Brittany's Blog

Last Post for a Year and a Half!!!!

2009-08-20T13:25:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!!!!
I have sent out emails and put posts on my facebook with the following info, but I thought I needed it in a third place. My mom has set up a missionary site for me. Here is the address.
http://www.missionsite.net/sisterhostetter
Here are my snail mail addresses as well.

MTC:
Sister Brittany Ann Hostetter
Italy Catania Mission
Provo Missionary Training Center
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604

Italy:
Sister Brittany Ann Hostetter
Italy Catania Mission
Piazza E. Vittorini 7 (Parco Inglese)
95030 Sant' Agata Li Battiati CT
Italy

Mission Call Photos

2009-08-03T10:00:00.000-07:00

So I'm a really big procrastinator. But I have finally taken the time to download my photos from when I opened my mission call. Here they are! I opened my call with my parents, grandparents Hostetter, and Elaine present. Grandparents Hatch were on the phone.

Me and Dad posing for the camera. I think Mom is trying to call Grandma.

Dad and I posing with my Mission Call.

Me opening my Mission Call.

Me crying as I read the words "you are hearby called to serve in the Italy Catania Mission."

Me crying some more. :)

Me and Mom reading my call to everyone.

Italy Cantania Mission

2009-06-09T12:24:00.000-07:00

So after six long weeks I finally got my mission call!!!!! I have been called to serve in the Italy Catania Mission!!!!!! I will be serving in Southern Italy, including Sicily. It will be amazing to work with and serve the Italian people!!!!! I report to the MTC on August 26th.

Still Waiting

2009-05-18T13:31:00.000-07:00

So, it now has been four weeks from the time the Stake President submited my papers. I though that I would have my call by now. However, this is not the case. I was informed that there was miscommunication somewhere and the electronic papers got sent, but the physical papers were not sent. They were sent last week, which means I have about two more weeks to wait. I'm not mad or even worried. I am mostly patient. I think the wait is driving my mother mad, though. I keep telling her that it will happen when the Lord is ready and there is prolly a good reason for the delay! I am very excited about my call and going on a mission. I get more excited every time I go to the temple. For those of you who didn't know, I went to the temple to get my endowments for on May 2nd. Since then I've been back three times. It is the most amazing place in the world and I love going there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mission!

2009-04-27T14:04:00.000-07:00

For all of you that don't know, I put my mission papers in two weeks ago. Still waiting for my call, though. I decided back in February to go, but told only a couple of people and swore them to secrecy. I felt like I wasn't going anywhere here in Show Low, like there was no room to grow. So i had been praying and fasting about it and I decided that a mission would be the best course. I have had several experiences that support my decision, but the strongest happened last month. You have heard about the recent budget cuts in education all over the US. Well, Show Low decided to cut eight people from their school district and I was one of them. The fact that I do not have a job here has only strengthened my resolve that I am supposed to be going on a mission! My mom thinks my call will be coming this Thursday. Any other guesses?

Oh! I am also going through the Temple this Saturday, the 2nd at 8:30 in the Snowflake Temple! WooWho!!!! I am so excited!

Berlin Photos

2009-04-05T18:02:00.000-07:00

So I finally got around to editing and organizing my photos from when I visited Berlin, Germany. Click on the link below to view them. You have to sign up to view them, if you don't already have a Snapfish account. It's free and it's a great place. Enjoy!

Berlin Photos

A couple spare minutes

2009-03-10T11:29:00.000-07:00

So like I said before, I'm a slacker. I decided that since I had a spare five minutes at school, I would write something! This is the second day of the 4th quarter of school. It is the second semester and I'm not even in the 1900's in my history class yet. The way the school works around here is that we teach an entire years worth of classes in one semester. They have four classes each day 1st semester and 4 new classes second semester. It's a tough schedule. Not only am I teaching US/AZ history class, but I am also teaching English 11. Oh joy! I took one, ONE, English class in college. Thank goodness I leaned how to write papers in my History classes! Last semester English wasn't so bad because it was Honors. However, this semester it is harder. I am glad to say though that I think I am getting the hang of it. The last couple days have been great! I really do like teaching, but teaching something I don't know is difficult. I hope I survive! Only two more weeks to spring break and 9.5, not including spring break, till the end of the semester! Yay!!!

February 14th

2009-02-17T17:05:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I have two funny stories.
First: So this last weekend was Valentines Day. I do not like this day, mainly because I have no one special to spend it with. I have only shared one Valentines Day with someone and he broke my heart two weeks later. Anyways. Two weeks before Valentines Day my roommates boyfriend brought over a friend to play games. His name is Nick and he told Dammon (Lisa, my roommates BF) that he was interested in me, so Dammon brought him over. We played games and had fun. We proceeded to go on two more dates, which were fun. But I just wasn't interested in him. So I told him that on Wednesday the 12th that we should just be friends. Two days later, on Friday, I was at school and my English class was watching the "Crucible" when a student aide brought in a gorgeous bouquet of flowers in a pretty red vase.

They were for me. My kids proceeded to tease me about them.(Gotta Love Juniors!) Nick had sent them to me. But in all fairness he had ordered them before I had told him we should just be friends. Even though I'm not interested int he guy, it made me feel special.

