dang

i've gotten tons of "happy birthday" messages (since today is my birthday). my favorite was a friend waited until midnight to wish me a happy birthday. that was sweet

Crud

So when I was in Kuai I'd gone to Sacrament and asked someone where to go next I was put in a room with kids while waiting. I'd gotten my Bluetooth ear buds to work by the time I turned my head to see someone with 2 elders there saying they'll me to Sunday school. I was like, why didn't I ditch?

Vegan cookie dough

I made vegan cookie dough and its amazing. I love it.

Loved it

I loved the fact there was a ward across the street from where I was in Hawaii. Also awesome that I went

Exhausted

Its only 3 weeks into the new semester and I'm already exhausted. I'm not sure why though.

feel horrible

when we do thing out of guilt it's often not good. like my mom buying me a dress out of guilt that i couldn't have anything from a donation bin. the 1 thing i feel guilty about is when i walked up to give my sermon i everyone cheered me going up. it was like having a light on during the night. the reason i felt bad was because no one else got it. that embarrassed me and made me feel guilt over it. i was the only 1 who used little to no scriptures (i used principles but no scriptures to "back it up") and didn't have my standard works physically with me (only my app). everyone said they liked it.

the Turpin case

this shocked me to no end. The Turpin case is a case of alleged child abuse and captivity discovered on January 14, 2018 in Perris, California, United States. David and Louise Turpin have been charged with unlawfully imprisoning their thirteen children in their home. Police found some of the children shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in a dark, foul-smelling room. The couple allegedly shackled, beat and strangled the children, allowing them to eat once per day and shower just once per year. The victims ranged in age from 2 to 29, with seven of the thirteen children being over the age of 18 at the time of the parents' arrest. According to investigators, the victims were so malnourished that they appeared to be much younger. The oldest victim, a 29-year-old female, weighed just 82 pounds (37 kg). The couple was arrested on January 14, 2018 after one of the children escaped through a window and used a deactivated cell phone to call 9-1-1. The couple appeared in court on January 18, 2018 where they pled not guilty. They are due back in court on February 23, 2018. The case is considered "extraordinary for numerous reasons," such as the alleged abuse being done to multiple children by two parents (abuse against one child is more common) and according to Dr Bernard Gallagher, a University of Huddersfield expert in child protection, also because "you don't often get cases of children being tortured, where the abuse seems calculated." Some of the victims appeared to lack basic knowledge of the world, being unfamiliar with what medicine was. The suspects: Suspects David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin were married in 1985 in Pearisburg, Virginia when David was 23 and Louise was 16 years old. The couple eloped, angering her father, church pastor Wayne Robinette. David Turpin, according to his parents, is a computer engineer who graduated from Virginia Tech. In 1979, he graduated from Princeton High School in West Virginia. The school's 1979 yearbook listed him as the treasurer of the Bible Club, co-captain of the Chess Club, and a member of the Science Club and Acapella Choir. Louise Turpin's occupation was listed in court documents as a homemaker. The couple are adherents of the Quiverfull movement and Pentecostalism. According to David Turpin's parents, the couple kept having children because "God called on them" to have so many children. The children's homeschooling involved memorizing the Bible, and a few tried to memorize it in its entirety. David Turpin made about $140,000 per year at Northrop Grumman and had about $150,000 in assets. The Turpins declared bankruptcy in 2011, owing debt between $100,000 to $500,000. The couple rented a postal box in Burleson, Texas, from 1986 to 2003. They owned property or had lived in Rio Vista and Fort Worth, and left the area in 2010. After the Turpins moved out of the house, neighbors visited the property and found feces throughout the home, beds with ropes tied to them, several dead cats and dogs in a trailer and large piles of garbage around the property. The neighbors did not report their findings to any authorities. In the California house, their yard was unkempt with overgrown weeds prompting a code violation. Neighbors in California reported seeing the children on occasion, they would freeze and stay silent when spoken to, "they were like children whose only defense was to be invisible", they would skip around rather than walk, appeared malnourished and pale, "You knew something was off. It didn't make a lot of