Last night I was able to witness the Rebels win against Air Force! Great day! We're all happy we go out we are on top of the world! Now if we took it back to a week or so ago when Utah was in town and we lost! It was a whole other scene! None of us were happy we were all mad. None of us went out we all went home just not a good day! I'm just as bad as all my friends and we all get so worked up, mad, and depressed haha. It's not funny at the time because we are all mad, but to look back at it now it's so funny to me how mad we all get. In life you are either 1 of the two building blocks in life. Either A) we act for your self or B) were acted upon! now it's common sense to pick which one we should be in. That being category A although we seem to end up in category B oh too often. Me and all my friends are in category B when it comes to the rebels sadly enough. I guess you could call us obsessed haha. I picked up a saying on the mission to help me through hard times especially when it came to companions "the milk has been spilt!" That of course dealing with don't cry over spilt milk. When something happened that would have me upset or something I would say that to my self being the fact theres nothing I can do about the situation its already happened, it's time to move on continue with life. So many times it seems we let some hiccup in life totally derail us. When in fact we should just put it behind us and move on. One thing I could say I'm good at is seeing the funny side in a situation and just laughing about things. This though at times makes people involved in the situation upset them being in the B category at the time haha. An example of that being...
My companion, Elder Henri, and I had met this young couple for chinese. She was a member and he was not and we were teaching him. Well my companion did not like getting embarrassed at all. (so him being put with me not the greatest mix. me being a goof most of the time!) well jack was sitting across from me and amelia was sitting across from Elder Henri. Elder Henri had ordered some dumplings as seen above in the picture. We were sitting there talking about Jacks lessons and setting up a time for him when we could baptize him. Well Elder Henri picks up a dumpling with his chop sticks and bites into it. When he did so it blew up on the other side and the filling and the juices shoot out like a dang gun! They go all over Amelia like she just took a shower. Needless to say her white shirt was now brown and her face and hair were all wet. Elder Henri was a shade of red that I didn't even know was in existence. He couldn't even speak. Amelia was sitting there with juice dripping from her nose. ( I don't know what was in those dumplings, or how they cooked them, but man they sure can soak a person!) Jack was grabbing napkins to wipe her off. Then theres Elder Huntsman. Now picture my point of view. I had just looked up at Elder Henri when he bit into the exploding dumpling. I watched as the backside of the dumpling came bursting open. I then watched as the insides traveled that short distance across the table through the air. Making contact directly on Amelia's face. Elder Henri completely embarrassed for soaking her. Her being embarrassed for being covered in the stuff but more so because she knows that Elder Henri is probably devastated. Jack he too feeling embarrassed for the two of them. Well here I am a by stander. But heck that was hilarious. I was laughing soooo hard! Tears are just rolling down my cheeks. The whole restaurant of chinese people are all focusing on this one white kid in a shirt and tie laughing hysterically! Amelia and Jack started laughing because I was and the situation wasn't bad at all. Well for the most part Elder Henri wasn't the happiest camper at my laughing, but what can you do it was hilarious!
Another story about making the best of the situation and doing our best to stay in category A is...
Cory and I had travled from Provo to Park City to watch the BYU game at our buddy Eric's house. It's about a 30 minute drive most. Unless you are Eric then it takes about 2 hours. But hey is just a very cautious driver haha! Well any ways we leave and it's night time. I drove out there and it was my first time being a driver out there. Well it's just Cory and I in my car and we are headed back. Usually when we drive we have the music a bumpin' and just having a good ol' time. We were trying to hurry to meet these girls and go to a party with them. So.... we're cruising along and we run into some construction that goes for miles and we are stuck in between two semi-trucks. The construction has caused to be squished to one lane! We were like there was no construction on the way out, they must have set this up rather quickly we were only there for a few hours. Well that construction took forever and we were going so slow due to the semis. Well finally it opens up and we fly by the semis and again are just cruising. The construction and the trucks didn't bother us too bad because we were just in deep conversation. well its now been about an hour and a half. Cory says man I can't believe we haven't hit Provo yet and I was like yea I know that construction really set us back a ways. Well 10 minutes later I see this sign...
I see this and I think to my self "why the heck would they have a welcome to wyoming sign in the middle of Utah? " This doesn't even phase me. I just keep on driving and talking with Cory. All of the sudden Cory sees a sign. Now Cory served quite a bit of time on his mission in Wyoming. He sees a sign to a city that he had heard of while serving his mission. He goes "Oh My Gosh! We Are In Wyoming!!!" I reply with "That's Why the Sign said Welcome To Wyoming!!!" Hahahaha! The first thing we do is we start laughing soo hard! Both of can't breath. Wyoming was almost the death place of Cory and Tyloy because we were laughing so hard. We weren't even looking for an exit at this time we were just laughing at the situation so bad. We had driven an hour and a half north when we should've traveled 30 min south from Park City. It was one of the best nights though. We had a really good conversation and it was just some good needed time between two best friends. Needless to say we lost three hours of the night. We missed the party, and used up a lot of gas! In the end though it was great. We could've easily let that put us into category B but instead we realized theres not much we could do we were already in wyoming so might as well enjoy it.
Life is all about ups and downs. Its our job to act for our selves and not let life choose how we are acting or feeling. We have to make the best out of bad situations! Nothing does that better then to just laugh at the situation instead of crying about it. So instead of crying over spilt milk lets laugh over spilt milk. life will be that much sweeter for us all. Not saying that I never get mad. The next rebel loss will probably make me upset yet again, but I have to try my best to just move on. Because in the end "The Milks Been Spilt!"
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