A Case of the Mondays

World just say it with me I HATE MONDAY'S, good let it all out. All that pent up hatred towards the first day of the week, it's good for you self-esteem. On Mondays nothing is ever accomplished no matter how hard you try things just don't get done. For example right now i should be studying for my Biology test but because it's Monday it just isn't happening oh no.

Let me tell you something world, for the last few Mondays i have woken up and felt terrible, then the whole day just seems to be a waste. Some may say that my over exertion during the weekends is what cause this. To them i say NAY! I suffer from what those in the medical field call Mondaymisotisis (Mon-day-my-so-ty-sis)also known as Mondayitis. This is an epidemic sweeping the nation. Only recently has it been shown that it is a real disease. Those who suffer from Mondaymisotisis feel sick and extremely groggy when they wake up. Whether that be at 9:00 or 1:00 it is always the same. Also for these people Mondays are always filled with a whole load of crap useless classes dumb homework assignments... the works. The skies are darker, it snows when it is supposed to be warm (both literally and figuratively)food doesn't taste the same, people around you accentuate your already negative mood. And those are just a few.
(note: i enjoy the snow, but not when it's just about April)

People if you suffer from any combination of those symptoms and the many more there is help. But in order for this help to come we must band together and get Mondays removed from the calender all together. Some of you say that will never work then Tuesday would just feel like Monday and pretty soon we wouldn't have any days of the week. Well to you nay sayers here is another proposal. The weekend should be extended to Monday. Here is what would happen. You would still have to go to work or school or whatever you do with your Mondays, but it would always be a party. That way people would look forward to Mondays. No work is required. If you choose to do work then hey it's your choice and then your that much ahead for Tuesday when real work is required. I believe this is the solution to this epidemic sweeping the nations.

Clinical trials have begun on monkeys but they just don't get it so it's going no where fast. I propose we start immediate trials on Humans, and i volunteer myself for the studies. Don't worry about me world I'll be okay but meanwhile try not to let your Mondaymisotisis take over. Remember Tuesday is only a day away. For those of you who consistently feel the same on Tuesday as you do on Monday, you either are clinically depressed, ill, or suffer from nothing. Either way you should really get that checked out.

A Few of My Favorite Things/People....

Well world as usual before i get into my post i have some business i need to take care of. First off sorry if the video didn't work. It worked when i uploaded it and previewed my post but it wouldn't show up in the actual post so sorry, I'll keep trying but it doesn't look to good. Next thank you readers for your congratulations and excitement for my call. It really means a lot you guys rock. Also thank you readers for leaving comments. It always helps to be reminded that people might care what you have to say. Also on the mission front, i will be posting some stuff about my mission so you guys will know all about it, but not today. Well that takes care of business on to what i really want to say.

Like the title says world, I will be telling you a very small portion of my favorite things, in fact really just one aspect. And that is Friends. World i have the best friends in the entire world. Just some examples from this weekend. I get down to M-town and it is windy wow, first thought "Dang it is way to windy to play Frisbee :(" Second thought "But it is a great day to fly a kite!!!:)" I love flying kites. There is just something about it that makes me feel free. Also whenever i fly kites i always give a couple people a call Ellen and Brooke. I love those two girls so much. This is the second time we have flown kites together and i wouldn't trade it for the world. Thanks lady's! But on to friends and why i love them. When i went to go fly my kite i gave Ellen a call and she showed up right away. Then i called Brooke she didn't answer but sure enough she showed up. Even if it only was for a few minutes she was still there. That is just one example of why my friends are so great. They are always there when you need them. So thanks.

Moving on to that night. Well it has become sort of a tradition to get the guys together (the few of us that remain) and have a going away sleep over the weekend before they leave. Well that is what we did. Field opened up his house and he Wessmen Spencer and I just chilled. Coleton was missed but the kid needed sleep. Well this night it really hit me just how few of us our left. Up until now it really has seemed that there was still a lot of the guys to hang with, well this weekend it really hit me. But you wanna know what? Those remaining guys are always there to have a good time. Thanks a ton guys i don't know what I'd do without you.