sense," said one neighbor. The escape and rescue of the kids: The children had been planning an escape for more than two years. On January 14, 2018, two of them left the house through a window. One returned home out of fear, but a 17-year-old daughter got away. She was in possession of a cell-phone, and, though deactivated, she was able to call 9-1-1. When police met her, she showed officers photos of conditions in the home. Deputies of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, the local police service, then converged on the house. They found the twelve other siblings, one of whom (aged 22) was shackled to a bed with chains. The deputies suspected that an additional two had also been shackled just prior to their entry into the house. The deputies described the siblings as having a malnourished and dirty appearance and looking to be younger than their ages. They had initially assumed that all in the group were minors, but they later determined that their ages ranged from 2 to 29, with 7 being legal adults (18 or older). The Sheriff's Department said that Louise Turpin was "perplexed" when deputies entered the residence. They also said, "The parents were unable to immediately provide a logical reason why their children were restrained in the manner that they were." The six minors, ranging from ages 2 to 17, were transported to Riverside County Regional Medical Center from the sheriff's department, where they were admitted to the pediatrics unit for treatment. Corona Regional Medical Center said that the facility was treating the seven adult children, describing them as small and clearly malnourished, but stable, relieved and very friendly. Arrest and legal proceedings of the turpin parents: On January 14, 2018, David and Louise Turpin were arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and torture and held at a Riverside County jail on $9 million bail. Some sources reported that bail had been set as high as $12 million each. Police searched the Turpins' property on January 17, taking away black plastic bags of evidence. Hundreds of journals written by the children were recovered from the home. Although their admissibility in court is dubious, they are expected to provide unique insights into the experiences of victims of torture and long-term captivity. The couple was charged on January 18 with twelve counts of torture, twelve counts of false imprisonment, seven counts of abuse on a dependent adult, and six counts of child abuse. David Turpin received an additional charge of a lewd act on a child under 14 years old. If convicted on all counts, the two could be sent to prison for 94 years to life imprisonment. Upon announcing the charges against the Turpins, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said, "The abuse and severe neglect intensified over time and intensified as they moved to California."[5] The couple pleaded not guilty to the charges. In a brief hearing on January 24, the judge accepted the prosecutors' request for a restraining order forbidding contact between the Turpin parents and their children for a period of three years. The parents are prohibited from coming within 100 yards (91 m) of any of their children or establishing electronic contact with them. Both defendants agreed to these restrictions. On June 21, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Bernard Schwartz ruled that the Turpin parents would face trial for child abuse, false imprisonment, and torture against their children. The couple face 50 charges including several counts of torture, false imprisonment and child abuse. Despite the efforts of defense attorneys to dismiss most of the charges, the judge only dropped a child endangerment charge involve the Turpin's youngest two year old child due to a lack of evidence that the toddler had been abused. Reaction of friends and extended family: On January 17, 2018, Louise Turpin's sister said that she begged for decades to see her nieces and nephews, even through Skype, but the couple would not let her. Another sister of Louise Turpin said she was concerned about the children's weights. Louise Turpin's aunt said, "With the pictures they put on Facebook, you thought they were one big happy family." David Turpin's parents said they were "surprised and shocked" at the allegations against their son and daughter-in-law. The couple's previous bankruptcy lawyer said that she met with the couple about four or five times in 2011 and described them as "just very normal." In popular culture: -Louise Turpin’s sister revealed on the Megyn Kelly Today show that the couple had experimented with different religions and with swinging. -The television series Dr. Phil, episode: “Inside the California ‘House of Horrors'”, aired: January 2018, family, neighbors, and friends speak with Dr. Phil concerning the secrets that were allegedly occurring within the home. Kidnap survivor Michelle Knight shares a message for the children.

