Total Randomness of a Friday night

Haha, I was going to just leave that last post for a couple of days and see what people said, but I guess not. Cause I want to post right now. Tomorrow's General Conference. Well I guess actually today. I'm so terrible at remembering to write. At least I'm writing right now. Lots of stuff has happened. My cousin Nick moved into my house to go to ASU. I love having him here. School started again. Now I'm just waiting for it to end so that I can graduate. I've started working at Chick-fil-A again. I'm enjoying it. I'm now trying to think of something to officially decide. Oh, okay, I've got one. I've officially decided that weekends are the best. Especially this upcoming one. Do you want to know why? Because I don't have to work! I was scheduled, but then my friend named Katie Cortez said she could work for me so that I can go to Priesthood Session. She made me very happy. I also was going to have to study a lot for my psychology test on Monday, but then it got moved to Tuesday, also making me very happy. So basically I don't have to worry about anything this weekend. I just get to watch conference! Oh, and ask someone to Homecoming which is on Halloween next. I won't say who I'm asking yet but another time i will. This post is really random. I'm just kind of typing. And not thinking at all. I even have my eyes closed. It's very relaxing. You should try it sometime. Well, I guess you don't have to. The other day, it was the best. All of my siblings that are at home right now (Ben, Jenni, Mike, Em, and me) took turns giving eachother massages.. It was also very relaxing. Mmmmm, what else is relaxing? I'm gonna have to say the taste of strawberry yogurt too. And hot water, like in a shower. And other things too. Anyways, it's getting really late, so I'm going to stop now. I'll try to keep on posting. Well, that's it! Ciao!

So...............

So it's been awhile.

I finally learned how to put lots of pictures on!

Well, this summer has been awesome so far. My friends make it awesome. I wish I had more pictures than I do, but here's what I have. Some of these first ones aren't from the summer actually, but oh well.

This is Charity and Haley. They are my bestest friends. Charity is so amazing that she took care of her family of seven for a week while her parents were both in the hospital. Haley is so amazing that I can't help but smile whenever she is around.

Haha. We were walking up a mountain and Haley got too tired to keep up with us. So I took a picture of her tiredness.

I decided to deliberately disobey the sign and feed Charity a granola bar anyways. Haha, this choir trip was a fun one!

This is everyone's "excited to be at Six Flags" face. Haha, jk. This is Haley, Ryan, Kyli, Annie, and Natalie. We had a fun group.

Well, none of these actually turned out as coming from the summer. Cause I don't have any of those pictures. Haley and Shelby do though. I'll have to see if I can get them from them.

Prom 2009, and other life updates

So this beautiful young lady is Maloree Carroll. I took her to prom. It was the best! Her name almost rhymes with mine. If I spelled it Jeffery instead of Jeffrey, then it would. We laughed about that. Basically, she's amazing. She's going to BYU in the fall. So that gives me another reason to want to go to BYU once I graduate. It's crazy to me that I have only one more year of high school. Well, just about anyways.

Some other updates of my life. My english teacher that I gave the Book of Mormon to is progressing. She finished the Book of Mormon in about two weeks and I gave her a book about Joseph Smith written by Lucy Mack Smith and she's almost done with that. I also gave her a triple combination because she asked if there was any more scripture. She says it all makes sense. I asked her if she wanted to have the missionaries in her home. She's considering it, but needs to talk to her husband first. Then I asked if she wanted to come to church with me. She looked pleasantly surprised and said she hadn't thought about that. She needs to talk to her husband about that too. It's so exciting! I kind of wish she'd hurry up a bit, cause it's almost summer, but she's not the kind of person that can be rushed. But once she knows something, she KNOWS it. So I'll just be patient.

Volleyball is finally over. I really didn't like it that much this year. I'm considering playing tennis instead next year, but I haven't decided yet. I would hate to leave my team hanging like that, but it doesn't really make sense to me to play a sport when I don't enjoy doing it at all. So we'll see. I'm just glad it's over now. Now that it is though, I've got AP tests going on. I've already taken the Calculus one and I felt pretty good about it. At least I knew how to do everything except one tiny problem. And to get a 5, which is the highest, you only need about a 65%. So I'm not worried. But I'll knock on wood just cause I said that. KNOCK, KNOCK There, we're good. I've got the history test tomorrow, and that's something I am worried about. My teacher had a baby in the middle of the year, and we had a bad sub for a week after she left so we're just barely catching up this week. So we're caught up, but we haven't had any time for review. Oh well. Hopefully that 65% statistic will help. I've also got the AP Physics test on Monday and I'll be at Fathers and Sons all weekend, so I can't study.

I'm so excited for this school year to be over. Junior Year was a hard year. There were some weeks that were terrible. At least I got through them. So I've been looking at the costs of college, and I thought that I had it all figured out. Only problem was I was being naive and just assumed I'd get the scholarships I applied for. I heard back from one this week and they said no. It was for 30, 000 bucks, so it kind of messed up my whole plan. But then I got a letter from College Board telling me I'm still in the running for being a National Merit Scholar, and I hadn't counted on that. I took the ACT two weeks ago. I'm still waiting for my scores. Hopefully they'll be high enough to get the four year tuition to BYU. So, that's not all of my life, but I've kind of run out of time. I have to go study for my history test tomorrow.

My First Blog Post

Well, I have a blog now, as you can see. I don't really know why, seeing that no ones knows about it. I probably won't even tell anyone for a while. Oh well. It does feel kind of funny just writing to nobody. But I guess I do that in my journal every night, so it's lots the same. Anyways, volleyball basically takes up my life right now. Practices are three hours long. That's really long for those of you who don't play sports. With that much time going into volleyball, it seems like we'd get better, but we hardly do. It's slightly frustrating. I'm also a junior in high school, and I have four weighted classes to keep up in. It's tough. Yesterday was a pretty exciting day though. I gave a Book of Mormon to one of my teachers. On her request too. I don't want to sound like a braggart, but at the beginning of the year, I kind of felt like she didn't understand Mormons very well and she'd make side comments about this or that religious aspect, giving us side glances wondering if it would bother us. I decided to just be an example of the believers (1 Timothy 4:12), and just show her that I really am happier because of the gospel in my life. So we've gradually become pretty good friends. Every now and then she'll give us a writing assignment (she's my english teacher) that give me the opportunity to write something about my beliefs. For example, we wrote about persecution of any group of our choice. I wrote about the persecution of the early Latter Day Saints. In the last essay I wrote, she made a little comment asking how the Book of Mormon got its name. So I went up after class and explained to her that Mormon was the one who compiled all the records, basically becoming the author of the Book of Mormon. During our conversation, I found out she hadn't read the Book of Mormon at all. She then asked if I could get her one to read. So I was pretty excited and brought one for her yesterday. We'll see if she shows any interest further than that. I feel like she has become more interested because I didn't try to force my views on her, I just would present them in my essays, or during discussions in class (we've talked about a lot of things, like abortion and stem cell research etc.), and leave it at that. So, I'm excited. It's especially cool since I don't normally pray for missionary experiences, although I know I should, but at the beginning of this week, I actually did and then a great one comes along. I've never gotten this far in sharing the gospel besides with the missionaries and when I gave a Book of Mormon to my crush in 6th grade. So, life is good.