Because of how few of us our left, it really makes me miss everybody. Especially Josh Brock Preston and Alvin (Alvin isn't gone yet but he might as well be, he actually spends time at his college). Those kids are my best friends in the whole world! We were always doing something, whether that was chillin at "the place" or Preston's basement or sitting in front of a blazing fire in the middle of august at Brock's we were always there for each other. And we still are. I have started to write josh Brock and Preston weekly to let them know whats up and they always let me know how things are going. Alvin and i talk every once and a while, maybe not as often as we should. I hate talking on the phone. But we still talk and hang out occasionally. All i can say is the lord better keep me really busy the next two years cause not being able to talk or see these guys just might kill me.

And last but not least Ultimate. I know that some of you may be sick of me going on and on about ultimate Frisbee, but i love it so much and some of my best friends love it to. Here is a quick shout out to Ellen (again), Lindsay (i never knew Lindsay as well mostly through Frisbee and josh, but she is awesome), and Jason. You guys rock thanks for always playing, and you are a few of my favorite people. I was going to use things but that is kind of weird as they all are people.

So that sorta came out like i wanted it to but it is 1:36 in the AM and i did play Ultimate for 2 and 1/2 hours so can you blame me if my mind isn't functioning properly? Keep it real world and thanks.

Opening of the Call

Here is the video of me opening my call. Please read the entry below it before you watch the movie!!!!

Mission Here I Come!!!!!!!

World the day has come. After 18 years of waiting it is finally here. For those of you who don't know it is the Germany Frankfurt Mission. I will be speaking German obviously and I report to the Provo MTC on the 9th of July. Thanks to Preston these are the odds that I would have been called to Germany 1:67 Germany-5 Total. World i can't even believe it. I have waited my whole life for this moment and now it is here and i am in total shock. So the drive down was intense. I got the call that it was here at 1:30pm and i left at 2:36pm believe me you'll see in the pictures. So never did the thought cross my mind that i would go to Germany. I was thinking Asia or the Islands something like that but Germany I am so FLIPPIN' EXCITED!!!! My cousin served in that same mission like 10 or so years ago and he said it was amazing. I cannot even wait. I guess those 3 years of German in Jr. High and High School were there for a reason. I am always using German words here and there so now instead of saying random German words i will be able to yell complete conversations in German. So here are some pictures chronicling the event. (note: All pictures taken in car were while the car was stopped)

This is me freaking out in my car

When I left, longest hour and 40 minutes of my life

Oh how I loath traffic

The Time I pulled into the driveway

The Call!!!

That's me Elder Spencer Wallace Rogers

It's Official

Holding the most important envelope of my life

Waiting (not so patiently)

Agian waiting (not so patiently)

Opening the Envelope with Meine Mutti (German for my mom)

And the grand finale a video of me actually opening my call. First off i must warn you my 12 year old brother is filming and didn't quite know how to stand still, next i am the first to admit it I'm a baby so there are tears. Up to the opening I was so excited i just felt like jumping around screaming, but as you'll see, as soon as i read "Dear Elder Rogers" it hit me that this was really happening, that was the moment that i realized what was going on. Something i have dreamt about forever and the only way my body could handle the complete shock were tears of elation (big word in other words Joy) So i apologize for the tears it happens again when i read where i will be serving and then when it said "You have been recommended as one worthy to represent the Lord as a minister of the restored gospel." I guess that i have just worked so hard for this moment when it said that, i was so happy i could barely get it out. For the next hour or so when i would tell people i would choke up cause well it's really happening. So here it is. Scratch that, the video up loader wouldn't work so i had to go without for now. But i will keep trying to post it so look for that but hopefully the above paragraph explains kind of what it was like. Sorry this didn't get posted last night, and sorry there is no video but like i said I'll keep trying. I'm going to Germany world!!!!!

IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes world that is right, my call as of this exact moment is sitting on my kitchen table at home. What am i thinking right now? Well why the heck am i writing a blog and not on the road going home to open it. All i have to do is check into my last class of the day and i am on my way down to open that sucker. World i am so excited. This is probably the most excited i have ever been in my life. I mean this call will change my life forever and i am so stoked. So tonight world look for a post cause here i come world Spencer Rogers is going on a mission!!!!

T-minus 24 hours and counting...(hopefully)

Well a couple of things first. I hope everybody likes my addition of a music player and also the new colors and what not i updated. If not let me know cause I'm open for changes. Also like my title says hopefully I'll have my call tomorrow. I am really hoping and praying it comes tomorrow cause if not, and it comes the next Wednesday i won't be able to open it cause my Dad will be in London. So keep your fingers crossed world. Well enough business on to what i really wanted to say.

So this blog kind of ties together my last two blogs. Here is the story. Last night i wasn't in a very good mood so i decided i would go to bed at a decent hour, for me that means 11:00. Well i did but as i was sort of half asleep i just heard these lyrics come to me and music as well. It was so cool. I jumped up grabbed the pen that is always right by me when i sleep and luckily i had a blank piece of paper right there as well. So i wrote down the line thinking that i would write that line down and then work on it tomorrow. Well i laid back down and closed my eyes and then more lyrics came to me. This is so odd because generally i will come up with the tune and then try to put lyrics to it. But the lyrics came to me along with the music. The only problem is that i don't know quite how to put that music to my guitar. In fact i think that it is more of a piano song. This adds even more problems. I don't really play piano, i mean i can read the top hand alright but that is about it. Also i figured out this sweet string bass line to it, well another problem. I don't own or play bass. I am sure if i had one I could figure out what i wanted cause it is pretty easy but oh well. Anyway so for the next half hour or so i worked on this song. It was just a really cool thing to happen to me cause like i said in my last post i am never really happy with my lyrics and they generally don't come to me all that well. So world i am going to post what i came up with. It is kind of simple and it is not done yet so hear it is:

Do you know what it means
To only live in dreams
(repeat)

chorus
Dreams are always there
Dreams are all you need
You know what it means
To only live in dreams

Everything you need is only a dream away
The car, the house, the job, the it's girl all there
That is what it means
To only live in Dreams

She was always there
You saw her when you slept
She lives in your dreams
The girl without a care
Your favorite place to be
Was in your Dreams

Chorus

In your Dreams

Like i said kind of simple but it really spoke to me. I don't often remember my dreams but the ones i do seem to tell me a lot about myself. It seems that everything i have wanted i have dreamed about. So there you have it, it came to me while i was sleeping kind of cool, i think, tell me what you think I'll take anything thanks world keep it up, and hopefully only one more day.

Some Words

World, do you wanna know what i hate? Well the fact that over the weekend i had a ton of great ideas for blogs. I was lovin it! But as soon as i get back to school and have time to sit down in front of my computer, my mind goes blank. What a joke but maybe they'll come back to me.

Well i would just like to throw some stuff out there for all to read. First it is spring, i love spring. Definitely my favorite season. Why you may ask well other then allergies there is nothing wrong with it. Allergies can be handled with drugs at least for me thank goodness mine aren't so bad. But really after a long winter it is so choice to be able to go outside and just chill. Playing Frisbee football baseball and anything else. Not that cold stops me from playing outdoors in fact that is tons of fun, but spring is where it is at. Also it starts baseball season. I love baseball always have. Ever since little league, which i sorely miss. We were just there to have fun it didn't matter what happened, well maybe at the time it did. But as i look back the only games i remember are the intense ones. I remember hanging with the team making plays and being with my dad as he coached our team. Stl. Cardinals baby we were the shiz. Well now i only have a couple months to enjoy little league until i have kids. My little bro is in his last year. After this it just isn't the same so i am going to enjoy it while i can. So YAY Spring!!

