me to school, carrying my book bags when I was on crutches for the last two weeks (I am officially finally off crutches!), occassional piggy back rides up and down stairs where there are no elevators... quite the positive consequences to a broken foot! Oh, and I also received a temporary handicap parking pass on campus which is such a relief and dare I say, way to spoil myself?
Now that my health and school has been covered, the love life. Of course that's always something interesting. I found the key to excessively dating this past month. It takes a month in prepping the area but afterwards, two to three dates a weekend! Study in the library every night till midnight, work every other day, and of course be nice (as usual) to those you interact with daily in school. Now, the common man would think this would afford no social life. However, with this simple formula I was asked on FIVE dates! for this Friday (yesterday) and Saturday (today) night. Don't ask me how, I actually have no clue how I've been dating so much this semester. Truthfully, I've been avoiding trying to date and more focusing on things in school. Turns out I have a number of people who love me, think that I would get along great with another friend they love and so I've been set up on numerous first dates this semester. With all that said though, I commend my roommate (engaged) Jessi who definitely set me up with a keeper. He can be more shy and reserved in some social settings but is one of the funniest people that I can genuinely laugh WITH when he's in the zone. Of course he's tall, dark, and handsome. Well... he's not extremely tall and he's blonde... but he's handsome for sure, with a very dear smile (the smile is what gets me because it shows how much a person can laugh, how dear they can be, and how happy as an individual they really are). Bryce is pretty much amazing (texan!) and it's always fun to go out with him doing new things each time (but of course my favorite is the studying in the library j/k!). I do appreciate all the close friendships I've formed this semester though with my close family friend Nelson and a dear friend who happens to now be in my home stake, Jonathan.
With all that said, I am trying to no do too many stupid things (no worries, the triathlon I about signed up for, I decided to drop due to my sadly broken appendage). I'm eating my veggies (actually, spaghetti squash is really good and with a few other ingredients very tasty). I'm sleeping more than normal at least these past two weeks - I blame that one on my foot draining me of all energy but I don't think Dad or Mom really care what I blame getting more sleep on as long as I do. I'm saying my pleases and thank yous (especially to Heavenly Father for keeping me healthy, happy, and sane). I've been trying to think of ways to make this year of my life really memorable (not in a stupid sense) because of the example Tannon had become when he was 20 years old. After pondering and trying various things, I think I figured out that for me to make this year very impressionable on myself and others is by having a passion for people. I developed this while ini Jerusalem, I'm just learning how to slightly alter it to fit the area that I live in now and yet find so many rewarding benefits from it. I've had such great examples lately and from talking to some of them, they have been able to gain something from me as well. It's been stronglt iterated to me that no matter what we do, we affect those around us. If I sit on a bench and shake my foot, even if it is subconciously that I tap my foot, I affect those that sit next to me with my jitteriness. Even the smallest action has some form of reprecussive events on those around us. Life is really interesting and truly a puzzling wonder sometimes.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
beginning of school
it's been quite some time since I've written but I'm back now.
Fall Semester is looking as though it'll be rather interesting. I've gone from trying to add a beginning dance class as a nice blow-off class to not having any at all, in love to completely single and not finding feelings for anyone, being a very poor studier to working every night in the last week till midnight in the library on homework, and lastly I've gone from hardly ever singing in vocal practice to singing with pianists and on my own 6 hours a week.
It's been a wonderful, very fast first week of school. I decided to take 13.5 credits, 8 classes of music core as well as 2.0 credits of religion and what I was hoping would be a .5 credit of dance. Of course things never turn out the way we imagine them and with a little rearranging of my schedule after getting into my audition choir, I tried to get into DANCE 184 but unfortunately was turned away. However, this might be a wonderful idea because I would have been taking 16 credit hours, 10 classes (that's quite a large number of classes for me). I'm really excited for the classes that I am taking though because they are all looking to be very nice, invigorating, some rather simple and easy to get out of early, whereas others will be very difficult and time consuming.
