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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Some Pictures from the Big Send-off
"The Eulogy"
To whom ever reads this and maybe couldn't make it to Doug's farwell...it just so happens that my sweet Uncle recorded it.
You can listen to it here: Doug's Farewell
(it might take a second to open/load but just leave it open and wait and it will eventually start)
You can listen to it here: Doug's Farewell
(it might take a second to open/load but just leave it open and wait and it will eventually start)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Heyo.
So right now this is Doug. Soon to become Elder Brian. But starting Wednesday Christy's gonna take over as my official "Blog writer". She'll probably post my letters and stuff and hopefully beg you guys to write me but this is officially my first and last blog.
I don't have too much to say right now and hopefully you all came to my eulogy on Sunday and heard it all already anyways. But here's some of the highlights for those of you who didn't.
I'm leaving Wednesday for purgatory (aka the MTC). After three weeks in Provo I'll go to the Lima MTC for more language training and studying and such and then I'm off to Trujillo to sink or swim.
It'd be real nice if you guys wrote me lots of letters. I dunno if that sounds super desperate but that kind of thing will really help me out. So do it. I'll like you for it.
So I want to write a few things down I didn't really get into during my talk Sunday cause I was out of time and crying... kind of a lot. First of all I want to tell everyone that I know why I'm doing this. It's kind of the clichè thing to do around here, but it really is a special privilege to remove yourself as the center of your life and replace it with Christ for two years. I know this gospel can bring peace, joy and healing to the human heart like no other thing on this planet. I was raised in this church and kind of always believed it was true through everyone else's testimony. I was pretty embarrassed when the day came that I realized I had never put the Book of Mormon to the test on my own. This church can only be explained in two ways: The first, that at fourteen years of age, just one year older than my baby sister, Joseph Smith devised the most elaborate, well conceived hoax of all time and became one of, if not the greatest authors and theoretical historians in human history. OR he saw what he said he saw. And this church not only contains the restored and full gospel of Jesus Christ but He stands at it's head as our living redeemer. All we are asked to do is read a book and ask, but it still took me a crazy amount of time to do. So I wanna stop typing now but I'll leave a quote from Elder Holland that has kind of become my own, "I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days."
- Elder Brian
So right now this is Doug. Soon to become Elder Brian. But starting Wednesday Christy's gonna take over as my official "Blog writer". She'll probably post my letters and stuff and hopefully beg you guys to write me but this is officially my first and last blog.
I don't have too much to say right now and hopefully you all came to my eulogy on Sunday and heard it all already anyways. But here's some of the highlights for those of you who didn't.
I'm leaving Wednesday for purgatory (aka the MTC). After three weeks in Provo I'll go to the Lima MTC for more language training and studying and such and then I'm off to Trujillo to sink or swim.
It'd be real nice if you guys wrote me lots of letters. I dunno if that sounds super desperate but that kind of thing will really help me out. So do it. I'll like you for it.
So I want to write a few things down I didn't really get into during my talk Sunday cause I was out of time and crying... kind of a lot. First of all I want to tell everyone that I know why I'm doing this. It's kind of the clichè thing to do around here, but it really is a special privilege to remove yourself as the center of your life and replace it with Christ for two years. I know this gospel can bring peace, joy and healing to the human heart like no other thing on this planet. I was raised in this church and kind of always believed it was true through everyone else's testimony. I was pretty embarrassed when the day came that I realized I had never put the Book of Mormon to the test on my own. This church can only be explained in two ways: The first, that at fourteen years of age, just one year older than my baby sister, Joseph Smith devised the most elaborate, well conceived hoax of all time and became one of, if not the greatest authors and theoretical historians in human history. OR he saw what he said he saw. And this church not only contains the restored and full gospel of Jesus Christ but He stands at it's head as our living redeemer. All we are asked to do is read a book and ask, but it still took me a crazy amount of time to do. So I wanna stop typing now but I'll leave a quote from Elder Holland that has kind of become my own, "I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days."
- Elder Brian
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