Now that I have the blogger app, I may actually post now.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Starting a business
Starting a business is intense. I love it but it can be very time consuming. I have found doing your research on landlords is very worth it! Well see if I can have this up and running soon.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Friday, October 29, 2010
A New Beginning
I have decided that I need to write on my blog more often to hone my writing skills for my major and future career.
Right now my wife and I are living in Provo. We both go to BYU and have approximately 2 and a half years left. I am majoring in Public Relations and contemplating adding Linguistics as a double major and adding a Management minor.
Life is busy and I am learning to balance marriage, work, and school. For the first time in my life I am putting school over work instead of trying to build my resume and it is paying off. I am in my pre-major courses for Public Relations and am doing much better than I was in Engineering. I am loving my new found course.
At the end of my mission for my church, I spent a lot of time planning events and contacting media to get the gospel out. I planned a community event where the community was able to learn about Russia from a returned missionary from that country. It was well attended and created a great opportunity for individuals to learn more about our church and foster favorable feelings for my church. I also tried to get on the radio with a pitch that we would be able to answer questions about Mitt Romney's Faith for those participating voting in the primaries. We were rejected but it was worth a try. I realized that there was so much available to distribute information for free using the mass media. It was my favorite approach to proselyting. I came home and tried my hand at Engineering thinking that as I was good with my hands and analytical, I would do well. I struggled especially in math and didn't enjoy it very much. It is no wonder that today I am looking at PR. I LOVE IT, it is so fun for me. I am able to be analytical and solve problems but through communication.
Right now my wife and I are living in Provo. We both go to BYU and have approximately 2 and a half years left. I am majoring in Public Relations and contemplating adding Linguistics as a double major and adding a Management minor.
Life is busy and I am learning to balance marriage, work, and school. For the first time in my life I am putting school over work instead of trying to build my resume and it is paying off. I am in my pre-major courses for Public Relations and am doing much better than I was in Engineering. I am loving my new found course.
At the end of my mission for my church, I spent a lot of time planning events and contacting media to get the gospel out. I planned a community event where the community was able to learn about Russia from a returned missionary from that country. It was well attended and created a great opportunity for individuals to learn more about our church and foster favorable feelings for my church. I also tried to get on the radio with a pitch that we would be able to answer questions about Mitt Romney's Faith for those participating voting in the primaries. We were rejected but it was worth a try. I realized that there was so much available to distribute information for free using the mass media. It was my favorite approach to proselyting. I came home and tried my hand at Engineering thinking that as I was good with my hands and analytical, I would do well. I struggled especially in math and didn't enjoy it very much. It is no wonder that today I am looking at PR. I LOVE IT, it is so fun for me. I am able to be analytical and solve problems but through communication.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Proposal
I am getting Married!!!!!!!!!!!
So I should probably tell the Proposal Story.....it is a good one, lol.
I decided early in December to ask Celeste on New Years Eve to marry me . I wanted it to be a surprise but since we both had prayed about it and received our yeses and she had seen the ring, surprising was going to be hard. The idea came to me to fly out New Years eve and surprise her while she was home on break. On her property in Santa Rosa there is a tree swing in the woods overlooking a small bluff down to a pond. We had shared a special moment up there over thanksgiving and so I decided that would be the perfect spot to propose. I continued to feign lameness in my ability to come up with a good idea.
Meanwhile Celeste was plotting to surprise me at home at Christmas: I got home after a long 16hr drive..I was so tired. Suddenly Celeste jumped on me. It was dark and it all happened so fast I thought first it was a sister, then was the though get off me strange woman I am almost engaged, finally it hit me. Best Christmas present ever!
So i was good, and able to keep a secret while she visited. I continued to plot with Celeste's mom-Kathy to make the proposal great. Kathy told Celeste that they were having family pictures on New Years eve and that she had a Company breakfast with Celeste's dad-John which where fibs to have Celeste dressed up and so Kathy had an alibi while picking me up. Three days before the proposal i sent two love letters for Celeste's to her mom for her to give Celeste each day. The second letter said "tomorrows letter will be in a special place." She of course new this would be the swing.
Day of the Proposal.
First thing that went wrong is my itinerary never made it to Kathy so she arrived and hour and forty minutes early to the airport to pick me up. So she told Celeste she had to help clean the breakfast up, which Celeste believed.
Second thing that went wrong was while setting up the camera in the tree, I fell and dislocated my shoulder. lol. I was only about a foot and a half in the tree, but the side i fell from looked over the bluff. I fell about 8 feet and rolled another twenty, one of said rolls thankfully popped my shoulder back into place.. Poor Kathy was watching in horror thinking that today was going to include an ER trip. lol. I had mud from the knee down on my right leg, and on my back and arms. I quickly cleaned up the best i could and told Kathy to send Celeste my way. Kathy, still rather shooken up pretended she had fallen and was upset about getting her shoes muddy depositing the last letter to try to cover for the shakiness.
