I'm back!
So yeah...
I haven't posted in here since June!!!
Anyway, I just want to write a couple of things that have been on my mind recently. First and foremost is the big news that I'm gonna be transferring to BYU this fall. Those of you who know me well probably are wondering why I changed my "anti-BYU" stance all of a sudden. To explain that, I'll need to go back a bit, almost to this time last year. I was at a zone study in Montreal and everyone was hounding me to go to BYU when I got home from my mission. The plan was to just go back to Ball State and continue my studies there. However, I realized that I had never really prayed about where I should go to school. That night, I knelt and prayed for a long time asking for guidance as to what to do - continue at Ball State or transfer to BYU. The answer I received was to stay at Ball State for the year and then evaluate the decision again. So fast foward to now. The whole fall semester I had been feeling like I was just drifting/coasting along in life. School just seemed to be wasting my time and I didn't think I wanted to be a news reporter anymore (something the jury's still out on). I basically had no idea what I needed to do, so I decided to pray about it. I didn't get an answer right away, so every time I prayed, I would ask about school. And every day when I'd think about maybe leaving Ball State, the only other school that came to mind was BYU. So then I started asking if BYU was where I needed to go. Again, nothing came, but I kept thinking about BYU. I even began the process of finding out which classes would transfer from Ball State to BYU. Then, last Wednesday night (January 14), I decided to pray and basically leave it in the Lord's hands. During my prayer, I decided that whatever the Lord wanted me to do, I would do, even if that meant leaving everything here and going to BYU (which, as I've mentioned before, I've always been dead-set against). The next day, when we were going on a tour of the athletic facilities for my walking class, it hit me as clear as day - Transfer to BYU! There was no doubt, no question about it. I had gotten my answer, and so now I am in the process of applying to BYU for the fall. I will more than likely be rooming with my MTC companion, who recently decided he's attending BYU as well. In fact, it was after talking with him last week that I really became motivated to pray and find out for sure what I needed to do. So there you have it. The application is due March 1 and classes start August 31. I'll definitely keep this up to date about the status of my application, although I am almost positive I'll get in.
The other thing I want to write about is somthing I just learned about today. My family has been renting a storage unit for a while. However, I guess the bill hasn't been paid in about a year, so the other day, the storage unit people sold everything that was in there. Normally I wouldn't care because it was mostly junk in there anyway, but there's a very good possibility that all of my mission souvenirs that aren't currently in my apartment were in that storage unit. My mom is in the process of getting in contact with the person who bought the stuff, but if my stuff was in there, there's a good chance I'll never see it again. Fortunately, my journals, photo albums, and books weren't in there, but all of my letters and a bunch of irreplaceable things were in the "mission box" - including my call letter. I really hope my mom can get this all sorted out. Now there is a chance that the box is at my house somewhere instead of the storage unit, but I'm not too optimistic about that.
Well, I guess that's it for this post. I'm waiting at the BSU Health Center and I'm gonna go so I'll be ready when (or if) they call me back there...
Until next time,
~David~
Current Media Experience: The sounds of the Health Center
Trenton R. Foust Memorial Quote of the Day: "Apparently, 3 square meals a day is torture." - someone from my News 202 class, in reference to why President Obama is planning on closing the prison/detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (this quote does not represent the views of this writer).
I haven't posted in here since June!!!
Anyway, I just want to write a couple of things that have been on my mind recently. First and foremost is the big news that I'm gonna be transferring to BYU this fall. Those of you who know me well probably are wondering why I changed my "anti-BYU" stance all of a sudden. To explain that, I'll need to go back a bit, almost to this time last year. I was at a zone study in Montreal and everyone was hounding me to go to BYU when I got home from my mission. The plan was to just go back to Ball State and continue my studies there. However, I realized that I had never really prayed about where I should go to school. That night, I knelt and prayed for a long time asking for guidance as to what to do - continue at Ball State or transfer to BYU. The answer I received was to stay at Ball State for the year and then evaluate the decision again. So fast foward to now. The whole fall semester I had been feeling like I was just drifting/coasting along in life. School just seemed to be wasting my time and I didn't think I wanted to be a news reporter anymore (something the jury's still out on). I basically had no idea what I needed to do, so I decided to pray about it. I didn't get an answer right away, so every time I prayed, I would ask about school. And every day when I'd think about maybe leaving Ball State, the only other school that came to mind was BYU. So then I started asking if BYU was where I needed to go. Again, nothing came, but I kept thinking about BYU. I even began the process of finding out which classes would transfer from Ball State to BYU. Then, last Wednesday night (January 14), I decided to pray and basically leave it in the Lord's hands. During my prayer, I decided that whatever the Lord wanted me to do, I would do, even if that meant leaving everything here and going to BYU (which, as I've mentioned before, I've always been dead-set against). The next day, when we were going on a tour of the athletic facilities for my walking class, it hit me as clear as day - Transfer to BYU! There was no doubt, no question about it. I had gotten my answer, and so now I am in the process of applying to BYU for the fall. I will more than likely be rooming with my MTC companion, who recently decided he's attending BYU as well. In fact, it was after talking with him last week that I really became motivated to pray and find out for sure what I needed to do. So there you have it. The application is due March 1 and classes start August 31. I'll definitely keep this up to date about the status of my application, although I am almost positive I'll get in.
The other thing I want to write about is somthing I just learned about today. My family has been renting a storage unit for a while. However, I guess the bill hasn't been paid in about a year, so the other day, the storage unit people sold everything that was in there. Normally I wouldn't care because it was mostly junk in there anyway, but there's a very good possibility that all of my mission souvenirs that aren't currently in my apartment were in that storage unit. My mom is in the process of getting in contact with the person who bought the stuff, but if my stuff was in there, there's a good chance I'll never see it again. Fortunately, my journals, photo albums, and books weren't in there, but all of my letters and a bunch of irreplaceable things were in the "mission box" - including my call letter. I really hope my mom can get this all sorted out. Now there is a chance that the box is at my house somewhere instead of the storage unit, but I'm not too optimistic about that.
Well, I guess that's it for this post. I'm waiting at the BSU Health Center and I'm gonna go so I'll be ready when (or if) they call me back there...
Until next time,
~David~
Current Media Experience: The sounds of the Health Center
Trenton R. Foust Memorial Quote of the Day: "Apparently, 3 square meals a day is torture." - someone from my News 202 class, in reference to why President Obama is planning on closing the prison/detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (this quote does not represent the views of this writer).
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