Contemplating

Collin gave his homecoming address today.
What. a. stud. Seriously, I've never been prouder to be his family:)

It was SUCH a great meeting and the spirit was so strong.

I may or may not have come home and written up a list of why I should and why I shouldnt serve a mission..

It was pretty one-sided.

more to come later.

Elder Brian -- Fresh out of Spain

Three Amigos: Reunited

Missing You Already, D22

Elder Brian

Hey Bloggers.
Its been a tough week. We finally sent Elder Brian out to the mission field. Can't believe he's such a man..? Weird.

Anyway, most of you who know me, know him, so I just thought you might wanna know, OF COURSE I made a mission blog for while he's gone.

 It's like a rite of passage for this time in my life, right? It probably in the missionary handbook that your sister is supposed to do this for you while you're gone. I dont know. Maybe.

Anyway, here it is. douginperu.blogspot.com

This was across the street from the MTC right
before we literally kicked him to the curb.

This muchacho es mi amigo. I like him. We're friends.

We met at a bowling alley one time about a year and a half ago.

I really love being his friend. He's so fun and I know I can always count on him for anything. He's a stud. I feel lucky to have him in my life.

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On a totally unrelated note, I planted an onion seed about 8 months ago. I don't know what I was thinking, because I don't even like onions at all. But, anyway, I grew an onion, and now I don't know what to do with it. It feels like a waste to throw it away because it took so long to grow. So I've just been saving it for a lonng time. I thought maybe if I found the right recipe it could still be good, but it's been a while and I can't find anything to do with it and its starting to go bad.

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He loves onions. He says he'd rather have an onion than anything else. He could eat onions every day for the rest of his life. And if he couldn't have onions, he would just look all over the place for the closest thing to onions he could find. He convinced me to try them and I've learned to like onions a lot more than I did before, but there's still no way you could convince me to sit around and eat onions for the rest of my life. Ya know?

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So yeah, I guess all I'm trying to say is that we feel really differently about onions, he and I.

The end.

Home is Wherever I'm with You

\I can't stop replaying this over and over and over.

It makes my heart melt. I love everything about it. It makes me hopeful there's still beauty and love and GOODNESS in the world. God bless youtube for letting me creepily have a peek into this tender moment between a father and his little girl.

I have this thing.

I just, really, really love families. (yeah, yeah, everyone loves their families..)
But I mean, All families. Any family.
Families make me feel safe and happy and like the world's a wonderful place. (People who really know me, know this.)

I think too many people are starting to forget this.

"The earth was created....that families might be"
-Elder Russel M. Nelson

"There is nothing in the world as important as the creation and perfection of family units"
-Elder Bruce R. McConkie

"It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home"
-Elder David O. Mckay

Employed.

I could sing.

"Get a job" has been on my to do list maybe since I transfered to Utah State LAST fall.

Haha, ohhh man I suck.

I've been dragging my feet and making excuses about how I dont have time for a solid year maybe. sick.

The application process is brutal and the rejection is nooo fun (thanks Brittany, for not forcing me to bear it alone)

but FINALLY! A silver lining!!

I got a job at a classy restaurant in Logan called Iron Gate Grill. I've never eaten there but there's red chandeliers and zebra chairs. So, = super classy. Obviously.

omgimsoexcited.