Nats vs Mets

Well the game was awesome on saturday. It was really fun, and it was a good game too. It went to the 12th inning. I didnt get home until 3 am but it was worth it! I took my 1st main final today, and I think that I ended up doing pretty good on it too, so that is cool. We had individual interviews with the coach today, so that went pretty good I guess. Still waiting, hopefully it will get here on around wednesday or something.
I need to start packing sometime, I have a lot of random stuff.

I bought this hat at the game, its sweet!

Still no call!

Well no mission call yet, hopefully soon though! Its weird though, I had a dream last night that I got it, and all my friends were all around me and stuff, and I was reading it outloud, and instead of really reading it I was going to play a joke and say "Dear Elder Butterfield,
We regret to inform you that you have not been accepted to receive a mission call for the church. Your service will not be needed, thanks anyway." Something like that. I got to the point in the dream where I just finished telling everyone that, and I was about to really read it, but I woke up. Bummer. It would have been funny.
Other news, I am going to a Mets vs. Nationals game in DC tomorrow, so that will be rad! Nice little break from studying.
I just finished reading a really cool book, called Yes Man. It was really good! My roommate Adam told me to read it. It is really interesting, it makes you want to change your life! Read the review on that link I put up, it is cool.

All done

Well baseball is officially over. We didnt do good at all, but it was fun, and I had a good time. I just wish we would hae played better at the beginning of the season. We started playing really well the last 10 games or so. Oh well, it was a good experience I guess. I am ascutally pretty relieved about it to be honest. For a while there, I just didnt even have the desire to be playing, it was just so frustrating, but it ended up better than before.
Now I just have to worry about finals, and not failing athletic training, (worst class in the world, almost worse than philospohy!!) and getting my mission call within the next few days, packing up everything, and making the journey to Missouri. Man, I have been so busy lately, My head has just been going crazy lately just with all the things going through my head, and trying to stay on top of everything. It has been hectic to say the least.
I wonder how long we spent driving to games total. That would be really interesting to find out. I would estimate somewhere in the 100 hour range, but that might be wrong. All I know is that it was WAY too much!
Ok I gotta go and take my taping test for athletic training, so see ya

School

I dont like it. I have a bunch of tests coming up, and then finals too. Not too exciting at all!

4 games left

The season, and the school year is about over. We play 4 more games. Saturday we play 2 in North Carolina, and Wednesday we play the last 2 in North Carolina again. I almost am relieved its almost over. It has been hard. Oh well it was fun too. I better get to bed since I was up super late last night because I didnt get home from our game until 1 AM and then I stayed up doing homework for an hour, and then I had to get up for class at 8:30, and then I had 2 more games today that I had to play. We won one of them. I am so exhausted. It felt like I could barely move my legs today. I am just beat.
Oh by the way, I hit another homerun last night.

My first ordination

I had a really good day at church today. I taught the lesson in Elders Quorum, I think I did okay, but before that, during sacrament meeting, they announced that the newly baptised member of our ward was to be ordained to the office of Priest, and receive the Aaronic Priesthood. So, I thought to myself, "hey that is cool he is getting the priesthood so soon." Well right before I walk into Elders Quorum, the 1st Counselor pulls me aside, and asks if I would feel comfortable performing the ordinance. Wow, I definately wasnt expecting that! So, I ended up doing it! It was a really neat experience. I was pretty nervous, but when I started, I did pretty good I hope. I dont really remember what I said. It was neat though because the Bishop used it as a teaching tool also. Later tonight, I went to a fireside, and my Bishop was one of the speakers, and he pointed me out, how I am a new Elder, and then how I ordained this guy to be a Priest. There was another surprise on the day! It was pretty funny.
Overall, it was a good day.

Long Day

I had a couple of games in North Carolina today, it was a long trip. We got up, and had to leave the school at 7am, and we didnt get home until around 11pm. It was pretty rough! We won one and lost one, so it was pretty good. We lost the first one 4-3 and they won it off a collision at the plate and the ball fell out of our catchers glove, so they won. The next game we dominated 12-1. It was fun. We played really good both games, so that was cool. They were an NCAA Division II school too, so that is good too, we played good. Worth the drive.
A weird thing though, on the drive back, it was raining, and we were going through a canyon, and it was way foggy, and on the road, they had lights built in on the road lines so you knew when the road curved, it was interesting, I had never seen something like that before. As soon as we started pulling out of the canyon, the fog let up too, it was strange. Well I need to go to bed.
I am teaching the lesson tomorrow (unless they cancel again!)

One to Go

I have my interview with the stake prez on tuesday to turn in the papers. Pretty Excited! If it goes almost exactly 2 weeks I will be able to get them while I am still here. We'll see I guess.

The Crazy Squirrel

For the last few days, we have been hearing sounds in our basement, and we thought it was a bat, so the other day, we went on a little hunt to try and find it, and while we were down there we heard the sound again, but couldnt see anything. Well today, someone was down there working on their laundry and they saw something on the steps going down to the basement, and it was a little squirrel. It had been making the noise all along. The only bad thing about that was I was trying to take a nap, and I woke up to Dusitin squealing like a little girl! I was even wearing my earplugs and I could still hear it! Man I wasnt too happy about that, but it was pretty funny. Eventually they got a box and rounded it up and took it outside. Fun stuff

Easter

Yesterday was a good day. I had a good Easter, it was nice and relaxing. I was supposed to teach the lesson yesterday, so I woke up early and got it all ready, and I showed up to church and they decided to have another guy teach without telling me... again, so I will teach the lesson next week unless they have someone else do it! Oh well. After church, we all had Lasagne that we all pitched in on the day before. We all bought something that we would use for dinner. I bought the salad. It was really good. It was just the frozen lasagne but it was delicious and good for us to all have a good Easter dinner. After we watched TV for a while, we put in the movie that the Easter Bunny gave me, "The Testaments." That was a really good way to end the day, I really liked it a lot. I think that was only the 2nd time that I have seen it, so I really liked it. It put a nice spirit in the home, which is good because it isnt always there. Some of my roommates are not the best in that regard, it is frustrating. But anyway, it was good, and the cool thing is that after it was over we were all talking about it, and Josh and Dustin were asking questions about it, and showing a lot of interest. It was really cool. I know that they had a good experience from it, so I am glad we all watched it.

Car issues

I had a strange experience with my car today. I was on my way back from practice and I parked the car in front of the school, and I went to turn off the car, and nothing happened. The ignition switch just was spinning around instead of locking into place and turning the engine off. It was really weird, no matter what I did, the engine stayed running! I took it to the little Ford dealership here in town, and while I was there, the guy took the whole thing off, and it still wouldnt turn off. I had to leave it there overnight, and they are going to get back to me on what the deal is. I have never heard of anything like that ever before, so it was a little funny and frustrating at the same time. We will see how it turns out.

Yesterday's game

Yesterday was a pretty good day, we played a good game and beat Washington & Lee University. They are pretty much our rival school since they are just down the street in Lexington. We beat them 15-16 it was an intense game. I did pretty good, I hit another home run and then I hit a double in the 9th to put us ahead by 1. That was fun. Good stuff. I am just waiting on my results from my physical, and then I will be all done with my papers. That is all I can really think about to write for now, other than that nothing really interesting has been going on, so there

My look-a-like thingy