laughing

if i played a song from the book of Mormon musical i'm pretty sure i'd be laughing at it since i know it's not 100% true.

LaSalle Heights disaster

The LaSalle Heights disaster occurred in the early morning of March 1, 1965 in the city of LaSalle, Quebec when a gas line explosion destroyed a number of low-cost housing units. In all, 28 people lost their lives, 39 were injured and 200 left homeless. Most of the casualties were women and children because many men had left for work. The casualties might have been higher had it not been the start of the month when many men left earlier than usual to pay their monthly rent at the rental office. LaSalle Height: LaSalle Heights is a suburban residential block of low income rental units located at the corner of rue Bergevin and rue Jean Milot in LaSalle, Quebec, on the Island of Montreal. It was constructed by LaSalle Heights Inc. in 1955 and 1956 at a cost of $5,300,000. In 1955 construction was announced and the site was expected to consist of 678 units (54 three bedroom houses in rows, 422 three bedroom apartments, 136 two bedroom apartments, 50 one bedroom apartments, and 16 bachelor apartments). Rents ranged from $30 a month to $57 a month and was available to families whose monthly income ranged between four and six times their rent. The block consisted of 25 identical 'U' shaped buildings each housing 36 units of various sizes. Explosion: At approximately 8:05am a six-inch fissure emerged in a natural gas supply line in the cellar of 367 rue Bergevin, destroying units in it along with those in buildings 365, 363 and 361. Approximately 36 units were affected. The explosion left a twenty foot deep crater where the three-story apartment building had stood. Response: By 8:25am the LaSalle fire department, along with a number of naval officers from a nearby barracks descended on the site. By the afternoon, premier Jean Lesage and multiple deputies and ministers arrived to assess the damage. In the days following a foundation was created for the victims and a radio and television telethon took place. Approximately $600,000 was raised in the effort. Queen Elizabeth letter "I am most deeply distressed to learn of the tragic accident which has taken place in Ville LaSalle. Please convey my sincere sympathy to the mayor, to the injured, and the next-of-kin of those who have lost their lives. Elizabeth R." - March 3, 1965. The Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation along with the minister in charge of the Canadian government's housing program made approximately 60 vacant house available for the more than 200 left homeless from the disaster. Rent was provided free for two months. In November of that year Herbert Peard launched a lawsuit against Quebec Natural Gas Corporation. Peard lost his wife of 15 years and his three children. The $85,000 lawsuit includes a claim of $21,000 on behalf of his only remaining child Susan, who was seriously injured in the blast. On March 29, 1965 LaSalle Heights Inc. announced any or all tenants of the LaSalle Heights Housing Development was allowed to break their lease if they wanted. In February 1967, LaSalle Heights Inc. filed a $853,275 lawsuit against Quebec Natural Gas Corporation. 50th Anniversary Commemoration: The Borough of LaSalle organized a number of activities in 2015 to honour the victims' memory and convey to survivors that LaSalle residents will always remember the disaster: -All LaSalle churches were invited to commemorate the event as part of their Sunday service on March 1, marking the exact date of the 50th anniversary. -A resolution was adopted and a minute of silence observed during the Borough Council meeting on March 2, the day after the anniversary of the disaster. -The Borough granted financial assistance of $3,000 to the Société historique Cavelier-de-LaSalle, to write a monograph on the LaSalle Heights Disaster. -The Borough organized an exhibition on the tragedy, including photos from archives and newspaper articles. -LaSalle paid tribute to the victims by means of a commemorative designation at the very site of the explosion.

Volunteer

I asked the bishop at my church if he knew I actually volunteered at a day care and mentioned my mom thinks I'll be good to work with some of the kids.

Promise

I promised a friend I'd see him in heaven

Murder of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie

The murder of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie who was an exchange student from Ghana, is alleged to have been carried out by Alexander Kinyua (born October 23, 1990 in Nairobi) in Joppatowne, Maryland, United States. Kinyua is alleged to have eaten Agyei-Kodies' organs in an act of cannibalism. The killing came after Kinyua was released on bail following a separate brutal attack. Background information: Kinyua emigrated from Kenya to the United States as a child and became a U.S. citizen. At the time of the alleged murder and cannibalism, 21-year-old Kinyua was an engineering student at Morgan State University, a university in nearby Baltimore. His father is a professor at the school. Kinyua had posted nonsensical and bizarre writings on his Facebook page. For example, two days before Kinyua's arrest, he wrote: HEAR ME OUT BUTCHERS: ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGH TO ENDURE RITUAL HBCU MASS HUMAN SACRIFICES AROUND THE COUNTRY AND STILL BE ABLE TO FUNCTION AS HUMAN BEINGS? IT'S BEEN ALL TOO TRAGIC WITH THE DUAL UNIVERSITY SHOOTINGS AT VIRGINIA TECH, AND OTHER PAST UNIVERSITY KILLINGS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. NOW FOR A TWIST: ETHNIC CLEANSING IS THE POLICY, STRATEGY AND TACTICS THAT WILL AFFECT YOU, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN THE COMING MONTHS. THIS IS THE BRUTAL BASIS, AN EVIL & TERRIFYING METHOD OF THIS DEATH CULTS. Kinyua's mother posted on her Facebook: Our son, Alexander Kimanthi Kinyua, was arrested on Saturday, May 19, for being involved in a fight in his dormitory room at Morgan State University. The charge against him is “1st Degree Assault and Excessive Endangerment of Life”. His bail has been set for US $220,000.00. In order to get him the best defense possible, we need to secure an attorney who will take his case and leave no stone unturned. The murder: Agyei-Kodie was staying with the Kinyua family pending deportation to his home country due to non-compliance with the terms of his visa. He had first met Antony Kinyua, the father of his alleged killer, while pursuing a doctoral degree at Morgan State University. On Friday, May 25, 2012, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie was reported missing by Kinyua's father. Police reported to the Kinyua residence on May 31 after being contacted by Kinyua's brother to report what looked like body parts in two tins in the basement. Further remains were found in a dumpster outside a church about a mile away. Alexander Kinyua was arrested and charged with first degree murder, along with first and second degree assault. The aftermath: Morgan State established a chief public safety officer position in the wake of the killing. Kinyua was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was found incompetent to stand trial. Kinyua has been indefinitely committed to a Maryland mental institution.