The last letter was on the swing folded in thirds, the second page being my itinerary. On top was the outer box the ring box came in with a bow on top. After hitting record on the video camera i quickly hid in a crack in the bluff below the swing and waited, for what seemed like forever. I prayed so hard that when she came up the trail below me on her four wheeler she would not see me...she didn't. I listened above as she preceded towards the swing. I knew she had seen the box, when she paused for five seconds. I then waited until a little after the footsteps stopped to emerge from my hiding place. She had been thinking first- he better not propose through letter, then- no way, could it be, no, he is too poor. As she read the letter she could see the itinerary through it. The suspense was building. As i came around the bluff up the hill she says "David Shurtleff!!!!!!" I then go to one knee and, well....proposed, lol. She all most cried and we kissed. She didn't hear me say we are on camera, lol, and i didn't hear her say YES, lol. It was a day to remember!
So I should probably tell the Proposal Story.....it is a good one, lol.
I decided early in December to ask Celeste on New Years Eve to marry me . I wanted it to be a surprise but since we both had prayed about it and received our yeses and she had seen the ring, surprising was going to be hard. The idea came to me to fly out New Years eve and surprise her while she was home on break. On her property in Santa Rosa there is a tree swing in the woods overlooking a small bluff down to a pond. We had shared a special moment up there over thanksgiving and so I decided that would be the perfect spot to propose. I continued to feign lameness in my ability to come up with a good idea.
Meanwhile Celeste was plotting to surprise me at home at Christmas: I got home after a long 16hr drive..I was so tired. Suddenly Celeste jumped on me. It was dark and it all happened so fast I thought first it was a sister, then was the though get off me strange woman I am almost engaged, finally it hit me. Best Christmas present ever!
So i was good, and able to keep a secret while she visited. I continued to plot with Celeste's mom-Kathy to make the proposal great. Kathy told Celeste that they were having family pictures on New Years eve and that she had a Company breakfast with Celeste's dad-John which where fibs to have Celeste dressed up and so Kathy had an alibi while picking me up. Three days before the proposal i sent two love letters for Celeste's to her mom for her to give Celeste each day. The second letter said "tomorrows letter will be in a special place." She of course new this would be the swing.
Day of the Proposal.
First thing that went wrong is my itinerary never made it to Kathy so she arrived and hour and forty minutes early to the airport to pick me up. So she told Celeste she had to help clean the breakfast up, which Celeste believed.
Second thing that went wrong was while setting up the camera in the tree, I fell and dislocated my shoulder. lol. I was only about a foot and a half in the tree, but the side i fell from looked over the bluff. I fell about 8 feet and rolled another twenty, one of said rolls thankfully popped my shoulder back into place.. Poor Kathy was watching in horror thinking that today was going to include an ER trip. lol. I had mud from the knee down on my right leg, and on my back and arms. I quickly cleaned up the best i could and told Kathy to send Celeste my way. Kathy, still rather shooken up pretended she had fallen and was upset about getting her shoes muddy depositing the last letter to try to cover for the shakiness.
The last letter was on the swing folded in thirds, the second page being my itinerary. On top was the outer box the ring box came in with a bow on top. After hitting record on the video camera i quickly hid in a crack in the bluff below the swing and waited, for what seemed like forever. I prayed so hard that when she came up the trail below me on her four wheeler she would not see me...she didn't. I listened above as she preceded towards the swing. I knew she had seen the box, when she paused for five seconds. I then waited until a little after the footsteps stopped to emerge from my hiding place. She had been thinking first- he better not propose through letter, then- no way, could it be, no, he is too poor. As she read the letter she could see the itinerary through it. The suspense was building. As i came around the bluff up the hill she says "David Shurtleff!!!!!!" I then go to one knee and, well....proposed, lol. She all most cried and we kissed. She didn't hear me say we are on camera, lol, and i didn't hear her say YES, lol. It was a day to remember!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Life is Great
So I had a really good Elders Qurum lesson today that i really needed to hear. So lately everything in life has felt extra tough...everything, and like well im not being successful anywhere in my life, lol. Even thought I have felt this way i new that i was blesssed, and i was able to maintain perspective that my life really was blessed and i am actually doing realitvely really well, but things were still hard and i wasn't as happy as a used to be. So today we were talking in Elders quorum about Joseph Smith and Sections 121-122 of D&C (hehe...yeah my life hard, lol, right) and I realised from the disscussion that i was going through trials!! lol go figure. The significance of this realization for me is that now i know that it isn't my fault things are hard and that its just life....i can quit blaming myself or thinking there is something wrong with me, and just be like...hey it'll be over soon...On my mission when trials came (there were a lot so i recognized them more easily, lol) i would get excited cause i knew somthing good was about to happen...no i can be excited again, cause somthing good IS about to happen!!!!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Um...yeah this is first attempt at this...
HEY EVERYONE I HAVE A BLOG!!! there you go shayna and all you shurtleffs...i have joined the club..soo...now i got to figure it out more
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