I am starting a list of books I have read and it is a great experience and I have decided to put it on my blog the first book series I've read was the percy jackson books the lightning theif, sea of monsters, the labyrinth, and number 4 and 5 I read that series 3 times I do not think this is in order because I know I took break's.. I also read the diary of a wimpy kid, Rodrick rules,  the last straw, the ugly truth, cabin fever, and The third wheel I'll tell you the rest when i come back I need to find more books see you later

Birthday Preisthood Temple Life is Awesome.

My birthday was a while ago.  My favorite thing I got was probably my archery target. I've been shooting my bow a lot.  In the morning I was ordained a deacon.  The bishop was nice enough to meet with me at seven o clock in the morning to get my temple recommend.  Then we went to Grandma Jello's and I had my ordination.  It was really fun. We had it in the front room.  It feels really good to have the preisthood. We had breakfast.  I had a lot of little smokies sausages. Those were a surprise from Grandma Jello's for me.  We had quiche and peach cobbler.  We were able to go straight to the temple, that's why we had the ordination so early. It was awesome. I felt the spirit so strong.  Grandpa Jello was able to come with us and all of my brothers except for Seth.  Deacon's quorum is fun. On my birthday I went to Airborn trampoline arena.

School on Friday was awesome. I'm off track now, and Nate's coming on the 14th of December. On Friday we had an auction.  In school we have a thing called ledger dollars you get for getting good math scores and stuff like that. Whenever you go off track you have an auction. We had that on Friday. I got a two liter bottle of Sierra Mist. We also had a ledger party which you can pay fifty ledger dollars and go to a ledger party every three weeks. It is really fun. You do a lot of fun stuff.  I did the most pushup in my class. I did 42.

I'm so excited for Nate to get here. We're going to build a catapult.  Or, in other words, a josephpult.

We went to the temple with Nate the day before Thanksgiving. His knee was blown out but he still came to the temple with me.

I'm fasting and I like hot dogs.

Today Seth and I were outside playing. I was rollerblading, and he was riding his bike.  One time we were going separate directions, I was going toward Grandma Jello's house while he was going toward our house, but then, right as I was going into Grandma Jello's driveway, I was strongly prompted to go back.  I turned around, started towards my house, and when I was about three feet from Seth (because I'm faster on roller blades than he is on his bike), Seth's front tire slipped.  When his head was about two inches away from a giant railroad tie, I was able to grab his jacket and pull him up with his bike. I don't think I would have been able to do it unless I was given power by Heavenly Father.  Normally, I would have fallen down with his bike. Since I got power from Heavenly Father, I was able to save Seth from stitches. I see this as a huge tender mercy.   If I wasn't there, he may have been really really hurt.

Plays and flag football

I just had two plays just couple days ago. Robin Hood play and The Home school play. On Friday I  had two dress rehearsals. I also had A play. It was a busy day. Saturday, the day after I had the Robinhood play. 

In Robinhood, I was Friar Tuck.  We practiced for months, it was hard yet fun.  I had to gain some weight for the play (mostly out of pillows).   One of my favorite parts in the play was singing the "Love" song, and then I danced as a Ballerina.  It was hilarious wearing the pillows.  It was fun to be in the play with Quincy, Jake, Hailey, Avery, Annie, Brylea and Logan and other people. It was also fun to have Coy and Mookie and Spencer as stage crew. 

The homeschool play was just as fun with Richard, Sam, Josh, Tanner, McKell, Brian, Hannah, Mariah, Anna, Gabriella, Micah and Annie.   I was in a couple of parts. The one I loved best was the Operatic Tragedy.  In that I was the villain.  I was also in folk songs, Emporer's New Clothes, Pirates of Penzance(which was my second favorite), No Business Like Show Business, and two dances, the Virginia Reel and the dance from Pride and Prejudice

     I haven't told you about flag football. I was the MVP (most valuable player), most of the players told me that.  Throughout the whole season I had about fifteen touchdowns, three interceptions, and about 25 runs.  I had a lot of fun in flag football, and I only made it to one of the three practices they had, so it seemed short, but it was still really fun.  

My Testimony Today...

At church today I needed to find a picture or a story and find out what it means by myself with no help. That really showed me what potential I had and how wonderful my testimony is.  Without scriptures or the back of the picture, I knew what the story was. I knew that story like the back of my hand.   I knew everything that happened there.   

I know Heavenly Father loves me. I really like His plan to come down to earth and live a mortal life.  I'm grateful that Jesus Christ atoned for our sins so we could be forgiven, and He gave His life so we could live with Him again, in other words, be resurrected.   I'm thankful taht the prophets of old had the idea  of keeping a record of what happened. The scriptures have the answer to almost every spiritual question.  Joseph Smith is my hero.  I'm really glad my parents named me after Him.  He is a very great example.  President Monson is a great prophet. He is a very great prophet. I think the choice with Him being the prophet is a very great choice.  I've never met him, but as far as I hear from him in general conference, I can tell that He is a very great man.  I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

I've only got one week until I go off track, and then after that I only have three weeks until I go off for three whole months. I am going to home school next year.  It's going to be really fun, because Annie is going to home school with me. We're going to play a lot. We're going to play on the tramp almost every morning, I bet.  We are going to have so much fun, and I'm finally going to be able to help Annie with her studies for school.   Colton Hendriksen came up to me and said that he would have a longer summer than me. He's only having six weeks.  I'm having a three month summer.  He was all bragging and I was like "Actually, Colton, I'm home schooling" and he said "ah, dang it!"  Then he went to Spencer and bragged and Spencer said "Actually, I have the same because I'm going into 7th grade. 

Today we passed the 2000 mark on reverence points. We haven't had our reverence points party. We're having it on Tuesday this week, so now we have another party to go on now, which I'm pretty sure is going to be swimming.  We're playing night games for our first party, in case you're wondering. 

I play kickball or soccer almost every day at recess.  We have so much fun.  Sometimes the second graders challenge us. They have strength in numbers. They have three classes of second graders and we only have about one class of fourth graders.  It's a pretty even match.  I'm doing really good at kick ball.  I get at least two outs every outing.  I'm actually very good at offensive kickball, too. I can kick it way past second base.  When I do, I get to about third base before anyone even gets close to getting me out. 

That's what's going on now.