today is a beautiful day

It is such a nice day outside. I wish that I did not have to go to work tomorrow. Cause I would so be outside fishing and hiking. And really just enjoying the world. Tomorrow night monday night I have staff duty from 4 in the afternoon till 7 the next morning. That is a long time and I have a test on tuesday. I hope that one day I will be able to take time off and enjoy my life and enjoy the world and my family. There was this guy in church today that used to be a tough army guy and had a physical job his entire life. Well one day he broke his neck while doing sometihng with the FBI and he got medically retired. So his wife had to go out and enter the work force however he said it was a great blessing for him cause he had the chance to be the stay at home dada and really raise up his youngest daughter from 6 months old till now she is 9 and she is his best little friend and they have a really good bond. I just thought that that was pretty cool that he was able to take something like that and change it into something good.
Well peace out yall
chris

interesting

Sometimes when I feel as though my friends and family have been offended I find it very hard to control my temper however I think I did a very good job in my response to that guy that posted. The response follows.


You know what I find most interesting concerning my last blog. Is that the person who responded and corrected me about posting the information did so without giving me a chance to recant or change. Rather he very publicly instigated a fight. That if you look at the comments of my very good friends got the result that he wanted. Congratulations Sir you got a fight. I do not wish to debate you on the points you presented for you were correct. I admit it and I deleted the information presented. However your methodology was incorrect. I unknowingly did something that could possibly have caused some consternation to the work of the Lord. Rather then calling me out in a public format would it not have been more appropiate to simply send me an e-mail or in some other less obvious way not that the information was wrong. If there was no other way then the way you chose should not yor words have been chosen a little more in the spirit of the message.
I say this because I looked at your blog profile it says you are from South Jordan in Utah. I do not know how often you have been outside of Utah but I have many friends that are not members of this church. And what you said and the manner in which you said it would have seriously offended almost every single one of them. I am a member and am ok with being wrong. I do not mind the Lord or the Lords servants correcting me. Heaven Knows I need it. However your apperent attitude with those people that I love far more then you know is unacceptable. Your callisnouss in the name of right is also unacceptable. Not everyone will ever be foreced to accept Jesus it is simply aginst the rules of the kingdom of God. I could be misreading what you wrote but I do not think I am. I am in effect asking you to either apoligize to my friends for your attitude or very kindly not post again on this blog. I do this in a public manner so that my friends will know that my love for them surpasses the bounds of being wrong. For I honestly do not mind being wrong. I am human and I admit it. However I will not stand for someone who in the name of Righteousness offends those who are not in need of offense. Once again it is not your words that have ginven umbrage it is your attitude in the presentaion of those words. You called me out publicly I have admitted my error and retracted the un-offical statement as requested by the chosen leaders of my faith. Now if you do not wish to publicly ask forgivness for the offense that you have caused then I ask you to not post again on this blog.
To my friends I do love you and hope the best for you I also hope that this person's attitude will not give you any more reason to argue or fight for fighting is very rarely worth it.
My father was offended once and has since gone the way of many others. An apolgy many years ago wether or not the other person was correct or not could have saved decades of pain and who knows he might actually still be a member.
I love this church and I do know it is the only true church on the face of the planet. The members however are not.
I also know that Christ lives and loves us and is very willing to work with our weaknesses and help them to become strengths.
I love my friends and I love my wife. I am so blessed to have them in my life.
I do not know where I would be without them I love them and am so gratefull for them
peace

