american weekend

As i previously said we are having some friends from Utah over this weekend!
it's been amazing!!! the sullivans left this afternoon but we got to see the american cemetery and it was so cool! steve became all patriotic and so did josh so it was really cool! oh and steve and i decided that i was 1/4 american ( i think it was 1/4); i'll be 1/3 american when i go to BYU and 1/2 american when (or rather if) i marry some american guy; so i can say that i was proud of being there too!!
so this is actually a really new experience for me (sorry i suck at prepositions) because i always get (literally) SICK when i don't study for my exams (and i have 4 this week) but i decided that i wasn't going to study a lot (i'm gonna do it tonight at work) because i want to spend the most time i can with them because i love having people here and i love them!
steve and josh served here in lux (switzerland geneva mission) and yeah we weren't really buddies while they were here but i now i really like them and i am happy because when josh was here i got to spend some time with him (and his 2 other comps) but i didn't with steve so i am actually getting to know a good friend and someone that really understands my randomness / weirdness!! he's really cool and i loved the sullivans!! Life is sweet!!!!!!

the cemetery

memorial



Utah =)


i dont know really why, but steve and i liked the "moore" which makes me think of the duck named "moore" story ( a 'mission' story=

The Star-Spangled Banner

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!