I had a good first weekend at BYU Idaho. I had
plans every night of the week: Family Home Evening on Monday, a Game
Night on Tuesday, Institute on Wednesday, a run with a friend on
Thursday, Go back to school in Rexburg, (BYU) Idaho on Friday, and Hike
Table Rock on Saturday.
Family Home
Evening was okay. We were going to play Water Softball. I never heard of
an FHE that was so creative, but it was canceled due to rain. The
default activity was of course Volleyball, which I don't think is good
for socializing. People are divided, and you can't get to know people
because there is a ball flying all over the place. I was able to get to
know a girl personally. I went out for dinner with Kesha Richardson.
Kesha was taught art by her grandfather. I told her that I took pictures
of the Bear Mountain Veneer that morning. I showed her the pictures
that I took, and she said that they don't look like acrylic paintings. I
was mistaken. I described to her the painting style, which I thought
that the stone looked like, and she said that it looked like Oil
painting. The machine operator did not like that I was taking pictures
of all the veneer that I was impressed by, and I did not like that Kesha
did not really appreciate the pictures that I took. She said that they
looked gray. I did not take a picture of one gray stone. The stone color
did not have the same variety as the first time that I saw the stone,
but I got some good pictures. I show fix them up now. A lot were mainly
blue and orange, which is cool, because those colors are opposites. It
does not seem that the filters on my photo editing apps fix the
pictures. I was disappointed because the camera changed the orange to a
yellow. I don’t think that I can do anything to fix the colors. I will
upload all of them. I hope that you like it.
The
young single adult ward in Heber seems very divided. Not many people
know each other, so I organized a game night because a sister that I met
was new to the ward and did not know many people. The girl was named
Rachel Saxton. I thought that she would get along well with Hannah
Johansson and Kesha, since they are about the same age, but Hannah did
not show up, and Kesha almost didn't. If Kesha had not come, my hope
would not have been accomplished. I wanted Kesha to get to know Rachel
more. We played Munchkin, the card game; and Mexican Train, the dominoes
game. Jeremy won all three games that we played, so he was the game
master. Munchkin is a game similar to Dungeons and Dragons, where you
grow levels, but there is no official story. Jesse asked me if it was a
board game. I have never seen Dungeons and Dragons played, so I didn't
know that it had a board. Munchkin did not have a board. The directions
were not well written, so it took up forever to get into it. I was
pondering writing more simple directions to bless my posterity, a joke
from Jesse. I might as well.
Here are
simple Munchkin directions. There to two different type of cards; the
quest and treasure. You get three of each in the beginning, but you only
draw from the quest cards when you play. These quest card can have
monsters that you need to destroyed, which are destroyed by having more
strength than it. Strength is given by level and treasure equipped,
which you can play on your turn. The card that you can equip are race,
armor/weapons, and occupation. You can only have one race and
occupation; unless, indicated. Curses can be played too. You need to
place them facing down before you curse people. These strengthening
cards are to be played before you draw your quest card. The winner is
the person to obtain level ten. Levels can be obtained by selling
(discarding) cards. A thousand of the currency can raise your level up
one. Destroying a monster does too, but only one person in the battle
can obtain the level. Elves have an advantage because they can join
battles and obtain a level with the person on the quest; therefore, you
don't need to destroy a monster alone. You can get others to join you.
If you can't destroy the monster, you will die; however, you can flee,
if you roll a 5 or 6. If you die, people can get the treasure that you
left behind; however, you keep your race and occupation in the next
turn, when you are reborn, and I think that you lose the level that you
obtained. No one died in the game that we played, so I don't know how to
obtain the treasure. I will say that the next player to play can chose,
and the next players can take what is left on their turn. Treasure is
obtained when you defeat a monster, and many cards are self-explanatory.
The winner cannot win by selling treasure to obtain the tenth level. It
can be only obtained by destroying a monster or divine intervention. I
don't really like this rule, but the person with the lowest level gets
all the discarded cards; however, one needs to end a turn with 5 cards
usually. I think that I covered everything.
On
Wednesday I was able to get Lily Mergist's phone number at institute. I
met her last week at institute. I wanted to add her as a friend on
Facebook because she is really cool; however, she doesn't have a
Facebook. I learned to ask for their number, if they don't have
Facebook. I was not really interested in getting her number, but it
still shows interest. I wanted to be able to follow her on Facebook and
chat with her occasionally. It was awkward because the next day I got my
haircut, and Lily was a student at the salon school. She was chatting
my ear off during my haircut, saying the most awkward things; plus, the
hairstylist was flirting with me.
