Hard, Crazy Life and Service in Rexburg

Life is crazy. I sometimes don't understand it. A lot has happened to me over the past few months or so that has really taken me for a big ride. Actually no, in the past entire year things have gone really weird. It's just how life works I suppose. It has thrown curve ball after curve ball at me and, unfortunately, I'm not the best at catching curve balls. I'm not sure that anyone is.
But even though I'm terrible at it, I'm sure that I couldn't have gone as far as things have gone without God. Sometimes I feel like simply getting out of bed and to class on time is some sort of miracle. Those are on the bad days. There have been some really good days though. I really want to start focusing on the good things that have been happening instead of the really weird or bad ones that have. It's really hard to do that though.
I'm sure that I'll be okay though. There are some great things that have happened that I'm trying to be happy about. I got a scholarship for next semester for $800. I'm really excited about that. I get to be in the Patriots and Pioneers concert. That's exciting. I'm going to see the utah symphony orchestra play this weekend. I'm going to yellowstone with my roommates on monday. There are some exciting things coming up that I really need to focus on. It will help me be positive and be happy for the people around me.
I really hope that I'll be able to help the people here in some way or another.  It's really hard to do real service while I'm going to college. I'm kinda hoping that being section leader in band and conducting sectionals and things will help me at least help people's playing ability. Not quite the way I want to help people, but it's really the only way I can think of. These people here are so wonderful that I'm not sure I can do much for them. It's really hard to help and not really feel important to these people, but I'm doing my best and I hope that I'm making and impact in at least one of these people's lives.

He Is Risen.

Happy Easter. I'm up at college, just in case you didn't know. I was asked to teach Gospel Docrine this sunday and I'm really nervous about it. But I learned a ton studying for the class. It's amazing what 6 or so hours of studying two chapters in the New Testament will do!
I know that Christ lived and died for all of us. He rose again on the third day leaving the tomb empty. I am grateful for everything He has done for me. I hope that as I teach my lesson that I will be inspired and teach what needs to be taught. I prepared as much as I could. Here goes!

Easter Message from lds.org.
http://lds.org/pages/his-sacred-name-an-easter-declaration?lang=eng

college checklist and class list

excited feeling for college? check
register for college? check
money for college? in process, almost finished.
finish scholarship? not yet. close.
pack? not yet
move in? not yet
get my books? there's a lot.. . nope not yet.
attend class? not yet
be awesome? always
get awesome grades? hopefully
decide weather or not to do color guard? its a tough choice. I'm leaning towards no at the moment, but it was so much fun.... hmm.. I'll think some more.

I'm super stoked for college and that used textbook smell mixed in with the northern "reminds me of montana" smell. Brings me right back to elementary school. I'm so stoked to get down and dirty and practice two hours a day with other piano stuff and practicing and whatnot. Homework will be a blast and a half.... if I don't fall asleep while doing it. bah!! so excited.

Here are the classes I'm taking:

• Clarinet Lessons ( so excited to see my other clarinet squeekers in master class! )
• University Band ( I LOVE the teacher! )
• Musicianship 2 (this is the one and only ultimate kick butt class in my forseen workload. wish me luck.)
• piano skills (cake!)
• music technology (I'll be okay in this one hopefully... I don't know what it intails)
• american foundations ( everyone has to take this class. It basically is to get you going to events like concerts. Since I have to go to a lot anyway, it can double count for this class! yay easy!)
• science foundations ( I always liked science. Shouldn't be too hard... however it has been 2 ish years since I've seen the word science)
• family foundations (memorizing the family: a proclamation to the world. and talk about other family-ish things. this is my religeon class for the semester. I've heard its amazing. hopefully not kick butt, but all religeon classes have a very real danger of being so.) 

There you go. 8 classes 17 credits. So excited!

Charity

Compared to most, not very many people read my blog. Maybe one or two every once in a while. And even then, it's mostly just the people looking at my "topic generator" post. Now that Rachel is gone on her mission, my dedicated reader list has gone down quite considerably. This, among many other things, makes me wonder about my life and if I'm really making a difference. How important is my life if I don't impact anyone at all? I suppose, yes, at work I help get everything done and I don't know exactly what they're going to do without me at both of my jobs, so I guess I've helped a company get their work done and an oral sugeon get all his files on a computer. ..yay. But, have I helped anyone specifically or individually? Have I made anyone happier by my just being there? And I know I probably most likely have sometime in my past, but I'm talking about this little section of life between July and April where I haven't been at school and I've been wondering exactly why I'm supposed to have spent so much time here and not at BYU-I. Perhaps I'm just rambling. But, today in relief society, it was all about charity and about how the whole purpose of eveything is to help other people and it's really important. I got to thinking, do I make an impact? Do I have charity in my heart? Let's make that a goal, eh? More charity and service and thinking of others before myself. I like that. It's a good goal. I hope I'll be able to make a difference here in twin during my break. I have less than three months to do it. ready? go!

CHRISTMAS 7 DAYS!

so... It's Christmas in a week. 7 days. That's it! oh man! I'm so excited!!! CHRISTMAS!!!! I'm excited to see family, I'm excited to not have to work christmas eve night, not to have to work the day after christmas, and everything christmasy that you can think of I'm just so excited for.
I'm also excited for the christmas program tomorrow, that I'm in charge of. I'm not going to do very well, but it'll be okay. the audience is singing a lot because I couldn't get enough musical numbers together in time. But, even though it's tough and I hate being in charge of things like this, I'm excited for the christmas awesomeness that will be the program. I hope it goes well! Wish me luck!

Applying Knowledge

I had tons of fun this weekend. So much, that my legs are still soar from all the dancing and army crawling. I'm glad I had so much fun the past three or four days. It's going to be really hard to leave in April... again. grr. I hate this. I don't like sticking around and making friends so easily and having such a great social life with people I hardly know. At BYUI, I never really had that opprotunity to be friends with good people. I never saw where the good people were to hang out with. Here, it was so easy to make friends. There it was hard. I think I've learned a lot more than I thought I would by staying here. I've learned how to make friends again. I hope that when I do go back to byui that I'll be able to apply what I've learned here, there. I think I'll be able to be happier and have a better social life. That would be fun.

Outlaw Poster

OUTLAW:

Wanted: Shady man on random street corner.

Crime: Handing out numbers to people I hardly know.

Also may be selling stolen Rolexes and/or sundials.

Reward: $12 in dimes. 

Our top artists (i.e. a google search of "Shady Guy") 

 have come up with this face:

If you see him. Please tell him to cut it out.

Also, if you are one to be taking numbers from such a man,

please just do the respectful thing and ask for my number instead.

Yes, I may just say no. But I like to know the people who have

my contact information won't be weird, creepy people. The End.