funny

so i started a story by saying, "so i was doodling in class" in front of 2 teachers and then i said, " after i was finished working"

guilt dress

so my mom bought me a new dress once after my brother brought home a bag of clothes to donate. unfortunately most of the stuff was too small for the boys and since it was all boys stuff my mom felt bad i didn't have anything so she went out and bought some stuff for herself and saw a dress i'd like (and i do). so it's a bit of a guilt dress

holding her breath

if i ever went on a mission my mom would be holding her breath the whole time. although, if my mission was state side she'd be holding her breath a little less. and if it was in California (mainly the long beach area) or New York city she'd be holding her breath even less. i know why since she's my mom. the reason she'd hold her breath less in California or New York is because of family ties. my mom's family is FROM California and has ties there and my uncle (my dad's brother) lives in New York.

easy going

my mom wishes she was more easy going like me. i'm like wow.

dissapeared for 5 weeks

people in the singles ward wondered where i'd ran off to for 5 weeks. 2 weeks in my old ward, 2 weeks out of state and 1 weekend in my old ward prior to coming back.

stressed out

i'm already stressed out and it's only the 1st week of school this semester. unfortunately, it's due to printing issues and drama practice for my brother. it's likely i'm going to be stressed out for a couple weeks and then i'll be OK.

Bunny Man

this is 1 of my favorite local legends surrounding the DC metro area. The Bunny Man is an urban legend that probably originated from two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970, but has been spread throughout the Washington, D.C. area. The legend has many variations; most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume who attacks people with an axe or hatchet. Most of the stories occur around Colchester Overpass, a Southern Railway overpass spanning Colchester Road near Clifton, Virginia. Colchester Overpass is commonly referred to as "Bunny Man Bridge". Versions of the legend vary in the Bunny Man's name, motives, weapons, victims, description of the bunny costume or lack thereof, and sometimes, even possible death. In some accounts, the Bunny Man's ghost or aging spectre is said to come out of his place of death each year on Halloween to commemorate his passing. In some accounts, victims' bodies are mutilated. The Origin goes like this: Fairfax County Public Library Historian-Archivist Brian A. Conley extensively researched the Bunny Man legend. He has located two incidents of a man in a rabbit costume threatening people with an axe. The vandalism reports occurred a week apart in 1970 in Burke, Virginia. The first incident was reported the evening of October 19, 1970 by U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Robert Bennett and his fiancée, who were visiting relatives on Guinea Road in Burke. Around midnight, while returning from a football game, they reportedly parked their car in a field on Guinea Road to "visit an Uncle who lived across the street from where the car was parked". As they sat in the front seat with the motor running, they noticed something moving outside the rear window. Moments later, the front passenger window was smashed, and there was a white-clad figure standing near the broken window. Bennett turned the car around while the man screamed at them about trespassing, including: "You're on private property, and I have your tag number." As they drove down the road, the couple discovered a hatchet on the car floor. When the police requested a description of the man, Bennett insisted he was wearing a white suit with long bunny ears. However, Bennett's fiancée contested their assailant did not have bunny ears on his head, but was wearing a white capirote of some sort. They both remembered seeing his face clearly, but in the darkness, they could not determine his race. The police returned the hatchet to Bennett after examination. Bennett was required to report the incident upon his return to the Air Force Academy. The second reported sighting occurred on the evening of October 29, 1970, when construction security guard Paul Phillips approached a man standing on the porch of an unfinished home, in Kings Park West on Guinea Road. Phillips said the man was wearing a gray, black, and white bunny costume, and was about 20 years old, 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall, and weighed about 175 pounds (79 kg). The man began chopping at a porch post with a long-handled axe, saying: "All you people trespass around here. If you don't get out of here, I'm going to bust you on the head." The Fairfax County Police opened investigations into both incidents, but both were eventually closed for lack of evidence. In the weeks following the incidents, more than 50 people contacted the police claiming to have seen the "Bunny Man". Several newspapers reported the incident of the "Bunny Man" eating a man's runaway cat, including the following articles in The Washington