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2011-08-15T09:45:00.001-06:00

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2009-10-07T12:02:00.001-06:00

I'm afraid I'm guilty of a pattern of thinking with which I am familiar and have despised as I have observed it. Realizing this, I thought I'd document my thoughts on paper regarding what I've learned.

When people leave the church, they usually do so because of refusal to deal with an issue. They either don't know something completely and therefore criticize it, or their actions are in conflict with what they do know, but are unwilling to change their behavior. It's easier to remain ignorant than to research truth at it's source, it's easier to adopt and alternate code of morality than change a pattern of behavior.

I went to institute for the first time and in the class they negatively mentioned muslims, evolution, and socialism. The point is, I recognized that such contriversial comments were the commentary of the teacher and not that of the church itself or its doctrine. As a consequence of hearing such things discussed in class, I became quite angry. I even fitfully did light research 'proving' him wrong and started to write the base of an essay on one of the topics.

The point is, those who deal with their issues seek understanding and accept what they find. They know its true because it brings a sense of completion and peace of mind. This kind of conclusion isn't to do away with criticism or questioning; by all means, criticize and question. What I'm getting at is the attitude behind the questioning. Do you really want an explaination, or are you just looking for ways to justify the confusion and anger inside of you? I'm afraid that's what I was doing. As a result of screaming and shouting within my own mind and soul, leaving no room for listening for even a hint of an answer logically or spiritually, my questions turned to anger rather than conclusion, and my anger turned to judgement of the system itself with me as the supreme judge.

Moral relativism, or self justification, is the kind of thinking that can be summed up as "the world revolves around me" thinking. In a sense, you play god when you do that, determining everything you can define by how you choose to define things. You rate the value and validity of everything else by how it relates to you. It's a grossly limited perspective, fragmentary and conflationary. In such realm of thought, one cannot possibly see the world in terms of improvement. The lense of moral relitivistic criticism paints a future that can only be lesser or darker and at best, can only remain as broken and flawed as you currently see it. It's no wonder that thinking leads to anger; it essentially blots out hope, which is essential to faith and improvement.

I was doing that with the institute system. I wasn't dealing with my personal issue, and thus I was becoming heatedly angry and blaming the system. However, the fact that I was so upheaved by a simple class disturbed me--almost as much as the fact that this anger lingered and didn't dissipate. It was insatiable. Is such a feeling a result of an educational institution or a deeper problem within the individual? It is certainly the latter.

As soon as I realized this, I saw I had been following a train of thought and pattern of behavior I have seen hundreds succom to. Recognizing that I was not exempt to such spiritual kankering, I realized that my issue lay not within the authority or doctrine, but within the flaws of people.

Namely, teachers preaching their opinion and overgeneralizing sensative and complicated scientific, societal, and political issues. Does the church endorse these opinoins? No. Do the teachers mean to do it? Perhaps, perhaps not. But every one of us sees reality from a completely unique perspective and communication is a way to bridge ideas between people. Every individual's perception is flawed to some degree in reletion to absolute truth. We can come close to knowing complete truth, but we asymptotically will never in this life fully understand everything (and that doesn't just apply to religion). We simply aren't mentally capable of the task, nor is it necessary for us at this point.

In any case, the flaws and limitations of human perception are ultimately unavoidable. If what we see is not completely true, then what we say cannot be completely true either; truth will be interwoven with perceptual flaws the speaker is not aware of. So, to blame this man for his intellectual conflict of opinion with my own is a war that will have no positive conclusion since I am undoubtedly guilty of the same thing. It's inevitable that this will happen and there is nothing that I can do that will change the fact that we do not agree.

By not accepting this fact and dealing with this issue, I could justify myself into a course of action that would limit my own personal growth and potential. Isn't that the point of mortality becoming a better person and within our personal influence making the world a better place too? And isn't it the adversary's mission to distract me from truth? Through such diversion, I could become lost, aiming for any mark but the right one, and left to myself my whole being would follow the destructive pattern of thought previously described. I would retrograde and conflate, and thus my grandest hope becomes to remain as I am, but with time and mistakes, inevitably become less. Like they say, as a man thinketh so is he. Our thought patterns become our identity. Well, i choose a better identity than that.

What a clever trick to induce doubt. I'm sure--no, i know--it happens all the time and leads to every form personal and societal decay imagineable. I can only thank god for the awareness I have, which comes by reason and spiritual assurance. If only this could be the last time I have to learn this lesson. Hopefully, though, I'll remember long enough to avoid this mistake for as long as I can.

FW: Le gasp! Spirituality from Becky?

2009-01-20T16:33:00.001-07:00

> Subject: Le gasp! Spirituality from Becky?
> From: MissWiggle@myldsmail.net
> To: calicocool1@msn.com; i_am_not_satan@hotmail.com; pamelapennock@hotmail.com; Delimetrius@myldsmail.net; yvonneb1207x1@netzero.net; benjaminjosephhale@myldsmail.net; bhpennock@yahoo.com; Geminiblue17@yahoo.com; jmason@weber.k12.ut.us; trishlvpt@cox.net; im_here_im_there@hotmail.com; hilary.pennock@gmail.com; tdpennock1953@yahoo.com; seanpennock@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:52:46 -0500
>
> Behold another of mine epistles to yonder heathen Utohnians and others scattered across the face of this good land. I have had cool stuff happen this week that I deem worthy of epistling you about.
>
> So, if you didnt get this impression from the last several epistles I have made, my last area, or the last 6 months of my mission pretty much sucked. It was one of those cases where try as I might from every angle I knew how, nothing went right. I tried the suggestions of every companion (totalling 5 in that area), ever district leader, every zone leader and even the president of the mission, as to how to make something right when everything else was going wrong. None of them were able to give me advice sufficient to improve the work--basically because everything was literally exausted.
>
> The point I make in bringing that up is the fact that I felt somewhat cheated by being put there for so long and having nothing literally nothing to show for it. The family I helped get baptized when I first got there had their names removed as a final kick in the pants. It had me so stressed I ran off very little sleep (try 45 minutes).
>
> All of this and I kid you not, I would do it again. This week was amazing and it was all made up for in a matter of hours.
>
> There is a woman named Crystal who started coming back to church right when I got to Deridder. We hung out with her a bit and answered a lot of questions she had (because there was a lot she had forgotten), and helped her with some problems that she was having. She got to trust us and we got way super tight with her while we were up there. Her nonmember husband who was very anti to missionaries warmed up to us because he got to see that we were just people and not prostelyting baptizing robots.
>
> We helped her get her patriarchal blessing while I was there, which answered some of her biggest concerns she has in life right now. This week, despite Sister Pilette and I being sent to different areas, were able to go with Crystal to the temple. It was so cool. Just the chances of sister Pilette and I getting sent to areas in which we would be permitted to attend the temple were slim, but it happened, and we planned it in advance, we all showed up at the right time and it happened like clockwork.
>
> Like I told Crystal in the temple, every amount of crap gone through in the last 6 months was worth those few hours we spent with her. She's such a cool chick. We have vowed to do it again someday as a reunion kind of thing.
>
> In other news, Charly (a lady i helped get baptized a year ago) will probably be going to the temple in March (which means I has to beg on the street like a hobo to finance it but I'm gonna be there, booya!).
>
> So, yeah. There are reasons to everything and god places people ino areas that they can handle. I am glad I had sister Pilette and crystal for my sanity for the last 6 months and I'm overjoyed that I got to share in the completely awsome experience of helping her get her endowments taken out.
>
> It'd been a long time since I'd been to the temple, actually. I've only been 4 times and the last time was a year ago, so I basically needed escorting as well, haha! Sister Pilette was a fine escort and I helped Crystal feel like she wasnt messing up quite as bad. :b
>
> Anyways, that's it. :D
>
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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2008-12-22T11:43:00.001-07:00

