Some Changes...

Ok, so first change, I am not going to talk about Rob first. haha Mostly because I haven't yet received his letter this week, and because I feel like being selfish. :) I will try to update more about him as soon as I hear more.

This last week as I was stressing about my capstone class I made a crazy decision. I completely changed my topic. With only about 6 more weeks to do research and write the whole dang thing. Crazy I know. But my old topic was leading no where and I wasn't interested in it anymore, and so now I am researching old newspapers looking at articles about slave rebellions/uprisings etc... I am thinking about looking at how one event is covered by multiple newspapers and how the accounts and the way they are portrayed vary by region. And the amount of hysteria and reaction that is generated in response. I haven't figured out which specific event I will look at, but thanks to the Milledgeville Historic Papers Archive, part of the Digital Library of Georgia, I have access to several newspapers in their entirety. Yay Georgia! :)

This upcoming weekend is Halloween. My roommate Lindsay and I got our Halloween costumes last weekend at the D.I. and I have to admit, they are pretty sweet. She is going to be an 80's rocker. She has acid wash jeans, a red snake skin leather jacket and a Metallica t-shirt. She is also going to rat her hair and use tons of hairspray to make it crazy. I got a crazy vest. It is brightly colored with sequins and beads. It is fantastic. It looks like I belong in a Peruvian pan-flute band. :) I am going to also rat my hair and make it crazy. I don't know exactly what my costume is, but it is cool! :) Pictures will be coming soon. :) There is a Halloween party at the University, and it is usually pretty cool, so that is where we will be going.

As I mentioned earlier there is only about 6 weeks plus finals week left of the semester. Which is good and terrifying at the same time. It is good because that means relaxing over Christmas break, bad because it means that all my projects and papers are due before then. I still have at least one 5-10 page paper due in every class and the capstone one is also due. Plus my final exams. The frustrating part is, I don't even have the paper requirements for 3 of them. I guess that means just working on what I know now, and not procrastinating later when I find out more about them. Easier said than done though. haha. On the brightside, with Christmas less than 60 days away I have almost all of my shopping done. I got started early this year! :)

Alright, now a little bit about Rob. He is still doing well. Says they are teaching some people who are really interested and are learning, and he hopes they all keep up with everything and keep their commitments. He got a haircut from a lady in their area who owns a beauty parlor and gives haircuts to the missionaries for free. He said he didn't like it at first because she put in something that as he put it "made him look TOO missionaryish." Probably just some gel or pommade, but Rob doesn't like "putting product in his hair" so it probably really annoyed him. haha. He is finally starting to enjoy his area a lot, and has stopped longing for India and he says it has made the days go by faster now that he is more focused. Last I heard he could be there until at least Christmas time, so he will be almost a quarter done with his mission by the time he actually leaves Utah. Crazy.

Everyone have a spectacular week and if you are in Utah then enjoy the beautiful snow that is falling! :) Wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween. Boo.

It has been a while since the last post, and for that I apologize. Here is an update on what Rob has been doing for the last few weeks. They have a few new investigators, one named Devin asked them for a Book of Mormon when he passed them one day on the street. He is from Minnesota and apparently recently moved out here for skiing/snowboarding. They are teaching a girl named Melisha who is 17 and was referred by her YW's leader. She wants to be baptized, but they don't have anything set up yet. They are also teaching a family, whose last name I don't know, but the parents are named Max and Juli. They also came up to them on the street because they are looking for help in their life right now to be able to feed their kids. He is very excited to see how they are able to help all these people. He got to go to Priesthood session of conference at the Conference Center, and said he enjoyed it very much. He is getting more and more excited about not being in India (even though he would rather be there) but he is beginning to realize that there is something he needs to help with here before he goes to India. He sent these pictures of himself and his companions. Enjoy!


As for me, I have been doing pretty ok. I was pretty stressed out for a while, but I am getting over that now. This upcoming Friday we have no school, because of Fall Break, which means I only work one day this week! Plus I get a 3 day weekend! I am pretty excited. One of my best friends (and Rob's as well) Orlando is coming to Logan for a short visit from NY. I can't wait! It has been almost a year since I have seen him, so I am sure we will have a blast.

Lindsay and I went to the movies on Friday night and watched "Couples Retreat". It was really funny. Much better than I expected it to be. We also went to the USU Hockey game on Saturday. I love hockey. I always have, and I probably always will. It is just so exciting. The game is so fast paced, full of action, and if you are lucky it gets violent! I kind of want to end up living in a town that has an NHL team, just so I can go to the games. But we'll just have to see what happens.

There are some annoying birds that live right outside our bedroom window. Every morning I get woken up to the awful sound of "cawww, cawww..." but it is way more obnoxious than I can give justice to in writing. This last week I didn't have to go to my early class, but I woke up when Lindsay woke up and when I tried to fall back asleep all I could hear was those birds. I would have just shut the window, but our room gets pretty warm with the window shut, and we don't even have the heat turned on in our apartment. We live right above the boiler room so living in our apartment is like living on the sun. haha :)

On a funnier note, I saw the FedEx guy fall out of his truck the other day at work. It was funny, he pulled up in front of the building and started to climb down out of his truck when suddenly he tripped. He did a total faceplant onto the street and then got up and tried to act like nothing happened. It was so funny. He came inside and while I was signing for the packages he asked how my day was. I said "fine, how is yours?" to which he replied "It is good, I totally almost fell out of my truck, but other than that it is fine." I wanted to tell him that I saw the whole thing, but then decided not to, because it would be awkward every day when he brings the packages into the office.

Today was Family Day in our ward and since I am on the linger longer committee I had to help get everything ready and serve the food. We had a potato bar. It was pretty good, but I didn't get a cookie. That is the one bad thing about being on the planning committee, all the good food is gone by the time you can eat.

Lindsay and I have been watching that new show on NBC called "Community". We think it is hilarious, everytime I watch it I sit there laughing the whole time. So if there is anyone out there wondering what show they should watch on Thursday nights, I have the answer. COMMUNITY!

I hope everyone reading this has a spectacular week. Enjoy life! And make sure you laugh at least once a day. It really does make life easier! :)