Skyler has entered a contest in which he had to build a website. Here is what he has done, it brings most of his businesses together.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
And the winner is...
A note from Susan, Skyler's sister:
Thank you sooooo much to everyone who entered my contest to win a date with Skyler! I would have said thank you to all the "girls", but we had one guy enter too. Too funny! Anyway, at long last I'm here to announce the winner. (We did the drawing last night over the phone and webcam with Skyler.) And the winner is...
BROOKE B.
So be expecting a call from Skyler soon! And thank you again everyone for entering and being such great sports! Stay tuned in 3 years to win a date with Jason Carr! :)
Thank you sooooo much to everyone who entered my contest to win a date with Skyler! I would have said thank you to all the "girls", but we had one guy enter too. Too funny! Anyway, at long last I'm here to announce the winner. (We did the drawing last night over the phone and webcam with Skyler.) And the winner is...
BROOKE B.
So be expecting a call from Skyler soon! And thank you again everyone for entering and being such great sports! Stay tuned in 3 years to win a date with Jason Carr! :)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Win a Date wtih Skyler!
I posted this once before on here, but it was a little premature. So now I am posting it again. For those of you who don't know, I (Susan, Skyler's sister) am holding a contest to win a date with Skyler when he gets home from Spain soon. Either leave a comment on here to enter, or email me directly at carr_susan_e@yahoo.com . I will draw a name from the entries from a hat in a couple weeks, so hurry, hurry! For any of those mom's out there who want to enter their daughter, that is totally fair, so email me. Skyler is an AWESOME guy, as you can tell by this blog if you read his letters home, and it totally fun too.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
the end of an epic ride 1 Sept 2010
I am left with very little time. I have been pushing back all of the going home stuff as long as i could, but i have run out of room to run, so i had a good long reading session. Trunky. Bah.
Alright, on to the real stuff.
The Lord is really being merciful and letting us be really busy this week. It is helping so much. There are wierd moments, but it is super easy to get rid of those since this is a strict contacting mission. Just stop someone and talk. It is really easy to get rid of sucky feelings when focusing on helping someone else feel something. Sadly, when we are in the apartment there are no people to stop, and since everyone is sick of listening to me i decided to come up with something to distract me. Honestly you would think it would be like a journal or scriptures or something like that, but i will be honest, its not. Not at all. I found an EFY song i like so i am coreographing a dance for it and we are going to do it as an apartment boy band on the last day and record it... No buts about it.
Hmm, probably didnt need to share that, but whats done is done.
Oh, interesting thing happened. A man from the Mormon Channel podcast thing came to the temple to interview people about it. He interviewed Elder Middleton and me and it should come out in november. I doubt we will get a part in it since he said he has over 30 hours of audio for a 30 minute segment with narrative, but it was a cool 13 minute experience so no worries.
Alright, couple of things. We have seen a miracle in the life of a guy we started teaching last week. Mostly just the total turn around in his life. He came to us with scars on his arms from his depression and cutting saying his life was a wreck and he didnt know what to do. We got to explain and it pretty much came down to the fact that he got here a while ago and fell in love with a prostitute and his relationship with here was destroying his life...... Duh. That was a no brainer. We got to have some really good spiritual throw downs with him and in just a week it has been incredible to see the change. Kind of interesting point- the things he likes the most about the church is the hymn book. (sorry this is all so jumpy, i am way out of time) He is done with her, going back to his country to try to fix things in his life and get back with his family, and when he gets back he is going to be baptized. One thing that really hit me was when he was explaining the first meeting we set up with him he had fallen asleep right before. While he was asleep he says he felt his bed shaking as if somebody was trying to get him to wake up and when he woke up there was nobody but he suddenly remembered the appointment and came running. The rest has changed his life.
The next thing was with Alvaro, the young man we have been working with toward a baptismal date. We sat down with him last night because he has been having hard time and we needed to have a heart to heart. We have been wondering if he was really ready to be baptized because we didnt just want him to join the church because of our friendship and have him fall when we leave. We wanted to have our own confirmation before setting up the interview. We started casually asking hte baptismal interview questions and it was really sketchy at first. We asked if he believed God was his Father. He said that he didnt really know what that meant. We asked if he believed in Jesus Christ and he said that he didnt really understand how it worked. We asked if he believed in Pres Monson as the living prophet and he said he didnt know enough to say honestly, but that he did like how when he read anything by him it made him want to be better. Then we asked if he believed the church had been restored and he said that what he felt and saw really made him believe it was, but that he was really trying to be sure. HE then reminded us of something we taught him in the beginning. He said that when we told him that as he read the book of mormon his testimony would grow he knew it was true and he has seen it happen. Better but not quite there. We decided to ask why he even wanted to be baptised. HE said that he wanted to be clean, he wanted to be a new person and start again. We asked what that meant for him and he said that he would get to live every moment of his life trying to progress towards God so that he could get to know him better. When he said that we both felt it. He was doing everything right and he was really seeing miracles in his life.