> Merry christmas everyone! I just want to say first off, that I love rediculous traditions that make me laugh and Mr. Magoo's Christmas is one of them. If you dont know what I'm talking about, you are a sheltered child, because that movie is hysterical and it tears me up that I can't watch it on christmas eve for the 2nd year in a row.
>
> BUT, good news in the way of christmas, concerning your most beloved Sister Pennock: We actually have christmas invites this year. We're set up to have a rockin time and a recently reactivated woman's house (her name is Crystal and she's bomb). She's getting ready to go through the temple for the first time--she's on fire! Anyway, she's way chill and that is where I shall be calling Andrew from on christmas morning.
>
> I know my immediate family is staying in Vegas for christmas. Thought you guys could avoid teh snow? Think again! hahah! My current comp is from Henderson (which is...well, Las Vegas) and she's ways cool. Her name is Sister Pilette and she's been baptized for 4 years. She loves going to concerts and I'm afraid just being around her has infected me with a desire to go myself (emily, think of people you want to see in summer of 09 and we'll go!). She's also inspired me to look into a group called Anberlin. :D Weee!
>
> It's cold here right now. I'm out in what my comp calls BFE (which means Beyond Fricken Egypt, by interpretation). We're basically in texas. I've been here for 6 months. I will be moving as of the 8th of January (my mission pres spilled the news to me), so if you have an address that says something like 401 Somerset, DeRidder LA, do not send it there unless it gets here before the 6th or so, because otherwise I wont get it at all.
>
> So, I must tell you about our christmas tree because it's hillarious. First off, let me say that missionary apartments are the most ghetto things on earth and are filled with the most random things ever (like street signs, confederate flags, and whatnot). So, we found a christmas tree about 2 feet tall and dressed it up with lights, but realized we didnt have a star for it. So Sister Pilette digs in her bags and gets out a huge fatty star belt buckle. This thing is glorious. It's huge and white and is lined with rhinestones. We put that on top of our tree and dug out the varieties of bling we've collected on our missions thus far (including the cheap-a wedding ring I was given last lear and a very large blingy gold crucifix necklace) and blung our tree up and strung christmas lights all around the room. There are even lights lining Sister Pilette's LSU Battle Flag (which is basically a confederate flag only the colors are gold and purple for lsu).
>
> Tis the season, eh? :D It actually snowed here too. It lightly dusted and people freaked out. Schools throughout the whole parish closed and, well...it was rediculous to say the least. I see that Vegas is buried in snow, currently. That certainly must be leading to a lot of accidents. :b
>
> So christmas is awsome this year so far. Tell grandma and grandpa pennock hi and that I love them and all that jazz. Communication to them is scanty because they dont have email. Send the message on! And tell them I love the subway gift card! Especially since I only have 35 bucks for the rest of the month..ehheheh.
>
> Merry Christmas! :D
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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Epistle :: Give me cheeseball recipe! Please! I beg!

2008-11-10T14:26:00.001-07:00

>
> *releases the shift button*
>
> Hello people. It has been requested that I should update everyone on my current welfare, so here goes *cracks knuckles*
>
> I'm doing fine, despite the demands of training. It seems that added responsibility has made me kind of a business oriented serious person, which I hate somewhat because I forget to laugh at all the things I usually do. I guess it means I have less time to be distracted or something.
>
> Work is going well. Sister Boulter has her head on straight if you know what I mean. She's a really cool girl. She plays lacrosse for BYU and helps run this cool mountain backpacky thing in the summer. She's really athletic and we run every day, so that's cool. Ironically enough, we were both worried about the same things before being paired up together; that is we were worried if the other wouldnt want to run in the mornings, but it's all good because we run at least a mile a day which is cool. My mile time still sucks, but it never really was that good. I'm at 9 minutes which is alright, considering the fact that at my best (running a couple years), my fastest time was only 7:50.
>
> Our apartment smells like mothballs, but at least it doesnt have the fleas anymore. I'm glad utah doesnt have fleas...or anthills, lol. We're going to go splurge on a candle warmer today since we cant have open flame in the apartment. We want to mask the mothball smell taht's seeped into the carpet and the occassional smell of illegal stuff that comes through the vents from upstairs.
>
> We've been riding our bikes. People kind of get a kick out of seeing us ride in skirts. I feel like I belong in the circus. Last week we found a park that had some large climbing walls (for kids), so we bouldered around and on top of them and daaaang. After a year of stagnance, my forearms were burning. It made me want to climb even more. I forgot how much I missed it! (we were climbing in pants at this point; it was p-day).
>
> Life is good right now. Obama is the president. I dont know what this entails at all except people in the black ghettos are shouting for joy and many of the white people in the local area are incredibly upset. At least I'm not in KKK country anymore, though, hehe. I feel sorry that Palin couldnt be vice pres. She looked like a cool chick. I saw a clip of her during Gustav and she has sass. I like her, even though I dont know what she stands for at all.
>
> Anyways, that's basically it. I'm still in the old guiness book of world records town for having the most churches per capita in the world. People here have very definite opinions about things. I've gotten into a couple bashes (involuntary! I could have logically torn them to shreds, but the spirit constraineth me! I need not waste my time...). It's amazing how much more I know about the bible/religion as a mildly educated 22 year old compared to most of the people I come in contact with. They cannot understand all the bible, though they understand parts.
>
> The biggest falacy I see with all other religions thus far is that they are not based on eternal principle, despite their so-called belief in an unchanging eternal god. To them, their own identity isnt eternal, neither is the basic structure of the family, niether is the structure by which god communicates with men. It's all temporary and transient. The idea of heaven itself escapes most people--they cannot begin to think of what it is except sitting around singing all day with harps. It just amazes me how complete knowledge is with the concept of the holy ghost and personal revelation. That supercedes even scripture, in my opinion, since scriptures are biproducts of revelation given to prophets. Everything is an appendage to revelation through the holy ghost. We wouldnt have scripture without this idea; and yet, most people believe that revelation has ceased. They talk about their beliefs in circles and much of what they say is riddled with contradictions.
>
> That is probably the reason why I couldnt belong to another religion is because of that basic fundamental difference: their idea of eternity is based on temporal passing things. All of the ways in which they define themselves, god, his church, and communication with him are based on things that are not eternal but temporary. To accept their views would be to accept less than what I currently have in terms of logical understanding and a spiritual sense of my own identity. I'm not willing to do that. And until I know of some belief that supercedes the completeness of understanding that my own provides, I dont suppose I'll ever change. I state it like that, because I ask people all day to consider our point of view and pray to know if it's right. Therefore, I have to be open to them and their ideas; otherwise i'd be a hypocrite. I will continue to remain open to other people's beliefs, but that doesnt mean I have to adopt them.
>
> Anyway, sorry. That paragraph was abounding in babble. I'm doing well....and...oh wait. I need something. It's critical. If you have what I need, please email me before next monday:
>
> I need cheeseball. I want the best cheeseball recipe you have. I like the cream cheese kind. I beg of you to respond if you have a good recipe! This is my thanksgiving! :D I would love it so much if i could have homemade something for thanksgiving and not tubes of croissants from walmart. So if you can, respond with a recipe. :D
>
> Thanks! And thanks for reading 'yall'! Take care!
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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FW: Pump up the Drama! (I'm training, its scary!)

2008-10-14T21:35:00.001-06:00

> Alright, this is a general message to a lot of people. First off, thanks for responding to the rebuke of oober drama. I'm glad you guys thought it was funny. I'm even happier to know that you guys care if I'm still alive. :D Being on a mission is being in an information vaccuum.
>
> I hear stuff about the economy, but because my magic allotment card fills up every month, I dont really know firsthand about it. I dont have a job, either. I also have a magic gas card that pumps my car full of gas, so I really havent been paying to much attention to gas prices (that is until the card expired last week and I had to use my food money, grrr).
>
> I hear a little about elections, but it's not really real, unless I'm driving down the ghetto and see a huge Obama sign in front of a shack and pimped up car. It's all heresay and rumor, and I'm afraid I've waited too long to get an absentee ballot (if not, mom/dad, please send one or something!).
>
> Even in the mission, I dont know what's going on. I'm in a forsaken outcast area, so I dont even hear from other missionaries, so it 'does me heart good' to see an email or a letter every once in awhile.
>
> Anyway--that's not what's dramatic--I'm training. Gah! Someone from Babylon is coming into the mission and I get to train her and and and......and...dang it, if there's one thing I've learned about myself on a mission, it's that I hate responsibility (not necissarily after I get it, just the process of getting it). It means accountability! It's easier just to avoid it and let it be someone else's deal...but I guess that kind of attitude is what God wants squished, because I'm training now.
>
> I've had a lot of fun with Sister Martin, who is leaving me. She is from France, and she has me convinced that I'm going to go there and visit her. :) They have a lot of stuff I like. Green mountains, small cars, fresh baked bread...and probably other stuff too. She lives in the south part too. :) It's warmer there.
>
> I've given her a lot of crap about france, actually (in jest; I make fun of america too just to keep things balanced). I told her this morning, in a moment of half-sleepiness that if france were to ever actually do anything, we would bomb the crap out of them and they couldnt do anything. The only thing france really owns is part of canada, some islands in the pacific, and Celine Dion, and only the last one could be considered a weapon of mass destruction. (rediculous untrue statements are fun, arent they? )
>
> Anyway, so I'm freakin out about training and stuff because I'm responsible for planning where we go every half hour of the day from 10-9 (with backups, so 2 people every half hour), how we teach, probably all the teaching now that I think about it, and and...
>
> I need to stop whining now. Life's good. I'll let you know how it goes. :D Mom, I got the shoes you sent me (the exchange went through). Thanks so much. The ones I'm wearing right now are spunky, but kind of old and might fall apart, so it came just in time!
>
> I'm glad to hear from any of you. Thank you for your letters!
>
> Till next time!
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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FW: I Rebuke Thee!

