Perhaps the biggest most exicting thing I did was this last weekend. Me and a few friends went hiking down in Moab. What a place!!!!! i have to say that I was very impressed the beauty that can be found in a burning hot desert with very few trees.
We were able to hike up to delicate arch and walk around it. Most of the National Parks I have been to you can only look at the cool things that they have there but at arches you can hike up to them and climb all over them. We actually hiked there in the middle of the night and it was hard to see the surroundings but it was still very impressive.
DELICATE ARCH
My favorite arch out of the few that we saw was definitely double arch. We were there right as the sun was setting and the light was shining through one of the arches and made it quite a spectacular view.
Double arch
In the middle of the afternoon we were all burning up so we decided to go swimming in the river and we found this really cool spot to go cliff jumping. It was a lot of fun and felt very good to cool off a little bit.
All in all it was a very fun trip. Moab was awesome and it was fun to go with some of the people from my ward and have a good time. I can't believe that I have lived in Utah for almost 4 years and I have never taken a trip to Moab before now. I hope I can go back before I am out of here. i also want to try and make it down to Zions. I have heard that it is equally impressive.
Manrichment
I was asked to be in charge of manrichment again this summer and we had a good time. This time around we went for the manliness man competition. There were events like the car pull (power), Shakespeare quotes (the cultured man), wall sit (endurance), the tie tie (finger dexterity), Book of Mormon game (spiritual man), a burping comptetion (I'm not sure what this was testing but it was fun). We had about 15 men show up and I am sad to say that I failed miserably. There were about 8 or 9 men in front of me. Very sad.
This is me trying to hold up a couple of cars for as long as I can. We had a some elder's arms pop right off, but it was all worth the entertainment.Marriage
I have been surrounded by marriage for the last month and a half. Not only am I living in Provo in a singles ward that has been very successful in cranking out marriages in the last year )I think there have been well over 20 couples get married this year), but three of my four roommates are engaged and in various stages of engagement bliss. In the next 4 weeks I know of 5 couples getting married and they are all good friends of mine. It is a lot of fun but also slightly annoying. I have heard quite a bit of lovy dovy words, I have witness a lot of staring into each others eyes, I have heard a lot of love songs.
All my roommates are good men and have found themselves good women. I wish the best of luck to them.Missionaries
I have been rehired at the MTC and I love working with missionaries. They can be very frustrating at times, but there is no other place on the earth like the MTC. You have a bunch of 19-21 year old men and women racking their brains to learn dozens of different languages, while trying to learn how to teach the gospel, and all the while becoming very aware of their own personal flaws and weaknesses. And they do it voluntarily. I love them for their faith, sacrifice, and courage. there is no better feeling than watching a 19 year old kid realize that he has it in himself to be blessing in other's lives, to catch on to the fact that he (and usually his family) has something that the rest of the world needs and to watch his attitude morph into the idea that "I will give my whole self to this cause because THEY need it, because Christ wants it." I love the missionaries.
i hope you enjoyed a look into my past couple of weeks. Keep smiling everybody. Life is good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