The
hairstylist was a lot more mature, and we had an interest in running and
Latin dancing in common. Her name is Francisca Montes. I laugh a lot as
I said before. It was funny because she told me to tell her, when the
water got too hot as she washed my hair. I figured that she should know
how to regulate that on her own. The water temperature apparently
changes without her control. She was flirty, asking me to visit her
ward, and about being friends on Facebook, but a mistake that I made is
that I did not ask for her phone number with the friend request. I
usually invite hair stylists to use their imagination and skill to do
whatever they want, and everyone so far has not actually change my hair
style. I was ready for a change, and Francis was the only hairstylist
that changed my hairstyle. She may have liked the nature of my
liberalness, embracing and pushing her skill. She also noted that her
friend wondered if I was her brother, so the natural feeling of family
was nice. I invited her to run with me and a friend. She wanted to, but
she didn't have her stuff. After leaving I realized that I should go
back in to get a glass of water or two to get hydrated. I called my
friend, and he said that he forgot that he was going to a BYU Football
game. I went back anyways to tell her that we can't run with my friend,
but we can run together. She was not prepared, but we went to get ice
cream instead. We got along well. She is honest and straight forward.
She said that she is divorced after an eight year marriage, having two
children. One age 6, and the other is aged 7. I am liberal, so I am up
for the relationship; although, she is 27. I really like her, so I
wanted to see her, dropping by to see her on the way home from work the
next day, since it was my last day of work. She was too busy to reply.
We have been chatting, but conversation is slow.
My final days at work were almost emotional. The emotional times came
when a coworker/friend started collecting thin pieces of stone as
bookmarks for me because I have done that. His name is Urban Warner. The
stone is too soft to give as gifts, but saved one in remembrance of
him. I got his phone number, so I can keep up with him. Before I came to
work, the Mexican people dominated the social life, and he would sit
with them. There is a little shed that they eat at. I like hanging out
outside, sitting on a big stone. Urban hung outside with me, which is
convenient for him because he smokes. There is a feeling where you are
going to missing a people that brings you to tears. I was feeling it,
but I didn't cry.
Thursday was the last
night that I stayed in Heber City, and I was thinking of running with
Kyle, visiting Eve and Ezra to say good bye to Eve. Ezra and Eve came
before I knew it as we were eating dinner. Eve had a fun idea to make a
fake salad with the thin pieces of stone that Urb saved for me. I was
fine with it, since it breaks easily. We had Ezra's helmet as a bowl,
and we put weeds, grass, and broke up the stone as the salad croutons;
then, we went to share it with our friends; Danica, Katie, Luca, and
Lillian. Only Lilly was around to enjoy the salad, and play for a little
bit.
Friday was fun; although, my ride
to Rexburg came 3 hours late. Trevor Sweat drove. One thing that was
cool is that my grandparents tried to find a relation with him, and they
found out that they grew up with his grandparents. The cool part is
that Trevor Sweat's grandpa rents my grandparent's farming land. Driving
up to school was fun. We got along well.
Later that evening McKell and I went out to dinner with Dollie Mae
Marble, who is also from Las Vegas, and Jesse Kaupert, since we were all
in the same FHE group. We caught up and deepened our friendships. One
thing that is special that has to do with our time is that Dollie Mae
has some sort of health problems. It is so devastating to her that I
have not had the boldness to ask what it is specifically; however, she
went to Mexico this summer, going to Tijuana. This town is very poor and
dangerous place, for people offered to purchase her the first time that
she visited. She felt completely safe going down this time though. The
city is known for great medical facilities, and the stem cell research
and opportunities there has helped her from bed ridden lifestyle to
activity again.
This first weekend of
the semester was good. Jesse organized a game night last night with an
old FHE sister name Rachel. We all had friends coming over. Jossy Reyes,
Naomi House, and Paige Dexter came. Rachel is lived in and served a
mission in Germany, and we played the favorite game of Werewolf. Each
game got more enjoyable as we played. The last game was funny because my
roommate was the mayor and the lover, and one of the lovers was talking
about killing people too easily. We nominated her to be killed, and the
mayor joined in the vote against her; although, she was trying to draw
attention away from herself. I was poking fun with Naomi basically the
entire time because her roles in the beginning were very active and
sinister. I was trying to have her killed basically every round.
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