New Calling!

Well, this morning as I was getting up and ready for church I received an anonymous text message asking me if I could meet with a member of the bishopric today during the block. I replied, "Sure." Afterwards, I was thinking what would it be about because I still hadn't been recognized as a member of the ward. So when the time came, I went and met with the first counselor, Bro. Fenton. We sat down in an extra room and he told me that they would like me to serve on the FHE committee of the ward. So I asked him if they had my records yet, and he responded that he believed that they had just received them. Of course, I accepted the calling! Then in sacrament meeting they finally recognized me in the ward and sustained me in my calling! I was set apart shortly after the block. Then Bro. Fenton informed me that the committee have some pretty cute young women. So we'll see what happens with that! Ha ha ha! But no rush!
Tomorrow for FHE we are hitting up the Haunted Village near the This is the Place Monuement. So it should be fun! I hope that it better staffed than last night because when I went last night, it wasn't all that scary. lol

Insight on BS, MS, and PHDs by Elder Oaks

Tonight, my singles ward for FHE had Sister Oaks come speak to us. This only can suggest who most likely accompanied her, Elder Oaks himself! They were a little late gettin there thinking that it started half hour later than when it actually did. Sister Oaks explained that they thought for some reason it started at 7:30pm rather than 7pm. They happened to be shopping at Costco shortly before hand. She told us how Elder Oaks tried to go incognito (sp) in there with a hat on. "Tried" being the key word here! Well, within a short time he was spotted in the dergent section. We had a laugh with that one.
Towards the middle of Sister Oaks' talk, she invited Elder Oaks up to share some remarks or words of advice for we youngsters. He said, "Keep learning!" And he went off on how we should keep learning until the end of our days because learning is was makes life interesting and exciting. Then he said that it doesn't mean to go get a degree after degree after degree. Then he said this, "You all know what BS is, right? Well, MS is just More of the same stuff, and PHD is Pile Higher and Deeper!" We got a kick out of that! They're both a hoot! But I know that he is not discouraging to seek that level of degree in anyway. It doesn't haven't to be just worldy knowledge. It can be spiritual knowledge as well! More so in fact!
Well it's getting late. I just thought I would share that little bit with you!

Football vs Rugby

Today, I happened to have the opportunity to check out the interesting and entertaining sport of rugby. I went with Hadley and Travis to the Utes Rugby game this morning to watch Hadley's friend play. She called me up last night to invite me, and seeing that I have never been to one, I thought it would be fun. It was! But the temperature sure did drop though! IT SNOWED TODAY!
Later this afternoon I went to Hadley's house to watch the BYU/ New Mexico football game rather than freezing my but off at the game. We made Choco Krispie Treats and ate them as we watched the game. BYU won 21-3! Go Cougars! Also, the Utah won against Wyoming! Both of them remain to be undefeated! The rival game between them will be an amazing one if this keeps up and they are still undefeated by then!

The Happenings of the Week

I guess I would like to start from last weekend (conference weekend). I had my first mission reunion the friday night before conference. I had a blast! It's a shame that we don't meet more often than once a year. But there are several mission buddies that are here in the SLC/Provo areas going to school and living! We are actually trying to get a few of us to hit up Nightmare on 13th next weekend, amongst other friends! It should be fun! ...and I am getting side tracked with the topic at hand! Sorry, but for those who don't know me that well, I am very random! Random ideas or recollections pop into my head and I start to go off on tangents and talk about them!
Anyways... last weekend for conference weekend I had several of my latin friends from Las Vegas come up. We were able to go to the saturday afternoon session of conference. We sat up in the balcony on the 3rd to 4th row from the way back! But hey! We made it inside! It was quite an awesome session! Especially with the funny talk given my Elder Worthlin! He's a great guy! Another highlight was the primary choir that sung that session in place of the MOTAB. During one of the songs they sung the camera was focused on a spot where a red headed, freckled youngster was is sight. The red hair most definitely stood out! lol... My latin friends galnced over at me when they saw him, and made comments like "Look! There's Craig Jr.!" or "It's Craig's kid!" to one another. It was pretty funny! From there we hung out around temple square until late in the evening. Then we went back to my place where we talked and made some mini m&ms and mini chocolate chip cookie dough and baked a little of it while we munched on some of the dough! Then we called it a night and went to bed.
On sunday morning we went to the Assembly Hall building on Temple Square and watched the session in Spanish! That took me back to the mission! All in all, I had a good conference weekend! I was spiritually, socially, and mentally uplifted!
As for work... everything is going well! I was able to get my Utah drivers license on monday as well! In doing so my process towards getting my CDL and HAZMAT endorsements have progressed! In order to get the CDL/HAZMAT endorsements I have to pass a thorough background check by the FBI with finger prints and all. But before I could get that done, I had to get a Utah license, and before i could get a Utah license i had to have money- aka receive a paycheck! I received my paycheck last week friday. So on monday I finished my route around 11:00am, meaning that i was done with work! The head driver guy said to go ahead and leave so i can go to the DMV. Come to find out, Praxair paid to have my license done since it is part of me of getting me hired! That was great! On top of that, i didn't have to take the 25 question, open-book, written test either! So i was in and out of the DMV in about 20 minutes! It was great!
That night, i was able to go with some friends (Hadley and Travis) to see Eagle Eye! That was a good movie! The whole movie was almost in suspence! I quite enjoyed it!
Wednesday night I volunteered to assist the RS in my ward with their visiting teaching dinner by setting up. serving, and taking down. I had a good time with that as well. And no, I wasn't able to get any girl's number. But don't fret! One of these days i will get one! LOL!
Other than that nothing too exciting has been happening. Just been brushing up on my health benefit forms and such to get those turned in pronto!
So...yeah... I guess you can say that I had an eventful week! As well as say that this is another long blog that i have written. I more than likely have bored you, but thanks for sticking it out to the end! And i leave it at that!

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