Its been a long time.

So I forgot I had a blog. well mabe I should write in it. I'm not sure how many people actually read this"blog" buuuuut I guess I can just use it as an alternate journal because I never write in my other ones.

So life is interesting first and foremost I got a job at a Pawn and Jewelry shope in Highland off or Highlands avenue. So far it is really fun, most of the time I forget I'm even working. I'm just finishing up Biology at Sanbernardino Valley and lookin to just buckle down and work in the summer. Ya know I really don't want to talk about my mission status right now but to be completely honest it's always on my mind so what the heck. I talked to the Stake President a couple of days ago. We talked about the options I have to serve. I hae plenty, I could serve a service mission, a 6 week trial mission in Riverside, or jus put off the mission completely for 1 year and concentrate on my degree. Life is full of decisions isn;t it? haha goodtimes. I've decided to let my hips do all the decision making. If they feel better by the end of the summer I go, if they dont I go back to BYU-Idaho. Simple enough right? haha

Other than that my life is entertaining. I am coaching a 6 yr old softball team, we are the Volunteers. I have 10 girls, they are spectacular and I learn alot from them haha and I laugh soo much. Andrew and Cecilia help me coach. It's kinda put me in check a little. I'm a competative person...naturally and when I'm out there with the girls I need to understand and tell myself that it isn;t about winning with 6 yr olds haha its about them and their progression in the sport of softball. Ever since I've started this volunteer coaching job I have been happier and it's given me purpose. Mostly because baseball is my passion, it always has been and always will and to pass on your talent to help someone else and then see them learn and grow is really priceless.

Time to Buckle Down, Times are Rough but the Future is Bright!

The past few weeks have been rough times. Times where all you want to do it just stop everything lay down and give up. My hips are coming along nice I am walking about a half a mile and am working my way up everyday. My goal is to walk 2-3 miles by the end of the year. Along with walking everyday I am riding a stationary bike that my Dad bought a while back for my rehab and I do that for about 20-40 minutes depending on the pain that I'm in each day. I pretty much have my schedule down to the T and am focussing 75% of my time on re-hab. The other 25% I'm busy with homework and online classes. My hips I would say are about 40% right now and they must at least be 80-90% for me to get back out on my mission so I have a long ways to go.

The house is hectic and my paps has takin up the role of "mom" for awhile cause my Mama just had a major knee replacement. It's realy funny actually I love my mom, we are crippled together and we keep each other company throughout the day. It's way funny how hectic it is without her, she really does hold everything up in the house and keeps everyone from going insane and I have proof of that now.

Just a little Spiritual note and what I have learned recently
This past couple of weeks I have been reading in the New Testament, I absolutely am stoked about the New Testament I've never read it all the way through before and it has completely re-energized my desire to serve God. It is so remarkable how Jesus performed so many marvelous Miracles, how He changed and blessed so many peoples lives while he was on the earth. His mortal ministry was absolutely spectacular. Faith is a huge topic in the New Testament, it has taught me alot about the faith I need to have in order to be healed and serve a mission again, because faith does preceed the miracle I always question what kind of faith I have and I come to the word "works" always. Christ's faith is unwaivering, His love is undeniable, and His Charity is unforgetable. He is our example in this life and He is the only way for happiness in the next through His Atonement.

Proposition 8- Lets preserve the sanctity of Marraige between a man and a woman!

http://www.youngadultsforprop8.blogspot.com
Heres a website I decided to start to try and inform as much as possible about the Upcoming election and most importantly proposition 8 to put in what has been takin from those in California. To keep marraige defined as between a man and a woman. Go check it out!

I know I look soooooo good!

I always knew I had African American ancestors, I just was never able to prove it! Now I can. Thanks to the one and only Stephanie Johnson.

Elder (G-Baby) Smith

Garrett Smith one of my best friend's on his mission in Pittsburg Pennsylvania has hit his 1 year mark and is burning his white missionary t-shirt for the initiation process for the second year, atta boy son. Looks like we wont be seeing eachother for a total of about 3-4 years because of my surgeries, all I know is that it's going to be a sick reunion. Garrett, if you didn't know(which you probably didn't) has taught me alot he helped me come out of my shell and to never ever accept boredom as an option.

2 hip surgeries.in 2 months. Post-op 1st surgery 5 weeks

Life seems like it stands still, I wake up and since I cant walk too well I dont want to do anything that will bother my legs so I usually just stay in my bed until I have to go to my one a day class. What I'm learning is when there is alot of physical pain in your life everything you do reflects that pain. Unfortunately this is so true and I hate it, this is not what I want to be for the rest of my life, some charity case that has a bunch of problems. I want to be the one helping others not the one being helped and I want to be strong in order to help others. There are so many aspects of life that have kind of jumped out and kicked me in the face that are so important that I have realized throughout this trial. The Lord is putting me through a crash course of life 101, it seems I haven't learned my lesson yet either or mabe I have and now its just an endure to the end type of thing?

I know and have learned through my trials that every little blessing is so important, and when we underestimate the power that out Heavenly Father has in our lives, then we miss out on those sometimes big but most imporantly the little blessings that God has in store for us, then that is when life seems so unbearable.

My leg feels like it had peeked already and hasn't really gotten better in the last week. There are so many variables to think about while recovering from a surgery, your mind plays games with you and you think your not going to recover correctly. This is some seriously business, these surgeries will play a huge role determining the outcome of the rest of my athletic, care-free, normal life that I once had...QUE? It is time to wake up and spell the pancakes, and realize that the purpose in life is not to just live a happy life, but to pass on tht happiness to as many people as possible.

Elder Morgan terrin it up!

Elder Morgan, aka one of my roomate up at college in 2006 is tearin it up over in Argentina. This kid is a stud. He's on the far right.

The first letter I got from E Morgan was one of not wanting to be there and way mad about not knowing the Language as well as he should. But now the kid is tearin it up and workin really hard so this is a shout out to him and all my homies out on missions.