I wish i had time to be cheesy and come up with a good ending for this, but i will leave that for the sleepy homecoming.
Quick note: i think the most powerful random feeling right now is that of gratitude. I just keep thinking about how many incredible things i have seen, done and learned and cannot believe i got the chance to be a part of it all.
Its true. All of it.
Love,
Elder Carr
Defender of the Faith
185 lbs.
Alright, on to the real stuff.
The Lord is really being merciful and letting us be really busy this week. It is helping so much. There are wierd moments, but it is super easy to get rid of those since this is a strict contacting mission. Just stop someone and talk. It is really easy to get rid of sucky feelings when focusing on helping someone else feel something. Sadly, when we are in the apartment there are no people to stop, and since everyone is sick of listening to me i decided to come up with something to distract me. Honestly you would think it would be like a journal or scriptures or something like that, but i will be honest, its not. Not at all. I found an EFY song i like so i am coreographing a dance for it and we are going to do it as an apartment boy band on the last day and record it... No buts about it.
Hmm, probably didnt need to share that, but whats done is done.
Oh, interesting thing happened. A man from the Mormon Channel podcast thing came to the temple to interview people about it. He interviewed Elder Middleton and me and it should come out in november. I doubt we will get a part in it since he said he has over 30 hours of audio for a 30 minute segment with narrative, but it was a cool 13 minute experience so no worries.
Alright, couple of things. We have seen a miracle in the life of a guy we started teaching last week. Mostly just the total turn around in his life. He came to us with scars on his arms from his depression and cutting saying his life was a wreck and he didnt know what to do. We got to explain and it pretty much came down to the fact that he got here a while ago and fell in love with a prostitute and his relationship with here was destroying his life...... Duh. That was a no brainer. We got to have some really good spiritual throw downs with him and in just a week it has been incredible to see the change. Kind of interesting point- the things he likes the most about the church is the hymn book. (sorry this is all so jumpy, i am way out of time) He is done with her, going back to his country to try to fix things in his life and get back with his family, and when he gets back he is going to be baptized. One thing that really hit me was when he was explaining the first meeting we set up with him he had fallen asleep right before. While he was asleep he says he felt his bed shaking as if somebody was trying to get him to wake up and when he woke up there was nobody but he suddenly remembered the appointment and came running. The rest has changed his life.
The next thing was with Alvaro, the young man we have been working with toward a baptismal date. We sat down with him last night because he has been having hard time and we needed to have a heart to heart. We have been wondering if he was really ready to be baptized because we didnt just want him to join the church because of our friendship and have him fall when we leave. We wanted to have our own confirmation before setting up the interview. We started casually asking hte baptismal interview questions and it was really sketchy at first. We asked if he believed God was his Father. He said that he didnt really know what that meant. We asked if he believed in Jesus Christ and he said that he didnt really understand how it worked. We asked if he believed in Pres Monson as the living prophet and he said he didnt know enough to say honestly, but that he did like how when he read anything by him it made him want to be better. Then we asked if he believed the church had been restored and he said that what he felt and saw really made him believe it was, but that he was really trying to be sure. HE then reminded us of something we taught him in the beginning. He said that when we told him that as he read the book of mormon his testimony would grow he knew it was true and he has seen it happen. Better but not quite there. We decided to ask why he even wanted to be baptised. HE said that he wanted to be clean, he wanted to be a new person and start again. We asked what that meant for him and he said that he would get to live every moment of his life trying to progress towards God so that he could get to know him better. When he said that we both felt it. He was doing everything right and he was really seeing miracles in his life.
I wish i had time to be cheesy and come up with a good ending for this, but i will leave that for the sleepy homecoming.
Quick note: i think the most powerful random feeling right now is that of gratitude. I just keep thinking about how many incredible things i have seen, done and learned and cannot believe i got the chance to be a part of it all.
Its true. All of it.
Love,
Elder Carr
Defender of the Faith
185 lbs.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
no es difithil querreros 25 Aug 2010
It was a cousin that served here! Now i even know the name and can pretend we were best buds, and maybe someday we can even become best buds. Thanks Matt. When i met Elder Paya he looked at the tag and asked if they called me Superman too. I had no idea what he was talking about, but he was a general authority, so i pulled the good old smile and nod. Luckily he explained it after, but it was definitely ironic because i do get Clark Kent a lot. Not due to any work ethic or overachieveablity (from now on that is a real word) but rather to the glasses and perfectly sculpted wave in my hair that is now a month and 3 days old (my birthday present to myself- i call it my onda). I have had a couple random people bring it up but the one of greatest note is Pepi (Josepha) Maneu. She is in the ward i am serving in right now and we see her everyday because she works at the temple hostal. She is actually our adoptive spanish mother. We even got to be there for the baptism of her neice, Paula. Awesome connection.
