Well, I have officially joined the cyber-blogging revolution. I have decided it to focus it on my journey from boyhood, to missionhood, to brief manhood, a re-visit back to boyhood, and now once more back into pre-adulthood basically my life and where I'm now at. So don't expect anything mythical, majestic, or magical this will just be brief factoids, random rants, and the occasional odd experience. Its been a real crazy transition moving from mission back into the real world. Its like training someone for two years to do a specific task and avoid certain things then when that two year period is up removing most of those barriers and saying "Get right back into it like you never left." Funny thing about that is I did leave. The world has changed, my friends have changed, I have changed, my siblings took growth hormones while I was gone, and my sisters somehow became even more beautiful. After these wonderful experiences that I had the last two years I am a little confused back in this world. A little known fact, Pavlov originally worked with missionaries slowly conditioning them to avoid all female interaction. He was then promptly arrested for cruel and unusual punishment and on his release switched to dogs and bells. Unfortunately his methods stuck for missionaries and now after two years my fellow returnees and I are expected to jump right back into that boat. Some handle it well while others were conditioned a little to well and instead of salivating with a bell we start sweating near a beauty. Pavlov aside my mission was and will continue to be the best thing that could have happened to me and the best choice I have ever made. I learned so much and am so grateful for the opportunity I had to serve. Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of some event or some person that changed my life. If I can figure it out I'll add some photos at the end of this. I learned innumerable life skills and am better prepared for my future because of my decision to serve. Any young men debating to serve or not stop debating and serve. If you go out there and do your best I know you will never regret it. There will be hard days and sometimes hard months but you will never regret your decision to serve. Post mission life is great applying the studying tools I learned in the field my grades are better than they've ever been (thats not saying much after the dyslexic 4.0 I got last semester.....o.4 ha ha) I'm not sure about everything yet but I have accomplished most of my short term goals since I've been back and I look forward to working on the rest.