2008-09-22T12:47:00.001-06:00

>
> C H A P T E R 1
> 1--In the beginning was the inbox and the inbox was void of emails.
> 2--And Sister Pennock said, "Let the inbox be filled," and the inbox was not filled.
> 3--And Sister Pennock beheld the continuing void and was not pleased
> 4--And lo, it was the first day of the week and there was no email delivered, but this was good.
> 5--But on the second day was the mail delivered; yet the box remained empty.
> 6--Yea, even from the second day unto the seventh and the inbox did yield no email.
> 7--Even so, the box retained its void
> 8--And yea, great mists of darkness spread forth from the void and enshrouded Sister Pennock. Yea, and did bring much sadness to her otherwise cheery days.
> 9--Even the long hours of fruitless knocking, being attacked by the fouls of the air, and be pursued by the beasts of the field were not as disheartening as the lack of blessed objects known as emails.
> 10--Yet she persisted.
>
> C H A P T E R 2
> 1--And lo, on the second day of the second week the mists still encircled the inbox.
> 2--And on the third day, from within the depths of the void was a single message.
> 3—And this message put forth a ray of light that pierced the darkness and overcame the mists.
> 4—And Sister Pennock was well pleased, and there was much rejoicing.
> 5—But, alas, her exclamations of joy were in vain. For the message was spam.
> 6—But if her joy was so exceedingly great over spam, how great would be her joy at partaking of meaningful email?
>
> C H A P T E R 3
> 1—But some will say, An Email. An Email. We have already written an email. We have no need to write any more emails!
> 2—Know ye not that there are more days than one and more events than one in a day? Why think ye that these need not be reported?
> 3—Yea, and ye need not worry that your emails will go unanswered.
> 4—But you should say I will go and write the letter that Sister Pennock requests. For I know that she giveth no requests except she be prepared to speedily respond. Yea, and even as such for snail mail which she desire to receive but receiveth not.
> 5—And now we give unto you the parable of the self-addressed envelopes.
> 6—When the missionary departed into the far-off land, he gave a certain number of self-addressed, stamped envelopes to his friends.
> 7—Unto one he gave five, unto another he gave two, and unto the third, he gave one.
> 8—And while he was gone, he that was given the five envelopes wrote five letters, then in his zeal wrote five letters more.
> 9—The same with him that had two envelopes; He wrote two letters and then two letters more.
> 10—But he that was given the one self-addressed envelope became slothful and careless. And he lost the envelope, even that which he was given.
> 11—And when the missionary came home, he went unto his friends. And he that had written ten letters was warmly greeted.
> 12—The same with him that had written four letters.
> 13—But he that had written none at all was given nothing more than a fishy, wimp-like handshake.
>
> C H A P T E R 4
> 1--And the missionary said unto his friend, lovest thou me?
> 2—And the friend said, of course I love thee. Then the missionary said, fill my inbox.
> 3—He saith a second time, friend, lovest thou me? And the friend said, thou knowest that I love thee. Then he said, fill my inbox.
> 4-He then spake a third time saying, lovest thou me? And the friend said, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee.
> 5—Then the missionary said, stuff my inbox.
> 6—And the vision is become unto all as the words of a letter that is sealed in the envelope that men deliver to one who is not serving a mission saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is not mine.
> 7—And the letter is delivered to him that is serving a mission saying Read this I pray thee; and he said, why sure.
> 8—Therefore, you should proceed to do a marvelous work for a missionary, even a marvelous work and a wonder by writing her an email/letter.
>
>
>
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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FW: Mother Nature Sneezes on Baton Rouge

2008-09-09T14:51:00.001-06:00

> Subject: Mother Nature Sneezes on Baton Rouge
> From: MissWiggle@myldsmail.net
> To: Delimetrius@myldsmail.net; Geminiblue17@yahoo.com; trishlvpt@cox.net; benjaminjosephhale@myldsmail.net; im_here_im_there@hotmail.com; i_am_not_satan@hotmail.com; calicocool1@msn.com; tdpennock1953@yahoo.com; hilary.pennock@gmail.com; pamelapennock@hotmail.com; jmason@weber.k12.ut.us; seanpennock@gmail.com; bhpennock@yahoo.com; yvonneb1207x1@netzero.net
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:38:43 -0700
>
> [emily, please post to blog. Thanks! ]
>
>
> Okay, so some of you may be wondering why I haven't been my usual internet chatty self lately, what with responding to emails and filling your inboxes with spam. I haven't gotten to get online in weeks. Gustov freakin sucks. :D
>
> So, in a nutshell this is what's been going down lately. I'm in a strange military town called DeRidder near the border of Texas above Lake Charles. The whole town went into a freakin panic over the approach of hurricane Gustav. Gas was gone for days before it arrived. It was crazy. It made prostelyting really interesting too, btw. The shelves were bare at walmart. I haven't experienced anything like mass panic before this. It wasn't like...crazy panic, but it was just like a feeling in the air. Everything shut down. Wal-mart barricaded its doors with pallets and rolled up boxes. The normal traffic that keeps me up at night suddenly came to a stop, church was cancelled and the highway was turned into a contriflow evac route.
>
> All for what? A slight drizzle. Apparently, hurricanes have different sides to them. I was indeed in a hurricane, but I experienced Gustav's warm fuzzy calm side, which, by the way I dont mind in retrispect--that means I dont have to deal with stuff like power outages or flooding.
>
> Anyway, here's where things get interesting. I was in a threesome companionship and the other 2 girls went home because it was their time to go. The regular companionship shuffle of transfers got bumped back a week because of the hurricane. What does that mean? For a week, I was companionless and needed a place to stay. So, I got temporarily shoved in an old area called Denham Springs, which is just outside of Baton Rouge. Let me just tell you, this experience has been fricken sweet.
>
> Baton Rouge is a big city. It has a lot of people. There were trees down everywhere; powerlines were all over the place. The place was basically a shambles. There are still areas that do not have power and it has been some time since the damage was done.
>
> Anyway, when they told me that I was going to go stay in Denham until transfers happened, they didnt know exactly when transfers would take place, so they tell me "take an overnight bag." Then, they later said "take clothes for 3 days." Now, you have to understand that information goes down the grapevine, so to speak, so by the time this word got to me, the information was basically distorted. So whatever. I packed for 3 days, I have been here a week.
>
> When I got here, the power was out. No food. Nothing. So, while I made much preparation in DeRidder, that did jack for me because I'm not in DeRidder anymore. All of my extra food and water is just sitting up there, and I'm down here surviving. Fun enough right? Well, all that missionaries can do at the moment is service...regular prostelyting is pretty much a waste. Its like "hey, you've got a tree smashing your house in half, I think you need to hear about Jesus!"---nope, doesnt work. The best missionary work down here exists in service for the moment, so that's what I've been doing for the last week. Went and got some scrubs, gloves, shoes, and socks and went to work helping out with "Mormon Helping Hands."
>
> It's been fricking amazing. We've been cutting trees off of peoples roofs, hauling limbs, helping people pack up all they own because their house is now worthless. People are so appreciative of our service and we've had a blast doing it. My hands hurt, my muscles are sore, and I'm quite glad because being this exhausted really helps me sleep on that unbearable couch in the shack I'm staying in.
>
> Sunday rocked too. The stake center next to the temple in downtown Baton Rouge is still without power, so they spread out blue tarps on a hill overlooking the temple and we had sacrament meeting outside, all of us in pants and our yellow "mormon helping hands" shirts. The sacrament was blessed on a rickety table and passed out on paper plates, ice cube trays and milk crates with gaps just wide enough to hold the little cups. A member of the seventy spoke to us about how he was in this crazy accident in africa and how the nearest hospital was basically a shack with reudimentary supplies, but those simple supplies saved his life because he was in the middle of nowhere, and those supplies were all donated by our church, so this form of service we render literally saved his life. It was way cool.
>
> I find it funny, though, that I have had the opportunity to experience the aftermath of this storm, which is in all, much more dramatic than the storm itself. I will try and give pictures if this crazy email system will let me, but it is not unusual to see a house sliced in half. Apparently the news stopped covering the storm as soon as New Orleans didnt get hit hard, but I kid you not, other places did and Baton Rouge is not a small town. It got hit worse than it's ever been hit before, apparently. Alexandria is also flooded and that is not far from where I live. There have been plenty of people we've been able to help.
>
> Now it will be fun to see where Ike goes. I'm going to be completely honest: I hope the eye goes right over my freakin apartment. I got to experience all of the things about this hurricane except the wind blowing the trees around. I feel a little jipped. So, if you all could pray for Ike to hit eastern Texas really hard, that would be appreciated.
>
> (and no, praying for a natural disaster to strike communities and do major damage and ruin many peoples lives simply for the sake of my own selfish entertainment is not wrong---at least I dont think so-----maybe I'll pray about it--
>
>
> ----okay, it's wrong. But it would still be cool right? )
>
> Besides that piece of news, I am going to be companions with a girl from France, which is cool. She seems pretty cool already. We baptized a family of 4 right before Gustav hit, too, which was wayyyyy oober drama in and of itself. It was a very interesting baptisem and I'll tell you why; we weren't invited to it. For whatever reason, the family wanted privacy to the extent that they didnt even want the missionaries who taught them to be at it. Strange? Yes. Complicated? Oh so much more complicated than I just told you, but I will leave it at that for now. They're an amazing family and I'm so happy for them. The only thing more stressful than a baptisem for a missionary is a baptisem they aren't permitted to plan or attend. Usually people have last minute concerns and all sorts of stuff can go wrong, so it's usually stressful enough, and in this case, the situation seemed incredibly unstable so it was going to be rocky as it was. Then, we were forbidden to help in any way so we were left with nothing but prayers and man, we said a lot of them.
>
> This makes my mission actually pretty interesting too. This means that I will have been directly connected with at least 12 baptisems and at the moment have only attended 1 of them due to being transferred away at the last minute, and now this. *sigh* oh well, it's not about me or my attendance, and in this case the family had every right to make their request, especially considering their past experiences with some of the more charismatic churches...
>
> Anyway. So that's it. Big update. Big email. Big blog post of doom. Enjoy it.
>
> Last minute thoughts: Sorry if you've emailed me and I havent responded lately. I always respond to the emails I end up receiving (so if you have felt left out or in the dark about my welfare, just drop me a line). But lately, with the crap this hurricane has done, it's amazing that I can even email today. We had to leave our area to get to working computers. I hope you guys are doing well. I'm going to read the massive pile of email in my inbox and reply to it all now. So, peace out.
>
>
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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FW: Pics and things!

