well hi friends! i've got a few minutes while i'm waiting for my guests to get back from their riverboat ride on the chena river here in town, so i'm in the drivers' lounge, sleeping, writing emails, and now i'm blogging.
updates:
1. went to anchorage this past weekend for the singles branch temple trip. nice town; i really liked it. it actually reminded me quite a bit of sandy, but with a lot better topography and WAY radder (yeah, i'm not sure if "radder" is actually a word, but we'll take the linguist approach to it and say it is) mountains. the mountains here are SO cool. they're just straight up, jagged, rocky, snowy, and awesome. i mean utah mountains are cool, but alaska mountains rock my world. anyway, we went to the temple where i helped with the baptistry and then did a session with roommate greg (who is a stud, fyi). i learned something i should have learned a LONG time ago while there and it has changed my thinking quite a bit about things. i was really grateful for that.
we went shopping in downtown anchorage and i accidentally bought two really wonderful pieces of clothing at banana because they were RIDICULOUSLY on sale. i was happy with that though.
then we went to sacrament meeting down there, followed by driving down to seward so the friends i went with could visit a friend down there. it's about a 2 hour drive down to seward and i think it might be the most beautiful drive i've ever taken. it follows the coastline all the way down, and then seward is located in a huge bay, with mountains surrounding the bay. absolutely gorgeous. pictures forthcoming (i'm not writing this on my comp, so i don't have my pics with me).
2. my roommate scored us a free flight seeing tour up to fort yukon, a native village up here. the flight was amazing. the aforementioned forthcoming pictures will tell all (the way i started that sentence sounds ridiculous).
3. i've started driving real guests. yesterday was my first real tour day and i felt like it went really pretty well. i was really pleased with it. of COURSE, i need to change some things around, but overall, i think i'll be pretty good at it. i've discovered that singing is a great way to kill time when i have nothing to say. they seem to love that, so i do that on just about all my routes. i've actually found that i can get pretty good tips on routes nobody gets anything on just by singing, so i definitely capitalize on that one.
4. had a really cool experience yesterday:
there are typically 2-3 drivers doing the exact same tour schedule all day long, so we of course hang out while our groups are taking tours--we spend quite a bit of time together. yesterday, i was with two former long-time truck drivers, who have mouths worse than sailors. nice guys, but their speech patterns are not particularly conducive to the Spirit. anyway, we had to do some airport shuttle runs in the afternoon while we were waiting for our guests on the riverboat (similar to what i am doing now, only they didn't have anything for me to do right now, so that's why i can blog, etc), and we had about 45 minutes of down time, while we waited for the next flight we were shuttling to come in. so i went to my coach by myself and grabbed my scriptures. the very INSTANT i opened them, i felt their shear power in my life. an amazing testimony of purity and cleanliness of the words contained in the Book of Mormon overcame me. i thought it was especially poignant that i didn't even have to read anything to feel its power. i'm lucky to be reading the account of Christ's visit to the Americas right now and it's just fabulous. can't wait for my session later today. i know that book is true.
and that's about all for right now.
oh, i learned something the other day: sometimes i think some people just don't want to be happy because of their attitude or something of the sort. but nearly EVERYONE wants to be happy. they are doing the very best they know how to. i'm not really sure what the practical application of this is, but it's good for understanding people and how they work.
ok! later, my dear friends!
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haha---what did you think of Anchorage? I've been solicited to be an au pair for a year there! (Since I don't have much else going on...)
anchorage was a really cool little town. there's definitely enough there to not get bored. it has every store we've got down in the lower 48, and the surrounding landscape is just incredible. i think it would be a great place to live, minus the cold in the winter. however, it doesn't get as cold there as it does here in FBX.
what's an au pair?
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