IT'S BIN A WHILE

It's bin a while since I last posted a blog...it's bin about seven months since I've bin going to school and also staying out on my own. I love it now and I think its going to be weird when I move back in which I really dont want to. I'm still going to UVU and this is my second semester now. I'm still dance for UVU's Polynesian Legacy Dance Group and was chosen to just recently to go to BARBADOES in April and perform on a yacht for 2 weeks. I'm so excited because I need a break before finals. I miss high school VOLLEYBALL and competing against different high school teams but now I think I found a new sport to play! I though this would never happen but I guess it did and it's weird to say this but I thought I would follow my sisters footsteps and learn how to play some RUGBY! Ahh YeeAH...Some of the boys came up to me, and since I'm poly and poly's know how to play rugby haha, they asked me to come play. I dont even think they knew that I don't know how to play but oh well haha. So I went and HOI! I thought poly's are lazy and don't like to run? haha it's a fun sport to play and a GREAT WORKOUT. I was out of breath the first ten minutes of just playing. But now I've bin practicing with the UVU Rugby team for about 3 weeks and getting better...I think? ha The only thing I cant do is friggin spin the dam ball haha. Today I got my first bruise haha but there are many more to come. I wanted to play wit the team but I am working on my MISSION PAPERS right now and season starts in the spring and there is no point of paying the money because the papers will be in and I'm hoping to leave in JUNE so i gotta focus more on them than everything else!
About my mission papers....I just did my physical last week (physicals are so awkward) ha and I have to do my DENTALS in a week so I'm one step closer to finish. I feel like I am being tempted to do so many things and it's so hard! Satan just loves to pick on me but I know that I could fight against him and become stronger spiritually. But I know that since I am working towards SERVING THE LORD satan starts to work ten times harder than what what he was doing. But I can do it! 
Second semester of school just started about 3 weeks ago and now school has gotten a little harder which is a good thing. first semester was like being in high school, it was so boring and I told myself that I would give my self a challenge the next semester and so I did and now I love it! I love learning new things and I hope that I keep that desire for when I come back from my MISSION. I'm planning on going to BYU when I come back but it can change but I started to work on the ADMISSIONS papers so I'm hoping that I would be able to get ACCEPTED. There is nothing else really to update everyone on but if something comes up I'll let you know....dEuCes!

**30 DAY CHALLENGE**

Day 01: A Recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 02: A picture of something you cannot live without.
Day 03: A habit that you wish you didn't have.
Day 04: List 15 songs that represent your life's soundtrack.
Day 05: A picture of somewhere you've been to.
Day 06: A hobby you have.
Day 07: A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 08: Short term goals for this month and why
Day 09: Something/someone you're proud of.
Day 10: A story about a past relationship.
Day 11: A picture of something you dislike.
Day 12: A picture of your dream room. Share a secret.
Day 13: Write a letter telling someone something you could never tell them.
Day 14: A picture of something you ate and 10 confessions.
Day 15: Put your iPod on shuffle & share the first 10 songs that play.
Day 16: Something you could live without.
Day 17: Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why.
Day 18: Plans/dreams/goals you have.
Day 19: Nicknames you have & how or why you have them
Day 20: If you had 3 wishes, what would they be.
Day 21: Share a picture from your day
Day 22: What makes you different from everyone else.
Day 23: What is something you crave.
Day 24: Share a story about your past that you are ashamed of.
Day 25: What I would find in your bag.
Day 26: Places you want to visit before you die.
Day 27: Why are you doing this 30 day challenge?
Day 28: A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then.
Day 29: In the past month, what have you learned.
Day 30: A picture of you today & 20 goals you want to accomplish.

GETTING SHUT DOWN IN FRONT OF CLASS DOESNT FEEL GREAT! ESPECIALLY IN INSTITUTE...