2008-09-09T14:40:00.001-06:00

> Subject: Pics and things!
> From: MissWiggle@myldsmail.net
> To: calicocool1@msn.com; Delimetrius@myldsmail.net; Geminiblue17@yahoo.com; trishlvpt@cox.net; benjaminjosephhale@myldsmail.net; im_here_im_there@hotmail.com; i_am_not_satan@hotmail.com; calicocool1@msn.com; tdpennock1953@yahoo.com; hilary.pennock@gmail.com; pamelapennock@hotmail.com; jmason@weber.k12.ut.us; seanpennock@gmail.com; bhpennock@yahoo.com; yvonneb1207x1@netzero.net
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:27:09 -0700
>
> Hey emily, please post these pictures. The comp just kicked me out. If you aren't emily, and many of you are, then just look at the pictures. :D I'm sending them to you to.
>
> I have more pics, but that's all it will allow. Kthxbai!
>
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>
>
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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FW: Apologies of redundancies! :D

2008-08-04T10:17:00.001-06:00

>
> Hello again. This is yet another general update, but before I babble off into oblivion, I must confess that being a missionary tends to make one feel like an alzheimers patient. I cannot remember the last time I updated this blog thing or what I said for that matter.
>
> With that said, forgive my repetitions and just deal with it. :D
>
> So, I'm no longer with the companion that was throwing tissy fits. :D I am with my trainer and my followup trainer and they are both going home at the end of the 6 weeks that I'll be with them. In missionary terminology I am killing them off. It's really fun because I've been with both of them before and I know that both of them are sane. AND it's really fun with 3 people because you always have someone to talk to. We've been staying up late at night talking about the most absurd things and having pillowfights. It really is kind of like a very very long sleepover.
>
> This last week was cool. I made friends with a peacock that had wandered astray and had been camping out in this lady's yard for 2 weeks and she didnt know what to do with it. So, i went outside and it walked right up to me and I gave it food and water and it liked me and followed me around the yard like a puppy. Then, we found it a home. :D
>
> A couple days after that, there was this insane lightning storm and me and Sister Fivas went out and danced in the rain like a bunch of drunken idiots while Sister Black stood under shelter because she has an ouce of common sense and didnt want to be struck by lightning. We finally convinced her to come out into the rain and lightning and just sit with us. She did and then she asked us "How safe ARE we..." and no sooner had she said that, a bolt of lightning struck about a block away and all the power went out. She freaked and me and sister fivas laughed hysterically. :D
>
> :) Yeah, so it's fun. World record for most churches per capita: check. SOOO many churches. Anyway, so that's it for now.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Benjamin Hale" <benjaminjosephhale@myldsmail.net>
> To: MissWiggle@myldsmail.net
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:37:52 +0000
> Subject: Re: [insert prologue here]
>
> H
> O
> L
> Y
>
> C.R.A.P. batman.
>
> That is just AMAZING. It's so wonderfully deep, yet simple. I could never come up with anything like that in 3 eternal rounds!
>
> The book of mormon infuence is evident, but it gives it a measure of depth no other supliment could top. The terms you defined and used are brilliant, and tie in with the whole 'Perpetual' theme perfectly. Take that Asimov! I'm absolutley and utterly amazed. I think I'm going to print this. Crap, can't print, saving it to my camera.
>
> Your concept of the Artificials puts my cat people to shame. What you have defined of them gives them such dimension. Their possiblilty is endless.
> Now the cat people need a name. Not much on their background history other than they are foreigners to the planet, and they migrated there somehow, and are now stranded. They have a lot of middle eastern influence with some asian stuck in there
>
> CRAP, I have to go. I'll get those drawings you wanted. See ya!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Rebecca Pennock" <MissWiggle@myldsmail.net>
> To: benjaminjosephhale@myldsmail.net
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:35:11 -0700
> Subject: [insert prologue here]
>
> I have a bit more, but I ran out of time typing it. I wrote it all out by hand D:
>
> All i have to say about the writing style is, sorry. I havent written that much, and when all you read for a year is the book of mormon...well...some of the writing style is emulated, we'll just say that. XD
>
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)
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>
> -Sistopolus Pennonicus (of the redundus profundus variety)

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FW: [shoutout to Craft User and other cool peeps]

2008-06-01T14:36:00.001-06:00

>
> Dear netizens, Craft User is cool. You want to know why? Because Craft User sent me a package about 3 months ago and in it was a painting. I meant to say thank you, but like a dunce, I threw away the packaging and with it the return address. And so, if you are craft user and you are reading this, Miss Wiggle says tyvm and you are woo7elicious. :D Sorry I didnt reply sooner, but I'm an idiot. It's been driving me nuts.
>
> Besides that, I'd like to shout out to Wayne (whose screen name I am notorious for forgetting seeing as I have asked you 3 times or so in our snail mails), Falmith (who is a busy person, but kind for mailing me. Art = yummy). Ally, who this last week sent a letter in behalf of the #cs crew. :D You are all quite cool because you took the time to mail me! I am working on replies as we speak, mwahaha!
>
> In other news, riding a bike in a skirt is rather funny looking and takes quite a bit of talent. :D I've ridden over 20 miles a day this last week because even though we have a car, it is not our car, and thus we have to abide by certain rules. Rules like you cannot drive over 1100 miles in a month...and when the end of the month comes, we get desperate and get on bikes in 98 degree weather. :D Biking is fun, though. It's very green here. The roads are totally not designed for it. I'm glad to still be alive, lawl. :b
>
> Anywho, that is all for now. Behold my shoutout and know that ye are not forgotten. Craft User, if you want me to send me the letter I wrote you before I realized I threw away your address, mail calicocool1@msn.com and she will forward it to me.
>
> That is all *salutes*
>

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To the Netizens: Artistic Pontification

2008-05-19T15:29:00.001-06:00

>
> So, I am making some effort to update this thing a little more regularly than I have been.
>
> To the people of the internet! I declare the need for art journals. If you dont have one, start. Write down your observations about things you observe, things that strike you, and art theory as well. :D I've been doing it for a couple months and it makes it really cool because it forces you to observe and remember what you observe. Anyways, I share some:
>
> "You cannot perceive others beyond or exceedingg the degree to which you perceive yourself. Because all execution has its root with perception, if you do not master this step, you build on a weak foundation and limit yourself."
>
> "Balancing focus artistically is like the focus of relgious study (I'm relating art to doing something I do every day now, which is study religion). There are millions of books and essays and commentaries of scripture, but it all comes down to the source, which is the scripture itself. The observable world is and should be the ultimate source of artistic reference and inspiration. All other things can be good but are nevertheless biproducts of the reference of observable reality. Personal observation and study of the world should be the foundation of our artistic studies."
>
> "Every drawing you produce is a reflectiono of your mental state. When your mind is frantic and desperate, what you will produce will be muddled and unfocussed and you will not see the potential it has. When you calm yourself and loosen up, the ripples of confusion and frustration slowly dissipate andyou will draw clearly, simply, and deliberately and you will see potential in all you do."
>
> Anyway, I would love to scan the actual sketches from the art journal thing, but I can't, so there's pontification. :D Until next time! :D
>

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FW: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on message from wiggle.

