Hey Jacob!
How are you doing these days?
Mom and Dad have been gone since Friday morning and won't get back until tomorrow afternoon. They went up for a Palmer Family reunion. As I suspect, all of mom's siblings were there so it was a great turn out. Cousins, on the other hand, had places to be. I was working and so was Sarah and Briana was in Idaho doing what she does. The pictures are nice. I'll try to remember to send you some.
My weekend was super busy. First, on Friday I went to Anaheim with Sarah to go visit her friend Anthony Armstrong who was down for the weekend. This is the same Anthony football player in Meet the Mormons. He took us out to a Chicken and Waffle place called Roscoes, and then we went to the beach to see the sunset. It was really fun, plus we took a lot of nice pictures. I will for sure send you some. Afterwards, at 9pm we went to the Rancho Dance with Chris (my friend from Walmart). He was having some fun getting to know people, plus he wants to join us on some other activities throughout next week, like FHE. He really wants to meet a girl and start that next phase in his life. (DON'T WE ALL, right Jacob). Just to let you know, I experience anxiety a lot throughout my week. It usually happens when I exert myself and there are loud noises and it's dark and there is a crowd of people. When that happens, things get exemplified, I feel like people are scrutinizing my every movement, etc. Lights get blurrier, etc. I usually have to calm down on the ride home, or do some breathing exercises. This is how I feel, even with all the medicine I take. I use to feel this way right at the end of work, but more recently, I've been able to control my thoughts and not get so worried at the end of the day. There are THOSE days every once in a while, so, I just gotta endure it to the bitter end.
My self-reliance class is going good, but it seems each week we dwindle in numbers more and more. Today we only had 4 in the class including me. The class has been super helpful, though. We are learning about budgeting and believe me, it is stuff I need to hear in my life right now, as I prepare for marriage with Sarah Rebecca. It makes for very long sundays, though. I mean, I have two hours worth of meetings, then choir, then 3 hours of church, a one hour break where I eat food that is served in church, or food that I bring from home, and then 2 hours (well, they've been less) of self reliance. So yeah, long days.
Work has been good. I told the SDC aides at Lewis about my engagement and they were so happy for me. OH, I have a librarian job interview at Grant Elementary on Tuesday. I also applied for an SDC aide job where I go to different schools and help out. It would come with benefits, so I hope they contact me.
The BYU football game was against Mississippi State. It was on SEC Network, which nobody apparently has. So I listened to it on my way down to Torrance. Of course, we did poorly. But listening to the time Ganwoloku got an interception was great. However, Tolotau had a fumble, recovered by the defense soon after. I missed most of the second half. We did get one touchdown, though. not very nice results.
Other than that, not too much else to report on. It's been nice being home alone. However, I've been gone most of the time I've been home alone, so, hmmmmm...just spending all my time with my fiancee.
Anyways, I hope you are doing good. I haven't heard the reports since mom and dad have been gone. I hope your headaches and anxiety are subsiding and that you are feeling normal again. I love you and wish you all the best in the world.
Love,
John