My love life has been rather interesting in the past three weeks because I went to having a little bit of something with some people to nothing. I almost dated someone at the end of summer (Daniel) but found I should not hurt his feelings if I decided to date my best friend (Bryan) when he got off his mission at the beginning of fall semester. I found I did like the best friend missionary better, at one point was in love with him as well, but for one of the darndest reasons, don't love him anymore. With that said, we're still good friends and spend time together (I've told him that I don't like him like that and don't want to date - I am being honest with him). He currently plays the piano for me on a wonderful regular basis as well. I am going out on dates with another guy (Craig) that is very active (runs like a beast, hikes, road bikes, rock climbs - might type of outdoorsy) who just graduated and is looking into graduate school for next fall meanwhile preparing to take a group of interns to Uganda?. My last boy situation is the one that is the most wonderful. My friend Jonathon who I greatly respect and love to pieces is currently in the accounting junior core which equals habitation in Harold B. Lee. Both of us are fed up with our dating status/love lifes and don't want that type of stress anymore so we are "getting married" on a particular date in September. It makes me so happy to have such a great friend, no strings attached, that I'm able to care so much about (his health at least - getting 6.5 hours of sleep between 2 days isn't healthy!!!). He makes me laugh, he and his roommate Mike.
Jonathon helps me with this next part as well. Every night he lives in the library. So in order to be a very dedicated student versus the slacker that I normally am, I go and live there with him and his roommate as well in the fifth floor of the library (ie the Accounting floor). It makes me laugh and much much less stressed studying with such wonderful company, eventhouhg we're there til midnight most nights. Laughter is always a great cure to stress.
As for vocal practice - it's going wonderful. It's really a wonderful novel thought to practice. I've never really practiced and now that I'm averaging 6 hours a week, I'm memorizing and learning at such a rapid pace that my teacher was floored when I came to our second lesson having one song memorized and the second one (in German) with words learned but not yet memorized. I love being on top of everything - it makes the lack of sleep not nearly so bad in actuality.
This semester is going to be a great time to be here!
Fall Semester is looking as though it'll be rather interesting. I've gone from trying to add a beginning dance class as a nice blow-off class to not having any at all, in love to completely single and not finding feelings for anyone, being a very poor studier to working every night in the last week till midnight in the library on homework, and lastly I've gone from hardly ever singing in vocal practice to singing with pianists and on my own 6 hours a week.
It's been a wonderful, very fast first week of school. I decided to take 13.5 credits, 8 classes of music core as well as 2.0 credits of religion and what I was hoping would be a .5 credit of dance. Of course things never turn out the way we imagine them and with a little rearranging of my schedule after getting into my audition choir, I tried to get into DANCE 184 but unfortunately was turned away. However, this might be a wonderful idea because I would have been taking 16 credit hours, 10 classes (that's quite a large number of classes for me). I'm really excited for the classes that I am taking though because they are all looking to be very nice, invigorating, some rather simple and easy to get out of early, whereas others will be very difficult and time consuming.
My love life has been rather interesting in the past three weeks because I went to having a little bit of something with some people to nothing. I almost dated someone at the end of summer (Daniel) but found I should not hurt his feelings if I decided to date my best friend (Bryan) when he got off his mission at the beginning of fall semester. I found I did like the best friend missionary better, at one point was in love with him as well, but for one of the darndest reasons, don't love him anymore. With that said, we're still good friends and spend time together (I've told him that I don't like him like that and don't want to date - I am being honest with him). He currently plays the piano for me on a wonderful regular basis as well. I am going out on dates with another guy (Craig) that is very active (runs like a beast, hikes, road bikes, rock climbs - might type of outdoorsy) who just graduated and is looking into graduate school for next fall meanwhile preparing to take a group of interns to Uganda?. My last boy situation is the one that is the most wonderful. My friend Jonathon who I greatly respect and love to pieces is currently in the accounting junior core which equals habitation in Harold B. Lee. Both of us are fed up with our dating status/love lifes and don't want that type of stress anymore so we are "getting married" on a particular date in September. It makes me so happy to have such a great friend, no strings attached, that I'm able to care so much about (his health at least - getting 6.5 hours of sleep between 2 days isn't healthy!!!). He makes me laugh, he and his roommate Mike.
Jonathon helps me with this next part as well. Every night he lives in the library. So in order to be a very dedicated student versus the slacker that I normally am, I go and live there with him and his roommate as well in the fifth floor of the library (ie the Accounting floor). It makes me laugh and much much less stressed studying with such wonderful company, eventhouhg we're there til midnight most nights. Laughter is always a great cure to stress.
