Highlights of the Past Week

On Monday, we had our last FHE activity, and us girls planned a redneck paint-balling fight. Basically, there's a red team and a yellow team... the red team uses ketchup and the yellow team uses mustard. The idea was to squirt a little ketchup or mustard onto a marshmallow, and then throw it at someone... not surprisingly though, we soon forgot about the marshmallows, cause it wasn't getting the other person "good enough". ;) We ended up running all over this grassy field, bottles in our hands, getting each other as messy as possible, hahaaa!!! Good times. That's not where it ends either. We told the guys to walk with us back to our apartment for refreshments (where we had planned a surprise attack). We filled four garbage cans with 300 dye-filled water balloons and stationed them in different spots around the building, so when we got there, some of us went to "get the food" while some of us disappeared into the laundry room and garbage shed. As soon as the guys were all chillin' on the grass, we jumped out and ambushed them! It was great! You should have seen their faces, haha... they were pretty shocked, but it didn't take them long to figure out where these balloons were coming from, and they soon overpowered us. SO... we ruined the clothes that we were wearing, but it was totally worth it :D

Thursday, my schedule was slammed-- went from 10am to 9pm out of my apartment. One of the requirements for my "Fitness For Life" class is to take a Wellness Exam at the Wellness Center at both the beginning of the semester and at the end, and to write a paper comparing the results. I gained 30 pounds. HAHAHAHAA!!!! Juuuust Kidding :D I was actually pretty happy with myself... I got my resting heart rate down, lost 4% of my body fat, am in the 98th percentile for curl-ups and flexibility, and benched 75 pounds! Hahaa... don't laugh too hard at that last part... I've never bench pressed anything in my life. All the guys that were in the weight room there at the gym were HUGE!!! Talk about scary :O

Friday was pretty fun... I went on a big group date, where we played Ultimate Frisbee (Hooray for getting sweaty on a date, LOL) and then watched Stardust. Unfortunately, we had White Glove at 8am on Saturday morning, and I didn't even start my portion of the cleaning. You know me... I just HAVE to procrastinate, haha :) Anyway, I had to clean my bedroom and the Bathroom... don't even ask how I got stuck cleaning the bathroom... I have no idea. Big shout out of love to my roommates who assigned me to that while I was not there to protest. I ended up cleaning through the night, by the time I was done, I had 45 minutes before we got clean checked, so I fell asleep on the couch. By the way, I think I'm permanently scarred from some of the nasty crap in there... I had to HAND SCRUB the toilet INSIDE and out (thank goodness for those long yellow gloves), and the bathroom floor because we didn't have a mop. Also: girls have a lot of hair. One word: Ew.

After pulling the all-nighter, I got invited to have a Lord of The Rings marathon at my FHE brother's house in Blackfoot Idaho. After the hour long drive there, we decided that we'd only have time to watch the 2nd and 3rd movies, because the were the EXTENDED version.... making each movie 4 hours long. Yeah, 8 hours seemed to be a pretty decent chunk of time. :) I was wondering what I had gotten myself into... but it turned out to be awesome. Usually, I feel like if I don't do something productive, then why the heck would I even get out of bed, but Saturday ended up being the perfect day to be lazy. Basically, we would watch a couple hours, let the projector cool off, eat some dinner, watch a couple hours, eat dessert, watch a couple more hours, etc. The best part was that after only 45 minutes of sleep that night, it was easy for my to drift into sleep during the "repetitive" parts of the movies. Hahaaa... I think you would have laughed at me if you saw that on one of these "drifting off into sleep" occasions, I accidentally fell asleep on one of the guys! I woke up up and in my head I was like, "AHHHHH!!! How did this happen?!?! AWKWARD!!!" but in real life, I played it off like it was no big deal... ahhaahaaa.... the worst part is that he didn't seem to mind.... ahhhh.... good thing the end of the semester is in 2 more days!!!! :]

The highlight for Sunday is that I got my Temple Recommend!!! I'm leaving Rexburg late on Thursday night to head down to Utah for a week before going home, so I'm going to the temple with my roomie on Thursday morning. I also finally got released from my Sunday School Teacher calling, so that will be one less thing to worry about as well. 

Okay, this last picture is of my roommate and I being a little nervous about this jello cake we made... it kept falling!