TODAY I WENT TO INSTITUTE AND THE CLASS WAS MISSION PREP AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT MISSIONARY WORK AND HOW WE CAN SHARE THE WORD AND HE BROUGHT UP "THE FIELD IS WHITE AND READY TO HARVEST" AND SO I BROUGHT UP THIS SCRIPTURE IN THE BOOK OF MORMON THAT WAS KIND OF TALKIN ABOUT MISSIONARY WORK ITS IN 2ND NEPHI 25:15 I THINK AND IT WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW BABYLON WAS BEIN DESTROYED AND THE JEWS WERE SCATTERED AND SCOURGED AND THEY WONT BE SAVED TIL THEY ARE PERSUADED OF THE GOSPEL AND THEY KNOW THE TRUTHS OF THE GOSPEL AND IT MAY TAKE THEM FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION TO KNOW OF HIS TEACHINGS. AND I ASK IF THOSE WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS RIGHT NOW, ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE JEWS WHO WERE SCATTERED AND SCOURGED? OR I ASKED HIM IF HE CAN GIVE ME A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND HE SHUTS ME DOWN AND SAYS "YOUR GOING OFF SUBJECT LET'S GET BACK TO THE LESSON". IT KIND OF MADE ME QUESTION MYSELF AND INSTITUTE. LIKE AM I THERE TO JUS SIT THERE AND LISTEN? WHEN WE REALLY DONT LEARN THAT MUCH? OR AM I THERE TO LEARN SOMETHING AND GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT GOES ON IN THE SCRIPTURES? IT JUS MADE ME SO MAD THAT I DIDNT WANT TO BE THERE. HE MADE ME LOOK SO STUPID IN FRONT OF THE CLASS I DIDNT EVEN WANT TO TAKE THAT CLASS ANYMORE. I THINK IF HE'S NOT GOIN TO ANSWER MY QUESTIONS THEN IMA DROP THAT CLASS BECAUSE ITS NOT BEING HELPFUL...YAH KNO? ANY INPUT ON WAT I SHOULD DO?

LegAcy....UVU Polynesian Group

The love of POLYNESIAN dancing! Tonight i just got done performing for a birthday party....

STORY: so this morning i was asked to do a paid performance all the way out in Layton. The night before I was juss kicin it wit the roommates and pretty much i didnt go to sleep. So this whole day I've bin running on E low/2 hours of sleep. But anyways I was kind of questionable on if should go or not. Manu(the guy who asked) said it was only Gordon, I felt bad so i jus decided to go. I asked wo's all going and he said 5 other people which equals up to 6 people total. We meet in front of the school and I'm the only one there. I was like these guys better not be runnin on poly time. Gordan pulls in 5 minutes later and he tells me that everyone bailed out except for Lala and we haven't gotten a hold of Kaila, no one can. Then I'm jus sittin there thinkin, I only know about 4 of the dances and we have to do a full show (about an hour long) and there is only 2 guys and a girl. We couldn't get a hold of Kaila so we went on without her. Here we are in the car trying to think of who's doin what with only 3 people (and this is like a full show, an hour long, about 20 numbers). But we got everything covered with just the 3 of us and did all the islands of the pacific in that amount of that time. It was way fun with jus the 3 of us(GORDAN LALA AND ME) and we got paid...GET SOME!... next week= equals idaho performance, if I want to go ha but most likely i will. Well have a great sabath! GO LEGACY!

"HOW LUCKY I AM TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT MAKES SAYING GOODBYE SO HARD"