As for vocal practice - it's going wonderful. It's really a wonderful novel thought to practice. I've never really practiced and now that I'm averaging 6 hours a week, I'm memorizing and learning at such a rapid pace that my teacher was floored when I came to our second lesson having one song memorized and the second one (in German) with words learned but not yet memorized. I love being on top of everything - it makes the lack of sleep not nearly so bad in actuality.
This semester is going to be a great time to be here!
Monday, July 14, 2008
Love
Today, Tomorrow and time through each of our days, I believe we should each take a step closer into looking at what we have to offer this world in the ways of love. For scripture study tonight, we got into a very deep conversation about death, how to more fully, horizontally love and thoughts concerning this. Daniel Derricott left this page pulled up on my computer - http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-479-26,00.html - which I greatly appreciated. It's titled "The Women in Our Lives" and spoken by President Gordon B. Hinckley only about 6 months after his beloved wife passed away 'to eternity'. In bed reading this page, I am wondering why he might have put that on my computer, whether it were to give me more insight to how people have dealt with death and carried on or if it were to remind me that even though I may get down once in awhile, I am a precious gift from God. Either way, I appreciated reading this talk. It's been a while since I last read/listened to it.
Most of the thoughts for the night are rather personal but I will share a few that we discussed. We evolved the evening from discussion into a chapter reading/discussion base. Reading from
Moroni 7, we each took three versus in which any body with thoughts could at anytime interject. Thoughts that arose, that I'm willing to share are concerning charity. Charity never Faileth. a) you choose to have it, b) the atonement never faileth, c) it is treasure laid up in heaven, like a bank account that never decays and that we are continually being blessed from, and d) it's a lifestyle that will never end up wrong/bad/collapsing. In discussion we discussed concerning the Prophet George Albert Smith. He was asked by his great Grandfather in a vision what he had done with his name. How do we truly honor those people's names and lives that have moved on? I believe in what Jonathon Drysdale said that it's by doing those things that would make those people not here proud. We carry on their legacy, honor their name.
Scriptures that hit home in our discussion were in such order
Moroni 7:48
1 John 2:10
D&C 42: 45-46
Moroni 7:26
Moroni 7:39
Most of the thoughts for the night are rather personal but I will share a few that we discussed. We evolved the evening from discussion into a chapter reading/discussion base. Reading from
Moroni 7, we each took three versus in which any body with thoughts could at anytime interject. Thoughts that arose, that I'm willing to share are concerning charity. Charity never Faileth. a) you choose to have it, b) the atonement never faileth, c) it is treasure laid up in heaven, like a bank account that never decays and that we are continually being blessed from, and d) it's a lifestyle that will never end up wrong/bad/collapsing. In discussion we discussed concerning the Prophet George Albert Smith. He was asked by his great Grandfather in a vision what he had done with his name. How do we truly honor those people's names and lives that have moved on? I believe in what Jonathon Drysdale said that it's by doing those things that would make those people not here proud. We carry on their legacy, honor their name.Scriptures that hit home in our discussion were in such order
Moroni 7:48
1 John 2:10
D&C 42: 45-46
Moroni 7:26
Moroni 7:39
Saturday, July 12, 2008
So really, this week has been rather hectic and crazy with the many different things that have happened. Between work, dance, and my new ward, I've come to understand when some of my friends stare at me baffled and say [in awe] "She's got so much energy!". I've had two friends say that over the past month now - Mike Henderson, in Petra, while we were on some subject I was so very passionate about and Daniel Derricott one night this week in the apartment when I was just being me. Energy, I figure, is partially a mental thing. Trust me, I've tried the energy drinks and they really do squat for me except screw with my body's mellowing system (I can still fall asleep on them though). Energy is positive, mental energy one lives in. Really, it's so much easier when we don't complain about those spilled strawberry shakes of life. Now, for an explanation why energy and me shouldn't really be synonymous most of the time (regardless the fact that I'm resting my sore, weary feet on the coach arm as I type):
1) Work is awesome. Work is never steady hours both in duration nor in beginning of time. I applied for a new position in work and got it, started it, and have been working as the closer this past week for 3 of the 6 days out of the week. This means that I get to explore all the dark recesses I never knew catering had before. Also.... the pOwEr - muahhahahahaha... no, not really. I'm not all that power hungry but it's fun for effect. We get to eat awesome food which is a plus (and if the boys in my ward don't fatten me up this summer with all of our ice cream escapades then catering might do the job). I get to end with everything all neat and orderly clean which is a love love love of mine - all clean and orderly when I leave or go to bed (or at least preferably). But this means that on top of school (which I'm only going part-time right now but soon....), being a social butterfly, and regular shift hours, I know spend another 10 hours in closing (but don't get me wrong - this is great constant hours that I can have through fall as well. I love it because it means a small constant steady income). So, this affords no reprieve in life (but did I mention a pay raise?) to recoup energy but it's wonderful the same.
