Camp Out!!!

I am so excited! This Saturday, the boys scouts of our ward are going on a camp out! It's actually at my house, so It will take, like, forever to get there haha! :P What we will be doing there is lots of fun stuff, like air soft wars, capture-the-flag, cooking and camping outside, and we are going to watch that new Joseph Smith movie called "Joseph Smith volume 1: Plates of gold" which is really good. And yes, we will be watching it outside. On a projector. All of my friends should be there, and

this isn't the first time that us scouts have had a camp out at my house haha! So yeah, I'm real excited.

**Note: if you think that my posts are not lively enough, are vapid, insipid, or retching, than let me know and I will amp the pizzazz all the way up!! Because, I don't wan't to have a blog that's so boring that nobody reads it. I want this to be fun, and awesome, and maybe let it be the one thing you look forward to on some days.

Kerli

Have any of you heard of Kerli? Well if you haven't, you should know who she is, because she is totally awesome!!!!!! She is a singer from Elva, Estonia and she is very awesome and dear to my heart. You should check her out! Just go to Vevo or YouTube, and type in "Kerli" and see what you get! Her videos are awesome, she sang some songs for the "Almost Alice" soundtrack from the new Alice in Wonderland movie, and she has a new album coming out soon! That's all for now! Have a great day!

Pictures of My Brother Shane on His Mission

Here they are! (sorry if they're a little small)

The pictures included here are (from bottom to top, left to right) : my brother and some other missionaries in his district (taken in Romania; my brother is the guy second farthest to the right), my brother at the Provo LDS Temple (which is located right in front of the MTC [in America]); my brother at the Provo Temple with his first companion.

Coming Up On One Year

On October 20, 2010 my brother, Shane, left off for the two-year mission of Bucharest, Romania for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In four days less than a month, his mission will be halfway over. After that, we will be counting down month by month until he comes home. For those of you who are not familiar with what a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is, then relax and let me (in a nutshell) tell you what it is and how it goes. A young man of at least nineteen and a young woman of at least twenty-one that belongs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is allowed to go on a mission, where they will preach and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and God to people who do not yet have it in their hearts. What they have to do though, before they leave for a mission, is fill out certain information papers and what not and send them to the president of the church, Who is currently a man named Thomas S. Monson. He then (with the help of his presidency) deciphers which places need the gospel the most. After that is done, another piece of mail is then sent back to the soon-to-be missionary saying when they are expected to report to the Missionary Training Center, the dress code for missionaries (varying due to gender) and what and what not to bring. After the missionary arrives at the Missionary training center, they are then assigned a companion, and are taught how to preach the gospel the way Christ Himself would, and if their mission is in a foreign-speaking country then they are taught the language of the country. Soon after this, they move on to the exciting part -- leaving for their actual mission.

It may at first seem like a lot to ask to leave your loving family to go on a mission to a young man or woman, but you are blessed abundantly when you do it. Now, I haven't left on a mission, but I hope to someday. So yeah, that's what a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is like! On the next post I will show you some pictures of my brother Shane on his mission, so please check back soon. Have a great week!