"In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how"- David O. Mckay

WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, MY MOM WOULD TAKE ME TO MY GRANDMAS HOUSE A LOT. I WOULD SAY HI TO MY GRANDMA AND THE FIRST THING SHE WOULD SAY BACK IS ARE YOU GONNA GO ON YOUR MISSION? I WOULD SAY YAH BUT NOT REALLY KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT THE MISSION. BUT NOW IF SHE ASKED THE SAME EXACT QUESTION I WOULDN'T HAVE ANY KIND OF DOUBT I WOULD SAY YES I HAVE THE DESIRE AND THE URGE TO SERVE A FULL TIME MISSION! I REALLY STARTED THINKING ABOUT THE MISSION WHEN MY OLDEST SISTER NITA CAME BACK ON HER MISSION. I SAW HOW BIG OF A CHANGE SHE MADE WITH HERSELF AND HOW BIG OF AN EFFECT IT HAD ON HER LIFE. BEING OUT HERE IN COLLEGE IVE MET SO MANY RETURNED MISSIONARIES. WITHIN THIS PAST WEEK I THINK IVE MET ABOUT 10 RETURNED MISSIONARIES WHO JUST BARELY RETURNED FROM THEIR MISSIONS. IN HIGH SCHOOL THERE WERE ABOUT 5 OF MY FRIENDS WHO RECIEVED THEIR CALL BEFORE GRADUATION AND ABOUT 5 WHO WERE WAITING. THERE IS STILL ALOT MORE OF THEM WHO ARE PLANNING ON SERVING A MISSION TOO. IF IT WASN'T FOR THIER EXAMPLE I THINK I WOULD HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ON SERVING A MISSION. I STARTED TAKING MISSION PREP CLASSES THE SUMMER OF MY SENIOR YEAR, THE GREATEST GOSPEL CLASS IVE EVER BIN IN! IVE LEARNED SO MUCH IN THAT CLASS. MOVED OUT HERE IN OREM AND STARTED TAKING MORE CLASSES LIKE INSTITUTE AND TEMPLE PREP AND LIFE JUST GO BETTER! BUT IVE TALKED TO MY BISHOP ABOUT STARTING MY PAPERS JUST THIS PAST SUNDAY. I WILL BE STARTING MY PAPERS IN NOVEMBER AND HOPEFULLY I WILL TURN THEM IN, IN FEBRUARY. IM SO HAPPY THAT I HAVE THIS GOSPEL IN MY LIFE, I DONT KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE WITH IT. I STARTED TO FULLY READ AND STUDY THE SCRIPTURES AND IVE BIN DOING GOOD. ONE NIGHT I JUST HAD THE FEELING THAT I NEEDED TO READ THE SCRIPTURES AND THIS WAS A SCHOOL NIGHT SO I REALLY DIDNT WANT TO. BUT THAT FEELING JUST GOT WAY STRONG AND IT WAS JUS SO STRONG THAT I NEEDED TO DO SO. SO I GOT OUT OF BED AND STARTED READING THE BOOK OF MORMON. I WASNT WATCHING THE TIME BUT WEN I DECIDED THAT I WAS DONE READING I LOOKED AT THE TIME AND IT WAS LIKE 2 HOURS LATER SO I ENDED UP NOT GOING TO SCHOOL. BUT RIGHT NOW I HAVE THE GREATEST DESIRE TO GO ON MY MISSION! I GET SO JEALOUS WEN PEOPLE TELL ME THEY GOT THEIR CALL TO GO ON ONE! BUT IVE BIN PREPARING AND I HOPE I PREPARE WELL! TWO DAYS AGO I GOT THE CHANCE TO GO TO THE MTC (MISSIONARY TRAINING CENTER) AND DO VOLUNTEER WORK. FIRST OFF I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT YOU COULD DO THAT, MY FRIEND JUS TOLD US TO GO DO IT AND SO WE DID. BUT ANYWAYS WE WENT AND PRETTY MUCH BECAME INVESTIGATORS (PRACTICE INVESTIGATORS). WHAT WE DID WAS WE WENT AND FILLED OUT A PAPER AND THEY TAKE US TO THE BUILDING WHERE THE MISSIONARIES TRAIN/PRACTICE TEACHING. SO WE GO IN AND THEY GAVE US A FOLDER AND IN THIS FOLDER WERE ROLES OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE. THE ROLE THAT I GOT IS I WAS A CATHOLIC MAN WHO WAS MARRIED TO AN ALCOHOLIC AND SMOKES AND I HAVE KIDS. SO I GO IN AND THEY TEACH ME AS IF I DIDNT KNOW OF THE GOSPEL OR ANYTHING ABOUT IT. WHEN YOU DO THIS YOU ACT LIKE THE PERSON THAT IT SAYS IN THE FOLDER, SO YOU HAVE TO PUT IT INTO THAT PERSPECTIVE. IT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IVE EVER HAD. IT GAVE ME A FEELING OF WHAT I WILL BE DOIN IN THE MTC. IM SO EXCITED TO START MY PAPERS! I CANT WAIT FOR THAT DAY TO COME WHEN IM STANDING IN FRONT OF MY FAMILY OPENING AN ENVELOPE AND READING

                                       "DEAR, ELDER REX LEE ALO JR

                                                  You are hereby called to serve as a missionary...You are assigned to labor in the_______mission."