2) I love dance. Dance is a way to express yourself. It is a form of communication in which energy is given and taken between you, the dance, the floor, and your partner. It is a way to
constantly move and explore different muscles in the body not normally used. It's an art which can make a girl truly feel like a princess; an art that can look ultimately elegant, graceful, and fluid while simultaneously being rather fast-paced. I've begun dancing with a few people in my class late at night after my night class. With a little bit of music, a lot of medical tape, and a constantly running water fountain, we dance. Perfecting an art that is trying to be taught to us while thoroughly enjoying each other's company and the possibilities of friendships that can possibly arise. No, I am not ever resting due to dancing but I'm enjoying life to the brim, drinking to the lees!
3) Why do all summer wards just really seem to rock my socks off?! Truly my prayers have been answered. Not only am I living with wonderful roommates but with
people that I am beginning to love for their humor they're bringing into my life and their insights to how life can really be enjoyed. We watched My Fair Lady, Singing in the Rain, and the Sound of Music this past week along with playing games last Sunday night and a great scripture study. I respect those people so much and love them for their examples and friendships. Jonathon Drysdale, Dustin Briscoe, Daniel Derricott, Veronica Benavides, and Mary Linford (and today, Daniel's sister Sarah). There's more as well such as Ashley Burton, Kelly Steinbeigle, David Ross, and others. They really are a great social network. Really, if anybody were to ever know anybody amazing - it'd be these people right here.
1) Work is awesome. Work is never steady hours both in duration nor in beginning of time. I applied for a new position in work and got it, started it, and have been working as the closer this past week for 3 of the 6 days out of the week. This means that I get to explore all the dark recesses I never knew catering had before. Also.... the pOwEr - muahhahahahaha... no, not really. I'm not all that power hungry but it's fun for effect. We get to eat awesome food which is a plus (and if the boys in my ward don't fatten me up this summer with all of our ice cream escapades then catering might do the job). I get to end with everything all neat and orderly clean which is a love love love of mine - all clean and orderly when I leave or go to bed (or at least preferably). But this means that on top of school (which I'm only going part-time right now but soon....), being a social butterfly, and regular shift hours, I know spend another 10 hours in closing (but don't get me wrong - this is great constant hours that I can have through fall as well. I love it because it means a small constant steady income). So, this affords no reprieve in life (but did I mention a pay raise?) to recoup energy but it's wonderful the same.
2) I love dance. Dance is a way to express yourself. It is a form of communication in which energy is given and taken between you, the dance, the floor, and your partner. It is a way to
constantly move and explore different muscles in the body not normally used. It's an art which can make a girl truly feel like a princess; an art that can look ultimately elegant, graceful, and fluid while simultaneously being rather fast-paced. I've begun dancing with a few people in my class late at night after my night class. With a little bit of music, a lot of medical tape, and a constantly running water fountain, we dance. Perfecting an art that is trying to be taught to us while thoroughly enjoying each other's company and the possibilities of friendships that can possibly arise. No, I am not ever resting due to dancing but I'm enjoying life to the brim, drinking to the lees!3) Why do all summer wards just really seem to rock my socks off?! Truly my prayers have been answered. Not only am I living with wonderful roommates but with
people that I am beginning to love for their humor they're bringing into my life and their insights to how life can really be enjoyed. We watched My Fair Lady, Singing in the Rain, and the Sound of Music this past week along with playing games last Sunday night and a great scripture study. I respect those people so much and love them for their examples and friendships. Jonathon Drysdale, Dustin Briscoe, Daniel Derricott, Veronica Benavides, and Mary Linford (and today, Daniel's sister Sarah). There's more as well such as Ashley Burton, Kelly Steinbeigle, David Ross, and others. They really are a great social network. Really, if anybody were to ever know anybody amazing - it'd be these people right here.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
My Favorite Sites
Alright, so in my free time, which is becoming more and more limited with my lovely knack of scheduling and ordering things (I lOvE having full schedules!) I've found a few websites or videos that help me unwind after a long day of work/school. The first I found off of Google's "Reader" under photography.http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=cy#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A
%2F%2Fwww.durhamtownship.com%2Findex.rdf
The photographer in here has a wOnDeRfUl eye. In general it's very pleasant to view her photos (Greta would really enjoy looking at this site). Something about art has a relaxing and unwinding effect on me - which is the reason why I love looking at this photographer's photos.
