PerazzoBrothersGaming YouTube Channel

Joseph, Thomas, Ben, and I have been having a good time making random videos :)

Key focuses for us for our channel in no particular order:

1. Family Friendly (no cursing, no innuendos etc.)

2. Videos have to be tied to gaming in some form. (Any form of gaming is cool: Board Gaming, Video Gaming, Sports etc.)

3. Just have a good time! Don't stress out about it too much. There's more to this, but that's generally the idea.

Check out the channel here.

Check out my first (and most viewed) youtube short here.

Check out my first youtube video (on this channel, at least) here.

Check out our channel's most viewed youtube short here.

Quite frankly, our videos aren't the best production in the world, haha. But we're having fun, and I really do think we are getting better at it in general/are making better content as we go along.

Right now our content consists of:

-Videos of Shapez, Monument Valley, and Fall Guys gameplay

-Shorts of Joseph talking about random things while playing Marvel Snap in the background

-Shorts of random Super Smash Brother clips I get from tournaments

-Shorts made of clips from random parts of our videos

-Our first two videos which we made back during Christmas time which are board game reviews of Just One and Hand to Hand Wombat

We have many other projects in mind, which we're excited about.

We're having a fun time seeing a little growth in our channel, but the key we're focusing on is to not get enveloped in trying to grow our channel where we stop having fun/start worrying too much about everything etc. This falls under the concept of "Just have a good time!" that I mentioned above. But it can definitely be fun to try to make things better/try to get more views/subscribers etc. It's an interesting, sometimes difficult balance.

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Faulty

I wrote this while I was on my mission, right around a year in if I remember correctly (November 18th, 2020, it turns out). I never really finished it, but it's not like there was any ending in mind in the first place. I decided not to post it at the time because the topic(s) I discuss aren't exactly what I personally wanted to be posting about while I was on my mission, but I've decided to post it in its entirety now. I made a slight grammatical fix and that's it. The Title is also the same as it was when I wrote it on my mission.

I like the thoughts I have here. It's some good stuff, and there's so much more to explore regarding it all; perhaps I will at some point. 

I hope you enjoy the thoughts as much as I do:

Sometimes (often a lot of the time, it seems), it is difficult to know what to write. Or where to start. Or how to start.

Often I find myself pondering far too much before I start typing; trying to figure out the perfect thing to bestow upon the white page in front of me.

Happens in journal writing too. I sit there thinking about what specifically I want to write about. Wanting the perfect words to describe what I want to talk about (but, of course, I first have to figure out what I want to talk about, which is an even more difficult task, it seems).

Words are faulty, however. So even with a topic at hand, it sometimes feels impossible to describe what/how we feel using words.

It just never seems to get it quite right. Or perhaps you want to make a statement, but there's too much history behind it so it would be difficult to explain.

Perhaps the words mean something special to you and the meaning isn't adequately expressed even though the words may feel perfect.

But also, perhaps, that's what makes it special. Where I say something knowing it has meaning to me. And that's enough.

For example, I ended the last blog post with, "Tchau tchau!!" It's a common way to say goodbye, but, for me, they have a special meaning. It's a way for me to remember those who matter very much to me, even though none of the people who currently read from this blog know those people.

Or even my use of the phrase "Words are Faulty" is a nod to someone special in my life. Perhaps it is only us two who understand the reference, but that is okay.

It means something to me, and that's enough.

I feel as though that's the idea behind the "kitchen sink" as discussed by twenty one pilots.

"A kitchen sink to you is not a kitchen sink to me."

I don't really know where I'm going with this. I just knew I needed to start typing in order to get something in front of me.

Right now these are just thoughts that perhaps aren't fully expressed properly. Like I said previously, there's always seems to be more history to inform people about that would allow them to understand fully the words which are spoken.

Tommy's Words

Near the end of my mission, literally the last week if I remember correctly, I was in the Institute Building for the University of Utah. I was serving in part of the Young Single Adult stake that covered the University of Utah.

As my companion and I were talking to people, I got in a conversation with Tommy. Tommy knew that I was finishing up my mission. He asked me how my mission was. I bore my simple, fervent testimony of how my mission changed me. And, although there were many, many struggles, it was such a precious time for me.

We went our separate ways for the next hour or so as the activity went forward.

Near the end of our time there, Tommy pulled me aside. Unbeknownst to me when I was telling him about my mission, Tommy, it turns out, has been pondering whether he should serve a mission or not.

He thanked me for the things I said to him earlier and told me, "You may be going home from your mission, but know you helped me go on mine."

Tommy's words caused my heart to be filled. 

My heart continues to be filled as I think back on how I was able to impact him in such a profound way.

We impact so many more people than we realize. I'm blessed that I was made aware to this one.