One. Massive. Update.

Well well well. I bet some of you forgot that you had a little brother named Jared. He leaves on a mission for two years and then he was never heard from again...

Probably eaten by a gator.

Well I am here today to dispel rumors, make amends, and write blog posts.


Since returning from my mission a lot has happened. I will try to update with great efficiency and lots of pictures. 

Last Night in the Mission Home

My Go Home Group!

Coming down the Escalator!!

Since I have gotten home, I feel like I have been really trying to find myself. Honestly for a while I had a really hard time being myself around the family. Still is hard sometimes. So I withdrew from the family for a while. Now I am working on coming back.

I really have changed so much since before the mission. I haven't shown that fairly to the family.


So when I got home, the first thing I did was go to my companion's wedding. (It literally the day after I had gotten home. He was my favorite companion from the mission. He was pretty awesome. I loved him a lot!

His wedding was really weird. 

First of all, when your companion kisses a girl, IT'S NOT NORMAL!!! I was still introducing myself as elder!! Also I'm a foot taller than everyone else, but I guess I was still mostly normal. 

Also we had some friends from the mission come, and this one sister missionary that I knew comes and gives me this big hug (weirdest experience of my life!! and I went to Louisiana on my mission!!!) but then I realized it was OK and it was all better.

This is us!

Obviously the duck face was still cool when I left so don't judge.

So since then I have been going to school and going on lots of dates. 40 dates in the 7.5 months that I have been home. That's 1.2307 dates a week! Not too bad! I was at 33 dates in 4 months which 1.903 dates a week, but then I ran out of funds and slowed it down. A lot. 

This is Becca! She is engaged now. Not to me. This was a double date with John before Heather was his girlfriend.

I have some great roommates! We have some amazing adventures. We call ourselves the brotherhood of the frozen pants because we found frozen pants on our doorstep one time! Shown below

We have many adventures together. We do things such as Buffalo Wild Wings, 

Camels,

and tons of awesome hikes! 

You will see throughout a guy with curly hair throughout these pictures. He is a friend from the mission. He is not a roommate, but he might as well be because he comes like every weekend! haha The Muslim looking guy is also from the mission. He is a roommate.

I also have entered a whole new world since the mission. The world of dance!! I love it so much!! I had no idea that it existed!!

So I go to country dance almost every week. And have gotten pretty good! So they tell me. Just country swing. Not two step or anything. 

Where's Waldo?!?

My strategy is simple. You get good by acting like you are really bad until you are really good. Because you ask all of the really good dancers to dance with you and then they teach you how it's done!!

Now I do crazy lifts and stuff. Its pretty awesome!! 

Here is another few dances. The first is a spotlight dance and then the next was the recent Masquerade ball. I'm taking an intermediate ballroom dance class with the girl that I took to the Masquerade ball and we were really good! We won the dance contest that they had there! Free pretzel baby!! Woot woot!! 

We also started a scripture study class on our own and went to general conference in April! The general conference adventure was pretty awesome and a story within itself! If I get enough requests, I will write about that one too! haha

This is Ben!

Real quick. There were some protesters all over the place and they were saying really horrible things. We were standing next to some Samoan guys--they aren't afraid of anything--and we all started singing The Spirit of God to help bring the Spirit back. It was pretty awesome!

TEMPLE!!!

Here are some other pictures of the mission homies!! Zach is in one of these too. 

Bathroom selfie!!!!

Last but not least, we formed a group where we will go serenade to entire apartment complexes. It's a way to find new investigators ;). We get a lot of girls to come gather outside the apartments (like 30 or so) and then get numbers and dates. It's pretty awesome! 

That's about it! If you have any questions or comments or you want full stories, give me a call @ (208) 996-1412 so that we can catch up! :) Never to busy to talk to family.

Love,
Superman