So I have been missing for quite a while now. Sorry about that, life has been busy, and I really have not had time on Sunday to update people on what has been going on. I’ll try to give a brief overview to catch up everyone.
One of the biggest things that happened was getting finished with this semester. At times it felt like I could never get everything I wanted finished. In the end it all came together great. My finals went well. It looks like I will finish this semester with a 4.0, which makes me just ecstatic, especially since I am taking the hardest CS class BYU offers this semester. I am sad that I am running out of math classes though.
One of the other cool things that has happened is that the Chinese house has finally started purchasing movies. It is really fun to watch the various Chinese movies. It is ridiculously hard to understand a 100% of them, but overall I still think that they are great. I have enjoyed watching them with my roommates.
We also had a really good dumpling activity with the Chinese house. We must have wrapped five or six hundred dumplings. There are still frozen dumplings in the fridge a full month later. It was so much fun though, and I just enjoyed myself. I love how close the apartment is becoming. At first the girls didn’t seem to want anything to do with us, but now we are really coming together well.
Thanksgiving week was wonderful. On Tuesday of that week Serena, the Chinese house girl’s RF, was baptized. It was so wonderful. I am so happy for her. She really is a perfect match for the church.
Also that week I got henna on my arm. For those that don’t know, henna is a temporary body art that they do in India. My friend Kelsey is really good at doing henna, and drew a Chinese style dragon on my arm. I did have to wrap the entire arm afterwards while the henna dried. It made it a lot of fun to do everything ;) Luckily I had Emily and Karen of the Chinese house to help me do everything that night.
Lastly that week was Thanksgiving itself. For thanksgiving I went up with my family to our family cabin. It was great to just get up there and relax. While up there quite a few of my family freaked out about the henna, which was hilarious. I also submitted like four thousand applications for internships. Hopefully at least one of them will pan our.
After that pretty much everything I have done has centered around Emily Stewart, the girl that I am now dating. She is really amazing. We have so much of the same interests. We make each other laugh all the time. People think we look pretty ridiculous together because we are always so happy ;) Their just jealous =p
We have done a host of things though. Two stand out though. First just over two weeks ago we went to SLC together with Ben and Serena from the Chinese house. There we went to the temple to do baptisms. It was the first for Serena to go and do baptisms.
After the baptisms we went around and looked at the lights. It was so beautiful. They really were gorgeous. Afterwards we went and ate pizza at The Pie. I really wish there was a The Pie in Provo. Oh well. It was really a great time we had together.
The second one was a date we had to the river woods. Once again it was too see the lights (something Emily really enjoys doing.) It was beautiful, and there was someone playing the violin and it just sounded great. It was fun to snuggle up around the open fires and listen to him play.
After we were done looking at the lights we went back to my house (my family’s house) in Provo. There we made hot chocolate and watched “500 Days of Summer”. This is Emily’s favorite movie. It was a pretty cute movie. It was a really fun time! Here are some pictures from that night:
And that is what I have been up to these last several weeks. It really has been a wonderful time, I couldn’t have asked for a better month. Hopefully I will be able to find time to keep this blog better up to date, but we will just have to see.
Well, I hope that everyone else is enjoying this Christmas season so. I hope that we all remember the multitude of blessings that the Lord has given us. In this time of year when we are grateful for the birth of the Son of God, it is also the perfect time for us to recognize the hand of the Lord in all parts of our lives. We truly all are blessed of the Lord! I hope that we can all remember that in this season.
