I just wanted to write here before I forget everything that's happened. So last night I went to help my friends paint but they decided to wait until this morning to do it. Anyway so I get home last night and there was a message to call some deputy about a subpoena. So I call her this morning and she stops by and gives me a subpoena to appear in court today! So I run to work then class then go to court to testify in this case that I helped to translate a little for about a month ago or so. So anyway, the whole time I'm hoping that I don't get called to testify but I do. It wasn't too bad. I just answered their questions to the best of my ability and the lawyer was really nice and such. So at the end the judge asks me if I teach the missionaries in the 3rd branch at the MTC. Well it turns out that he is in the branch presidency! No wonder his name looked familiar to me! I hadn't met him before today so I didn't know who he was. Anyway it was all very random. He was very nice and everything. Who would've guessed he was in the branch presidency. So yeah it was an interesting experience and I got $18.50 out of it. I don't know if I'd want to do it again. But now I know that court isn't so bad after all. That doesn't mean I'm going to go and get in trouble or anything just so I'll have to go! But yeah I need to get started on some homework before I forget!

So back to what I was saying. Sat. afternoon I tutored one sister who has been in the MTC for about 2 weeks or so. She was really struggling learning Tagalog. She said that she has a lot of learning difficulties and felt very behind. We started from the very beginning, the very basics and she did struggle a lot. After about 30 minutes she was doing great. She started to understand so much and the progress that she made was amazing! I talked to her about the importance of setting goals and progressing in life. It's not important where we start out but it's most important how hard we try and how much we improve. I seriously was so amazed with how much she was able to learn with just a little one on one time. It was a testimony builder for me that I need to continue to improve in all that I do and progress and not move backwards or stand still. We live for today and build towards the future. It felt so good for me too that I was able to help her with the things that she needs. After that I went to a birthday party for a friend and that was pretty fun. Sunday was pretty busy. I had some meetings that went well and church was awesome as usual. In one meeting we watched a short video about child abuse. It disgusts me how people could do such a thing and it's obvious that God will not allow for such things to happen to his children. They really are precious! Well today our trainer was not at practice and it was kind of funny because we actually had an injury. So I finally got to do an evaluation that I haven't had the chance to do in a while. We sent him to get an x-ray done so we'll see what happens with that. Well I've gotta head off to a meeting for work now. Tomorrow I get off of basketball so it'll be my day to catch up on some New Testament reading and study for a test that I have on friday.

This past week was a pretty busy week. Last monday night I met with my new co-teacher and we went and decorated our new classroom. We are both so excited for our new district that comes in on wednesday! Tuesday morning I worked and that went pretty well. The rest of the day I spent trying to get some homework done and then went to the temple that night. It was an awesome experience. Wednesday was a pretty busy day with meetings and with work. I spent a lot of time getting more stuff ready for the classroom. A couple of the missionaries helped me a little bit with drawing things so that was fun. Friday night Carly and I went to watch the Mountain View High school vs. Timpview football game. It was a ton of fun! Our friend Kristin is the trainer for mountain view and Dujuan is working as a student trainer for Timpview. So it was fun to watch them at work. It got be really excited to work at a high school next semester and also to start my career in the athletic training profession. I really enjoy what I do but I don't know how I'd feel about being with basketball my whole career. I think I'd rather work with different sports like at a high school or at a JC. We'll see what jobs I'm able to find next year. Saturday morning I went and helped Carly and her apartment paint their whole apartment. It was hard work but it was fun to do. It was fun to help out and stuff. I had to leave early though to go to work. At work I had a couple of great experiences. I'll have to write them later today because I have class right now.

Well last week was pretty busy. I actually got a couple of days off from basketball so that was nice because I got some studying done and such. I'm getting my new district soon so I'm really excited! Tonight I'm meeting with my co-teacher so we will hopefully decorate our classroom and get things ready for next week. The highlight of my week last week was the fireside last night with Pre. Bateman. He is now the Provo temple president. His talk was just so amazing! He shared some great stories about missionaries who come from Russia and go through the temple and just how appreciative they are to do baptisms for their families and endowments for themselves. It's so amazing. We sometimes take these things for granted. It made me look at things with a different light. Yesterday was just a busy day but that put the icing on the cake. I even went and shook his hand! He has soft hands haha....anyway, in the morning I had a meeting then they just didn't stop with meetings and visiting teaching until after the fireside. I realized wow I haven't eaten since this morning. Well it was just a busy day but in a good way. My calling is a little stressful but I think things will work out pretty well. It's been a while since I've had a calling where i've been forced to think about it on almost a daily basis. But I guess it's a good thing. It was just a great day. Oh and saturday night me and my friends were bored so I made up this guy's profile and put myself in a relationship with him so if people start asking about that it's most definitely a joke! I need to change it soon. I guess I didn't realize how many people actually check that thing!
Well this week is going to be pretty busy but next week will be crazy. I get a new district plus have a couple of big tests! I'm a little worried about that. I need to start studying now for those. Friday night i'm going to the Timpview vs. Mountain View high school football game to watch a couple of friends who are athletic trainers at the two schools. It'll be fun to watch that. Oh the memories of high school games! Oh and I read that the Pitt High's band is going to the Macy's parade next year! That's so awesome! But yeah! I'm glad everything is going well at home and that Matt had a fun b-day! Too bad I missed it but it's alright I'll see ya'll in november. But yeah I decided that I need to be more social with my ward and get out and meet new people. I mean I am the service council chair. I need to be better about serving others. I mean I definitely try to serve and do a lot but I don't think I really go out of my way too much and talk to people especially if I'm busy. But I'm going to try to do that a little more and just set a good example. I think this semester will go really well if I just do that.