The proclamations Susan put together sound soo good. Everyone here loves Susan. My companions love her for the packages. The members love her for the picture book which has turned out to be as good as gold. The investigators love her for the youtube video she made of my call- i still have no idea how they find it. Speaking of wierd stuff found on youtube, the ward has been having a good time with the tyedye and the knitting on mom's show which they tracked down on youtube. Youtube!
Finally! Business out of the way and we can get on to the good stuff.
Guess what? The church is true! My whole mission i have always loved to put that to the test and do what i call truth detectors. Today i had just one of those moments. Week 5 of every transfer is Madrid soccer week after we get out of the temple. All of the mission mormonaries from madrid show up. While we were waiting for the crowds to gather we snook the water battles of several elders away and set them up on top of the goal. We then took turns trying to hit them. I have holes in both my shoes so luckily i had an excuse for sucking because i was horrible. I didnt even come close. Also fortunate is that we were all extremely united in our terribleness. Then i did the test. The test has yet to fail. It really is incredible. I put the ball down from the furthest away spot attempted and procclaimed the test, "if i get this the church is true" and took the shot. The ball flew through the air like a torpedo from heaven and completely destroyed the small bottle in the middle and left the poor bewildered elder amazed and thirsty for the rest of the day. This has worked with a football from the far side of the gym, a rock with a skinny tree in the distance, the united states beating spain in soccer last year, and countless other moments. There it is. Nobody can say my testimony is not built on a sure foundation.
Oh my, running out of time.
Yesterday was a blast at our basketball activity. Every week we get like 25 poeple and there are never more than 5 that are members. Yesterday was special because a ton of new people showed up and we have appointments with all of them for later this week. The best part though was with a guy who has been coming since the beginning. He is a paraguayan man that used to play professionally in bolivia until he hurt his knee so now he is limited to the spotlights of the Madrid 6th ward chapel lights. He is an amazing guy but has never accepted meeting with us because he is afraid to try something different then the catholicism he grew up with. Luckily, the Lord let him smash his finger at work that morning so he asked us if we had tape to tape it up for him. We took him to our little first aid kit across temple square in the security office and took care of him. While there he saw the camera screens the security look at and asked why the security was so good. We then go to explain what the temple means to us. Seems like that got him thinkind. Towards the end of the night we told everyone that there was time for one more game because we had to be getting home. He was sitting out and came over to sit by me. He asked why we have such a strict schedule. Then he asked what we do all day. Then he asked how we make a living out here. Then he asked why we come. I gave him my whole story. Afterwards he got a hint of why we look people in the eye when we tell them it is true. He thought about it for a bit. Then after a few seconds of silence he turned and said, "i want a book of mormon." There are so many incredible people in that activity. So fun to get them asking questions. Sadly, the bishop of another ward is trying to shut it down because there are too many non-members.... hmm. No worries, good intentions are easy to work with.
That does it for today.
I love everything about my life,
Especially y'all,
Elder Sky
The proclamations Susan put together sound soo good. Everyone here loves Susan. My companions love her for the packages. The members love her for the picture book which has turned out to be as good as gold. The investigators love her for the youtube video she made of my call- i still have no idea how they find it. Speaking of wierd stuff found on youtube, the ward has been having a good time with the tyedye and the knitting on mom's show which they tracked down on youtube. Youtube!
Finally! Business out of the way and we can get on to the good stuff.
Guess what? The church is true! My whole mission i have always loved to put that to the test and do what i call truth detectors. Today i had just one of those moments. Week 5 of every transfer is Madrid soccer week after we get out of the temple. All of the mission mormonaries from madrid show up. While we were waiting for the crowds to gather we snook the water battles of several elders away and set them up on top of the goal. We then took turns trying to hit them. I have holes in both my shoes so luckily i had an excuse for sucking because i was horrible. I didnt even come close. Also fortunate is that we were all extremely united in our terribleness. Then i did the test. The test has yet to fail. It really is incredible. I put the ball down from the furthest away spot attempted and procclaimed the test, "if i get this the church is true" and took the shot. The ball flew through the air like a torpedo from heaven and completely destroyed the small bottle in the middle and left the poor bewildered elder amazed and thirsty for the rest of the day. This has worked with a football from the far side of the gym, a rock with a skinny tree in the distance, the united states beating spain in soccer last year, and countless other moments. There it is. Nobody can say my testimony is not built on a sure foundation.
