Personal Stories Catalog - Kapri Beus

1. The story of my worst “food” experience on my mission- cat hair banana bread [comedy story, disgusting story].  I tell this story because it is funny and disgusting, and also proves that you don’t have to serve in a foreign country to have “foreign” experiences.
2. The story of how I got the massive scar on my arm at a sleepover/ gymnastics party
   [injury story, accident prone story].  I tell this story because people see my scar and ask where it came from.
3. The story of my roommate passing away our freshman year during the semester [tragedy story, value of life story].  I don’t bring this story up super often, but I tell it when relating to death of close ones and to help myself as well as others realize there is good in all things.
4. The story of the road that led me to nursing [educational story, self-defining story].  I tell this story because people like to ask “What’s your major?” and “What made you decide that?” so, over telling it again and again, I am finally figuring out why.
5. The story of how my sister and brother-in-law met and why their relationship is so awesome [romance story, story of patience and hope].  I often tell this story to girls who are stressed about relationships and hopeless for finding “the one”.
6. The story of how someone else “pooped my pants” while working at a dude ranch [really disgusting story, entertaining story, story of learning to laugh].  I  tell this story to make people laugh, and to help them think of me as a funny, down to earth person.
7. The story of running the 100m hurdles at state and losing because I lost focus of the goal [athletic story, story of focusing on our goals].  I often tell this story to help me remember that as we compare ourselves to others we lose sight of our goals and who we are; and it helps me be identified as an athlete.
8. The story of my cancelled flight that led to opportune time with my grandpa before he died [story of family, happy memories story, story of irony].  I tell this story to remind people that everything happens for a reason.
9. The story of unfair treatment toward me because of gender from my high school math teacher [sexist story, ridiculous story].  I think I tell this story to blame my teacher (bad, I know) and to help me remember that I really was in the right- and he the wrong.
10. The story of almost dying in midnight moonlight white water rafting [adventure story].  I mostly tell this story so people will think I am brave and adventurous.

Personal Stories Catalog - Isaac Fox

1. The story of my fiance and I getting engaged [favorite park story, glow sticks story, swimming suit story]. This is what is currently going on in my life, and it seems to be the story people want to hear nowadays.

2. The story of procrastination which lead to why I don't do homework on Sundays [miracle story, bio-chem story, taking tests story]. I use this story as a faith promoting experience as well as to invite others to do the same as I have done.

3. The story of moving from Sweden as a nine-year old [thousands of miles story, culture shock story, new life story]. I really don't think most people can even comprehend this story because it is literally so foreign to them.

4. The story of injuring myself while playing street hockey [hockey story, mouth injury story, best friend story]. I will never be able to live this one down because the reaction people have when they see the picture of what happened stays embedded in their minds.

5. The story of climbing into a claw machine to pull a prank on a friend [prank story, scaring story, birthday story]. I tell this story every time someone new goes into my friends basement, because the claw machine is one of the first things you notice.

6. The story of telling a sister in the MTC that she had a perfect body [awkward story, Russian story, laugh after two years story]. I tell this story when people express their concern of learning a new language, because we all go through a similar process.

7. The story of calling a girl in fifth grade a bad word, because I didn't know hardly and swear words in English [mean girl story, swearing story, sit in the back room story]. No one really ever gets that mad at me because I was a little kid, and I didn't know better, even though my behavior was unacceptable.

8. The story of my lawn-care business that grew over eight years to be very profitable [success story, business story, teenager story]. I often use this in interviews for jobs or anything that will require my resume.

9. The story of when I ran into and was fed by an Armenian in Estonia [mission story, Armenian story, coincidence story]. I tell this one when I'm expressing the blessings of being Armenian, which let me tell you, they are many. ;)

10. The story of how my parents met in Arkansas, but then ended up in Sweden even after my mom had been involved with an arranged marriage in Syria [love story, movie-like story, foreign story]. This is the story I have told the most in my life, because you seriously would think that my family is from a movie.