April 12, 2003

• Friday Night just past Midnight:
  
  Hey, I just got back from a party at Mary's house. It was fun, but I'm having a really hard time. I'd appreciate it if you would keep my ward in your prayers, thanks
  
  Dan
  
  Saturday Morning:
  
  Sorry about my melodrama last night. I just kinda felt like the whole Ward was falling apart. My home teacher, Brother Johnson is now in the hospital. He has always been one of my role models, and so to hear of him in the hospital really freaked me out. Tensions in my ward have been really high as people keep getting sick (myself included a while ago) and other people move in and out of the ward. A lot of people's jobs are not very stable, and so many people are finding work outside of my ward. It's really hard for me to think of so many of my close friends possibly leaving me. On top of all of that stress of health and parents and moving, or perhaps from that stress, a lot of the youth in my ward are getting upset with eachother. Everybody is mad at somebody; everybody has offended somebody; everybody is being offended by everybody. We were a very close ward- still are. We have hung out together, helping eachother for a long time. But I think that right now with all that is going on, we need to stop being offended and offending others and start remembering all of those times we shared together. The happiest times in my life have been with the Buffalo Grove 1st ward. Anyway, now that I've gotten some sleep I'm not freaking out anymore, but we could still use your prayers. Thanks a lot,
  
  Dan
  
  Saturday Night:
  
  Seminary Scripture Mastery Event was this afternoon. The event was fun. The dance was not. The last half hour was alright, but the first part of the dance was just horrid. Bad D.J., and the tension- wow, I think I could have cut the tension in the room with a knife it was so thick. All the stress, and something else. Something I don't know, but I guess, and I'm deathly scared of what I guessed. Enough so that I pulled President Evans aside for a chat. He gave me 3 main pieces of advice. The first thing he told me was that there was a power in keys, which meant that I should talk with Bishop Green. The second thing he told me was that all things have their seasons. Sometimes the rose will be in full bloom, and other times all you will see is the seemingly dead thorns, but that all things would cycle through the seasons. Basically if times are rough now, they're be smooth later and visa versa. He also told me that the rough times were meant to refine- a time for growth and new strength. The last thing he told me was about selfishness. He told me to be wary of it, to avoid it, and pointed out that it cause much of the problems in anything. He said that selflessness would help make things better. That gave me a lot of comfort, but I still cried during the "best friend" song and I still came close to it during "Iris" . . .
  *sigh* Jeff Prows stop laughing, I know you are making fun of my drama, but it's late at night and I don't care, I'll be dramatic if I want to be dramatic.
  
  P.S. I'm now going to start posting "memories for the day"
  
  Today's Memory is the bond fire at the 2001 Stake Barn Dance. Good times; good times.

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