Oh my, running out of time.
Yesterday was a blast at our basketball activity. Every week we get like 25 poeple and there are never more than 5 that are members. Yesterday was special because a ton of new people showed up and we have appointments with all of them for later this week. The best part though was with a guy who has been coming since the beginning. He is a paraguayan man that used to play professionally in bolivia until he hurt his knee so now he is limited to the spotlights of the Madrid 6th ward chapel lights. He is an amazing guy but has never accepted meeting with us because he is afraid to try something different then the catholicism he grew up with. Luckily, the Lord let him smash his finger at work that morning so he asked us if we had tape to tape it up for him. We took him to our little first aid kit across temple square in the security office and took care of him. While there he saw the camera screens the security look at and asked why the security was so good. We then go to explain what the temple means to us. Seems like that got him thinkind. Towards the end of the night we told everyone that there was time for one more game because we had to be getting home. He was sitting out and came over to sit by me. He asked why we have such a strict schedule. Then he asked what we do all day. Then he asked how we make a living out here. Then he asked why we come. I gave him my whole story. Afterwards he got a hint of why we look people in the eye when we tell them it is true. He thought about it for a bit. Then after a few seconds of silence he turned and said, "i want a book of mormon." There are so many incredible people in that activity. So fun to get them asking questions. Sadly, the bishop of another ward is trying to shut it down because there are too many non-members.... hmm. No worries, good intentions are easy to work with.
That does it for today.
I love everything about my life,
Especially y'all,
Elder Sky
Monday, August 23, 2010
Period. 18 Aug 2010
Alright, i cant hold it in anymore, we had one of the coolest things happen yesterday. No one can ever tell me that my incapacity to control the volume of my voice has never done me any good. We contacted a family in the park the other day and they were really cool.. We gave them the Elder Carrleton experience (Carr + Middleton = Carrleton) and they loved it. They asked if we would be in the area the next day so they could see us so we agreed on meeting them in the park. Sadly, the weather was bad so they didnt show. Luckily, this is the Lord's work so something even cooler happened. We were walking through the park, a little bummed that they didnt show and we saw a group of kids playing on the play ground in the distance. About seven 12 year old kids. Like always, the kids yelled at us when they saw us. Like always, i yelled back. Then they said a couple of english words they know. Then i said a couple of english words that i remember. They were a little shocked because what i said sounded way cooler than what they said so they decided to come running over to ask what was said. We gave them a little run down on the lingo and there was one that spoke really well, a couple that spoke okay, but the rest were terrible. Then we started asking them about their english classes and why they hadn't learned anything. They said that they didnt like it and they didnt care. I told them that was stupid. Then we spent a good while talking about college and working hard. It was wierd and a little sad. You could tell that none of these kids had ever had anyone motivate them to be better, much less tell them that they could do it. They soaked it up and asked tons of questions about it. Of course they are still kids and would try to crack jokes or would say stupid stuff, and of course we would one up them and maintain the obvious dominance and forced himility upon them. They loved it. As we were leaving the ring leader, kind of the alpha-kid, came up to apologize for some of the dumb stuff his friends said. He was actually the one who spoke really good english and talked the most about wanting to go to the university. We started talking and he was the most incredible kid i have ever met in spain. Elder Melocoton (as i call him) caught some of what we were talking about and immediately was amazing and kept the other kids entertained by asking them to ask him any question about the mormons. While he had those ones on the side i asked Angel, this amazing kid, what he wanted to do in his life. He said he wanted to go to Harvard. I said, "do it" and a light just came on inside of him. He made an excuse about not knowing if he could pay for it and i said to not think one second about. Just work hard and do it. Then he looked at me for a second and out of nowhere just said, "i believe in God." He said that he just felt like there was something there. Then i got to tell him what i had felt and how. Even got to tell him about the Book of Mormon. He just looked excited to hear it all. I told him we would give him one and that he could feel it too and he said that he would love to have what we had. Then he hit me with a shot to the heart. Must have been one of the heart melting bullets because it worked. He said that he had actually walked on temple grounds before. He was alone and he didnt know why he wanted to go look at it, he just really felt like he wanted to. He said that as soon as he set foot on the square he felt something he had never felt before. Something very peaceful. He just felt good. We exchanged some numbers and some testimony and we will be seeing him later. Apparently Elder M had a good time with the other kids too because they called us that night to ask if we could show them around and give them a tour. It was so fun herding six 12 year olds all around the church.
Incredible experiences every moment of everyday, but so little time to even scrape the surface.
Oh well, take your scrapings for now.
Love you,
Elder Sky
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