Second Funny Story:
As stated above, I do not celebrate Valentines Day. Instead I celebrate Arizona's birthday. She became a state on February 14th, 1912. It was her 97th birthday last Saturday. So to celebrate I made Arizona shaped cookies. I made three dozen and gave most of them away. But I kept the biggest one.

I know I'm a freak. What can I say? It was fun! :)

Snow in Globe! A strange phenomenon . . .

2009-01-28T19:21:00.000-08:00

Normally, Globe doesn't have snow. However, I went there for Christmas break and it snowed. It followed me home. . .it was snowing when I left Show Low and a couple days later it snowed in Globe. Here are the photos.

Look at the Snow FLakes!

Pretty Christmas Lights and Snow!

Snow on the rents Malibu!

My Duchess in the snow!

Horrible Blogger - Europe Photos

2009-01-27T10:22:00.000-08:00

So I am completely terrible at keeping up a blog and/or journal. I took pictures in Globe over break and meant to put them on here, but I forgot. I will do that soon. So to make up for my horribleness, I shall put a link to my Snapfish album for all to look at. It has all my photos from the the first four months of my time in Europe. Feel free to look at them. I hope to get my last month of Europe up soon. Sorry!

Great European Adventure - Click here to look at my photos! :) You must sign up for a Snapfish account to do so, but it's free and it's a great program!

SNOW!!!!

2008-12-22T11:10:00.000-08:00

So it snowed! Twice now! Yay for snow. We have had two snow days. Here are some pictures from our first snow! However, it has all melted. Sad days! We are supposed to get more soon though!

This is my car. It did have snow on it but my roommate swept it off. What a nice roommate!

This is my house, B6!

THis is a better picture of my house. Its seven hundred square feet. Little tiny thing!

Sad Days

2008-12-03T15:43:00.000-08:00

So for all of you who wants to know if Bo is coming to the family Christmas Party, no he is not. Sadly our relationship only lasted a little more than three weeks. He broke it off a week ago. It was hard and still is, but I'm ok. We're still friends and I'm not bitter. :) It was just not the right time or perhaps not the right guy. Oh well!

2008-11-18T10:51:00.000-08:00

So this be Bo. It's not a very good picture I texted it to my email from my cell phone. It does him no justice. Just thought you all you would like to see the man who takes up my spare time! He is such a great guy! I am a very lucky girl.

Two Weeks

2008-11-15T12:18:00.000-08:00

So it's been two weeks since Bo and I started dating exclusivly and things are going great! We went to a wedding reception last night and we have plans to go on a picnic tonight. The funny thing is that everytime we hang out together on a saturday we are chaparoned. His parents have gone out of town the past two weekend and he has had to babysit his 11 year old brother. So he hangs out with us. Last weekend the three of us went bowling. Bo is losing his hair and most people thinks he's about 36. While bowling there were two couples next to us who we were talking to us. The one woman kept saying things to me that implied that he was our son. Then she was checking out my ring finger to see if I was married. It was kinda funny to think that they thought that Cole was Bo and I's son. Bo and I were talking last night and he said that Cole would have to hang out with us again and that he could be our son. He is such a goof ball.
I met his family five days into our relationship. He has three brother, Garrett - who is older and married, Wyatt who is going on his mission soon, and Cole who is 11. A week ago Thursday, I ditched institute and went and helped his dad and him take apart and load up a kitchen that his dad made. It was a fun six hours and Bo said it ment alot to him. :-) He's a great guy. We are exact opposites! It's kinda funny. I am the bookworm teachers pet and he is the athletic class clown. I really enjoy hanging out with him!!!!
In other news. . . there is only five more weeks of school left! Eik! I still have to read all of To Kill a Mocking Bird and get through 1920-2000 in history class! Thats a very scary thought. Then I get a two week deserved break. If you're confused its okay. My school is on a semester system: four classes a day for an hour and half each. A semester equals a year of information. It's very crazy!

My Life So Far

2008-11-02T16:16:00.001-08:00

Hello Everyone! So I had to get a blog for this class I am taking, so I decided that since I have it I should use it for more than just school. Here is my first attempt, we shall see how it goes. For all of you who don't know, I'll recap a little bit. First off, I am currently living in Show Low, Arizona. I work at Show Low High School. I teach 11th grade Honors English and US/AZ History. It's pretty fun. I live in this cute little trailer in a strange trailer park. I have a roommate and her name is Lisa. She is currently getting her third bachelors degree. I go to the singles branch in Snowflake. There are about fifty to one hundred people and we have activities once a month. Lets see. . . these past three weeks have been amazing! School is going better. Finished one quarter about two weeks ago. Just one more quarter and I get to learn ninety more students names! Lucky me. As for the singles ward, I am working my way out of it. ;) I met a guy a couple weeks ago and decided to ask him out. After that, we went out a couple more times. We decided that we liked each other and now I have a boyfriend. Yay! His name is Bo Mortensen. He's 21, recent RM, and a redhead! Yay hooray for redheads! Eventually I get some pictures to put on here and it will be less boring!