Farewell July!

It feels like it's about time to write again. So, I've learned 2 pages of my guitar song (see previous post) and I've gotten stuck on the fast stuff, but it is still good to practice. I'm currently trying to memorize First Nephi and for right now I'm just learning it by first letter and then once I can do the whole thing by first letter then I will begin memorizing it. So far I've learned 5 chapters and I seem to be able to remember it pretty well from day to day. Kelly, the girl that I hometeach, got me into learning morse code again so I've been trying to learn that as well.
As many of you have heard, Wendy is engaged. I haven't decided how I feel about that yet. It hit me pretty hard when I found out and I was angry for a few days. I don't want to be angry about it, I don't really want to be anything about it. However, it has been creating quite a bit of anxiety in my life again, so I had Pres. Reese and Steve, our secretary, give me a blessing last night and as they put their hands on my head they started to laugh over something silly, we almost had to take a giggle break (if guys take those) and I realized that I was surrounded by friends and that I've traded Wendy for new friends, better friends, friends that would drop whatever they were doing to help me through a hard time, and friends that I can trust enough to share something like that with them. And then I realized that the tears I've shed haven't been because of her, but because I got thinking about asking for a blessing and realized how many people love me. Enough about that.
I've almost finished watching all 11 seasons of MASH, in fact I'm half way done with season 10. On top of that, I am almost done with season 3 out of 4 of The Pretender, a series which I am so glad I bought. That is apparently where my summer has gone. But what a good summer. Pres. Reese challenged us in the presidency to try to date someone once a week, and that was a month ago, and so far I've averaged one date a week with 3 different girls. I also attended my first surprise party. I can't believe how far I've come in the last year. I also can't believe how many meaningful relationships I have now. I can honestly say that this is the first time since high school that I have had any real friends. The future looks bright, I don't know what it holds but it's gotta be better than where I've been. Alright I think that will do it.

Week things shall be made strong

Hello dear readers. I'm glad you came by. What a good week. It has been a long week and I don't really feel like I've accomplished much. A good friend of mine is getting his temple recommend back next week. Isn't that awesome? You see, he has struggled with the same things I struggle with, but almost 10 times longer than me. So that's happy! I had a date tonight with Holly, and I've gotta say that I've never seen a date go so well. I doubled with my roomy, Brandan. It was his second date with the girl he brought as well. I was getting nervous because Holly was late and Brandan was late. We were cooking pizzas and trying to throw everything together at the last minute and that's killer for someone who worries about everything. Anyways, Holly showed up and the pizzas got finished and we loaded everything into my cooler and hopped in the car and got Brandan's date and went to the Historic Brigham Park at first avenue and state street or something like that. Anyways, we had a picnic in the park with pizza and salad and stewart's key lime soda and we got there right at the right time to get good seats for the free concert (Nancy Hansen) at 8 and the concert was good then we played a fun game and walked back to the car. Just everything went well. Great conversation, great food and entertainment. No stress or anxiety, just good relaxed fun. The hardest part is admitting that mom was right about Holly: she is amazing. Oddly enough a girl from the ward called me this week and asked me to a concert for tonight as well. What would be the odds of me already having a date planned?? So maybe next week or something. Anyways. That's been my good week. I think I'm going to the temple tomorrow (or today if you go by actual time). Goodnight then, I best be off.