Easter Break!

Por Fin!!!!! Easter break is here. I never knew a three day week could feel so long, but really it was. 

So yesterday I was coming home, and let me tell you, it has got to be probably one of the craziest drives home I've had thus far. But thanks to God nothing actually happened in the end. 

It started out me trying to load my car. Now usually you can have like a 30 minute grace period, but this time I parked in a spot that was less than allowed apparently. As I was picking up my last load, all of a sudden I felt a need to run as fast I could to the car. I got there, and....I was in the process of getting a parking ticket, but luckily I got there JUST in time for him to let me off with a "don't park here again". I drove off as he continued to write a ticket for the guy parked next to me. 

So, I was on my way, thanking God for the feeling of "I have to get back to my car." And all of a sudden the traffic goes into a complete standstill. So I step on the break, and am just about to hit 0 mph whennnn, THUD! The guy behind me decided it would be a good idea to hit me. So I had to pull over and see if anything happened and blah blah blah, turns out it was of absolutely no consequence.  So we got back into our cars, and waited to be able to merge in and be on our way. 

Well, the traffic was so heavy, and going so fast, as is natural on I-40, that I couldn't get on the road until like 30 to 40 minutes afterwards. SO LAME! but I did get in eventually, and finally got home to enjoy an easter break. 

Now, you could judge me and be like "LEARN WHERE TO PARK!" or "DON'T DRIVE IN FRONT OF MEXICANS" but what I got out of it was "Dang, God really does love me."

I mean, of all the things that COULD have gone wrong, I got out of all of it with little to no consequence at all. I even got rewarded, with Trishy and 007 Skyfall. 

I was super irritated when it was all happening, but in the end Trishy helped remind me that really it could have been a lot worse, and you know, I think we all need to keep that in mind.

We all go through trials on a daily basis, but as long as we do what we know we should be doing, God will make up for the rest. 

Anyway, the moral of the story is, keep the commandments, and you'll be fine.

This post was brought to you by the letter P

Tests, tests, and tests.

Hello Friends!!!!

This week has been freaking stressful, and I'm happy to say that I survived it. Now I just have to get through a few weeks more, so I can just put these classes behind me and move on.

First, last Friday I had to take a Probability exam, studied really hard every day for a week straight, thought I was going to do really well. Walked into the room confident, thinking I was going to do somewhat well (at LEAST 80% if not 90%. Well....I failed my first college exam, so now I can check that off the bucket list.

Saturday I went to the temple with the ysa Wilmington branch, it was awesome, as the temple always is. Before that I accidentally locked Michael out of our room. Which was hilarious, but also inconvenient. Everyone made fun of me for being THAT guy who is overly cautious and locks the door too much. So I resolved to not lock the door for the rest of the day. Later in the night we decided to play a card game. I came into my room to get it and... it wasn't here. "What?" I furiously look for said card game, to not find it. Turns out it was in someone else's room. Someone had taken it out of my unlocked room, without telling me. Moral of the story is: Do what seems right, because sometimes friends give dumb advice.

In other news, I got set apart, and am now a ward clerk assistant. I still have no idea what I am doing, but this Sunday I should be learning a lot more. As long as I serve with all my heart, might, mind, and strength I'll know what to do.

The same night, President Fernandez, sent me a notification on Facebook  and I was like "Hey! President sent me something!" Silly me, decided to click on the link that was there. I immediately got locked out of my Facebook, and my Facebook started spamming the same link to all 900 of my friends. And liking a bunch of random pages in strange languages (one of which was the justin bieber fan club, which I was NOT happy about). and so....since I was locked out of Facebook on my computer, I had to stop it from spreading by deleting the notifications via the ipad. Freaking obnoxious. So moral of the story is....don't click strange links...EVEN if they are from your mission president.

So after getting back the results of the probability exam, which were horrible, if failing that wasn't enough, I had to worry about one test more. Actually two, but one of them was kind of easy.

So, I was taking the easier test. Which at the time, I didn't know was that easy. I finished in like 20 minutes, and looked around me to see the faces of all the students with faces of disgust, trying to figure out how to do the problems. It honestly made me feel like I had missed something. Like I wasn't really done, but that I just forgot to answer something that would take more time. Looked back at the 2 question test, and no....it really was that easy. So, I spent like 10 minutes being really confused, and finally, several minutes AFTER finishing the test, someone decided to leave, which I took as my cue to leave as well. So, moral of the story is: If you finish something 20 minutes before anyone else, it's because you're awesome, not dumb.

And finally, the foundation of advanced mathematics test, which was way short, and, for that reason alone, I don't know how well I did on it. Granted, I KNOW I didn't do as horrible as the probability exam, but I also had to rush through so much just to get it in under the time limit. Basically, I've come to the conclusion that I do not test very fast, and so I need to practice taking exams at a fast speed. Moral of the story is: It's not about how much you know, it's about how fast you can regurgitate it onto paper.

And last but not least, I lost my wallet the same night. And didn't notice until 2 or 3 hours later. When I realized it wasn't in my pocket I was in the institute building. And FREAKED OUT. I ran to the dorm, checked every single place I had been, it was no where. I returned to the Institute building and basically, no one helped. An announcement was made "There is a green wallet missing, if you find it please notify me or Paco." and...pretty much no one reacted at all. It was like, they stopped to listen to the announcement and then continued talking. So I was just internally freaking out, and Tricia was like "CAAAAAAAAAAALM DOWN!!!!!!!" and so I calmed down.

The next day I got up to go to the last place that I could possibly think about going, the Dining Hall. And BAM it was there. They had locked it up in the safe, and nothing was missing and everything was fine. So moral of the story is: Listen to Trishy.

And other than that, everything has been awesometastic. There are a few more stories, but this post  is getting a little too long, so I will put it in another post.

But it sufficeth me to say that life is good. It gets stressful, but then I remember the awesome people in my life who help me to get through, love you all! (Especially Trishy)

A few pictures to start this blog off right.

 My awesome family of doom and despair, and happiness.

I visited Tricia at work, and it was awesome.

 HUGE No-bake Cookie

 On the Ferry 

 Blanket fort in the dorm. Best idea EVER!

Blog! Yay!!!!!

Hey!!!! So I was reading up on all of the blogs of my sisters and friends and whatnaught, and decided it would be pretty spiffy to start this thing up again, for the benefit of all those interested. It's been at LEAST 2 years if not more since I have done the whole blogging thing, so I hope I can fill it up with interesting things about what happens in my day. And if nothing interesting happens in my day, then I can just use this blog as motivation to make interesting things happen. Yay!

Anyway, this week not much is going on because I am literally being consumed by the tests and whatnaught that I am having to prepare for. SO MANY TESTS!!!!

I have taken the first few steps towards declaring foreign language minors, now I just have to actually find an advisor, that should be fun.

Anyway, just doing the normal college activities. Getting really stressed out. Taking a lot of tests. But also enjoying the company of my friends. Pretty soon I am going to be set apart as a ward clerk assistant, and my time is gonna be cut even shorter, but I know that God will bless me for doing it with a good attitude. So.......yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blessings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, I have not EXACTLY decided the way I want to do this whole blog thing yet, so....any suggestions would be awesome. I am just going to roll with it until then.

Have a nice day everyone! I love you all!!!