A Very Stressful Week

Before I get started let me just answer Danielle's question. Sorry Dani I don't think I'll be able to make it up this weekend. I have work, and Lester got me and Kylee tickets to a general conference session. I haven't found out which session it is, but I'm way excited.

This week was no fun at all for me. I have three papers do this week so I was stressing about them all last week and how I was going to get them done. Parley and Marilynn's computer fried so I've been going into Parley's office every now and then when they're not home and doing the computer stuff. It feels awkward sometimes It's also been kind of a stress figuring out on when I'm going to the temple. I told my mom and I think we are getting set on April 26th in the Twin Falls temple. It should be intense.

My car got towed on Friday. I parked it on the side of an insurance building that sits in front of Parley's old PPM store in Provo. I have parked it there for the past two weeks when I go to work. I get done with my job, I'm already tired as it is, I have an 8 page paper I need to get to work on, and my car is not there when I go to get into it. I was so mad. There are no signs that say "No Parking" I called the police station because I thought it had been stolen. They told me that it had been called in to tow it by the insurance company. It's "Administrator Parking" I was like, bull crap it is. So I called the towing company and they said, "I'll meet you at the lot at 8:30" Parley and I went to the lot and he did not show up until 9:10. The dude then told me that they wouldn't have called it in, but it was because I parked in front of a trailor that they had to get out. I told him the trailor was a tiny one that they could move by hand and there were four other cars blocking it so I figured it wouldn't have been a big deal. He told me he was sorry, but that he still needed me to pay for it. As I went for my debit card Parley pulled out his and said I'll take care of it. I tried to fight to let me pay for it, but he wouldn't let me. It's amazing all the things they have done for me. Parley was pretty upset and said that's community parking and he should not have been towed. I'm going to have a talk with the manager of the insurance company and ask him what the deal is. I hope Parley gets his money back.

Saturday was brighter. I went to work and it was a pretty long day, but I got a call from my buddy who still works at APX and he told me he had courtside seats to the Utah Flash game. I was like I'm so not passing that up. We went to a Japanese restaurant first to eat. That was freaking intense. The food was very good. Even the raw fish! The game was awesome. The Flash pulled out the win 104-100. I almost got a picture with the flash girls but I chickened out in the end.

Well that's my week for you. Hope all is going well. I still don't have any ideas on what I need to write. I figured this week was long enough so I think I'll be okay. Until next week.... PEACE

Oh and Happy Birthday Danielle tomorrow. I'll be sure to call you :)

Some Thoughts

I'm starting to run out of some ideas to write on so someone should help me out here. So I'm just going to start rambling and see what I can come up with.
On Wednesday I went to Idaho hopefull for the second to last time before I move back home. (The last time being when I got to the temple, which is the biggest reason why I came home this time.) Parley and Marilynn got a new t.v. and thus needed a new entertainment center. They decided to give my mom their old one which no joke weighs about 250 lbs on 2 sections and then probably like 400 lbs on the main section. This sucker is a beast. We had to borrow a company truck and fit that bad boy in there. Now Parley and Marilynn went to Jamaica for the week so I had to figure all this stuff out by myself. Great fun. This truck wasn't very big. I think I topped it out at 70 mph on the freeway. Good stuff.
As I was driving I was thinking about my current girl situation. I'm not speaking of all girls mind you, but there are a select few that are kind of frustrating me. Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to be just friends with them and they either a) think I'm trying to get a girlfriend before my miss, or b) I'm trying to get action before my miss. So they just ignore every text I send them, ignore every facebook message I send them, and you can't call them because then they think you're a stalker. Well girls, it's neither, and you're missing out on some fun experiences. I think I'm a pretty cool guy. haha oh well. you're loss.
This weekend was pretty fun. I hung out with Kyler and we kinda got ditched haha. I'll let him tell you the story.
The next day I went to my dad's and watched some basketball games. Yeah my bracket is doing alright I guess. There's definitely not as many upsets this year as last year. BYU choked like they always did, but I have to give Texas A&M credit. (The picture to the right is my reaction after Texas A&M made their first 10 shots) Ben came later that night for his spring break. It was great to see him.
Friday we had a party for Helen and Fran. It was basically just a family party which was fine with me.
The rest of the weekend was spent by me with interviews witht he bishop and stake president to get my temple recommend interview. I'm thinking maybe Easter weekend is when I'll go.
Well that's my week. I'm kind of sick of writing
so until then. PEACE!!!
P.S. Thanks Mom for the camera!!!

