Winter semester ended down at BYU. Sad to see it go, but really happy to see it done. I won't mention my grades, but I'll say I feel like I got outa there just fine. I'll be sad to see the people I grew close to go. Along with the end of the semester means I had to quit my job. Yes, Riley Christensen had a job. Amazing I know. Last fall I told my self, "People, people, we need to make some money!". So I decided to get a job. I said to my self, "Dude, where you gonna work?". I responded with a resounding "I have to idea." Then I thought to my self, "You took a gymnastics class. Your little cousins go to gymnastics. You are pbobably about as good at gymnastics as a five-year old. You could probably teach five-year old gymnastics." I agreed with myself. I went down to the gym and shared with them what me and my self were thinking. They too agreed with my self. So they gave me a job to teach five-year olds gymnastics. And I loved every minute of it. I will miss those little dudes, from trying to get them to understand my jokes, to basically lifting them around the gym because they can't do anything themselves, to laughing when they try to help each other, or try to count to five, and somehow end up with 8 fingers sticking up. I will miss it!!!!
I've been home from serving my misison in Nevada for over a year now. It has been so crazy to be home, and not a day goes by that I do not think about all the people I know and love there. My friend Austin is leaving to Colorado, and my cousin Jacob is leaving to Norway, both on June 10th. I am very excited for them to go, and as scary as it is for them, and as crazy as it was for me, I would love to go back and do it again. Some of the best times of my life happened in my mission, along with some of the worst, but I wouldn't change any of it for anything.
Right now I am home from school for a month or two. I'll head back to summer school at the end of June to continue of my quest to be a contributing member of society. School is hard, and it's not my favorite thing to do, but I figure I might as well get as much done now while I'm into it. I don't expect to ever not be into it, but I'll probably get tired of it eventually. But I also decided that if I wasn't in school for 20 bagillion years, then I'd be doing some of the very same things outside of school, that I would be doing while in school. So bring it on, I'll take whatever I can get. While I'm home I'm working for my dad at his chemical fertilizer plant. It can be a lot of fun, and crazy at times. All the guys that work here I know pretty well and have grown up around a lot of them, so I really love working here. Some of my duties include mixing fertilizer to put in trucks to send to fields to be spread. Sometimes I spray weeds. I do paperwork. And I love to shoot birds. I guess you could call me pest control. Mostly I just do whatever they tell me to do, the second they tell me. I believe my official title is "Saddle Mountain Supply Biatch".
That's about all that is going on right now in my life. Soon I will return to Provo and continue living the dream. Life is good. No matter how rought it may get, and how stressed I may feel, or how many things I feel don't go my way, I''m happy. Now if I could just find a way to share my happy...