2008-05-05T22:01:00.001-06:00

> Subject: Re: FW: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on message from wiggle.
> From: MissWiggle@myldsmail.net
> To: calicocool1@msn.com
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:57:16 +0000
>
> [forward this on to the blog]
>
> Hey scott! I think you gave me your address, but I lost it. :( In any case, mail sent to me is greatly appreciated! :D Mail is actually rather slow right now...and it probably has something to do with the fact that I haven't updated this blog since the beginning of forever.
>
> It's cool to know I'm missed at work, even though I do not doubt I was more than a little abnoxious. But just in case you're bored, you can tell everyone a lesson I learned this last week:
>
> If you find a lizard in a sticky trap (for mice), it is more merciful to kill it than try and save it. I found it a couple days ago and poked its fleshy belly to discover that it was yet alive and I took pity on it, so I decided to tear it from the sticky glue. After much effort, it was free and I set it loose in the grassy reeds outside my little shack. About half an hour later, I went back outside to find that while I had removed the lizard from the glue, I had not removed the glue from the lizard. He was an amorphous blob of wiggling sticks and leaves. That's when it became my mission to correct my mistake and remove the glue so that the lizard could again run free! First, I sprayed it with alcohol, taking great care not to spray it in the eyes or in the giant gash on its neck. That didnt really work. So then, I dunked it in some Dr. Tichenor's mouth was (which is about 5 times the potency of regular mouthwash) and by the time I was done doing that, his breathing was highly irregular and he wasn't really moving anymore. Left without real option at that point, I stepped on its head.
>
> It is now in lizard spirit paradise! :D
>
> Also, last week, I found a giant cockroach and tape recorded myself narrating his life story. I'll probably post it online after I return home....seeing as I can't do that out here.
>
> Tell people at work that I miss them and tell Elise (should she still work there) that I've mailed her, but I dont know if my letters got to her...but I haven't forgotten her or the back room crew either! That's all for now! :D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emily Pennock <calicocool1@msn.com>
> To: Becky Pennock <misswiggle@myldsmail.net>
> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 14:14:19 -0600
> Subject: FW: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on message from wiggle.
>
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>
>
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:21:19 -0700
> From: noreply-comment@blogger.com
> To: calicocool1@msn.com
> Subject: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on message from wiggle.
>
> Scott Peterson has left a new comment on your post "message from wiggle":
>
>
>
> I'm really, really slow...but I have now realized I can leave comments for you here...duh! Anyway, I just wanted to say hello! Oh this is Scott Peterson by the way, the fat guy in books...in case you forgot about me. Sounds like things are going well. I stole your address so expect something... amazingly... um... amazing... from me. There was one of your name tags laying around at work and that got us all reminiscing about you...you are much missed! Well I don't want to steal you computer time so I'll end this, but I hope things are going well and I'll bug you later.
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> Publish this comment.
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> Reject this comment.
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> Moderate comments for this blog.
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> Posted by Scott Peterson to Island of the Sequined Love Nun! at April 29, 2008 12:21 AM
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FW: Mine General Epistle to the Netzors and the Utonians!

2008-05-05T21:50:00.001-06:00

> Subject: Mine General Epistle to the Netzors and the Utonians!
> From: MissWiggle@myldsmail.net
> To: Delimetrius@myldsmail.net; Geminiblue17@yahoo.com; trishlvpt@cox.net; im_here_im_there@hotmail.com; i_am_not_satan@hotmail.com; calicocool1@msn.com; pamelapennock@hotmail.com; jmason@weber.k12.ut.us; bhpennock@yahoo.com; yvonneb1207x1@netzero.net; Delimetrius@myldsmail.net; Geminiblue17@yahoo.com; trishlvpt@cox.net; im_here_im_there@hotmail.com; i_am_not_satan@hotmail.com; calicocool1@msn.com; pamelapennock@hotmail.com; jmason@weber.k12.ut.us; bhpennock@yahoo.com; yvonneb1207x1@netzero.net; Delimetrius@myldsmail.net; Geminiblue17@yahoo.com; trishlvpt@cox.net; im_here_im_there@hotmail.com; i_am_not_satan@hotmail.com; calicocool1@msn.com; pamelapennock@hotmail.com; jmason@weber.k12.ut.us; bhpennock@yahoo.com; yvonneb1207x1@netzero.net
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:45:24 +0000
>
> [EMILY: once you get this, post it on the blog. kthxbai! ^o^ o yeah, post pictures if you can, too. That is all :B]
>
> :) It has come to my attention that there has been a lack of communication on my part with my family back home. :) I just discovered the audio recording from Christmas where uncle Brian mentioned he hadn't heard anything of me. That being said, I felt guilty, so I have asked around for emails and these are ones that have been brought to my attention. I will summarize my mission thus far and do a little catch me up.
>
> *cracks knuckles* here goes...
>
> I have served in 3 areas under 3 companions. The first area, Lafayette, I was greeniebroke by an apostate missionary who really didnt teach me to do anything but sit in a car. After 3 months of being clueless as to our lack of productivity, I was moved to Patterson where I met Sister Fivas who spent a week discovering that I had not been taught anything at all in the 3 months I had been out, and she proceeded to whip me into shape. I was transferred from Patterson to North Denham in February and have been with Sister Black for 3 months. Transfers are next monday and I'll find out where I'm going then.
>
> In my mission, so far, people have
> -asked me to marry them (twice, different people within the span of 2 weeks; awkard drunk guys in the ghettos)
> -thought I was an under cover cop
> -thought I was a drug dealer
> -countless people mistake me for a pentacostal or a j-dub (aka j-ho's or jehova witness)
>
> I helped 2 people get baptized. One in Patterson named J Bob (his brothers names were Sir Bob and Mister Bob). The other one is here in North Denham and her name is Charlene Potts. J Bob is a hardcore nerd and so we got along great. We were basically friends before we formally taught him. We ran into each other in the oddest of places, hardly coincidence, and he recognized that and was baptized right after I was transferred out. Charly was baptized right after I was transferred into this area. I didnt teach her but a couple times, but I committed her to get baptized and told her that it was 'her decision and we wouldnt want her to be baptized until she knew it was right'...which she tells me is exactly what she needed to hear. She's a former catholic, about 70 years old and is going to go to the temple in a year. She's solid.
>
> Even though my first area was with an apostate companion, and even though we really did not work, we did manage to reactivate a man who hadnt been to church in over 50 years. That was amazing. His name is John Outlaw. He's a very peculiar person with a riotous past. He was very ready for us to visit him. It was amazing.
>
> All in all, I have learned a couple lessons that I'll briefly state:
> -Brush your teeth (people here have rotted out nubs and gold caps galore)
> -Don't become a stripper. I've met too many....
> -I have an appreciation for basic education and literacy. I have met several illiterate people in every area I have been. It's sad to see so many people not know how to read.
> -Appreciation for proper roads. The roads are like rivers...they just layer asphault over asphault until you have a roiling surface. you can literally bottom out a car just driving down a straight 'flat' road.
> -Shoes are incredibly important for a healthy spine (my shoes suck)
> -I have seen the difference in the countenance of those who serve others vs those who serve only themselves.
> -Frustrated confusion, inconsistency, and hypocricy of most organized religions (hence everyone here church hops. It's not about what you believe and what you know, but more about how warm and fuzzy the pastor makes you feel).
> -Value of family traditions and continued fellowship.
> -Horrible effects of apostasy; the higher the responsibility/knowledge, the bigger the splash. People who know too much and then reject it simply cannot sit back in their own unhappiness-they have to destroy the beliefs of others.
> -If you wont do something in the service of the Lord with Him backing you, you probably wont do it on your own.
> -Dont drink tap water (my throat was freakish!)
> -People think missionaries are confession booths. I have heard stories from people who have gone to war, who had to remove their US uniforms in order to go in basically as ghosts and they have described to me what they have had to do. I can never erase such images from my mind and I do not wish to pass them to you. I'll leave it at that.
> -Everyone complains about the cleanliness of their own house, yet refuses help when we offer service. The house could even be spotless and they still say its messy!
>
> Anyway, there's a lot more, but I want to keep this somewhat under control, hehe.
>
> I have met a few people in the film industry out here. I taught a member of the Catholic Dioces who is also an actor, and I just helped a member move into our ward and she's a costume designer for movies. I've met several digital artists as well, and have drawn pictures for every district leader I have had. :) People comission me out here and I draw their pictures for free on my p-day.
>
> Now, I'll tell you the weird foods ive eaten out here.
> -Frog Leg: Like chicken and fish combined
> -Gumbo: The best stuff ever; rice with broth and chicken and sausage!
> -Jambalaya: Spiced up rice with chicken and sausage
>
> Anyway, I'm doing fine out here. I run every morning for at least 6 minutes and am determined to keep myself up to par physically, mentally, and artistically while I'm out here. I have spent most of my free time drawing requests from other people. So far, I've drawn jesus on the water, angry jesus (not what I imagine, but that's what the guy wanted), some creative illustrations, and am currently drawing a bunch more stuff for other people too. Yeah, that's vague...but I'll just say that I got access to paints out here and some canvases (thanks to a great member) and have done some painting in the last 3 weeks. Yay!
>
> Anyway, I've attached some sample things I've drawn here and I hope you guys enjoy them. :)
>
> I'll try and keep in touch with you, now that I have your addresses. :b I have so many things I want to say, but not enough time or room to say them. As far as spiritual experiences go, I have had far too many to count, so I'll just relate the latest incident.
>
> I was walking along a street and a man flags me and my companion down and we start talking religion. Louisiana is a religion...melting pot, I suppose. Religion is a real business down here. People get rich off it. Anyways, there are a lot of churches and because of this, people bounce between religions and pastors and most that I have met have just become confused and declared themselves non-denominational (which is a misnomer, because it is a denomination). Anyway, so the guy who walks up to us is one of those who has church hopped for years, gotten frustrated, and given up on organized religion.
>
> So, we start out talking civilly about general things and all of a sudden he begins to attack mormonism based off of the anti that he has read about mormonism. Let's just say that was the beginning of the bash. The scriptures say that the holy ghost will bring all things to your rememberance. Well...there's no way that it was just me remembering all the stuff I did. We bashed for 2.5 hours standing in front of his house. Despite the argumentative nature of the conversation, it was still a conversation. It was rough around the edges and he and I combated a bit, but he still listened to what I had to say to the degree. At the very least, though, after leaving the conversation, he can no longer say that Mormons are a bunch of brain washed people who never search or learn for themselves or think outside their own box. He met with missionaries in the past who didn't stand up to him, I guess.
>
> That is one thing that I will mention that I am very proud of, with my religion is our sweet boldness in being able to say "dont take my word for it; I could be full of it. How do you know what I'm saying is true. Don't take my word for it. Read it, become your own expert on the subject and pray to know it's right because God is the only being in the universe who will not lie to you."
>
> He had read a lot of anti. He had read a lot of alligations against the church. I know what's out there to be said, I've read it too. I, myself, have been anti'd before. What it ultimately comes down to, though, is most people who get anti'd against mormonism, never truly investigate it. They will read essays on it. They will read opinions on it. In every case their information is second hand at best and slanted by the bias of someone's reconceived notion or objective. To truly investigate something, you read the source material, not commentary on the source material. How stupid would it be to take a lit class in college and never read any of the books assigned. What would happen if you just read essays on them? Your knowledge would be fragmentary and perhaps you would understand the subject from that specific angle and not for what it is on a whole.
>
> In my studies on the Holy Ghost and patterns that righteous people follow (in the Old Testiment, New Testiment, and Book of Mormon), I have found that consistently, wicked people refuse investigating true knowledge and searching for answers. They are complacant and perfectly comfortable with their own preconceived notions and remaining thus in a form of ignorance. The righteous seek out knowledge and prove the material. In 1Sam 17:39, when presented with the armor to protect him against golliath, david tries it on and then decides it isn't right. The lord had not 'proven' such a thing to him, yet he dared to put it on, heft it, and try it out and when it did not feel right, then he took it off. But, he still was open to it. That's what I ask people to do out here. I don't care if you've "been saved" i dont care if you have a million statues of mary on your front lawn, I dont care how much you pay your pastor every week. The pattern of righteousness is expansion of knowledge and self. Try it out. Read the freakin book. Dont take my word for it and dont take others either. My opinion is just as biased as the anti-mormonism essays that so many people read. Forget it all. You can argue any point if you put your mind to it. Never base your belief off the opinion of someone else. Read it yourself. Take such measures into your own hands and personally decide.
>
> We as mormons have the confidense to tell people to do this. I dont know any other church that does, and I've seen a lot of varied religions down here. I find it particularly funny that other religions have to have anti-mormon classes to keep us from converting the congregations (after all, I'm sure such classes are great to keep money in the pastor's pockets).
>
> Anyway, bashing was cool and I'm glad I survived. :D Sorry I haven't sent any mail, and since this is being posted on my blog, I might as well say hi to all the internet geeks out there! :D I began this blog rather timidly stating that i wasn't trying to shove religion down anyone's throat; I'm still not...that's not my place. Like I just said, I could be full of crap, so don't take my word about this stuff. Go to the source.
>
> That's all for now. :D
>
>