Post: -"Man in Bunny costume Sought in Fairfax" -"The 'Rabbit' Reappears" -"Bunny Man Seen" -"Bunny Reports Are Multiplying" In 1973, University of Maryland, College Park student Patricia Johnson submitted a research paper that chronicled precisely 54 variations on those two events. The legend: The legend has circulated for years in several forms. A version naming a suspect and specific location was posted to a website in the late 1990s by a "Timothy C. Forbes". This version states that in 1904, an asylum prison in Clifton, Virginia was shut down by successful petition of the growing population of residents in Fairfax County. During the transfer of inmates to a new facility, one of the fifteen transports crashed; most, including the driver, were killed, ten escaped. A search party found all but one of them. During this time, locals allegedly began to find hundreds of cleanly skinned, half-eaten carcasses of rabbits hanging from the trees in the surrounding areas. Another search of the area was ordered, and the police located the remains of Marcus Wallster, left in a similar fashion to the rabbit carcasses hanging in a nearby tree or under a bridge overpass—also known as the "Bunny Man Bridge"—along the railroad tracks at Colchester Road. Officials name the last missing inmate, Douglas J. Grifon, as their suspect and call him "the bunny man". In this version, officials finally manage to locate Grifon but, during their attempt to apprehend him at the overpass, he nearly escapes before being hit by an oncoming train where the original transport crashed. They say after the train passed, the police heard laughter coming from the site. It is eventually revealed that Grifon was institutionalized for killing his family and children on Easter Sunday. For years after the "Bunny Man's" death, in the time approaching Halloween, carcasses are said to be found hanging from the overpass and surrounding areas. A figure is reportedly seen by passersby making their way through the one lane bridge tunnel. Conley says this version is demonstrably false. Among other inconsistencies, Conley notes "there has never been an asylum for the insane in Fairfax County", that "Lorton Prison didn't come into existence until 1910, and even then it was an arm of the District of Columbia Corrections system, not Virginia's." Moreover, court records show neither a Grifon nor a Wallster. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, via his blog Cryptomundo and book Weird Virginia, in a section on the Bunny Man, wrote about a direct association between the legend of Bunny Man and that of the Goatman of nearby Maryland. Pedestrians, trains, and cars at Colchester Overpass: Because of its association with the legend, Colchester Overpass is a popular destination for paranormal enthusiasts (ghost hunters) and curiosity seekers (legend trippers). Colchester Overpass was built in about 1910 near the site of Sangster's Station, a Civil War era railroad station on what was once the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Interest increases around Halloween, and starting in 2003, local authorities began controlling access to the area during that time. During Halloween 2011, over 200 people, some from as far away as the Pennsylvania/Maryland state line, were turned away during a 14-hour traffic checkpoint into the area. Non-local visitors could be unaware that Colchester Overpass is an active intersection of trains and traffic. The railroad tracks overhead are used by Norfolk Southern Railway, Virginia Railway Express (VRE-Manassas Line), and Amtrak trains. VRE-Manassas Line and Amtrak traffic alone accounts for 90 trains using the overpass each week. In the vicinity of Colchester Overpass, Colchester Road is narrow and windy, with limited visibility. In Fairfax County, Virginia, it is illegal to trespass on posted railroad tracks or to loiter in a public roadway. In popular culture: -In 2010, rhythmic noise/industrial artist, C/A/T (Chaos and Terror), released a compilation of material from 2005-2010, "Music To Piss You Off." The final song, "Bunnyman", centers around the Bunny Man legend. -The 2011 slasher film Bunnyman is an exploitation-style version of the story. -In 2017 Badwolf Brewing Company in Manassas Virginia released their hoppy red lager known as The Bunny Man in a can that featured the tunnel, figure in a bunny suit and kid holding a red balloon. -The 2017 Amazon original series Lore, based on the podcast of the same name, uses the Bunny Man legend to introduce its second episode of Season 1. -The April 16, 2017 Erma comic strip, named "Happy Easter 2017", featured an appearance of the Bunny Man. Erma crouches down in front of a line of Easter Eggs leading to the Bunny Man, who is holding a basket containing a severed arm and a hatchet behind his back, and looks at him with a look evoking a statement such as "Really?" or "Seriously?".[15] This strip was later included in the publication Erma #2, in black-and-white, accompanied by a short paragraph explaining the legend of the Bunny Man.

tried

yes i've tried buzballz. they're not my thing but fun to try.