Hey, it's me!

I, Dallin, decided that I should finally write something on the blog. So, I'll do a quick catch-up for everyone as to what is going on in my life.

Winter semester has been amazing thus far. I really enjoy taking Book of Mormon, New Testament, Mission Prep, as well as my other classes (Mechanical Design, Civil engineering-statics, and Japanese). Homework is relatively easy for me in all of my classes, and Mechanical design is the only class where I have to spend a ton of time to finish homework. I was in the engineering computer lab till 2:15 AM Thursday night/Friday morning working on the project seen on the left.

I have enjoyed working in the computer labs and have found that Friday night really isn't that bad of a shift. Sure, I have no social life, but the lab is dead so I get a lot of homework done.
Colin and I have gone to all the BYU basketball home games so far this season. We have a really good, but slightly inconsistent team this year. But they're undefeated at home, so it is tons of fun to go cheer them on (knowing, no doubt, that they will win).
This week I got to do a few more fun things than normal. On Sunday night, some kids from my ward went up to Draper to the house of one of the girls. We had fun getting to know each other better, and got in a little bit of sleep. We woke up Monday morning to find a ton of snow outside. We had planned on going to Salt Lake and doing stuff around there (the girls wanted to shop), but we were stuck in Draper, so we just watched a cheesy Mormon movie (LDS modern Beauty and the Beast). We then found out that the family's 4-wheeler with the snowplow had broken, and their neighbor's snowblower was broken, so the 5 guys got to go outside and shovel snow for an hour and a half.
On Saturday, our ward charted some buses to take us up to Temple Square to watch the Joseph Smith movie. We all had a fun time and enjoyed the movie. When we got back, I promptly went over to the Marriott Center to meet Colin at the game. We played really well and it was a really fun game to watch.

Oh, so to appease Mom, I will include a spiritual experience. While at the Joseph Smith movie, obviously we could all feel the spirit. The movie was extra special to me because I realized that I will be teaching about Joseph Smith in less than a year. He was such an amazing man and prophet, and I am super excited to be able to let people know that because of him we have the restored gospel on the earth, the Book of Mormon to teach us, and modern revelation and prophets to guide us. One line in the movie is intended to cause everyone to reflect on their own testimonies of Joseph Smith: "I don't have to see him to know that he is a prophet." I really do know that Joseph Smith is a prophet, even though I have never met him, and that is why I am going on a mission. I'm so grateful to know the truth that this gospel teaches, and I can't wait to share the truth with others.