Intro by an Amateur Blogger

I'm Korrin Jackson Y'all, the other author of this blog. As Kylie has previous stated we started this blog so that when out dear friends Amanda and Emily get back in December of 2014 and January of 2015 they can read up on our crazy adventures in the life of an average college student. Since Kylie and I go to two different colleges there should be many that have nothing to do with each other. I hope you can keep up. 

Since I am not as "experienced" in the blogging world as my counterpart my sections may be shorter and slightly less funny.  Although on occasion I am definitely more hilarious than Kylie.(she is weird) Please bear with me as I write this. Most of my posts will probably be about weird things that kids said to me because I now hold a full time position as an After School Club leader in the City of Logan.  This doesn't start till school starts though...

As previously mentioned when the missionary age changed in the October 2012 conference many of my friends felt like the Lord was speaking straight to them.  However, the only thought that came to me as I heard that historic announcement in my tiny dorm room was that it was a life changing announcement and that it was the coolest thing that could be said at that conference.  Over the next few weeks I was constantly asked "Are you going?" to which I replied, "I don't know yet." My parents thought that it was the right move for me, but they didn't know if that was the Spirit telling them that, or if they just wanted me to go because they personally know what a mission does for a young person, having both gone themselves.  I prayed for months, always pondering on whether it was right for me to go and if that was the Lord's plan for me. I used all my resources, prayer, scripture study, patriachical blessing, conference, everything, and I was still unsure. Then one day in my Study of Modern Prophets Institute class I got my for sure answer.  Institute is a wonderful place to recieve inspiration.  Going wasn't in my cards.  The Lord needed me to stay at Utah State because there were people there who needed me.  

Now I am one of the few who got the no answer.  And I get some funny looks by people who don't understand, going to school and helping the people around me is as much of a mission as flying off to a different place.  This is my mission for now, it may not be a Church appointed one, but it is defintely one that was given by Heavenly Father. 

I hope that other people read this and are blessed by it.  Maybe they are having seperation anxiety from their own dear friends, or boyfriends/girlfriends, and need to know that they are not alone. They will be here with me.  Most of it will be weird and you may not get all the references (Warning: we are total nerds/geeks) but it will be good. After all, we are both amateur writers. 

-Korrin