and their off!

Well its finally happened. The mission papers are off. Well they still need to be reviewed by my bishop but I have officially sent them in and the process is finally underway. So very soon I will have a nice little letter and ill find out where im going. So far it looks like Poland is winning and the East coast is winning for in state. Itll be interesting to see where I end up serving. Im pretty excited. Here are a few pictures of me sending it off:

Its a terrible picture haha but it shows the accept button:



Waiting to push the button..

And.. SENT!!!!!


And the celebration!
And there we have it. Its taken me quite some time but they are finally in and im excited to go serve.

As for everything else that is going on not a whole lot has happened. School is taking up most of my life. ROTC had a really fun and COLD lab that we did at Hyrum Dam. We brought up zodiac boats and had a field exercise out in the water. The water was very warm, at least 90 degrees. Almost a hot tub really. Nah it was freezing. We had to race another squad around an area in the lake, capsize the boats, recapsize them and continue on with the race. First one back wins. It was a lot of fun actually.

Thats me with my back to the camera on the front of the boat.

And me with my butt to the camera. ya.. sexyover she goes..
and I had a great video of us doing this but I cant figure out how to upload it from facebook. anyway, that about sums up what I did for ROTC last week. This week I dont know what were doing but its going to be even more cold. It snowed. Ah.. cant stand winter. Oh well.

Well on the 14th of October marked the anniversary of one of my hero's deaths. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. He was a commander during WWII on the Germans side, however he was one of the few generals who completely opposed the Nazi party. He would always ignore the orders to kill Jewish citizens and commanded the Africa campaign which had no war crimes associated with it. He was part of the plot to kill Hitler and was discovered so he was given a choice; either die by firing squad for treason and have his family arrested or suicide and be buried with full honors and save his family. He chose to save his family. I thought it was pretty courageous to stand up to Hitler and his Nazi party and attempt to fix things. Unfortunately it didn't work out as planned. Anyway, he was an amazing general and knew his stuff pretty well. Speaking of German if anyone happens to take German1010 at USU its getting really hard haha. Nothing like high school German.

Well I cant think of what else to talk about at the moment.

Oh does anyone know how to get the "followers" thing going on the site of my blog? I cant figure out how to do that. So if anyone could tell me that would be awesome!

And since im going crazy on the pictures here is a picture that will freak you out and hopefully put a smile on your face cause it sure did to me. The longer you look at it the more you laugh haha. At least for me.



Im off.

and so winter beings..

Well its finally happened. Winter has come, far to early as usual. Cant stand the winter but oh well. Im surprised the tress are still around and havnt exploded from confusion. "Ah.. its snowing but all of my leaves are still on! This isnt suppose to happen!"

So not a whole ton has happened to me lately but id thought I would update the blog and see if I cant get myself on a better schedual haha. Schools going along alright. The early morning PT stuff is getting kind of tough. We took the PT test on wednesday which consists of 2 min max pushups and situps and a 2 mile run. I swear the guy counting for me counted 4 laps wrong and made me run 4 more then I needed which sucked but thats life. At least ill have a much better time next time around haha.

Far as the mission papers go they are all done and I didnt know my bishop was going to take off for a week and im just waiting for him to get back then I can meet with him and get them sent off! So far I have one vote for Poland (by my friend Dan) and the usual vote for Boise or something haha. I got a letter from Josh a few days ago. It was nice to hear from him. I need to write him another one soon.

Well im going to go back and finish up my paper thats due in the morning and the other projects due so ill try and get some nice pictures up soon and hopefully get on a better schedual of this thing haha

Gut Nacht-

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