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.

The Last of 2010

Since I've been lazy, here's a recap of the last 6 months.








It first started off in Idaho, I had a road trip with some friends from my freshman ward. Our Relief Society and Elder's Quorum presidents married in June. Typical BYU :)

The next adventure was in July for the Jolley family reunion at New York, it starated at Niagra Falls, Palmyra, then ending in New York City. I loved spending time with my whole family. I can't wait for May when we can all be together again.

Another trip I took in November was to Cedar City. I didn't get any pictures with one of my best friends, Randi, but I did get a ride to the St. George temple and did some baptisims for the dead. The temple was very beautiful being all white.

My roommates/cousins and I went to the Harry Potter 7 Part 1 midnight showing! It was way fun dressing up and being one of the firsts to see the last first part of the Harry Potter movies.

(Me/Percussionist Weird Sister, Nate/Harry Potter, Aaron/Dobby)

My old roommate, Kaitlyn, and I have this tradition to do something crazy every night during finals week. This past finals week, we only had one night before I went home. So we did something that we've done before. LAUNDRY SLIDING!!!!

I had a little mishap....let's just say I added something to my Christmas list last minute.

Before I went, Aaron and I did baptisms for the dead in the Draper temple. This temple was gigantic! It's so big, there were 18 weddings scheduled for that day. Crazy!

Arizona!!!

It's almost been a month since I was in AZ, but better late than never right? So I went to see Wills, Bailey, and adorable Monson for a week and I had a blast! (except for the weird food poisoning or whatever that was, but I am good now and so is Wills! lucky Bailey, she didn't even go pale) Wills, Monson, and I went to go play basketball on one of the mornings, and we had an epic battle of Around the World!! So to play, you have to shoot around the key, the 3-point line, and half-court (in total 15 spots). You take turns taking two shots each and if you miss the second time you have to start over, or if you miss once than you can say pass and stay in the spot you are at. Well, I slowly made my way to half-court while Wills kept getting cocky then missing and starting over. I shot probably over 80 or 90 half-court shots, then Wills caught up to me and made the half-court shot in 2 shots. (I never practiced half-court shots in high school, I was always in the key) Well, after he made it, I wanted to try one more time. Swish! I made it right after Wills won!!! What an exciting game. I think it took us about an hour and a half or two hours!! Here is a pic right after the game.



I also had to get some pics of the star in the Jolley home! This one I had to take because he looks so cute when he takes a bottle and is about to fall asleep!

I guarantee he is so much bigger now, but I can't wait to see him and the entire William Jolley family in July for Palmyra!!! WHOOHOO!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Commit to Virtue 5K

Here at BYU, I decided to become a program director for BYUSA. So one of the programs, I was one of the directors. We held a 5K promoting the Honor Code and emphasizing against pornography. I'm very happy to say that through my name, we were able to get Sister Cook and Sister Dibb to the run!!! (They are the first and second counselors in the General Young Women's Presidency, Sister Dalton would have come but she had a cold :( ). It was awesome!!!


This is Kim and Rich who I worked very closely in the run with. We are besties now :)

This is the entire crew that helped out that day...wow what a day! (I'm the one in the blue and middleish left)

General Conference

For General Conference, Randi came to my apartment and slept over and then we went to the Saturday afternoon session the next day. We had a great time and loved being where the prophets spoke!!!

There's a wall there....

On Monday, I needed to finish a test on-line and well...Kaitlyn and I just kept talking and talking and talking. So I built a wall made out of the quilt Mom finished for me. It worked great!!! Except the memories we made while I made the wall... :D But I finished my test in a reasonable amount of time :)

This is what was going through our minds: She needs to stop talking to me!

Well, she started it!! ;)

Wow...College....

Wow so instead of catching y'all up with my life with pics I'll just summarize that I'm having a FANTASTIC time at BYU (yes, Heather and Ryan, I love it at BYU). I'm just having a ball doing what I do. Sorry I'm not going to post all the pics or explain everything. If you really want to know, I'll tell everything to you with my computer on my lap, and we'll go through pictures. I'll try to be better from now on...but no promises. :D Love you all!!!!