VOTE FOR JORJA!

My sister Jorja Jones has the opportunity to win a $1,000 scholarship provided by the Utah High School Rodeo Association, but she needs your help to get it. In order for her to be eligible to win the scholarship she needs to qualify by receiving more YouTube likes than the other videos submitted. to help her out visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLCs4vB-KMU and click the thumbs up beneath the video!
She will really appreciate your support!
Here's the video, but remember go to the link and click the thumbs up:

Panic and Mayhem

on May 10, 2013 a small group of civilians and emergency medical staff  were traumatically injured by two massive explosions at the St. George Police department shooting range. Some, including myself, were among the dead, and all were injured before the first explosion even took place.
I along with some other family members had the opportunity to participate in St. George Utah's Mass Casualty training incident. During a medical conference held by the Utah Association of EMT's. where a moderately sized group of people volunteered to paint on fake blood and guts to assist in the training of new EMS students. This year the incident was staged as a terrorist bombing not unlike the Boston Marathon Bombings, of course on a much smaller scale. This year's "victims" lost their limbs, suffered concussions, were impaled by pieces of shrapnel, and even suffered heart attack from the stress of the situation. I myself suffered from major internal bleeding. We were each caked with the appropriate make up and then told how to act based on our symptoms, I was told to sprawl myself on top of a large rock, as if the blast had thrown me on top of it, and then to complain allot about my stomach. If the EMS reacted properly by putting me on high transport priority then I would survive, if not, then I would die. Let's just say the first group of EMS student's saved my life, but tragically I did not make it through the second round because transport didn't arrive on the scene in time. It was allot of fun, especially since it took a good bit of acting and i haven't had the chance to do that for a long time. It was so realistic at one point, the children had some trouble distinguishing what was real and what was fake.

Your Remarkable Story

"Once you start... then you'll start to recognize..." As I was organizing all the fun gadgets and buttons I wanted to place on my blog, I started talking about blogging with some of my roommates. The discussion started out with a bit of a negative connotation specifically toward how weird it is that a 22 year old college kid from a small po dunk town would start blogging. Of course, my reasons for starting the blog were completely justifiable. As a communications major it's completely appropriate to get acquainted with the tools that people in the particular field are now beginning to lean on more and more in our ever evolving Internet based society. After having talked some sense into my heckling roommates, one of them expressed simply, their thoughts on why they had never started a blog, "I guess I just never thought my life was interesting enough to blog about." said Mike, and that's when I started to think. I remembered the experience that I had while serving my mission. Every day, or at least every week, I made an effort to record the events of my life in my journal. Obviously as a missionary I was bound to have some exciting experiences, like getting mugged or chased by dogs, but I recognized that as I wrote in my journal, I began to notice the little everyday things that we often take for granted or quickly forget and, yet, have an honorable mention in our lives. The single explanation for having such discoveries could only have come from beginning to seek out those moments that set the remarkable apart from the mundane. After my brief reminiscence I turned to Mike and I said, "I guess that's another reason why I've started blogging, once you start blogging then you start to recognize the interesting moments of your life, and you'll probably start trying to find more things to make your life interesting." after a short pause, mike shrugged and said "I guess that makes sense" then our conversation fizzled to a stop, leaving me to continue pondering my own statement. Looking back now at the time I started blogging, my life has become more interesting because it has motivated me too seek remarkable opportunities, a concept that reminds me of the hilarious movie Yes Man. There are far more opportunities to experience here in this world than you will ever have the capacity to undertake  It's time to start your remarkable story. You don't have to blog, you don't have to share it with the world, but its out there, so start looking for it and perhaps when you find it than write about it!

One down, and one maybe two to go (The Road to Success)

"Snow College 

As authorized by law and the Utah State Board of Regents
has conferred upon 

Tyrell Jones

the degree of

Associate of Science"

"Together with all the honors, rights, privileges, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. 
Given at Ephraim in the State of Utah the fourteenth day of December in the year of our Lord
two thousand twelve and the College's one hundred twenty-fourth year."

After a span of about four years, interrupted of course by a two year full time LDS mission in South Africa, I am one degree down, and one possibly two more to go. I'm now currently perusing a bachelors degree in communications at Southern Utah University.
The commencement exercises will were held at the Sevier Valley Center Eccles Theater in Richfield UT. on May 3rd of 2013.