The Adventures of My Life

I will be updating Elder Hardys blog with his weekly letters, as I am able to post them, and such things as his address. His address is:

Elder Mike Hardy
MTC Mailbox #341
NC-RAL 0928
2005 North 900 East
Provo, Utah 84651

Please take the time to write him

Here are the mission boundries of the North Carolina Raleigh Mission. My Stake President said there are a pair of Spanish Speaking Elders to the same mission..So I might be in a threesome

…Day that is. This will be the last time you will hear from me in 9 weeks (to whoever might accidently stumble across this blog), unless you a family member/friend who actually tries to write me (hint hint: Chris aka Sideburns Man) I have alot of photos I could share but someone (the aforementioned C-man) is hogging all of the server bandwidth! Oh well, I guess I can just recap the trip in words. Anyone who is interested in photos just go to My Picture Gallery. This is what happened on my trip to Wyoming:

Day 1 (Thursday): I left the house around 10:15 in the truck. Mapquest gave me the wrong directions (what’s new), so I had to backtrack a little bit, but I ended up finding the people I was riding up with. This couple, The Hulls, were very nice and I’m glad I had such good company on such a boring trip. We ended up leaving around 11:30 and arrived in Cheyenne about 6:30. Chris picked me up at Crystal’s house and we went out to dinner at Primos (a new Pizza place in Cheyenne). It had just opened, and Chris and I really liked it (especially the desert pizza: cookie dough..hmmmm). Afterwards, we went over to his house to watch some family guy and then went to see Willy Wonka. It was a good movie, I enjoyed it.

Day 2 (Friday): Crystal’s mom made a big good breakfast and I was ready for another crazy day of Frontier Days! I hung around with Crystal for a little while, helped them take Hailey and Kelly to the Vet, and then we took Brian some lunch at Lifecare. It was fun seeing Cheyenne…I will always consider it my true home. So, that evening, I hung out with Chris again, watched some more Family Guy and heard the night show! After Brian got off work, we all went to Village Inn to eat dessert. I saw someone I knew there and it was kind of odd when he asked me what I had been doing. He looked at me funny when I said I hadn’t gone to school because I had some medical problems…Anyways, I saw the bustling night life at the bars..people were lined up trying to get in and drink it up. There was some crazy stuff we saw driving back to Crystal’s.

Day 3 (Saturday): I would have liked seeing the parade for one last time, but it starts so early and sleep was so good to me, I decided to forget about it. We decided to meet Chris for breakfast but when we got in the truck, he wanted to go back to that Pizza place..so we had that again (once again..Hmmm..cookie dough pizza). I got to check out the new Super Wal-mart in Cheyenne, it was behind the old wal-mart and they had little shuttles to transport the people to the back. I also predicted that in about 10 years, Wal-mart and Microsoft will buy 1 hemisphere each, and soon we will have the corporation wars of 2015. You will either be a citizen of Walmart of Microsoft. After the pizza place, we went back home and Brian, Chris and I went to good ole’ Frontier Park. At first, it was really nice..until the typical Frontier Days rainstorm hit us. Man, that ran was coming down hard! So, we buggied back to Crystal’s and delayed there a while until Chris just took off, and then we finally got moving! Us 3 guys (Crystal stayed at home to watch Laguna Beach) went to go see another movie “The Island”. It was good entertainment, but it’s not a must-see. We then went to Red Lobster (booyah!) and besides me making a fool of myself ordering, I had a good time.

Last Day (Sunday): All good things have to come to an end. I woke up around 8, got ready to go and sat around for awhile until Brian & Crystal woke up. When they finally woke up, we had a good breakfast, took some pictures and exchanged goodbyes. My ride was supposed to pick me up around noon but they ended up at Crystals around 1 because of construction. So, we took off….but we didn’t make it very far. Around exit 345, the car stopped working and we were stranded 20 miles outside of Cheyenne. We think it was a fuel pump problem. After finally getting a hold of some people, Brian and Crystal came to pick us up (THANKS SO MUCH!) and took us back to Cheyenne and I got to see Chris again! The couple I was riding with had family in Denver and they were going to take us half-way to Utah, where the parents would take us the rest of the way. But the sister didn’t end up coming til 6. So, we finally got off again in Utah, with 3 grown adults in the back. It wasn’t much better in the next car, as it was a Toyota Corolla. Needless to say, due to slow driving and frequent stops, I finally got home at 3 in the morning. And my last trip to Cheyenne was complete (thank goodness!)

Well, this blog has been good to me and it will be a “Missionary Update Blog” from now on. My MTC mailing address should appear up here within a couple days, so be sure to send me Cookies and Treats and Letters.

Habla Luego!
Elder Hardy

I can honestly say that these last 7 months have not been a waste of time for me! I played lots of Xbox and shot some hoops. Haha, well I’ve actually accomplished some productive things too. I’m glad I had the opportunity to go to UVSC Institute for 4 days a week (with 3 classes). And for awhile, I was even going to the temple and the TRC (in the MTC) every week.

But, needless to say, it didn’t last. I soon developed my old habits and it didn’t help any when I bought the Xbox . So, after school ended, I was faced with ultimate boardom and laziness. How do you cure that one asks? The obviuos answer is “get a job, lazy bum!” But instead of searching for the job myself, the job came to me. My mom was working at a School for Special Needs (Dan Peterson School) and they needed someone to be with Nick for a couple days

Well, I went but they were 2 very long days and I thought I wasn’t “cut” out for that type of work. Well, somehow I kept on willing myself to get up and go to work every morning, sometimes only a few times a week, but I gradually worked up to doing full weeks. The experiences I had working at that school are pretty special to me. The kids were so fun to be with. I got to work with Dustin and kids in room 9 for a week

There were some pretty cool kids in that room. But most of my time there, including the last 2 months, was with room 31

This is Jaime, I walked her everyday to the bus. I am going to miss the kids in that room alot. They have a special place in my heart. I’m really going to miss working there, I think that was one of the reasons I came back, to have that experience.

As I sat watching Austin Powers the other day, I realized how much life changes in just a few years. Two years ago I was prepping up for my senior year and I thought I had life figured out. Well, some things didn’t go as planned and although I was sad, everything seems to work out for the better. I was tempted to stay in Cheyenne, but decided to come to Utah and that is probably one of my better decisions in life. I like it here even though I don’t have as many friends (because I’m not in school..) and I lost alot of good friends in Chey-town. But now in 1 week, I’m leaving for North Carolina and I know it will be the time of my life. I’m gonna miss Utah, but I know my life will be totally different when I come back!