I'll report

Sorry guys, I havent posted lately, so here I go. Life has been hella busy and stressful with school and work. I'm honestly just rolling through school and trying to just finish it up asap so I can move back to California. I'm hoping that we will be back in Southern California by mid-2013. Thats our goal at least. Shouldnt be too tough to do it.

I am racing in a sprint triathlon this saturday, so I'm stoked about that. I'm hoping to make a good time since i've been training a hella lot. It's been good. Its getting cold now though, so I wont want to be running/biking outside too much after this race. Utah gets super cold and it pisses me right off.

We just had a pretty sweet weekend up at my cabin in Heber, Ut. We all went up there, went bowling, 4-wheeling, chilled, watched a scary movie, and just kicked it. It was a good weekend for sure.

Well, thats all for now. Gotta get to church. Here is a sweet version of "Moonlight" by Rebelution. Later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HYeGEg-2AQ&feature=colike

Life

So tomorrow will be the "1 month until Brit gets home" milestone. It has been rough but its going by pretty fast. So im just stoked for these next couple of months leading up to our wedding. As of late, I completed my first online class and Im trying to slam #2. Its alotta reading and stuff, but it is a good lever to raise your GPA nonetheless. So that and work is kind of where Im at now. Also, my new stick is dope. Its an epoxy board, retro fish...6'2 x 22 x 3. Big mans board and i love it. the thing paddles extremely well and it floats me like a champ. If I dont have work tomorrow I might even surf with Nate and Yustin. We shall see though.

DOES ANYONE READ THIS JONAS ANYMORE??? ID LOVE TO HEAR HOW EVERYONE IS DOING!!!!!!

Literally Laughing out Loud

Good find justin!!!!!

FOUND A VIDEO OF NATE SINGING

DUSTIN KENSRUE

So remember on your mission when you were forced to defend your religion to people of other faiths. For me that was one of the ways I grew the most doctrinally and helped solidify my testimony. Well just been listening to classic born again doctrine over at marshill.com, which is the church that Dustin Kensrue goes to. He is actually a worship leader over there, which means he coaches bands and leads prayer and scripture. You can read about it here:

http://orangecounty.marshill.com/2011/10/20/meet-the-staff-dustin-kensrue/

The church is in Irvine and I think when Dustin gets back from tour Nate and I are gonna try and see him over there some time. Anyways The subject of grace and works are the biggest doctrinal traditions that born agains cling to. Mark Driscoll the head pastor and founder of mars hill church, (the church in which Dustin is a worship leader) says this about mormons :

Now Mark Driscoll, pastor of the high-profile Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, has added his voice to the fray -- agreeing that Christians should consider Mormons as members of a "cult" and not "brothers and sisters in a common faith."

"As the presidential race heats up and the prospect of a practicing Mormon as a viable Republican candidate becomes more a reality, there will be continued effort to bring Mormonism into the center of Christian orthodoxy. Thus, it's important to understand what the cult of Mormonism teaches, to understand that it's antithetical to Christianity, and that, while it's certain there are some Christians in the Mormon church who love the Jesus of the Bible and don't understand or agree with what their church teaches, the Mormon church could never be considered orthodox unless it made some serious and massive changes to it's theology..."

"Many Mormons are good neighbors, friends, and fellow citizens. But, we cannot go so far as to call them brothers and sisters in a common faith. To do so is to not only confuse real Christians, but to also diminish the importance of lovingly speaking with Mormons about the errors of their belief in hopes of seeing them come to know the real God of the Bible and avoiding eternal damnation for worshiping a false god."

so we can conclude that there is a likely chance that Dustin believes similarly about our religion........

Honestly the confusion the exists in the world on the doctrine of christianity is overwhelming. Can't wait until Christ is here on the earth to set things straight. can you imagine.......

PLEASE TIM PLEASE???

Thought Tim was going to post on this deal

Baby Jackson

Respek To Baby Jackson on his baby blessing!! Big ups all around

Why you wanna call the cops brah?