Recovery

Yesterday after I wrote that blog. Britta told me to take a nice long bath and relax. Well I got in the bath tub and started to relax and realized I was Falling asleep. Then I thought well this IS relaxing but then i thought if I fall asleep I could slip right under the water. Hmmmm that did not sound good. So I in a kinda groggy state got up and went over to my bed and fell right on top of the covers and everything, and passed out for five hours. When I woke up Britta was calling me I thought I had just fallen asleep. So I woke up and realized man i was asleep for 5 hours. Wow I was tired.
Today I went to church and spoke in sacrament meeting I tried to tell some stories but they did not seem to work to well. I think it was cause I was feeling rushed. I was told I was the closing speaker but I was the middle one instead so I got cut from 20 min to 10. And my friggin feet hurt.
But i mostly think it was cause I was feeling rushed. I wore crocks to church today and it was great should do it more often. Crocks are very comfortable.
I sure do love my family.
I get to have Britta and Taiten and Kaia come down in less then a month. great of greatness.
I am so looking forward to that. It has become the motivation for my day to day dealing with the idiots that are here.
I sure do love them and miss them so very much.
peace

I did it

I did it I did my 19 miles in 4hrs and 20 min. with a ruck on and the stupid army boots. I am so cool. My feet are really hurting right now but at least I made it it was hard. The hardest thing was not the weight or the distance but it was the feet. they were sucking it. I could have gone even farther if my feet had not hurt so bad. I do not know how those pioneers did it the settlers and everyone it seems so darn hard to do with army boots and think of the crappy shoes they had. not fun
well I am off to write a talk for tomorrow
peace

ruck march on saturday

I have 18.5 miles of hiking in army uniform and crap on saturday with a light ruck but it is still almost 20 miles. I have about 5 hours to do it in too. It does not sound like fun at all. but i got some candy and tomorrow gonna go buy a camel back so i have water. and saturday morning I will take some Ibprofein and pray for the next 5 hours I can make it. My feet hate walking in those stupid army boots. You think as much walking as soldiers do they would come up with something that worked better.
One day I am going to get the nice boots
but until then I ruck on with a heavy load
wish me luck one and all
peace
chris

willing to be what I want to be

I talked to Britta and she has this sheet of problems and things that could be effecting the energy in the body. What we talked about for me was "willing to be what I want to be" This is interesting as I have been really worried about the future and being what I want to be. I would really like to be a Veterinarian. however the road to get that far will be very demanding for my family as well as myself. More so for my family as the requirements put on me while in Vet school will be very large. I am worried how everything will work out in the end. This is something that we will have to work out. The other option is staying in the military either the Air Force or the Coast Guard. I do not really want to do it but it is the safe route. So really what we discovered is that I have to have the courage and faith to be what I want to be even though it may be the harder route. Less secure and less stable in the interim. But we shall see what happens. Whatever happens I have to be willing to be what I really want to be. That means make the sacrifices to make it happen.
By the way this took three days to write.

well well well

It has been a long time since I blogged. mostly because the last several weeks have been really really busy. Now I can not seem to make this thing go off Italics. I just got done with a test and have a few extra min to do some work in preparation for the rest of the day. But that sucks so i decided to blog a little bit. Got to go out with the missionaries yesterday. Helped to teach an older woman who did not want to know if Joesph Smith really saw God or not. She said she did however I do not think she wanted to as she did not want to pray about it and would not commit to it. But we can always hope that people are pricked in the hearts.
Britta just put up a whole bunch of pictures of them in Mexico. However I do not see near enough of them of you Britta and almost none of you guys at the beach more pictures.
I calculated it out to how many days I have till thanksgiving. I have 27 days of classes left. That does not include the week or so in the field. After Thanksgiving it is mostly outprocessing and getting ready to leave this place. Ft Leonard Wood is not a bad place it is the job that sucks.
One day I will have a job that I look foreward to doing.
I looked into the Coast Guard. I could get a direct commission into the MI field for them. Will look into it more. As it would be really nice to retire at 41. There are more important things but that would be nice.
I am still working on being a vet. The hurdles for that job seem to be a bit higher.
I am so happy that britta is coming day after tomorrow. It is only 2 days away but it seems like an eternity. It would be so great to never have to be away from my family. I can not imagine how our Father in Heaven feels. I know that to be seperated from my wife and kids hurts so bad. It is such a great blessing to be a husband and father. I am more happy now as a part of this family then ever before. I wish that we could be together more often. But that is in the future it seems.
A goal to shoot for.
peace