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message from wiggle

2008-01-05T13:57:00.001-07:00

Dear netizens and family,

I apologize for sparce communication, as I have been detained from emailing this message for quite some time! Enough of that though; I am doing quite well! I am very happy that people have mailed me letters and art and stuff, and by all means, if you feel like you'd like to join in, go ahead! I send stuff back. :3

My address is:

Sister Pennock
12025 Justice Ave
Baton Rouge, LA 70816

I have been keeping busy, teaching others about the restored gospel and when I can (which is about once a week), I have been drawing. I've been commissioned to draw portraits, jesus in his glory, and all kinds of things! So, I am doing well. I am missing internet fads and all kinds of things, but this kind of opportunity to devote myself 100% to my religion is a once in a lifetime opportunity and words cannot describe how marvelous the experience has been for me on a personal level, as well as how much I've been able to help people.

I'm out of time, but I'll write back as soon as I can. Don't be afraid to respond! :D AFK for now, lawl! XD

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FW: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on FW: To the People of PK, Youtube, and the Inte

2007-10-22T15:49:00.001-06:00

> Subject: Re: FW: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on FW: To the People of PK, Youtube, and the Inte
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> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:42:01 +0000
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> Thanks for the encouragement! Trust me, there will be a huge art dump when I get back. Sketcheries and watercolors...squee! :D
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> To: Becky Pennock <misswiggle@myldsmail.net>
> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:51 -0600
> Subject: FW: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on FW: To the People of PK, Youtube, and the Inte
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> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:49:39 -0700From: noreply-comment@blogger.comTo: calicocool1@msn.comSubject: [Island of the Sequined Love Nun!] New comment on FW: To the People of PK, Youtube, and the Internet....Black_Man has left a new comment on your post "FW: To the People of PK, Youtube, and the Internet...": FORWARDhey just coming past to see how things are going, seems like your doing good and thats good to hear. well i dont really have anything to say but hpe all goes well in ur time away from PK take it easy. Publish this comment. Reject this comment. Moderate comments for this blog. Posted by Black_Man to Island of the Sequined Love Nun! at October 16, 2007 2:49 AM
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2007-10-04T17:38:00.001-06:00

I'm doing well in the mission so far. It's not as crazy as everyone thinks...we
missionaries are people too! I'm surviving off of tuna and frozen burritos.
Mmmmmmm...burrito.

Anywho, I'm going to try and type out a little art advice every once in awhile
because it's advice that really is applicable to all areas of life. Whatever.
Just read. :D

----

With any piece you create, you need to give it a mood and a soul before you give
it a body. A picture that is imperfect with mood and soul reigns supreme over a
picture rendered in static technical perfection. Pictures with mood speak to
people. Technical pictures speak to analysts and scholars.

With whatever you do, make sure you focus in on an emotion, mood, or whatever
and hone in on that first. Everything that follows should build toward that
mood. It doesn't matter 'what' you draw after that...you can draw anything and
your mood will be reflected in it.

In my art class in college, we had to draw loafs of bread as a final project. I
drew it with the mood I wanted because that's what I have learned to do. When
the class analyzed it, I was amazed about how well they were able to pick up on
my mindset I had while drawing it. They said "it's a loaf of bread, but it
reminds me of an epic landscape and I don't know why." That was cool. So try it
out and master mood before technical perfection. Mood is simply what makes a
picture interesting. Everything else is an afterthought.

Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power.

Reply to Muzzoid

2007-09-24T21:27:00.001-06:00

[reply to muzzoid]

Yeah, my art has been pretty cool. I'm forced to work with pencil, which is
leading me in other directions, but that's not really a bad thing. I wish I
could post it, but I really don't see any way of doing so (unless I actually
mailed them to someone and they posted them or something extreme like that; I'm
not allowed online...my sister posts all of my responses and forwards all
message to my email inbox).

I get to draw pretty much once a week. Mondays are my preparation day and I have
from 9-6 to get my weekly shopping and laundry done...and then I can do whatever
I want with my free time. Once a week isn't that much, and perhaps as I get used
to things out here, more opportunities to draw will reveal themselves, but for
right now that's what it is.

My art is always freaky and weird. :D Environments = :D I'm thinking about
posting some monthly artistic advice on this blog thing, but well see what time
I have to do so. Anyways, bye! :D

A place for moms to take a break!

2007-09-17T19:46:00.001-06:00

Everyone we teach down here is black. Everyone. I used to think racially and
now
I really don't. People are people. Race is still an issue in some people's
minds. People have told me "now, I'm not racist or anything, but this area
was
very nice before...you know...the black people came. before Katrina, they
were
all down in New Orleans, and ever since they've come up, things have...blah
blahhh".

Not racist...yeah right!

