Classic and Scanned Classics

Ever since I returned from my mission in 2002, I've been telling my parents that I would go through all my boxes of letters and other mission knick-knacks that I had sent home over the two years, or brought home with me. I finally got around to that last week. I had about five or so boxes of letters, trinkets, photos-you name it, I had it. It was hard to go through so many letters and other things that meant so much to me on my mission and then just throw them away (I did keep a few). I wanted to keep them and organize them somehow, but let's face it, six years later they were still collecting dust, so the chances of organizing every last thing was not going to happen. Maybe I'm weird though, I guess thinking back on it, most of my mission companions didn't save the letters they received from friends and family...

Many of you know Bryan Bostrom. Well, Bryan and I went to high school together and were friends and ended up getting our mission calls on the same day to the same mission. Crazy right? The MTC was awesome, it just felt like a prolonged hang out session with Bry at times and then we hit the mission field. During the mission we would see each other sporadically at best. For me, during the hard times, it was such a blessing to be able to call a friend from home and talk things over with them, vent or whatever, without breaking mission rules. There were a few times that Mr. Bostrom was the sole reason I kept my sanity in tact (or mostly). Throughout our missions we hoped to serve together-or at least close by. Around halfway, we thought up a scheme to try and become mission companions: it was simple, we'd campaign for it. It sounded genius to us. We'd make buttons with our pics and a slogan on them, pass them around the mission and have people wear them at interviews and zone conferences. Well, we didn't go all the way through with it. After coming up with catchy sayings and slogans, making buttons and nearly putting the plan into action, we decided that though our mission president would have a good laugh, it might actually lesson our chances of achieving our goal.

While sifting through the mission boxes, I found the slogans for the buttons. I still think they are hilarious. I'll list them out below for your enjoyment. Let me know which ones you like best and which one you think we settled on before disbanding our idea-if you want of course.

1. PRAY NOW-Bostrom and Wilkins for comps
2. Bostrom and Wilkins-It Just Feels Right
3. The field is white already for Bostrom and Wilkins-comps '02
4. Don't Let Your Heart Be Troubled, Neither Keep These Two Apart-Bostrom and Wilkins '02
5. Bostrom Without Wilkins is Dead-comps '02
6. Suffer It To Be So Now-Bostrom and Wilkins '02
7. GKC: Greatest Kentucky Companionship-Bostrom and Wilkins '02
8. Make God's Army Complete-Bostrom and Wilkins '02
9. The Best Companionship Since Scooby and Shaggy-Bostrom and Wilkins 2002

I recently came across the scanned classics I have below.
Looking totally awesome is Jer, all dressed and ready for one of our white trash bowling sessions.
The group pic is from a camping trip to the beloved Knolls out past Tooele. Looks as if we've just finished an epic dance session, which I'm sure we had. It also looks like Brad and Curtis have the same shoes on-so cute of them to dress alike. I think Brad is the only one that looks halfway cool, the rest of us look pretty goofy, er, I mean, awesome.
And the one with Ryan, Jesse and I was taken, I think right before Ryan left on his mission. Jesse is sporting some nice hair and we all look like we're 15 at best. Of course we're representing for the Rockin' Rollers rollerskating crew. RR 4 LIFE.