Moving on i would just like to say i love music so much! Playing singing or just listening it is so amazing. My cousin just gave me some killer music. Joshua Radin. I have heard some of his stuff but because of low funds i wasn't able to purchase any. Well my cousin Lindsie saved the day. Right now i am listening to Joshua's music and i am lovin it. As Ell Bell said in her last blog "it speaks to my soul" (I like that Ell way to be) Well music is so awesome, being an amateur musician myself i love listening and hearing new sounds that i can try to incorporate into the stuff i play. P.S. world by amateur musician i mean i own a couple guitars, love playing, think i can sing, and try to write my own stuff. I hardly ever am happy with what i write. I have a really hard time expressing how i feel in words, that i like when i sing it. Something to work on i suppose but tell you what when i get to that point where i can write lyrics well enough you'll know world, you'll know. Along with that i love/hate it when you listen to something new and there is one line that is totally you and i always say "Why couldn't i think of that!?" I love it because the line is so me, it is how i feel. I hate it because of what i said before WHY? But no sweat one day it will come.

Well that is what i had to say, I'll try and post tomorrow and then Wednesday hopefully a call will be opened and I'll let the world know. Hooray!!!

Sometimes I Wonder Why?

So it is 2:31 in the AM, and i am doing pretty well anything but what i should be, what is that you may ask... well sleeping. Let me tell you world that all my life i have been one of those people who wake up at night. I'm not saying I go to sleep then wake up no, once I'm asleep... I'm asleep for good. But i am saying that once everyone starts to go to bed i start to think or talk or read or whatever till early into the morning. I come to regret this later when i wake up to go to class or what not but i can't help it. I always like to reflect on the day, see what i was blessed with, what i need to work on, or what i wish i would have done. So that is why i wonder why. (did that last sentence make sense, it's late)

Moving on, i know that this whole thinking or whatever till odd hours of the morning is going to be terrible on my mission. What with the whole bedtime and a time that i actually really seriously have to get up at. And if you think about it, there is going to be a ton for me to think about each night as i try and go to sleep. Well i guess I'll have a hard, awesome, sleep deprived to years. But don't most missionaries. I have a feeling the good Lord will give me a hand.

I would just like to say in closing: I don't regret the fact that i don't sleep. I love sleep but when i am all alone at night i can't help but think, and i love those times. It really helps me put things into perspective and it helps me realize where i stand at the moment. When i tell people i don't sleep i get weird looks and the same question all the time, Do you not like sleep? Well i answered that above, but i just challenge you to think about your day, and dream/imagine what is before you. (I say dream cause i hardly ever remember my dreams, but that is another topic for another blog.) Maybe don't do this at 2:30 like i always end up doing but give it a try it will tell you a lot about yourself, i think.

Bad News...

World i need to print a retraction. Well in my last post i so proudly announced that i would be getting a mission call the is next Wednesday. BAD NEWS, i found out today that they were never submitted. Needless to say i was not to happy, when my dad told me i felt like sulking in my room and playing angry music on my guitar. Then i realized i don't know how to play angry music, generally I'm a pretty happy guy. Well then as i tried to walk away to sulk my Dad reminded me that I'll still go, I'll still go when i supposed to go, and I'll still be going to the same place. That is where to Lord wants me. A test of patients (is that correct? English is so confusing) is what i have heard thousands of times. Quite frankly I'm sick of it but i know that I'll deal with a lot worse out in the field so I'm going to say it for all to read THANK YOU for making me wait Lord.

Well now onto feeling like an idiot. In my total excitement i began telling everybody within year shot that i was getting my call this coming Wednesday. Complete strangers, random people, people i don't even like. Everybody! It began with "Hopefully this Wednesday I'll get my call." And then changed to "I'm getting my call this Wednesday!" To quote Aladdin "I feel sheepish" extra points for who said it. So i apologize world but eventually it will come and then "The world will know!" even more points for what that quote is from. (wow two Disney quotes in one post) So until then i guess I'll have to learn to wait patiently (notice correct spelling, i looked it up) Sorry world but just think if your disappointed times that by one billion and that is how i feel. My time will come.