The ColLegE LyfE.....

I AM CURRENTLY GOIN TO THE GREATEST COLLEGE EVER...UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY (NOT) HAHA BUT ITS A GREAT SCHOOL AND IM REALLY LIKING IT! I AM MAJORING IN PRE-NURSING AND THINKING ABOUT DOING ENGLISH AND WRITING FOR MY MINOR, I AM CURRENTLY A FULL TIME STUDENT AND STAYING OUT HERE IN OREM WITH 3 OTHER PEOPLE WHO I MET WHILE MOVING IN. I STAY IN THE CONDOS THAT ARE LIKE 2 OR 3 BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL AND STILL TRYING TO GET USED TO LIVING ON MY OWN AND SUPPORTING MYSELF WITHOUT THE HELP OF FAMILY AND THEM BEING BY MY SIDE. BUT GOING TO COLLEGE WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST CHOICES IVE MADE IN MY LIFE. IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO GO TO COLLEGE ALL MY LIFE AND NOW THAT IM HERE ITS KIND OF UNBELIEVABLE. IT'S ALSO HARD BEING AWAY FROM FAMILY AND DOING MY OWN THING. I MISS THE HOME COOKED MEALS FROM MY DAD, I MISS KNOWING WHERE THINGS AND PLACES ARE. I MISS DRIVING TO MY SISTERS HOUSE WHEN EVER I WANTED OR TO OTHER FAMILIES HOUSES. IVE ONLY BEEN OUT HERE FOR ABOUT A MONTH NOW AND I FEEL LIKE I HAVE SENIORITIS. HAHA I HAVE TO SAY THAT ITS HARD TO GO TO SCHOOL. SOME DAYS I JUST DONT WANT TO WAKE UP AND I KNOW THAT I DONT HAVE MY PARENTS OUT HERE BOTHERING ME TO WAKE UP SO SOMETIMES I JUS DONT EVEN GO. BUT ALOT OF THE TIMES I THINK OF WHO IM DOING IT FOR AND WHY I AM AT SCHOOL AND THATS WHAT MOTIVATES ME TO GO. RIGHT NOW BEING ON MY OWN IM STARTING TO SEE THAT I HAVE TO BUDGET EVERYTHING SUCH AS GAS, GROCERIES, THINGS I WANT TO DO, ETC. AND I CANT GO HOME ALL THE TIME BECAUSE OF BUDGETING. ITS JUST ONE OF THOSE STEPS IN LIFE THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE IN ORDER TO LEARN. WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF COLLEGE, THEY THINK OF THE PARTIES AND THE FREE LIFE THAT THEY WILL HAVE. WHEN I THINK OF COLLEGE NOW I THINK PARTIES GET OLD AND THE FREE LIFE ISNT FREE. IVE BIN TO THE PARTIES AND TRIED THE FREE LIFE BUT ALL THAT WILL DO IS PUT YOU IN STRESS. BEING OUT HERE IN OREM AND IN SCHOOL HAS TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT MYSELF. IN HIGH SCHOOL I NEVER STUDIED EVEN IF I DID IT WAS FACEBOOK/SPARK NOTES WHICH ISNT STUDYING. BUT BEING OUT HERE I NOTICED HOW CAPABLE I AM OF STUDYING AND DOING HOMEWORK AND HOW MUCH EASIER IT IS IF I ACTUALLY DO IT. BUT THE COLLEGE LIFE IS THE GREATEST EXPERIENCE AND WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING ELSE, IN COLLEGE YOU LEARN ALOT ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOU LEARN MORE SKILLS AND BETTER THE SKILLS YOU HAVE. ITS WORTH IT AND ITS FOR A BETTER FUTURE!