Viva La Raza!

Well back to the grind. Mexico was a really fun time, and I'll share some stories and what not, I just bought guitar hero world tour on Monday, and just working at school. Oh and before I review the past week, with student elections around the corner check my blog from March 2008 about the elections, probably still the best things I have written on paper or blog.



Well Mexico was very interesting and had some real thought provoking moments, and some funny ones as well. We left Salt Lake, ( My sister and her husband, the missionary that baptized my new stepfather?? (first time I have ever used that term in speech or writing) and I). I really like airports and the idea of everyone going somewhere and having some type of purpose. When I got to the airport, I set the tone of the trip for me... being fidgety... for some reason I was so hectic and ADD all weekend. I didn't mind it to much but I could see where it would come off as a little odd to people watching me. So the instant I got in the airport I decided I had to have Quizno's. There was no way around it, so I immediately went to my gate and found everyone else there, and quickly made a flight for some steak sub! So I got back and asked Dana if she had gotten my mom a present, she said no and I suggested we get see's candy. So we were sitting talking and I wanted to play B.S.!! So I made everyone else play. Then it was time to go to Phoenix and we got in line, but when the missionary kid and I were waiting to board, I decided I HAD!!! to go buy a copy of ESPN the magazine like that instant!!! So I went and got it and was one of the last people to make the plane. We landed and got into our motel. Now apparently there were some sort of drug wars going on between law enforcement and the drug cartels. So while we were there, every parking lot was stationed by a mexican guard, as well as trucks that would drive around full of mexican soldiers and their guns... it was pretty weird.

So the next day we went throught the temple and Nestor and my mom were sealed, and we went and ate at a Mexican buffet. It was really fun and a very neat meshing of family and culture. I remember when all the girls were dancing together tosome mexican song and it was really neat. I am very happy for Nestor to be a part of the family. He is a very good guy and I could see the whole time that he cared very much for my mother as well as everyone else that was there. We spent the rest of the day hanging out until later, me, my sister and her husband, and the missionary that baptized Nestor all went to Walmart. Again I was really frenetic, walking around the whole place, and found some lady that was selling some tres leches cake!! I love that stuff! So I was looking at the price and converting it back into dollars from pesos when the lady (all in spanish) asked if I wanted some. I said of course and she cut me a big slice! I told everyone else and we all ate some. Then we walked away for a minute, and I decided I might want to buy some... So i went back and my plans immediately changed when she gave me another piece for free!!!! We think the mexican lady thought I was cute, and I am more then willing to use my dashing looks for free food at Mexican Walmart.

We went home the next day and I again was way frantic!! I decided I wanted starbucks while waiting in line to board, then when we were in the next airport I HAD to watch the Laker game~ so i left everyone behind and got to the chilis before everyone else, but then they would only sit me by a tv with nascar on it... BLEH!!! When I asked them if they could change one of the two NASCAR tvs right in front of my face they said if they changed one it would change them all....????????????? That was clearly nonsense, but I was forced to not watch it, after some more starbucks and another connecting flight we made it home.

So I bought guitar hero world tour and it is fun I like the songs a lot, and it is definitely entertaining. Not much else new this week, I turn 24 in six days (weird) and Cori gets home this week! That should be really fun!

Gonna do better...

Wow!! A new blog post. I added a new friend on facebook today and saw that his blog posts were huge!! His blog was very insightful, and it was clear he had spent a lot of time recording his life. I would like to improve on writing and recording my thoughts. In the past, one of the reasons that I stopped writing was recording negative feelings in writing. I just don't like to focus on negative feelings much less record them, and beyond that I don't always feel comfortable sharing everything with people. So I would like to improve on that.

Well, this past six weeks, and really this whole school year has been very difficult for me. I broke up with Shannon, when I still loved her, when I thought that things wouldn't work out, my mom has gotten married to someone I can't say I know very well, she also has a seemingly mild form of cancer, I am having a difficult semester of school, knowing that I soon will have to find a job and become a full fledged member of the working force. I have felt like I have been going through this alone at times, not asking for help from the lord. That is something that has been on my mind lately, is that I haven't lived through a truly difficult time of my life yet. The past eighteen months or so have definitely been the most trying. A key element in overcoming hard things has to be your testimony, and I want to use it more, I know I make it harder on myself without the lord's help. I have learned from experience that sometimes we receive no witness until after the trial of our faith. This has been a tough pill to swallow, but I look forward to the strengthening of my own testimony. I think I am mostly writing right now in order to have feelings and thoughts to remember from this time.

I wonder what it would be like to be in my mother's position. Divorced after 23 years of marriage, trying to start a new career and family at the same time, having to have enough confidence in your new marriage to be able to stand strong with your opinions. Although I have some very different outlooks on the gospel and people then my mother, her sturdiness and stability in how she lives the gospel is a great example to me. I am leaving on Friday to go down to Mexico to see my mother sealed. LOL it makes me laugh a little my family the way it is. Sometimes things don't come close to the way we predict. Her husbands name is Nestor, an my mom's new name is Osuna. Quite a change. Nestor is a very nice man who has an eleven year old daughter Melissa. He is 39?? About ten years younger then my mom, which doesn't bother me at all. He is not yet a citizen in America, but I am eager to welcome him into our family. He is a great cook too! I am happy my mom will not have to be alone, and hopefully will have someone that she can share her joys and trials with, and have as an example in living the gospel.

I had a good weekend, Jordan had a "TV shower", I received the following text friday. "You are cordially invited to celebrate the arrival of my newest addition. He came to me weighing 80.7 pounds and measuring 52 inches." So he had pizza and rock band at his place. Oh I love laughing... Earlier I went to the ward party, had a nap, went for a drive worked, and such it was great!

Well I think I am done, I hope to write at least once a week!! Hooray for goals!