Cloudy with a chance of Awesome!

I would consider myself an imaginative person, a bit of a dreamer if you will, or even if you wont. Sorry for you 'wont-ers' out there. But being inspired by a friends facebook status i have been called up to reflection on some good memories of my mission in Idaho. Specifically cloudy memories, and by that i dont mean hard to remember memories, but memories about clouds. As many know, Idaho is a mountainy place, but contrary to popular belief, except for anyone who's been there, its also extremely flat and open. My mission consisted of more of the later. So on many a day i would find myself walking down a seemingly endless straight road (by the way, we could see all the way to the end of the endless road, thats how flat it was at times, and with no trees or life to obstruct the view, except the occasional tractor or watering thingy) going from door to... well, sometimes just door, and then we'd have to find a new street to find a new door. So, along these walks, depending on how well i got along with any of my 19 companions, i would have to find something to do, and a favorite activity of mine was to watch the clouds as we mozied along. Now Idaho has been known to have some fancy cloud action going on, considering how huge the sky is, and of some days the clouds were just amazing, big bulk empires of fluff cascading across the horizon. Many times i found myself looking up and wondering what might be going on on the other side of those big fluffy clouds, as often the only gap would be a small hole through which rays of brilliant sunlight would beam through. If only i could fly on up there and take a peak, what would i find? Sure i knew the answer, according to what all the 'sane' people think, but i could still remember wondering as a kid which cloud our Heavenly Father lived on top of, in my mind it was the biggest neatest cloud of all, and i often found it a source of comfort to let my mind wonder back to those distant memories and dwell on the almost magical appearance of crossing that threshold to reveal a labyrinth of palaces and castles of the most intricate fluffy design exploding up out of the sea of white, with angels or whatever might hang out in clouds busily flying from place to place, all radiating light with an almost overwhelming aura of happiness and purpose surrounding them.

Some might feel that now being a little older and more mature may limit the vividness of these imaginations, but to them i say im sorry. I dont have time to dwell on them nearly as much as a child but the emotions and feelings they evoke of peace and awe of not only what is out there but what a mind is capable of creating are most certainly real, and can help smooth out even the roughest of days. Especially as a missionary, when most days were pretty rough.

Shazam! another glimpse into my mind... and now i feel like drawing a picture of a cloud empire of some sort, and hanging out and watching the clouds, but maybe when its a little warmer.

Toodles.