When I get back to utah the number of white people will likely bug me.

Anyway, I have a favor to ask! I want to know the holidays for every day for
the
rest of the year. Could you go to google and search in "holiday for
everyday" or
something like that and send me a list of the holidays at least through
october?
I hope i didnt miss Talk like a Pirate day, but I bet I did.

My companion thinks that I'm the nerdiest person she's ever met. I've met
nerdier...I think. I don't know. I've explained to her that we (as in our
family) are all nerdy, just in our different ways.

I hope the peach tree isn't dead. Did the weight split it in half? Do they
taste
good this year?

I hope you're taking pictures. I know you're not, and that's why I bring it
up,
XD. Take pictures. Of stupid things. Of you. Of the cats. Of the house.
Whatever. Of jamie's little display things he makes. Take them of everything
and
prepare, because I'll be sending you my sd card with pictures I have taken.
Then, you can save those pictures to my computer and then fill the card up
with
pictures of you and send it back to me.

You never did say, that I recall, if you guys put my External Hard Drive
away. I
hope you did. That thing cost much moneys and there are thousands of hours
of
work saved to that thing that I would hate to have lost.

I'm teaching people how to draw out here on P-day. It's fun. Oh, and
missionary
work has changed so much since mom and dad came out it's not even funny.
Tracting (knocking on random doors like a soap salesman), is ineffective and
rarely implimented (and by rarely, I mean...we did it once for about 20
minutes
in the last month). The effective missionary work is done when people order
dvds
and books from the commercials and we deliver them. That a members helping.
Members are missionaries, they just don't know it. The church is going
through
major changes and I'm sure that in the next little while, emphasis on member
missionary work will change. People think of missionaries as something
completely different than being a normal member. That's wrong. Missionaries
just
do it all the time. Members are supposed to sharing the gospel actively. The
majority of our success comes from the surprisingly few who actually live
this
gospel and DO SOMETHING.

Rants.

Anyway, write me back sometime. It doesn't have to have a point...in fact, I
prefer that it doesnt. Just write something.

Bye. :D

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2007-09-04T15:36:00.000-06:00

For some reason, I can't publish your replies. Keep sending in your replies and I'll forward them to wiggle. I just can't publish them yet.

FW: To the People of PK, Youtube, and the Internets at Large!

2007-09-04T15:06:00.001-06:00

From:  "Rebecca Pennock" <MissWiggle@myldsmail.net>
To:  calicocool1@msn.com
Subject:  To the People of PK, Youtube, and the Internets at Large!
Date:  Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:24:17 +0000
>Dear netizens,
>I am doing well in my life as a missionary for my church. I can say that I have grown more as a person in the last month than I ever have in my whole life. My perspective on life has shifted and improved and I can say with confidense that what I am learning out here goes beyond just waving bibles at people. I'm learning to live for others, which is something most people never enjoy. You really discover yourself when you give up everything you think that makes up "you."Life without movies, music, video games, etc is not hard. Sure it was difficult at first, but all of those things often serve to act as noise in our lives and we forget who we really are.
>
>I was rather unhappy before coming out here, and devoting everything to the service of others has been a real eye opener. I suggest to any of you that feel unhappy or unsatisfied with your lives to forget yourself and try and help other people out by volunteering in your community in some way.
>
>Artistically, I have not given up art, but rather redirected it. Out here in the mission field, we devote all our time and energies to what we call a consecrated lifestyle. We devote everything that we are, have, think, and do to the work. It really is an incredibly focussed lifestyle. My artwork has not stopped, just redirected. I do not know if I will be able to send any pictures that I have done, but just know that I am doing well.
>
>I hope all of you are drawing and sketching as much as you can as constructively as you can. I hope you are taking the time to help yourselves grow. Just remember that we all have potential as well as weakness. With practice, we realise our strengths and with help from others, we can let go of the things that we don't need in our art. Take advice from others--everyone has blindspots they cannot see and you will learn much faster by being submissive to critique instead of defensive. The attitude with which you approach critique, advice, and your drawing will make all the difference for you. Remember that if it does not build, it distracts. Remember there is beauty and power in simplicity and confidense. And also remember that bad days and slumps are part of a regular cycle and that in such instances, looking outside yourself for inspiration is your best bet to get over them more quickly.
>
>Regarding the blog I have set up, I want to say this: I made this blog to communicate with friends and family and let them know how I was doing while I am away. This is not a blog for religious propaganda. I will not preach to you. I will not shove religious jargon down your throats--that is not my place, out here, or in writing letters to you.
>
>This blog is to let you know how I am doing. I am not trying to change you, I am trying to stay in contact with people who I consider friends. If you feel the need to reply, please do so. I want to know how you guys are doing.
>
>I do not want this blog to turn into a spawning ground for flaming other people's beliefs.
>
>I made the blog with the intent to let people know how I was doing and stuff and how I felt so they could keep up to date while I'm away. I didn't make it as a religious propaganda site. So, comments replying in regard to any religious belief are off the point of the entire blog and will not be allowed.
>
>The blog is for people to talk to me and I to them. Anything that deviates that, including those posting comments to further their own agendas and otherwise seek to destroy the beliefs of others will not be tolerated. There are other places to spam that garbage.
>
>I am hurt that people would seek to use my blog for these purposes. This is a blog for friends. I don't have a terrible amount of time to type anymore, I have to get back to work. Please be constructive. Please type something meaningful if you wish to send any message to me. If any more inflamatory emails are sent to me, I will have to stop reading these replies altogether. If these comments distract me from my work, I cannot afford to give my time to them, because I have very little time at all.
>
>I hope you all are doing well and look forward to hearing from any of you that are interested in contacting me in any way. I love letters...and I love people sending drawings and stuff. If you want to send me a physical letter, the address is below.
>
>Sister Pennock
>12025 Justice Avenue
>Baton Rouge LA, 70816
>
>-Wigz
>
>

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FW: Don't eat the chicken.

2007-08-27T15:58:00.001-06:00

From:  "Rebecca Pennock" <MissWiggle@myldsmail.net>
To:  Calicocool1@msn.com
Subject:  Don't eat the chicken.
Date:  Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:55:57 +0000
>I finally got access to email! I hope you guys received the messages I sent earlier. They were really all I could write given the time constraints. They didn't want me to write you unless it was p-day anyway, so that really cut my opportunities down.
>
>
>Everything seems to be going fine here. People moan and groan about the heat down here but I love it. It's just a different kind of heat. It's not all that bad. Utah doesn't have clouds or trees. This place has real trees and makes clouds. I miss the mountains, but there are other things down here to gawk at, so it's not all that bad.
>
>When I thought of Louisiana, I imagined a lot of forests scattered with trailer homes and old sheds with half crazed hicks sitting on their porches with shotguns. Not quite right. I got the trailer homes part right, though. Basically, it makes central Ogden look like the Hilton. This place is a ghetto. The whole state is a ghetto. There's a whole history about how the acadians came down and settled then proceeded to inbreed because no one else was around. This place is decades in the past and the ghettos are vast and everything is really very dirty.
>
>The whole place seems to suffer from a curse of complacency. It's like with everything they have, they tend to just neglect it. Their roads were built but never really kept up. Their homes are just fine, but they simply don't take care of them. Their religions suffer from the same complacency. Most people think that if they simply profess Jesus a couple times in their lives all their sins will be forgiven them. One of the favorite rebuttles at doorsteps is the phrase "i'm catholic." It doesn't mean anything; they could have gone to church a couple of times in their whole lives and that's how they justify everything.
>
>This state is the obesity capital of the nation and it shows. There are waffle houses and Ihops all over the place. You could pretty well judge the general population off of how many ihops are in one town. People here neglect themselves physically too (this includes church members). It's really quite sad. It's like the people are as stagnant as the swamp water.
>
>In any case, I'm just trying to adjust. The MTC teaches you some incredibly basic of basics. You think you're ready, then you get out here and figure out that everything you learn in the MTC you pretty much have to re-learn out here.
>
>I am a missionary infant. I cannot speak properly, I cannot go anywhere without help, my mind is only able to be focussed on the immediate present, and I feel like a bliss ninny. I'm not stressing out about it, I'm just doing the work that people tell me too. I'm sure many missionaries feel this and they are used to dealing with it, so if I just do what they say and work as hard as I can, what more can I do?
>
>Food here is fattening. I saw a woman eating a piece of fried chicken for dinner with a side of cooked hamburger and this greasy green stuff. The smell was quite overpowering. It could have been the cigarette smoke...i dont know. It was just a little icky.
>
>I don't ride a bike, I ride in a car. Our area is too dangerous for sisters to really rely on bikes. We are supposed to be out until 9pm, but we stop as the sun goes down and work on other things because it's dangerous after dark.
>
>It's hard to sleep. I am in a ghetto hobo apartment on the side of a highway behind a gas station. I thought sean's apartment was ghetto, but this one is wayyyyyy more ghetto. I could rake the hair up from the carpet. The place smells of cigarrettes and playdough. The fan swings wildly on the ceiling, our oven is broken, we don't have a dishwasher and our mattresses are on the floor. I like it...with the exception of the hair in the carpet and the smell...and the noise. It's hard to sleep at night. Cars, people, highway, etc. I'm just glad I brought earplugs.
>
>That's all I can type for now. Adios!
>

Now you can see troublebefore he arrives

becky's farewell talk

2007-07-30T09:26:00.001-06:00

I'd like for you to imagine for a moment, that you were trying to draw a straight line. You put you pencil on the paper at a point and begin to stroke. The line, while aiming to be straight and true is riddled with subtle (and not so subtle) curvatures. Now imagine that you were to try again, only this time you create two dots or two points and draw a line between them, then beyond. With two points of reference, a straight line is made possible and it stands in bold contrast to the first in clarity and in power.