Double Duty

So I totally spaced last week's adventure so I'll have to do double duty this week. Nothing exciting happened last week except for the fact that my sister came from Chicago. Craig's sister was getting married so they came to Orem, to spend a day with us. On Friday we had a huge party with a ton of family over. We also celebrated Ryan's birthday. A lot of people tried the guitar hero world tour. It was a lot of fun.

On Saturday I decided to enter in a Halo tournament with Zach. I thought I was pretty decent, but man those guys were freaking insane. We lost every game like 25 to 6. I finally quit after a couple hours and went home.

This week was just another lame one. Nothing too huge happened until the weekend. I finally got a new job working for Parley and Marilynn’s insulation stuff. I basically just stay in the back of the truck and feed the insulation in a machine that goes through a hose up to the attic. I get paid 2 cents a square foot which isn’t bad. I did about 6000 square feet in about 4 hours which totals out to be $30 an hour. Not bad eh?
I hung out with a couple girls this week. One was that Celes girl from Declo. She had to go to a pre-missionary fireside for her mission prep class, and so I went with her. It was a pretty good fireside. On Thursday I hung out with Brittney Galbraith. Haha no nothing’s going to happen from that. But I didn’t end up dropping her off til like 3 in the morning. Like we got done with the move at 1 and then I took her to her house and we ended up just sitting in my car talking till 3. She sure can talk that’s for sure.
The only other thing happening now is sports. I don’t know if I told you, but the Jazz were doing awesome. They were on a 12 game winning streak, and finally got up to 4th in the Western Conference, BUT they have now lost three straight and are back down to 7th in the conference. I’m telling ya. The Jazz cannot beat any good team on the road, and that’s why they will never win a championship.
BYU do what they do best in choking in the Mountain West tournament. San Diego State beat UNLV in the first round so you figure it will be a breeze now. Yeah right. BYU lost to SDSU the next game by two points. Utah then beat SDSU by 2. It was so frustrating, but it’s okay because BYU is still in the tournament. The brackets just came out today, and BYU will play Texas A&M AGAIN in another 8 and 9 game. Talk about Déjà vu. Utah got up to a number 5. The Mountain West got snubbed this year. They were thinking at least 3 maybe 5 teams would make it into the tournament, but the only other one was Utah at #5. I think that’s a little high for Utah, but I definitely think SDSU deserves a shot in. Just to let you know the #1 seeds are: Louisville, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, and North Carolina. It should be interesting

Missionary Week

The weekend was really intense. I had a sleepless night on Tuesday, because I anticipated it coming on Wednesday. I decided to skip my evening class so I could come home and check the mail. I arrived as soon as the mailman had just put the mail in the mailbox. I open the mailbox. Bill, bill, bill; Danget! It didn’t come. It’s okay. I was told they usually mail them out to be received on Thursday.

I don’t have school on Thursday so I spent many hours sitting in Parley and Marilynn’s office; taking a quick peak out of the window every now and then in hopes of the mailman coming. It’s 3:30. Where the crap is the mailman? So I decided to give my mom a call:
“Mom, Can you call the bishop and ask him to find out where my papers are?”
“Sure, I’ll call him right now and call you back.” About five minutes later I receive a text from Sydney
“I think we have your call here.” I was so angry and called Sydney
“What did you just say?”
“I think we have your call. It’s in a big envelope and says Elder Samuel James Yoshida” Parley and Marilynn’s phone rings and its my mom.
“Sydney I’ll talk to you later.”
“Hi Sam. We have your call. Bryan just brought it in about five minutes ago.”
“WHAT? Whatever, at least I know I’m coming home for the weekend.”

My third sleepless night in a row was Thursday night. I had to take a communications test, and decided to skip my other classes.

7:00 finally rolled around and I swear there were nearly 50 people there. Here goes nothing:

Dear Elder Yoshida:

You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Chile Rancagua Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 24 months.

You should report to the Missionary Training Center at Provo, Utah on Wednesday, 13 May 2009. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the Spanish language. Your mission president may modify your specific assignment according to the needs of the mission.

I’M GOING TO CHILE. I am so dang excited. I’m going to be able to talk to all my Mexican cousins when I get back. I’m so excited.

That was my exciting week. Go to my facebook and there I have a video of me opening my call.