Just a Few Adventures

Ok, I'm really horrible at blogging. My goal is to blog every week while I'm at Jerusalem, so hopefully that will help me stay caught up! I just want to share a few moments I've had the previous months.


First off, my freshman roommate got married 2 weeks ago! She looked sooo beautiful, and we had a ball all together. You can catch a glimpse of a few of the amazing people I hung out with that weekend. By the way, don't judge me. ;)

We had a Fiesta at my Grandpa's place for a work party. We had soo much fun! This picture just shows a little bit of the spiciness fun we had. I know, I look cute.

During March again, I went to the American Fork Krishna temple's celebration of the Festival of Colors. I have never coughed up so much chalk in my life! But it was a BLAST!!! It was also amazing to see someone else's religion and culture. I would definitely suggest it to anyone else with these tips: take sunglasses to cover the eyes, handkerchief to cover the mouth, and go early in the day when there aren't as many people high off of stuff other than chalk (if you get my drift). But other than that, go have a ball!!!

This summer I had the A-MAZING opportunity to serve as an Especially For Youth counselor four awesome weeks. I can't think of any other thing better I could have done this summer. I loved being with those girls and saw how they could grow during the week through the gospel. These girls were my first week during pizza night! Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of my other girls because so many cameras were already going on, but I did love them all like my own little sisters that I never have had.

After EFY, there was EFC (Especially For Counselors) at Disneyland!!! It was crazy fun!!!!! I loved getting to know other counselors and people and reminisce with counselors I already knew. I can't believe how blessed I am in this life with the people I know, and the experiences I have shared and will share with others in the future.

Another adventure that I have had which I don't have pictures for at this time:

My cousin, Nate Haines, and a few friends came out to Vernal for the weekend. They came to run the river and go to the Demolition Derby. It was so much fun to see these city folks come to a hick event. The cars roarin', smoke coming out of engines, and the smell of money (cows, that's what my dad likes to refer the smell as) are just a few of the things that reminds me of home. But the big adventure happened earlier that day on the river. We decided to not get a guide especially since the Green River wasn't running fast, and it's not that intense of a river. Well we're weaving in and out of tight spaces and having a grand ole time. There was a rock up ahead in the middle of the river, and we started casually saying right or left. Well some went left and some went right and together we went smack dab in the middle of the rock (Mother-In-Law in case if you were wondering what it was called). I tried to flip the raft over or something, but in my effort my hand instead got caught in between where the raft folded. Everyone was able to swim to shore, but I just kind of chilled there on the raft with my hand being comforted in the middle of the raft. After a mintute or two, I was able to wiggle my hand free. Since I was there, I tried to budge the raft off. The current was ridiculously strong. I tried one side then went to the other and tried. After some tugs, the water took me under and I think I hit a rock with my leg because I had a lovely bruise afterwards. We weren't able to get the raft out, so we had to pay them to get the raft off. But we are blessed because they said since we were so nice and willing to accept whatever consequence that came, we just had to pay the minimum fee ($500, but much better than $2000 which was what the raft cost and much better than someone getting hurt). Let's just say we learned to make decisions quickly in life. The river is like life ;) Think about it.

Updates:

Today I had my interview with the Stake President, and he will press the button in 9 days for my mission papers to go to the 1st Presidency!! AHHH!!!

On that same day (August 30), I will be going to travel to Jerusalem for an entire semester. Life is just simply amazing. I can't believe that I will be blessed to go walk where Christ walked, lived, and died for an entire semster. Hopefully 2 weeks from now I will have updated this blog to let you know my extraordinary experiences that I will have over there.