In My Mind

Last night i really wanted to post but it was way way way past when i should have gone to bed so i post-poned it till tonight when i should be in bed haha. So I've had a lot going through my mind the last few days and i thought I'd share it with the world. (note: by world i refer to the few people who actually read this THANKS)

So the last few days have been really good. Each day i am getting closer to knowing just where i will be for the next two years. I am so excited! I tell everybody i can, so hopefully I get my call this coming Wednesday cause if not i won't be the only one disappointed. But I was thinking about it today and today my call was probably made can you believe it. I was thinking about it at around 2:00, and well my call could have been made at that time. How unbelievably cool would that be. Wow i am so excited to the max!!! Well anyway that has been what is in my head for the last few days, along with just straight up missionary work.


Whenever i think about missionary work, i think about some of my best friends who are out there serving right now. And since i am a terrible writer i don't hear from them as often as i want to. (This is my fault I'm a terrible person i know.) So to supplement that last night when i should have been sleeping, i went back and read some of Josh's and Preston's old posts. This was one of the best and worse decisions i have made lately. Best because i was hearing there voice again. Both of them in my opinion really made there blogs theirs. (for any of you out there reading this if i didn't use the there and theirs correctly either tell me or deal with it) When i read them i can pretty much hear them telling me this stuff. It could be that I've known them for so long or that we spent a ton of time together but i can just hear them in their writing. Another reason it was good is because it really made me miss them. Miss them? you ask, how is missing them good. Well when i miss them it makes me think how crappy it is to be here not on a mission and how bad i want to be out doing what they are doing. Also the missing them is the bad part. I think about all the great times we had and all the outlandish schemes we came up with and how it will never be the same again. I know they will be there when i get home but will they really. We all pretty well agreed not to get married for at least the first year. I really want to hold them to that, but if it is the right girl and the right time who am i to interfere with there life and the Lords plan for them. But on that note I'll probably beat the crap out of them before i get over it and tell them congratulations. Well anyway just thought I'd say i missed them a ton and maybe this will get me to write letters so i can hear what they have to say now, instead of what they said months ago. So if you are really bored or just don't sleep at times like i do go over to my links and read some of Preston's or Josh's blogs.

Well just would like to say Spring Break rocked thanks to the Fam the Guys and Brooke (we finally did it, we watched little giants about time) And all you people out there who made my week a fun one. Keep it real and if i don't post before next Wednesday I'll be posting on my call and my feelings about it. Feel free to call me or facebook me with guesses to where i will serve. the winner will receive... well probably nothing but know that they guessed where I'll be, out of anywhere in the world you guessed it. Well world so long for tonight and I'll catch you later.

Where will I go?

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Hello people i thought that now would be a great time to blog, one because i can't sleep and two because i've got some things i'd like to say. here it goes.

Well first off a follow up to my last post. Everything worked out, hooroo!! I was so nervous but right after i posted last i got down on my knee's and said a prayer. The coolest thing happened, as soon as i asked for things to work out i got the best feeling. I felt so calm i wasn't angry or frustrated i just knew that things would work out for the best. Well the day came and i went to my interview a little bit early. I was hoping that is meeting before went short and i could get right in. Well that's not how things worked out in fact i didn't start my interview till 3:00, i was nervous i'm not going to lie i said a quick prayer while i waited and i got that same calming feeling. I went into the interview and things went great. Look out world I'm going on a mission!!! You'll all know in hopefully one week, i know i'm counting down the days. Well i finish the interview at 3:36, no lie i ran to my car and sped down to the church. Might i add that the church was almost exactly the other side of town. Well i run in, i was later told i looked vary epic with my tie flowing behind me and scriptures in hand. John was speaking. Everything worked out, if that isn't proof that our Father in Heaven loves us i don't know what is. Something as trivial as seeing a friend speak and making it on time, the our Father in Heaven Loves us and so does our Savior Jesus Christ. Well speaking of John what a great man he is going to rock it in Samoa.