Hey guys, life has just been super busy these last few days. So like Nate said, I got flown down to California this past weekend to have 2nd round interviews with Ernst and Young (one of the big 4 accounting firms). My parents picked me up frideyyy and we went to the Ducks vs. Sharks game. It was quite a boring game and ended 1-0 Ducks. Chilled with Dave the next day, went to Peonys together on Doug, watched the BYU football game, then watched the Kings game at Dave's with Brad Wise too. Ended up going in the hot tub with just Dave and I cuz Yustin was down in San Diego that night. I would've come up to Nates baby blessing deal, but I had to go down to San Diego on Sunday and go eat with this guy from Ernst and Young. Sorry Nate :(

Anyways my interviews went way good. I had 3 interviews back to back to back. 2 45 min behavioral interviews, then a 45 minute business case analysis interview. Then got taken to a dope lunch. Ended with a 45 minute writing assessment deal. Got my set packed up and flew back to Salt Lake that night.

Yesterday I got a call from the office. They loved me and extended me an offer for an internship next summer! I'm freaking stoked on life right now. So after I do that internship, I should get a full time job offer and start with them the next year after I graduate. Prolly good to work in La Jolla (the office is literally down the street from the temple).

Sorry for the long post but thats whats been going down lately. Love you guys and stoked to have California as home in my near future!!

Email Chatted with Yoe the other night

It was mediocre. Just tried to trunk him out as much as I could. Went on a date, check out the details on my personal blog, paulclonts.blogspot.com. Don't judge the Salsa dancing till you've seen me in action with some chicks...good looking ones too!! I've been surfing like 3-4 times a week which is awesome. I'm super burnt out on school, but i'll just keep truckin along. Some drama went down with one of my friends, basically he hooked up with my other good friend's girlfriend then tried to hook up with my other friends ex gear, and more gay crap, so I pretty much friend dumped him (not literally, I just don't talk or text him anymore). So I just hate drama these days. How about an update from Ryan and Matt and Jeffe on the paperwork.

The activity on this blog has sucked the last couple weeks

Matt, i didn't even know you were here last weekend.

Ryan, what do you think about this hahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egje3rLggJQ

surj avsan um

We had a cool discussion this week in institute (for my BYU class) about the different ways God responds to our distress calls when we're in the midst of tribulation and affliction. Jack (my father in law who happens to be teaching the class) played a clip from The Other Side of Heaven; when Groberg and his two polly counselors get drilled and shipwrecked by the storm. After they finally swim to shore, one of his counselors says, "Sometimes the Lord calms the storm, and sometimes he calms the sailor." And he says, "Ans sometimes he just lets us swim."
So here we have 3 ways the Lord deals with our afflictions. Sometimes He answers our prayers immediately and takes away the affliction all together. Other times He helps us through it by strengthening us and/or lightening our burden a bit. And other times He just lets us swim because there is something we need to learn, or some character trait that we need to develop (patience, humility, etc.)
My personal epiphany was that the word "swim" implies directionality, unlike treading water. We are given afflictions that we may become better as we emerge from them, but we have to press forward and maintain that directionality. If tread water for too long and let our trials consume us, we eventually get tired and drown in the water of our afflictions. So, from now on, when I am experiencing the trials that will surely come, i will ask myself, am i swimming or just treading water?
Just thought I'd share....sorry for the length.

GOT TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG

listen to the wait is over by we barbarians so freaking good. They are close friends with thrice. Love this band!

Hooze

Most of that post didn't even make any sense. I didn't understand it

it was like shink shink shink

So me and my roommate Ian went to this secluded surf spot by Haleiwa and scored shoulder high glassy waves all to ourselves. Its a left point break over a reef and its one of the first times I walked on the sand after my session and my legs were sore from standing for so long!!! Oh, and we had it all to our selves! I had one were i pulled in but i wasn't all the way covered...still sick though!!! Almost hung five again, not there yet, i mean i'm 230 lbs so its hard to get it ha ha

There nate!

Dave grinding off a lock in front of Home Depot... IDIOT!!!

A lot of the time they think its my middle name, because of my FB. Some of them know, but they won't call me it, it would be weird.

Question for Hooze

Do kids (your replacement friends) in Hawaii refer to you as Hooze, or Paul?

Thrice

I honestly cannot get over 'words in the water' it gave me the full body chills on multiple occasions.

Update: school is stressing, no leads, still fat, surfing.

Gave me a chuckle

Harry's first wave is pretty sick.