President Hinckley

Everyone has been posting about the death of Presidnet Hinckley. I am really going to miss him. I felt like he was my prophet. He signed my mission call. He was the one that I would try and get the people to gain a testimony of. I got to thinking how hard it must have been for the early saints when they learned of the death of Joseph Smith. I can only think of the thousands of converts that knew the Prophet Joseph personally. Back then when the church was much smaller the pepople had a personal relationship with the prophet. It is funny how things stay the same. I never got to meet President Hinckley. But I still feel as though I had a personal relationship with him. In one of my Communications we talked about some of the things that shape our personal idenity. I really feel as though President Hinckley helped a great deal to shape mine, as well as my wife. The church will move forward. There will never be a prophet quite like him. We will love the necxt prophet just as much as we all loved this one. I am very excited to see how this next prophet will move the church forward as the 15 before have done.

New Xango News for Tyler!!

I would like to let everybody know that I received my monitoring for the month of January. This is a big deal at Xango, they look at these for promotions, pay raises and all that good stuff. Let me explain to everyone what it means. I of course am on the phones all day, Xango hires people to listen to us for quality assurance purposes and record our conversations with the people that call in. After the call is completed they listen to many times and they give us a score on criteria such as how friendly we are, how professional we were, stuff like that. For our 1 month monitoring the highest score you can receive is 4 on all of the calls. If you do receive a four as a reward, Xango will buy us lunch at any restaurant of our choice, take off the phones for 2 hours, and let us watch a movie, yes we get paid during that time as well. Well I am very happy to say that I got all 4's on all of my calls. So next month I will be attending that lunch. I asked my monitor how often that happens that people get 4's on there first time being monitored , she says " that never happens." The only other person that got a 4 on their monitoring was someone that came from a much higher department than just call center. So that is what happened with me. I am not trying to boast, but I rule. Just Kidding. Just thought you would all like to know that.

Movin Up

I posted how I am enjoying my job very much. It looks like I will be moving up in the company very soon. Today I was informed that I am going to be taking customer service calls which is a step up in the company from where I am now so that is a good thing. Hopefully I can find a place in this company that will benefit Amanda and I in the long run. The calls are not that much different it is hard though because I have not gone through any training for that department yet. Once I go through the training I will hopefully know what I am doing.

Life Besides Sports

Well as a request from older and wiser sister Jaime, I will talk about other things besides Sports. As many of you know I am employed at Xango working in the call center also known as Order Entry. I love my job. Today I found out that I had some of the best stats for the United States department, I would love to explain what stats are but it would take forever and time is so precious, but its a good thing. This is the second week in a row I have been in the top five. I learned last week that in February I am going to get promoted. So that it is a good thing. I really enjoy working there. The best company I have ever worked for by far. The Christmas party was at the Grand America Hotel in The Grand Ball Room. Xango gave away a car and a ton of others cool prizes. I unfortunately did not win a prize. I did however receive a door prize for going which was a 50$ Gateway gift card, some Skull Candy Head Phones that are valued at about 80$, also some really nice company materials. So that is whats going on with my job. Props to Jaime for getting a new hard drive I filled it up when I down loaded the Boise State Oklahoma game from 2006. Arguably the greatest College Football game ever. Well I'll be back before Thursday for my final entry this week.

BYU Defeats Utah in ugly game.

I must admit that I did not watch the game live on Saturday. I was actually organizing my house, and I do not get Verses anyway, however I did watch the second half. What I saw I did not like. BYU does not look like an NCAA Tournament team the last 2 months. Yes they did beat CSU, but who hasn't? Trent Plaistead needs to learn to go to his right. Everyone in the world knows what he is going to do in the low post, and shoot a 10 foot jump shot is not one of those things. What in the world has happened to Jonatha Tavenari? Pretty soon he is going to put up 20 shoots in one game and not make one of those. He is very similar to a black hole, once he gets the ball no one else is going to see it until the next possession. Ok now to the positive. Lee Cummard has got to be int he running for MWC player of the year honors!! If it was not for him BYU would have gotten blown out of the Huntsman Center. But when all is said and done the Cougars got the victory so all is well in cougartown.

My first Blog Entry!!!!!!!!!

This is going to be a fun thing for me to do. I feel like this will be a journal of some sort for me, which I have been wanting to do since I get home from my mission in 2005. It has been basically been about two years since I have written in a journal. I will begin by saying that this is an assignment for my reporting for The Mass Media class. The assignment is to be 400 words each time, but I am not going to use word count. Once I do not have any thing more to say I will stop writing. For those of you who know me, also know that 400 words will not be any problem fulfilling that requirement. My blog might be a little random. I am going to talk about basically whatever is on my mind at that moment. So basically it will be a sports themed blog. The BYU basketball recently played their conference road opener against UNLV. Although the Cougars had success in that arena even in the beginning of this season beating then #6 Louisville, and giving current #1 North Carolina all they could handle. That Vegas luck ran out as the Cougars were humiliated, embarrassed, all those words you never want to hear. I can not remember the last time a BYU team was humiliated like that. It's not like we have never seen UNLV play or know what they are going to do. It is unacceptable to lose to conference opponent by that much. On the other hand, the BYU football program looks like it is in the best shape I have ever seen it since I can remember. I wish they would have gone after a better opponent than Northern Iowa for the season opener. Although I am very pleased that BYU has worked out a deal with Boise State starting in 2012. The one time I did see a BYU Football team play Boise State was in 2003 is a snow storm. That was an ugly game. I do not expect to a lose a game in 2008. If there is a game that does worry it is the Washington game. Although the Huskies were 4-8 in 2007, they did play the toughest schedule in the NCAA. Playing the likes of Hawaii on the road, Ohio State, beating Boise State, in Boise, they also lost to #1 USC by a mere three points. BYU needs to get up for that game. As many of you will remember in 1996 when BYU went to the Cotton Bowl and defeated Kansas State, BYU's only loss on the season came to the Washington Huskies. Collie better come ready to play. The BYU Defense must be ready for Huskies super sophomore Quarterback Jake Locker, who is a run pass option on every play. See you all next week