Houston here I come

Well tonight I got my mission call and I have been called to serve in the Texas Houston South mission. I will be speaking spanish and I leave December 8. I am nervous and excited at the same time. Guess we will see what happens next!

Great friends- love you all

This is what I look like after waiting for my family for 45 min longer than I wanted

Most of my cousins. All but 2 in this picture are on the Berg side.

Now we play the waiting game

Well my mission papers are in as of Sunday night. My bishop said that if the the trend holds I should get my call next Wednesday as in the 25th. I will know on Friday if this holds true. Let the guessing game begin.

J. Ruben Clark Law Society luncheon

On Monday I flew home from Maryland, but before my flight I was able to attend a luncheon of the J. Ruben Clark Law Society, D.C. chapter with my aunt. She is the chair so it was really cool to meet all the attorneys. The luncheon was in the Senate Caucus room of the Russell Building on Capitol Hill. This room was awesome and had a lot of history in it. There have been a number of important hearings in this room, hearings on topics such as; the sinking of the Titanic, the Watergate break-in, and the Supreme Court Nomination of Clarence Thomas. Senator Bennett came and spoke about his life before he became a senator. It was a very cool experience and I kinda really liked walking around D.C. and being on Capitol Hill.

I know its a bit cheesy and he is lost in the primary but he is still Senator Bob Bennett and is still kind of a political big-wig, at least for a couple months.

The office of Senator Jim DeMint, pretty legit.

The office of Senate Minority leader Senator Mitch McConnell. 

Me at Union Station

Maryland

A couple weeks ago I was at my cousin's baptism and I was talking with my grandparents and they were telling me that they were going out to Maryland for the baptism of my twin cousins out here, and I decided that I needed a little vacation so I went home and figured everything out and bought my plane tickets the next day! I got here on Wednesday while my Mom ( she took the place of my Grandpa who wasn't feeling well), Grandma, and cousin Kimi came on Tuesday. On Thursday we went to DC and did a little sightseeing there because Kimi has never been out here before. Then on Friday we drove the 5 hours up to the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania where my cousins, Mason & Josh, got baptized. We met my aunts parents, Jim & Sharon Tate, up there, they have just finished being mission presidents for the past three years in the Birmingham, Alabama mission. They are great people and good friends of mine. I have known them since I was 10 and I sailed down the East Coast with them on their sailboat. The baptism was really cool having it be on the banks of this great river where the Aaronic Priesthood was restored.

On Saturday I rode back with the Tate's and we got to catch up. We helped them move back into their home that night. My Mom, Grandma, and Kimi left today and I leave tomorrow after a Law Society luncheon I am attending with my aunt up on Capitol Hill. I love being back here with my family. There is kind of a cool feel back here in the middle of everything. Maybe I will come spend a summer or more back here at some point in the future.

Chillin' at the Capitol

Chillin' at the White House

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial lookin on the Mall

Mason and I

On our way to the Susquehanna River we drove through Scranton! Yes there is really a Steamtown Mall. My life is now complete.

The whole group at the baptism

The view from Jim & Sharon's backyard. You go down these gorgeous steps to the dock where the amazing sailboats are. This is on part of the Chesapeake Bay.

Wing- the name of the boat. This is where my love of sailing and the ocean was born.

Amazing sunset.

Canoeing on the Chesapeake with Kimi and Josh.