HOUSTON!!

Well I am in Houston and I am loving life. I like it here very green small skinny tall trees and the humidity is amazing. I love the heat and how humid it gets here. I am living with a family that lives basically right behind Emily's family. Every night I drive one of the cars over to this persons house and then I wake up in the morning and come back over and run errands look for jobs etc. I go to the pool almost everyday because Emily is a guard at a pool and her younger brother Michael and I go visit her for an hour or so. I am applying to golf courses and restaurants and whatever else comes my way. I will be putting up some pictures once i get some and since I have this new sweet camera that I got at Christmas I should take more pictures.

ACCOUNTING PROGRAM

A few days ago I found out some information about the accounting program at Brigham Young University (BYU). I am on the waiting list for the 2009-2010 school year. I got an email telling me that I needed to log into the Marriott School and check the status of my application and this is what the accounting program told me:

Thank you for your application to the School of Accountancy. The Admissions Committee has designated your application to be discussed in our admissions meeting scheduled for the week of July 6. Having your application assigned to this meeting is an important step in the admissions process because approximately 150 students will be admitted to the School of Accountancy during this meeting. We expect to send notices of final admissions decisions through email by July 15.

I am grateful for everyone that read and edited my essay. I know that it is because of my essay that the Admissions Committee decided to review my application in the meeting on July 6. Thank you all again and I am excited to hear what the decision is going to be in the middle part of July.

First One

Today I got my first sale while working at APX. Let me tell you this has been a very long and tedious process. I have knocked all day Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and today (Wednesday) before I got this first sale. The sale came around 7:35 at night and I left the house around 8:45 while the techs were installing the security system. I am not sure how much detail I can go into but he was the coolest chillest guy I have ever met. He is a solid customer who will definitely use his system and it feels good that I have protected a family. It is a great feeling and I appreciate all the love and support that ya'll have given me.

GENERAL CONFERENCE

April 4-5 was the 179th Annual General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I was able to go with my girlfriend Emily as well as a mission buddy Viray and his friend. It was amazing sitting at the feet of the Prophets and Apostles listening to them tell us what we need to do to better ourselves. For my Living Prophets class I was required to watch all sessions of Conference and it was amazing. I felt like I was serving my mission again. My favorite talks were both of President Eyring's and also Elder Jeffrey R Holland's talk. I love Conference and the opportunity that I have to go and listen to them.

Emily and I outside of the Conference Center

We had really good seats

Here is Viray and his friend. They are both converts and first time in the Conference Center

FESTIVAL OF COLORS

Yesterday was the Hindu holiday called Festival of Colors. I saw pictures of this event last year and I decided that I wanted to go to this. Emily called me yesterday and asked if I would want to go and of course I said yes. The throwing of colors started at 5:30, so we caught the bus at 3:00 and headed down to Spanish Fork. We walked around petted the llamas, saw some peacocks, and we saw zebu (it is a type of cow i think). We got our colors and waited for the announcer guy to tell us we could start throwing. I cannot even describe to you how much fun it was. We will definitely be hitting this up next year. Enjoy the pictures, and yes the powder did get everywhere ha ha ha. I still have it in my ears, and my clothes are now all dyed sweet colors. The purpose of the festival is to kill winter and to bring in spring. It was a lot of fun and I loved it.

MARCH MADNESS

Okay I know I am horrible at keeping my blog up to date and I am grateful for a family who are so patient with me and considerate. I appreciate how loyal they all are on checking my blog waiting for a new post, well here is the newest post of the Mitch Man's life. March Madness is in full swing and I love me some NCAA basketball. I love watching it on campus and having guys walk behind me all slow like so they can get a glimpse at the score and who is playing. I must say my bracket for the most part is looking good. I thought there were going to be more upsets in the first round but I must say I am doing well. I love me some KU Jayhawks but unfortunately I do not have them winning it all. For me it was between University of Louisville or University of North Carolina.

As for other news school is going well. I took an Accounting test this past week and got an amazing 97% on it, which is a huge improvement from the last time I took this class. I also took a calculus test and got an 85%, which I am happy with saying that the average was roughly a 68% so you might say I am ahead of the curve. I am working on my essays for both the accounting program and the management program. For my essays I need to talk about what is unique about me so if anyone has any suggestions let me know. Cari has told me my work ethic and sense of humor. Katie has told me about the pride I have in my speedo, which I do not think BYU would appreciate too well if I talked about that.

Emily is doing well. Her birthday is on Monday and I am not 100% sure what I am going to be doing for her but whatever it is will be amazing. We are doing well, she had 4 tests this past week in, calculus, German, chemistry, and New Testament. She has been busy but did very well on all of her tests.

Emily

As most of you know I have a girlfriend. Her name is Emily Murray. She was born in Orem and moved to Wichita Kansas when she was 4 years old. After her freshman year in high school her family moved to Houston Texas. She ran cross country, played soccer, and was a life guard at the neighborhood people. Her neighborhood as she has told me is huge. Last Saturday we went to the BYU vs. Utah basketball game where we won by 13 points, it was awesome and intense.

if you look closely you will Elder Robert D. Hales he is right in the middle very front of the bleachers in a black suit

us being goofy

Emily sharing an intense moment at the BYU Utah game