update

i really ought to post more.



labour day long w/e was wonderful. dan and i headed to cardston for a temple session, which was long overdue. it was v. nice. we met up with his bff, sam, and his beautiful wife, melissa. sam and dan were companions on the ol' mission back in SLC. tangent: dan bore his testimony on sunday and spoke of how nice it was to be reminded of his mission while visiting with sam and all the cozy feelings it brought back. but what i remember of the conversations had were stories of other bipolar missionaries holding each other up at kitchen knife point and later seeing the kinfe signed by said elder. while listening, giggles were had. however, i get his point. it is nice to reminisce with mission bff's, even if you only talk about crazy people who blow things up or what have you, cozy feelings will probably be had (i recently had an opportunity to do so with diane in the o.c's best falafel shoppe and it was wonderful). it was nice to hear his testimony too.



so about missionary work. i dislike the comparison of missionary work and a burning buliding or sinking ship. if i was a firefighter like seany sean, i would force someone out of a burning building even if they didn't want out and were kicking and screaming and biting me. if i were a captain, i would pull someone out of a sinking boat even if they were kicking and screaming and biting me. i would not however take away someones choice about learning the ways of the mormons. i put it out there, when i feel like i should, i invite, but if the party is not interested i respect their agency. i think that some of us don't understand the agency part. maybe that is why people think we are so pushy. i don't know.

today was the worst day of work i have had in a l-o-n-g time. i am not too sure why, but here are my guesses: it was so busy and noisy at work today. it hasn't been like that for quite sometime and i just couldn't handle it. i was also in a pissy mood until 2:36pm. i was super hungry all morning which was part of my upset, then i had a diet coke at lunch and it put me into super anxious mode. then i couldn't get anything done because nobody would leave me alone. barf, annoying. i feel better now.

and another thing we did over the long weekend was hike in waterton national park. it was breath taking. because we all wanted to sleep in and eat crepes saturday morning, we didn't get out there until after noon. which dictated a shorter hike, a hike in which we gained a lot of altitude in a very short amount of time. it was a beautiful view full of greedy squirles that liked peanuts and deep thoughts. i also got dan creamsicle fudge which pretty much blew his mind. it looked like colby jack cheese and tasted like creamsicle. out of this world.