This week was a pretty busy week. I spent a lot of time in class and other stuff. Anyway, it was a good week at work though. We had a meeting where our supervisor talked a lot about internalizing the missionary purpose. It took me a while to really understand what he meant by that. In my scripture reading this week I read a lot about missionaries in the Book of Mormon and the example that they showed. Also in Mormon, Moroni writes in chapter 8 that he speaks to us as if we were alive even though we aren't yet. That's so awesome. He truly is an example of someone who internalized the purpose to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel, etc. He worked so hard even though he would not see the fruits of his efforts in his life at all. It reminds me on my mission when Laura Koch wrote me once telling me that Elder Oaks said once about the Philippines that the results of his efforts (speaking about when he was an area authority there) would not be seen for at least another 10-20 years or so. That was interesting to think about. At that time I think I was being very selfish because I was not seeing any results of my hard work. Anyway, other missionaries like Ammon were awesome because he went out and served not really knowing what to expect. Anyway, those were just a lot of my thoughts lately. As teachers we are supposed to help the missionaries to understand this and to internalize the purpose.
Welp my week ended great with dad coming into town and going to the BYU vs. UCLA football game. Now that was awesome!! BYU won 59-0!! It was so unbelieveable! Everything good that could have happened, happened. We blocked a field goal, we recovered how many fumbles!?!? It was just so cool! That was one of the best football games I've ever been to! And of course I got to see dad! But yeah um....thanks dad for getting those tickets! It's going to be an interesting year in college football. We'll see if BYU can pull this one off or not. Today was pretty busy with my calling and such and I have some more stuff to do with that. Anyway, I can't remember what else I was going to write.

So the past couple days I've just been working and such but a couple interesting things are that I watched the end of the BYU football game after work. That was definitely intense. Wow! But yeah then today we had a regional conference here and Pres. Uchtdorf and Elder Packer spoke. Pres. Uchtdorf gave a really good talk. But the highlight of today by far was the CES fireside when E. Holland spoke. He is so amazing. He talked all about Liberty Jail and what Joseph Smith went through and now there is a temple there in Liberty after all that happened. And he spoke a lot about D&C 121, 122, and 123. Pretty much it's about trials and he said how all of us will go through trials and to get to salvation we all have to go through Gethsemane at sometime. But imagine how much harder it would be if Christ hadn't felt and suffered all those things for us. It was just an amazing talk because I'm sure a lot of people are going through hard times or will in the future but that is a test of our discipleship, how we act in those types of situations. Anyway, I thought that was way cool! I'm so glad that we have a living prophet and apostles here that we can listen to and recieve counsel from! But yeah I need to get to bed because I have to get up early and study for a quiz.

Well the interpreting was really interesting. I spent 2 hours with them. It was so confusing because pretty much they are going to force her to testify so that they can get this guy in jail. Anyway I probably shouldn't discuss the case really. After that I went straight to class which should be some work but not too hard. I didn't have basketball though just a meeting later that night. My wed. classes went pretty well too. I know a lot of people in those classes so it'll make studying and such a lot easier. It's really nice to be in a major where you take so many of the classes together and the class sizes are small. Then I went straight to a meeting for work and then did my tutoring which all went really well. It was a long but good day. Today was even longer because I had to get up early for work then went to a "large group meeting" with the missionaries which was way cool. Jason Mitchell talked all about the Book of Mormon and how important it is. I just couldn't imagine having to pay so much money for a copy of the Bible or the Book of Mormon. It was just way awesome because he talked all about using the Book of Mormon as your main source for teaching. It was really powerful. Then I ran to class which was all about the historical background of the New Testament then I went straight to basketball where we did a lot of stocking of tape and such. Then I went straight to physicals where I helped out with the athletes then straight to an interview with a bishopric member and I got a calling. I am the new Service chair altough I have no idea what that entails. Welp tomorrow should be normal day=class then basketball then work. Same ole! Wow everyday is a long day. Right now I need to read a little for class then do some research about the great apostasy. And I really need to get some sleep! I'm pretty tired! I guess I'm not used to having to get up early on a daily basis.

So saturday I went to work then watched the BYU football game. It was a great game until the 3rd quarter. We kept fumbling the ball! But we won anyway. For sure we aren't going to have a perfect season if we play like that. We are playing some good teams this year and there are some great teams in the MWC that we need to play well to beat. But yeah it was fun to actually watch a game for once without having to run around on the sidelines and such. Sunday I had a lot of time in the morning since our church has been changed to 1:30 which is kind of annoying. But church was fine. I helped my friend take pictures for the ward directory since she was a little stressed out about it. I think we managed to get almost everyone's pictures taken. After that we made dinner together which was really good then I helped a little more with the ward directory. Then I went to my old roommate Anna's apartment and played games with her and her husband and others. It was a really weird game to play and very confusing. Anyway, yesterday we had a birthday lunch at Tucanos for a friend. Now I remember why I never go out to eat especially there. It was so expensive! But it's alright because last night I subbed for another teacher to make up for the money I spent at Tucanos haha. So the past few days haven't been too exciting. But starting today things are going to get busy. I start classes today but only have one class today. But I need to translate for that same lady in a little bit then talk to the trainer and see if I need to go to basketball practice today or what. They have physicals tomorrow so they might not be practicing yet. Then I have class and I have a meeting for work but today shouldn't be too busy yet. We'll see how my classes go and how hard they are going to be!