Mission Farewell!

So my mission farewell was yesterday and I gave a nice little talk on faith. I told the whole ward that I don't like to give talks at the beginning, but then decided after that it's more I just don't like being nervous before. When I'm actually giving the talk it's usually not bad as long as everything is going as planned. Which it did and so it wasn't to bad. Also one of my roommates from USU came from last school year, so that was really fun. Anyways, the night before we had a little barbeque and such too, so it was nice going in the spring when it's good weather. But just two more days and I have to say I kind of am ready, although I'm kind of like scardish. Probably won't be bad though once I get there and such, to think in two days from now I'll be stuck with a companion for like 18 months. That will probably be the hardest part, because I'm majorly independent :) Hopefully they're nice companions :)

In Quiet Grove

Hey all this is my missionary song that I dedicated for that purpose. Thought you'd all like to see it and besides blogs are great places to post such things ;)

One second here...

Don't get any ideas here, I don't get along with everyone at DI. It's been a few days since I wrote that and have been at work for a couple of days. I get along with the majority, but there are still some that are just like you know...whenever I work with them I think grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! But then I'm nice and pretend to not care...hahahaha!

Continuing...

As for the guy in the fire that is in Small As Is I also found out that his parents were on a mission when it happened. And I guess they were just taking care of the house while their parents were gone and such, so the explosion was caused by some bad gas lines in the house. I haven't actually even had a serious conversation with the guy about it either, because he's usually just like "oh it's nothing serious" and that type of thing if it is ever brought up. I wonder what his sister thinks of it with being apart of it and all. And the parents have to build a new house now and yeah it's crazy. In fact I wouldn't have even known about it except that he'd told my team lead about since they were the only two DI people in the Career Workshop a few weeks ago. Anyways, she mentioned it and I almost didn't know who she was talking about at first. It's crazy and he's extremely positive about it is all I have to say about it.

My days at DI are coming to an end sadly...

So we got our new schedule on Monday and usually it has when we work for the next two weeks. And I was looking to see that next sathurday someone is missing from the schedule, usually meaning someone has quit. So I quickly started to look to see who it was and suddenly remembered after a moment that it was me. Because my last day is on friday of next week, and then I was really sad that it's so soon. As for like the first week or so I thought that my co-workers, expecially in my area were really wierd. But within about the last two months I've pretty much have become best friends with all of them, except for a select few if you know what I mean. But even the one guy that I was extremely annoyed with I've actually started thinking is funny in the last while.

So anyways, I have thus concluded that DI has some of the coolest people on the face of the earth working at it. Let's start with this guy that I actually knew at the Hub too, we follow each other around I swear job wise. Basically he has twisted arms, so he can't use his hands barely and he is always on crutches because he can't walk. Anyways they figured out a way for him to cashier anyways, so he uses a pencil to push all the buttons. And that makes it so that he can do it independently without a supervisor having to stay around all the time. But this kid is hilarious, even to the point that it's hard to even notice his disabilities and such. Then there is a guy whose in my area who I just recently found out had brain infection when he was 16. And so due to that he now has a major limp and some brain loss. (but not alot about 15% of the brain he said) Anyways, then just yesterday I found out that this guy whose in Small As-Is apparently was in a house last summer that blew up. He was burned all over and the doctors were sure if he did survive he'd never walk again, they were dead serious about it too. But interestingly enough he does walk quite well, with no limps or anything. And they did an extremely go job of skin graphing, because I had no clue that anything like that happened. Then there is this older guy whose about two years from retiring and runs his own business. But the business went completely down with the economy last winter so he's at DI. The funny thing about all of these people that I'm referring to is that the guy whose on crutches is completely hilarious and I barely even notice anything beyond that. The guy who was in the explosion is completely hilarious and you'd never guess anything of the sort. Then the guy whose suppose to retire in two years is completely hilarious and you'd never think about anything beyond that. Probably the most serious of them all is the guy who had brain infection at 16. But he was all telling me the other day about how when they found out that he'd had brain loss that his mom was so upset. And being funny as he is he was like "Mom, we only use like 15% of our brains anyways and so it's fine."

But yeah, associating with people like this as I have this spring I feel like I have absolutely nothing to ever complain about again. I've never been in an explosion, never had brain infection, never had twisted arms or lost a job. About the closeth I've ever come to job loss is taking a month in January to get the DI job. And then I've always walking all over town all the time and very easily at that, while other people can barely get around because of limps and such. I am really happy that I went back to DI, because four years ago I just thought it was an annoying job that I didn't like even though I didn't have any horrid co-workers. I just wasn't happy with how things were going and I didn't know where I was even headed yet since I hadn't started at USU yet. I'm glad I got a second chance at it and wish it weren't ending so quickly.

Nothing new...

I'm still just working along with mission clothes shopping, which is becoming an annoyance. Because I'm trying to find stuff and it's hard to get all the right stuff in small town Logan, it's better then it would be in the Basin. But still not fun to go into a store that doesn't have any of the right stuff or even Wal-Mart that doesn't even have all the correct stuff for the First Aid kit. But oh well I've gotten at least 3/4 of the stuff now and will be super happy when I'm all done with that part of it. Yay!

My life...

So I love my job, but just some days I am so glad to leave. Today was one of those days, I got stuck cashiering all day long. Cashiering is alot of fun, except for when you're doing it all day long and the other lazy cashiers will literally leave until the supervisors have to literally make them come up. It's really pathetic and annoying being the good one who stays up there all day long. And then when you page it the other cashiers ignore it and don't come up, until you tell a supervisor. But anyways, it's a major pain too when other cashiers who don't explain the exchange policy to people and so you get stuck being the one who has to tell people that they don't get a refund on something or can't exchange for what they want and then they're mad at you. So yeah I was glad to leave today, although I do love my job and all but yeah you know what I mean. Anyways, I had to miss the afternoon General Conference session sathurday due to work and so now I'm listening to Conference talks on the internet. It's great, at the moment I'm listening to Jeffrey R. Holland's talk about Pornograpy...it's great!! Scary I only have five weeks left and then I'll be gone...:( :)