Well, sorry it's been a while since I've posted... I keep meaning to update it, but I get busy with other things. Hope you have an awesome upcoming week!!! Wish me luck on my Finals :P

A Week for Growing

Well, It's been an interesting week! It started out pretty bad, but eventually worked it's way back up. If you want to skip to the fun part, scroll past the first few paragraphs, haha :P

I've had something on my mind for a looooong time, and just haven't had the guts to confront it... I've been pretty darn stupid. I won't go into detail, but basically I did some things last semester with Tanner that I'm not proud of. Anyway, I was reading from "The Miracle of Forgiveness" by Spencer W. Kimball, and I realized that I needed to change... I'd been procrastinating the day of my repentance. After I read until almost 2am, I decided to pray. I haven't prayed in a looong time, because... I knew that Heavenly Father knew what I had done... I just didn't want to talk with Him about it, and I as sure as heck didn't want to ask for any favors!!! Readers...I felt... SOOOO AWFUL. I don't think I've EVER felt that bad. I just laid there on my bed, bawling into my pillow (what do you know, I CAN cry, hahaa ;)). Everything that I had done wrong and hadn't repented for, came back in a flood of memories that I had been trying to suppress. I couldn't go to sleep that night, I maybe got a couple restless hours somewhere in there, but I decided to go talk to my Bishop the next day. I couldn't help but cry while I was confessing to him... It was harder than I thought. It's funny how when you sin, you keep reasoning with yourself that it's not THAT big of a deal... but it is!!! I now know that whenever I see myself starting to do that, I have to stop, backtrack, and figure things out, because that's Satan's doing. Anyway... the Bishop told me to keep reading The Miracle of Forgiveness, read my scriptures everyday, keep fulfilling my calling to the best of my ability, and pray as often as I can... and I've been working on it.

I have a radio that's in the bathroom that is always playing music, but I got home and changed it to the church music station, and it's stayed on that channel ALL WEEK! My roommates have just left it where it is. I also enjoy reading the scriptures more... there's SO much stuff that applies to me (and everyone else too) and I feel like highlighting every verse! I love the scriptures! After that, I decided to go on a run from my place down towards Wal-Mart, but I found a cool bike trail, so took that, which led to an abandoned train on the nearby tracks. Nobody was around, so I climbed up a little ladder on top of one of the train cars (like the cowboys did it) and just sat up there... I prayed again, for about an hour or so... until the Rexburg wind started to get really cold. It was freezing, but I didn't want to leave... for once I was away from the world... couldn't even hear any cars. Then... as I was bowed down, I felt a hand on my back. A warm hand that seemed to sweep away the cold. As tears streamed down from my face, I turned around... no one was there. But I felt our Savior's love. I know he loves me. I know he loves you. It made me want to try to be the best that I can be. Soooo, when I finally got home, I decided that one thing that I could change right then, was my music that I listen to. It has a big impact on my mood, and so I decided to go through all of my songs on iTunes and delete everything that had bad language or that was inappropriate. Guess what?!?! I only have 183 songs left... HA! Time to start collecting music again :P

Moving on to a "lighter" topic (haha), this weekend was a blast!!! Have you ever played Fugitive? Awesome way to blow some time on a Friday night when curfew isn't until 1am!!! Anyway, we got about 35-40 people to meet up at the Stake Center (right next to the Temple) to play. Four of those people had cars. Our mission: To get from the Stake Center to Broulim's as fast as possible without getting caught by the people in the cars. I got caught. Next: To get from Broulim's to Craigo's Pizza. I got caught. Third and final mission: To get from Craigo's back up to the Stake Center. Mind you, it's pitch black, and uphill. I decided to team up with my FHE brothers this time since my roommates proved to not be very fast, or very sneaky the previous two rounds. HAHAHAHAAA :) So, we take the long way to get there... the long LOOOONG way!!! We ran though residential areas (including backyards in order to avoid all possible roads), jumped FOUR chain-link fences, hopped into countless bushes to hide as cars drove by, sprinted from shady spot to shady spot, army crawled across grassy fields, UNTIL 45 minutes later made it. Turns out, it was a good thing I went with the guys... only 8 people made it... to which I was the only girl. But I was exhausted!!! Boys run fast!!! HAhaaaaa :D

I went Mini-golfing on Saturday night, as well as playing some Foosball and Pool. Church was really good too. So there you have it... my week in a nutshell!

(Said like Colonel Klink) Dis-smissed!!! -Carolyn