I have lived in Salt Lake City for exactly 15 months now. So much has changed in these 15 months. I started learning guitar. I resumed piano lessons. I had my first sip of alcohol. I hiked a couple big (for me) mountains. I got involved in a church denomination different from the one I’d [...]
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reflectioning
Posted in God, missionary, money on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
and from the flowing fountain, drink everlasting Love
Posted in Utah, emotions, money, music, nature on August 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have so much to look forward to. Everyone raves about the hikes in autumn—with all the aspen leaves turning gold—and I’ve already seen fall’s multicolored landscape of the mountain slopes, even from my vantage point off any hiking trails. Then they rave about snowshoeing in the winter, which I would love to try. I [...]
I’m on the news again!
Posted in Utah, missionary, money, work on April 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sound the trumpets! Here’s an online clip from yesterday’s press conference.
And tonight on the news was the following…which I had to quickly get my own camera to record…sorry for the quality:
I find that having a deep voice is the only way people can tell I’m not 17.
(By the way–to respond to Bruce [...]
I’ve finally decided my future lies…beyond the yellow brick rooooooooooad
Posted in family, money, music on April 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Guess what I’m gonna do on Friday, November 20? See Billy Joel and Elton John in concert!!
There are certain people in my life who ought to be with me that night, but they’ll be thousands of miles away. I will miss my brother Charles, who introduced me to Billy Joel on our many drives to [...]
Moose and Abby and me
Posted in Utah, food, friendship, money, nature on February 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
One of the volunteers in our food pantry is back east this weekend, so he and his wife asked me to dogsit/housesit for them. Their lovable golden retrievers, Moose & Abby, are making my weekend extra sweet. Because of the vow of poverty we missionaries take, we aren’t allowed to accept money for services like [...]
tasks I have done so far
Posted in missionary, money, work, writing on August 23, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Yesterday marked one week since I officially began work at my missionary site. Here is an undoubtedly incomplete list of tasks I have done so far:
meet with people who come into the food pantry and record their orders
fill people’s orders in the food pantry (with canned goods, boxed dinners, snacks, etc.)
interview someone for a member [...]
another Holocaust
Posted in God, emotions, missionary, money on July 16, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Perhaps my first controversial post.
We’ve spent three sessions of missionary training learning about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. I’ll confess: I was ignorant of all this. I had no idea that, when Israel became a state in 1948, it was because it took land away from Palestinians, who were already living there. I had no idea [...]
how I feel about the Big Apple
Posted in books, dork, fly on the wall, food, money, nature on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I do like some things about Manhattan. I know this is only my fifth visit to the city, so I shouldn’t form any definitive opinions quite yet…. But I have decided some things.
Here is what I like:
Yogurtland, with a dozen different flavors of frozen yogurt (including mango, New York cheesecake, and chocolate/vanilla), plus countless toppings [...]
dreams and realities
Posted in books, family, food, missionary, money, music, writing on June 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
dreams
1. Someday I’d like to record the 1,037-page book Gone with the Wind for its release on audio CD. As far as I can tell, it’s only available on audio cassette, and I want to usher GWTW into the 21st century. I do a pretty good impression of Belle Watling, but the rest of the [...]
a lot of drive
Posted in God, food, missionary, money, prayer, work, writing on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today our college’s Christian fellowship volunteered to box up canned goods (which the sororities and fraternities had collected all week long) and drive them to our local food pantry. Mostly out of guilt/obligation, I agreed to help.
I knelt on the carpet of the campus center, shoveling can after can into boxes and bags. It dawned [...]