A lot of you know I'm up to my neck in art. I'm not here to tell you about line drawing, though; I am here to talk about witnesses. Specifically about the Book of Mormon and how it testifies of Christ. Like the two dots on this page, the Book of Mormon and the Bible are separate distinct works, but relay the same message: That Christ lives. He died for our sins, and through him we may be saved.

The Bible testifies of Christ. The Old Testament tells of the prophecies concerning Christ's coming as well as God's promises to His children. The New Testament tells of his life and mortal ministry and also his Divine Sacrifice. Now, most of the books in the bible span many many generations of time. The New Testament is different--specifically the four gospels Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. These gospels offer view of one lifetime, which is the life of Christ. Why do four books of scripture talk about the same life? Wouldn't that be easier if we rolled it up into one? Couldn't we order that to go? It is no coincidence in my mind that the four gospels all address the life of Christ and the vents pertaining to His mortal ministry. They testify of Jesus' divine ministry on earth and form a clearer and bolder picture than just one of them alone. They corroborate to give us a greater understanding of His life.

In this same regard, the Book of Mormon stands in compliment to the message of the Bible. Together, shaky doctrines are not changed, but clarified. Together they stand as corroborating witnesses to His ultimate sacrifice. They are here to proclaim boldly and loudly that the Redeemer Lives.

The Book of Mormon proves that the heavens are not sealed and truth and revelations yet remain for us to feast upon. It confirms the validity of Biblical doctrine. John speaks of "other sheep" in chapter 10, verse 16:

"And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."

Who was Christ talking about? The gentiles? His mission was to preach to the Jews alone, the gentiles would be taught by His disciples. There are passages of scripture where the Savior refused to teach Gentiles because that was not His mission. "Other Sheep" speak of the house of Israel. He was sent to teach "the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

The Bible further prophecies of the coming of the Book of Mormon. You've all heard in Ezekiel the scripture stating that the stick of Judah and Joseph becoming one? We interpret that to mean that the word of the house of Judah (or Jews, or the Bible) will become one with the word of Joseph (or the house of Ephraim, the Book of Mormon). We claim these "sticks" to be volumes of scripture, and we are not alone in that interpretation. In the New Translated Bible, it confirms this. We do not believe the New Translated Bible to be more correct than the King James Version. I bring it up because scholars who have poured over it and studied it interpreted the passage in the same way we do. It states:

This word of the LORD came to me 16.'O man, take one leaf of a wooden tablet and write on it, "Judah and the Israelites associated with him". Then take another leaf and write on it, "Joseph, the leaf of Ephraim and all the Israelite tribes". 17 Now bring the two together to form one tablet; then they will be a folding tablet in your hand. 18 When your fellow-countrymen ask you to tell them what you mean by this, 19 say to them: The Lord GOD has said: I am taking the leaf of Joseph, which belongs to Ephraim and the other tribes of Israel, and joining to it the leaf of Judah. Thus I shall make them one tablet, and they will be one in my hand. 20 When the leaves on which you write are there in your hand for all to see, 21 say to them: The Lord GOD has said: I am going to take the Israelites from their places of exile among the nations; I shall assemble them from every quarter and restore them to their own soil. 22 I shall make them a single nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will be over them all. No longer will they be two nations, no longer divided into two kingdoms.

Writing on two tablets, one of Judah the other of Ephraim joining together and becoming one.

Another purpose of the Book of Mormon is to testify that Joseph Smith was a prophet and there are prophets in this day.

In Moroni 7:5 it says"

"For I remember the word of God which saith by their works ye shall know them, for if their works be good, then they are good also."

The Book of Mormon answers fundamental questions about life. Who are we? Where did we come from? How can we be happy? It helps us live in a way that is fulfilling. It teaches self improvement and repentance for our mistakes so that we can become better people. It helps us envision a righteous future. Is that not a positive message?

Read the Book of Mormon. Experiment for yourself to see if it is true.

(Alma 32:27)
But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words."

(Ether 4:11)
"But he that believeth these things which I have spoken, him will I visit with the manifestations of my Spirit, and he shall know and bear record. For because of my Spirit he shall know that these things are true; for it persuadeth men to do good."

Now, I'm going to switch gears a little bit and relate to you a story. A lot of you don't know me, so I'll just say that I am an internet geek. I practically grew up online. In any case, when I was twelve, I was very gung ho about religion and decided to see just what the internet had to say about it. I happened upon some forums where there was a topic about Mormonism. At least 10 people in that forum were dedicating their time and energies to systematically and scientifically proving that it was a false work of scripture. They decried our beliefs and history and it always seemed to fall back on the Book of Mormon's validity. If the Book of Mormon weren't true, Joseph Smith was a hoax who died a senseless death and we were all just as foolish for following him.

And they were right in where they aimed their attack. The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. Joseph Smith himself said it. "Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none."

They presented data, studies, and other scientific evidence to disprove its validity. They fought fiercely, and I defended as best as I could.

I learned 2 things from that experience. The first is to never argue religion. If both parties don't agree to disagree, then there is no discussion, only 2 sides getting really mad and blowing a whole lot of hot air at each other.

The second thing I learned is the difference between facts and truth. Facts are things you learn in school, book, essays, and other educations sources. It is knowledge recorded, transferable to anyone with the capacity to understand it.

Truth is also knowledge, but knowledge born out of experience. You cannot know truth until you've experienced truth. You cannot know truth, unless you've lived truth. Truth takes constructive personal effort, experience upon experience, line upon line, like drops of water depositing tiny particles of rock to form a stalactite in a cave, or like the formation of ice cycles as water drips in the freezing cold.

The logic of those people with whom I argued was strong and at times convincing. Logic and facts can reduce any argument to shreds, but can it explain the feeling you get when you know something is right? When you know from experience that it is true? Can facts and statistics prove that you love you mother, father, spouse, children, and siblings? It cannot.

(Moroni 10:4)
And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Could I give that to them? Could I make them understand? You cannot know truth unless you've lived truth. It's not something you can just order on EBay.

(Moroni 10:5)
"And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."

It is by the Spirit that you experience truth. You must take that first step yourself. You must experiment and see for yourself. No one can do it for you and therein lies the challenge. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Ask and ye shall receive. Knowing truth takes effort. Knowing truth takes faith.

I bear my testimony to you that I have known truth. It has changed me, steered me on the right course, and kept me afloat when I had no strength left. This gospel is real. The Book of Mormon is real. It is a witness to Jesus' mission as our savior and redeemer, and I pray that through the testimonies of these two corroborating works of scripture we may all stand as witnesses to their truth.

And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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2007-07-07T11:33:00.000-06:00

Test number one.

Hooray for pre-made cookie cutter web design! Oh well, I'm too lazy to alter it so deal with it's dull drab decor.

This blog is going to be the hub of communication to relatives and fellow internet junkies while I am away serving a mission in Louisiana until roughly February 2009.

For those in the dark about this whole "mission" thing, no, I am not Tom Cruiz or anything. I am volunteering my time and my pitiful moneys to going door to door for a year and a half and talking to others about my religion. Most people will probably think I'm a desperate vaccuum salesman. Just to let you know, in case this didn't smack you upside the head at the beginning of this paragraph, I am giving up college, moneys, and time to do this. I am not trying to squeeze money out of you or take advantage of you, or convince you to dress in purple robes and commit suicide with the lofty thought of floating around on a comet with a probe sticking out your---well, you get the idea.

Volunteering of information that has helped me immensely in my own personal life. Take it or leave it.

Anywho, there it is. This blog will officially have a practical function as of August 1st, 2007 when I depart for the Missionary Training Center in Provo Utah. After that time, communication will be all but zilch, but hopefully with the power of email my sister and I can effectively use this blog to communicate to the masses and throngs that are interested in keeping up to date with my happenings.

In the mean time, I am still here, so watch these videos I made, dangit! You won't see much more art before I go, so cherish the crap I produce while I still have the means to produce it!

History of Wiggish/Becktorian Art (progressively since I began in 2002)

Latest Sketch Video (number 9, I believe)