A second website is on Google Video. This one is more for the memory factor from my Freshman summer but if you are bored and want to view something that will probably make you laugh at the hilarity of it, it's 8 mins long and exactly what the dorm-life experience should be for everyone. Go to:
video.google.com
and type in "BYU Budge 1100 Floor Summer '06" or any variation off of that (if you like Eiffel65's Blue song and interesting humor - you'll love this)
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Bucket List
On a lighter note, this is my list of things to do before I die... some of which I've already done and some of which I don't know of yet and so I'll add them on as a continuous entry throughout this year (and they are in no particular order)
1. ride a camel
2. ride an elephant
3. sky dive
4. see the 'Wattoluempiade' Mudflat Olympic Games in Germany
5. become fluent in another language
6. ski the Alps
7. read 100 books from literary acclaimed authors (Faulkner, Austin, Dickens, Hemingway, Poe, Shaw, Kipling, Huxley, Woolf, Steinbeck)
8. Visit the major church history sites in Mormon Culture (Independence Missouri, Martin's Cove, Palmyra, the Holy Land, Adam-ondi-ahman, Armageddon)
9. Visit every temple in the US (along with as many outside the US as possible)
10. ride in a hot air balloon
11. ride in a 2-3 passenger airplane
12. compete in a duathalon
13. Swim in or travel over the "7 Seas" - Dead, Red, Galilee, Black, Caspian, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, and Arabian and all the landlocked seas
14. Swim in the 6 landlocked seas - Aral Sea (Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan), Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan), Dead Sea (Israel/Jordan/West Bank), Sea of Galilee (Israel), Salton Sea (Cali), and Great Salt Lake (Utah)
15. swim with dolphins
16. Keep a journal for one complete year, in a consecutive fashion
17. Travel Europe with bare minimum for a month
18. rebuild a Peugeot 104 (1973 model?)
...
...
p.s. - this is a bit of a to-get-to-in-free-time list. Of course my marriage, hubby, chilluns' come first. Who you think I am? Some crazy bucket list hunter with no appreciation for the finer things in life (no not the caviar but those stinky diapers and as said on Alex and Emma - the laundry by myself)
1. ride a camel
2. ride an elephant
3. sky dive
4. see the 'Wattoluempiade' Mudflat Olympic Games in Germany
5. become fluent in another language
6. ski the Alps
7. read 100 books from literary acclaimed authors (Faulkner, Austin, Dickens, Hemingway, Poe, Shaw, Kipling, Huxley, Woolf, Steinbeck)
8. Visit the major church history sites in Mormon Culture (Independence Missouri, Martin's Cove, Palmyra, the Holy Land, Adam-ondi-ahman, Armageddon)
9. Visit every temple in the US (along with as many outside the US as possible)
10. ride in a hot air balloon
11. ride in a 2-3 passenger airplane
12. compete in a duathalon
13. Swim in or travel over the "7 Seas" - Dead, Red, Galilee, Black, Caspian, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, and Arabian and all the landlocked seas
14. Swim in the 6 landlocked seas - Aral Sea (Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan), Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan), Dead Sea (Israel/Jordan/West Bank), Sea of Galilee (Israel), Salton Sea (Cali), and Great Salt Lake (Utah)
15. swim with dolphins
16. Keep a journal for one complete year, in a consecutive fashion
17. Travel Europe with bare minimum for a month
18. rebuild a Peugeot 104 (1973 model?)
...
