The fro is no more

It finally happened. The hair was too long and possibly no longer up to missionary code.As such, I had my dad cut it off the luscious locks that reside upon my fair head last night. I'll probably have to trim it once again before the 16th, but the hope is that I can keep it short enough to be manageable all the way through the MTC, that would be nice.

Either way a short recap of a boring week or so is required, at least I think it is.

The only major events that occurred this last week happened on Saturday the 29th. On Saturday, my parents and I drove into Salt Lake City and attended a session at the Salt Lake City Temple. The Salt Lake City Temple and the Manti Temple are the only two temples in the world that perform the endowment live instead of through a movie presentation. I felt the spirit that day in the Temple the strongest I've ever felt it. It was ever present and it was an absolutely fantastic experience. Interestingly enough, just before we got up and left and the end of the session a former seminar teacher walked up to me and said, "You look familiar where did you go to seminar at?" Definitely not someone I thought I would run into ever again and I must admit I don't remember a lot about the guy but it was a good occurrence none-the-less.

After the temple we went and had lunch together at Sizzler and that was a good time as well. I'm going to miss my parents perhaps more then I will miss anyone else. I know they have a love for me that is unconditional. My father has said multiple times and I believe him that his greatest achievements in his life are the achievements of his children. Not a day went by, maybe a few but definitely not many, that I did not talk to at least one of my parents last year. I'll miss them over the next two years but I will enjoy receiving their emails and I know they are excited about what I'm about to do. Love you two!

Saturday afternoon my family and AJ, Courtenae's boyfriend..., went to the Real Salt Lake game.

Real Salt Lake was playing the Kansas City Wizards and were on a four game winning streak so we expected to win and were definitely not disappointed. Real won 4-1 and it was a pretty amazing game. I fell in love with soccer when I was a senior in high school. I was home one day, presumably sick?, and I turned on ESPN2 to find Chelsea FC playing Liverpool FC in the champions league. I was so enthralled by the game that even though Chelsea lost on penalties I became a Chelsea FC fan forever.

Other then that everything else has been pretty tame. I'm only missing two items for my mission now. A umbrella and a camera. Other than that I have everything and I'm ready to go. If only I could go today. I still have 12 days before I report and I report at 1:30pm on the 16th. Up until then I have a few things to look forward to. First tomorrow, my parents and I are driving up to Logan Utah to attend the Logan Temple for my mother's birthday. Second the 8th, is stake temple day and that should be fun. The 9th I'm helping my Aunt Carole with her ward's baptism trip at the Bountiful Temple. That weekend the 11th and 12th, my family is driving down to meet up with my sister and to give back her dog to her. After that, I'm going to the Ogden temple on the 15th and then I report on the 16th. So I have a full slate of temple trips ahead of me but other then that it is just the same.

There is of course one more bit of business that needs to be discussed. Obviously, after I report to the MTC on the 16th I will no longer be able to maintain this blog as I do now. As such, I will be making this blog private and my mother will be in charge of it while I'm gone. She will be posting my letters on here for your reading pleasure. Since the blog will be private though I will need to invite you to read it. Email me or post here or get in contact me in some way and I'd be happy to invite you.

I'll post one more time before I report but until then,

One Love