E.F.Y.

This is my E.F.Y. graduate shirt that I made to wear on the first day!



6 guys in my group colored their hair black on Thursday night back at the dorm. Zack, the kid sitting down had bright red hair! It was way funny.



this is our banner that we made for our group

This is Michael on Friday waiting to go to the dance!

Especially For Youth 2008
Steady and Sure

Alright alright alright alright alright Hey!
(clapping)
EFY!!!
So this was my 6th and last year at E.F.Y. as a participant. I 'm so sad that it's over cause it was sooo much fun!!! Me, Michael, Dallin, Kendreck, and Devon all drove up to beaver Sunday night and stayed with my aunt and uncle, then drove to Provo Monday morning. It was so amazing! Michael was my roommate, and our company name was Common To Man. My favorite parts were the dances of course (basically because i got to dance with super hot young women!) and Thursday night which was testimony meeting. Thursday was the highlight of the week because your in church clothes the whole day and you do fun activities to invite the spirit. Then right before testimony meeting all the youth stand up and sing the efy medley, which I absolutely love! The spirit is always so strong and it's so amazing to see 1300 youth sing this song! Wow! I don't think there is anything better!
Oh, just as a side note... My mission call is coming soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm soooooo super excited!!!!!

Future Missionary

I am slowly becoming of age you might say. The days are slowly creeping by, and at the same time I can't believe how close it is getting. 3 of my friends have left or will be going with in the next week and a half. Our time to hang out and have fun is slowly running out. We are trying to cram in all we can, the last snowboarding trip, the last hang out. It's kinda depressing, but at the same time so very exciting to see the change taking place in their lives and how excited they are to go out and serve the lord. It's amazing what preparing for a mission can do to a group of rambunctious young men who have been friends since middle school. It is so amazing to see your friends change and to see the light of Christ in them. To see how they glow, and how strong in the spirit they become. I am so excited and sad at the same time because by the time i leave, they will all be gone. It's so exciting and kinda sad to think the last few months before i go, all my high school friends will be out there serving the Lord. (sad cause i won't really have any one to hang out with anymore, except for Michael, Dallin and Hesston:) ) but my time is soon coming. My papers are in progress and all i am waiting on now is my doctor appointments. I am super excited to get out there! As I study, I'm finding a desire to feast and know more. I want to know all I can about the gospel and to be the best missionary I can be.

Game Of The Week

So I got tired of the Emo thing, so I put a new game on. It's my game of the week. It's a strategic game where you try to build your castle before your opponent, or destroy there's before they destroy yours. I think it's fun, and it gives me a reason to update my blog. Anyways, have fun:)

Injury

Sorry I haven't updated my blog for ever. I have been so busy lately, but all of a sudden I find myself with all kinds of time...
I am working for Brad for all of you that don't know, and on Tuesday we were out at a job at the ledges, (which is on the road that takes you out to pine valley). My alarm didn't go off that morning so I was late to work, so I just drove my truck out there. So after going back and forth from the shop to pick stuff up they forgot, I finally arrived. I was only at the job for 45 min probably and then it happened. Brad needed a 90 to connect on to the pipe so I was running over to get one. I went to jump over a big heating ac pipe with a sheet metal connector thing on the end to get out of the ditch and i didn't get my left leg high enough. it caught on to the metal and riped my leg open. I thought I just scratched it, so I looked down to check it out and couldn't believe my eyes. you could easily see 3 inches of the bone if not more. I immediately froze, I didn't know what to do. Brad, who was quite a ways a way glanced up and said "oh it's just a little scratch, keep going", not realizing how bad it was. Then the heating and ac guy saw it and came over to help, along with brad who came over to look. They got me out of there and up to the truck, where they realized that they didn't have a first aid kit or a clean rag or anything. So James, a kid I work with, and myself got in my truck and drove to the work med building down by Costco. The whole time James was freaking out, and I was totally calm.
I got 21 stitches in all, 8 underneath and 13 on top. I now hold the record for most stitches at the work med building. Surprisingly my leg wasn't bleeding hardly at all the whole time, it picked up a little more as we got closer to the work med building, but it really wasn't bad. I would have to say the worst part of this experience was when the doc had to numb my leg. He kept poking me with a stupid needle right where the skin ripped off.
But now I can saw that my first time ever getting stitches , I went all out.

Unfortunately the pics just don't do it justice. It was so much worse. You could see layers of skin and the bone. It was really bad.

E.F.Y.

Two weeks ago I went to E.F.Y.! It was so much fun!!! I loved it!!!! it was my 5 year going. I had so many fun and spiritual experiences! It was amazing! I love E.F.Y. so much because of the spirit you always feel and the people who there with you! It is so cool to be with so many youth who have the same standards as you and who are all striving for the same things! It is so awesome! I think one of the coolest things is when you see a change in people. When you have someone in your group who may not have a testimony and isn't sure the first couple days, but then through out they week you start to see a change in them, and by the end, they seem so strong. it is so cool!
My favorite part of E.F.Y. is definitely Thursday!! Thursday is the spiritual day of the week. You wear your church clothes all day, and the young men and young woman split up and go to different classes. Then later that night everyone gets together and the session director talks to you, and then everyone sings the efy medley!! It really is so awesome! As soon as the music starts the spirit just hits you! And it is so amazing to be in the room with a thousand or more youth singing this song! Wow!!! It really is so awesome!!! Then you go to testimony meeting which is always my favorite!! the spirit is so strong and everyone is crying... Yeah.. it is awesome!!!
When I get my pics I'll put some on my blog!!