...
p.s. - this is a bit of a to-get-to-in-free-time list. Of course my marriage, hubby, chilluns' come first. Who you think I am? Some crazy bucket list hunter with no appreciation for the finer things in life (no not the caviar but those stinky diapers and as said on Alex and Emma - the laundry by myself)
over time
I've been home for over a week now from Jerusalem. Some things are different and some things seem to always stay the same (such as the great taste of BlueBell Ice Cream and the underestimation of time, and muscle, to move into an apartment). I went rock climbing with
Chase Bowler and Veronica Benavides last night up Rock Canyon Park at
the Appendage on the 5.08, 5.09 there. It was there that we discovered
Veronica's rock woman instincts as she on her first real rock climb schooled both Chase aNd I, hands down. She was amazing... I think that I need to take more drill team classes/modern dance classes. I think that might be Veronica's secret... flexibility as well as a built up strength. Needless to say, I am once more excited to have friends that excel so quick at a passion of mine as well as share a portion of my passion- it means there's less time wasted on trying to convince them to join me in future escapades!
Chase said an interesting thing while we were climbing... Chase does that occasionally. He asked me a lot of similar questions as Dad - "how was it?" "How was Jerusalem?" and the final one "How was the spirit?". I thought for a while and responded with "well, for me it's hard for archaeological sites to hit home when they say 'this is so many years old, this is where Christ walked, Christ stepped on this stone most likely'. Being in Jerusalem wasn't a needed thing in order to build a testimony of Christ. However, it was neat because the spirit was present in a way to reaffirm what was already there for me. One doesn't need to travel to Holy Sites in order to know He lived". I really do believe this statement too. It was strongly emphasized in our religion class while there that just because we are visiting these sites, it d
oesn't mean that we should be growing in spirit. It should be through our study and our diligence to those things that can be done universally that makes our spirits sing at those sites. I don't know if Chase was simply humoring me or if it's similar to humility but he made a comment about a difference in me, more mature. Quite possibly he was humoring me to make me become puffed up, vain, and all those wonderful attributes I've been striving for for so long... or possibly it's similar to humility - you notice that there has been a change in your life and your actions over some extension of time but you aren't able to say "Oh that's where I became mature" "that's where I stepped from immature to mature - boy (girl) to man (woman)". It comes as a continuation of continued efforts that build layer upon layer until one day you can't believe you were once a water droplet and now a mountain of snow - possible to lose the state which you're in but with the correct actions on your part and conditions you put yourself in, only able to grow larger. A process over time
Chase Bowler and Veronica Benavides last night up Rock Canyon Park atthe Appendage on the 5.08, 5.09 there. It was there that we discovered
Veronica's rock woman instincts as she on her first real rock climb schooled both Chase aNd I, hands down. She was amazing... I think that I need to take more drill team classes/modern dance classes. I think that might be Veronica's secret... flexibility as well as a built up strength. Needless to say, I am once more excited to have friends that excel so quick at a passion of mine as well as share a portion of my passion- it means there's less time wasted on trying to convince them to join me in future escapades!
Chase said an interesting thing while we were climbing... Chase does that occasionally. He asked me a lot of similar questions as Dad - "how was it?" "How was Jerusalem?" and the final one "How was the spirit?". I thought for a while and responded with "well, for me it's hard for archaeological sites to hit home when they say 'this is so many years old, this is where Christ walked, Christ stepped on this stone most likely'. Being in Jerusalem wasn't a needed thing in order to build a testimony of Christ. However, it was neat because the spirit was present in a way to reaffirm what was already there for me. One doesn't need to travel to Holy Sites in order to know He lived". I really do believe this statement too. It was strongly emphasized in our religion class while there that just because we are visiting these sites, it d
oesn't mean that we should be growing in spirit. It should be through our study and our diligence to those things that can be done universally that makes our spirits sing at those sites. I don't know if Chase was simply humoring me or if it's similar to humility but he made a comment about a difference in me, more mature. Quite possibly he was humoring me to make me become puffed up, vain, and all those wonderful attributes I've been striving for for so long... or possibly it's similar to humility - you notice that there has been a change in your life and your actions over some extension of time but you aren't able to say "Oh that's where I became mature" "that's where I stepped from immature to mature - boy (girl) to man (woman)". It comes as a continuation of continued efforts that build layer upon layer until one day you can't believe you were once a water droplet and now a mountain of snow - possible to lose the state which you're in but with the correct actions on your part and conditions you put yourself in, only able to grow larger. A process over time
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