The Conclusion: Wrapping it up #20

Welp, this is it. My last blog for Writing 150. I can't believe I am finishing up one of the last assignments of this class. I know that I sound very cliche saying that all of this has gone by fast, but it has. I was reviewing my blog posts and observing how my mannerisms had changed. Sometimes it hard to see how we have improved, but I believe that I have improved in some ways. Not just in English but in my ability to coup with life after the mission.

For some reason, coming back from proselyting full time has been a real struggle. I could see that in some of my earlier blog entrees. For some reason I thought that when I came back I would be a super human. It wasn't that I thought I would be better than anyone else, I just thought I would be more capable and confident than I was before. But then again, the stakes have been raised. BYU is a competitive place. Many of the people I have meet deserve to be in Ivy League schools, but they choose to come here because of the culture. Anyway, I think my experience in English has been a good one. I am especially thankful for the opportunity to have written the research paper on something I hold very dear. Learning about my great great grandpa and his posterity has been a real blessing. There is something special about receiving guidance from blood related relatives who have gone before. I learned a lot about research and effective ways of communicating with reliable sources.

All in all, I think I will be applying the skills I have learned in effective ways. I hope that by doing so I will be able to find success in other aspirations. My late grandpa Throckmorton always talked about the importance writing in a professional life, now I think I'll have a better grip on what he claimed.