This is what i want to address next. John! Folks let me just tell you John is one of my most favorite people. I met john probably sophmore year, i didn't get to really know him till end of jr. and all through sr. year. Big mistake, john is someone that you always want to be around. He is such a good example, he always wants to have fun and wants everybody to be included. I should have got to know him long before i did. John if you ever read this don't be embarressed or whatever else about what i say. You are a great guy no doubt about it. John has always been an example to me, and for the next two years he is really going to live it up. His Companions will love his insight to the gospel, his love for life and for sharing the message of our Father in Heaven. He has waited long enough for this so Go Forth and Serve!!

Moving on to another subject... Ultimate Frisbee! I can't talk about john without saying a word or two about Ultimate. There are few people i know who love frisbee as much as this kid. And those people know who they are. I have had a chance to really play and just toss with John lately and what an awesome experience. I've learned from him, and love catching that sweet pass from him. As Josh would say "He has sent everybody some pretty sweet Air Mail!" Thanks john for all those frisbee's tossed and caught. Well i think i'll close this post on that. John the people in Apia Samoa are blessed to have you serve them as a missionary. Keep it up and God Speed Elder!

Frustration

I know what your thinking world, whaaaa? another post it has only been a day! But i am so frustrated right now i just have to get it out. Well i am frustrated because everything seems to be working against me. Here is what's up.

I only need to meet with my stake president and then i can send in my mission papers. I was supposed to meet with him last week but he was to busy and we had to move it to this coming Sunday. I wasn't to happy about it but i thought hey what's another week. Well that is until i found out that my interview this week is at the exact same time one of my really good friends speaks for his farewell. So i thought well I'll just switch times to earlier that day if i can and if not I'll be down all week because of spring break so it will get done. Well i call the stake office and leave a message. I get a call back from some old guy who is hard to understand and he tells me that if i don't have my interview this Sunday at the exact time i am scheduled for i won't be able to meet with the stake president till the end of the month. I was so mad, i know that he has a demanding schedule but I've done everything i can to conform to his schedule and he can't do anything. UGH!! So i have to keep my appt. because i really want to turn these papers in, i just hope that i will be able to make it to the last bit of my friends talk. It just seems that everything is pulling against me and i hate it.
Plus one of my best friends just got his call and i am so excited for him and i want to feel that excitement for myself. I want to know where i am going, when and what language I'll be speaking and everything. SCREAM!!!!!!!! so that is what is going on i almost feel like running to get my frustrations out, and i hate running. This is no good World why aren't things working out!

Ultimate!

Hello People, how is everyone doing this fine week? I'm lovin it here in good old logan. Mostly because I pretty well have nothing to worry about. No tests and next week is spring break. As Josh would say hooroo! Anyway I really hope that this spring break is a good one, as it is my last one for 2 years. Thats right people i hopefully will get my mission call in a few weeks. Whether those weeks are slow or fast is yet to be seen but no doubt i'll know pretty quick here. I'm not quite sure what this blog is about so for now we'll call it an update on the life that is mine. I have a lot of things going through my mind right now and if some of it doesn't come our right deal with it:)
Well first things first is this semester i have been taking probably the coolest class ever... Ultimate Frisbee. That sport is the best sport ever invented i love it so much and for that love i have Josh to thank. That kid loved the game, he would play all day everyday if he could. I remember after we would finish playing he and I would be sitting around and he would be hurting so bad but to him it was so worth it. I have hit that point now. We play indoor and a game like ultimate should not be played indoor all the time. My legs kill after but it is so worth it. Without this class this semester I would have dropped out long ago. Also a shout out to John, Ellen, and Jason. Those people keep ultimate alive and playing with them is the best. GO ULTIMATE!



Anyway as of this moment i am in a debate/discussion about drugs and such and i can't think of what else to talk about so this post is done keep it up world.