Hello!
Hi! How are you?
Great! How are you?
I'm very sleepy, but good :)
Why so sleepy? Finals week?
Yes and I'm resisting the urge to take a nap hahaha
I'm a HUGE advocate of short powernaps :) Like 20 minutes :) What do you think about the prompt?
I feel like they wouldn't work for me! I take forever to fall asleep so it would just be resting my eyes if I did that. Although that doesn't sound like a terrible idea, haha! I'm going ice skating today though so I gotta stay awake That's a tough question for me
Ice skating huh? Date night?
Just with my ward :)
Oh, still fun... anyway back to the prompt.
I don't know if this is a great answer, but I'm super passionate about the National Alliance of Mental Health! I'm all about helping to get the stigma off of mental health and raising money to get more research for it
That's cool... why the interest in mental health?
I've had some really close friends suffer from mental illness who have been ostracized by both their peers and their family members and it just makes me sad. It's also a huge problem here in Utah as Utah is one of the top states with occurrences of suicide. It just gets glossed over and sugarcoated so I think people don't realize how serious it can be
Agreed... I have a friend in one of my classes who is going to to special education because he wants to help meet that problem.
It's a huge issue! And people are so scared to talk about those issues but they're so grave and can be treated
Agreed... my wife is about to have a baby and it's interesting to hear how common the "baby blues" or postpartum depression is even though we don't hear about it too much.
Congratulations on the baby! I hope that goes well :)
We're hoping so too :)
And I know a lot of women feel ashamed when they get postpartum depression because they feel like they should be more confident in their abilities to mother, but it's really just a chemical imbalance that they can't control
Yeah... I would love for changes to be made to overcome the stigma. But it's really hard in a culture where image is so important
Me too! What is your answer to the prompt?
Hmm... let me think. Honestly I think the LDS church has great traction and ability to bless a large amount of people. If I had extra giving money, it would go toward their humanitarian efforts.
I agree! I really like the degree that's placed on service to others
Although, I would LOVE to go on a humanitarian trip with a group to a third world country and serve.
Any country preferences?
No... I speak spanish though, so that would make things more real
I love the Spanish language :) it's so beautiful
Agreed, do you speak Spanish?
Yeah! Not fluently but I studied it for five years
Really! In college as well as high school?
I started in junior high and studied it through high school!
Do you speak any other langugaes?
I haven't taken any classes in college though because I'm scared I wouldn't have enough knowledge compared to the returned missionaries and such who had to speak it every day for two years I don't sadly
No worries... do you think it would throw off their training data if we started to have our conversation in Spanish? Probably right? :)
Hahaha yeah it would!
How did you hear about this "chit-chat challenge?"
My friend is part of the team running it! And then another friend is marketing for it
Very neat... one of the team members got up in my C S class and announced it. It's pretty cool that BYU is so far in the running!
I know! I feel so proud :') I hope they win the whole challenge!
Same!
There's some good people who are working super hard to make sure it's great