Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Good morning friends- so I’m here at the Lakewood Mission Repair location preparing for the big Ribbon Cutting this afternoon and I got this pic emailed over to me from our Olathe office:

It made me laugh. It’s ok to laugh. From left to right, that’s Tayler, Sydney and Wade all ready to make leprechaun magic happen today. Yes, I’m wearing green today as well, but here at Mission Repair we’ve somewhat adopted St. Patrick’s Day as our favorite day. It’s the green that matches our company colors…and since it’s a “fun” holiday, it fits our theme.

It’s why we are having our Ribbon Cutting here in Lakewood, Colorado today. This was intentional, and I’ll be sure to post some pics for you to get a good chuckle at later of myself and my crew here. Yes, we’ll all be wearing some sort of green in our ensembles; but I won’t be wearing a bow tie. That’s all for Wade.

Have a great day, Ryan

Who is this “St. Patrick” guy anyway?

While much of St. Patrick’s story has become muddled by years of ever-growing exaggeration and folklore, many historians agree that he played a pivotal role in shaping our world’s history.

Though St. Patrick is generally believed to have died around March during 460A.D, he was born during the late fourth century to a wealthy, but not particularly religious family in Britain. While his father is believed to have been a Christian deacon, many historians agree that the title may have simply been a means of religious tax incentives.

Though his early life and early adolescence was more than likely quite secure, he was taken prisoner by a group of Irish “raiders” that attacked his family’s estate when he was only 16. After the abduction, St. Patrick was taken to Ireland.

During this 6-year stretch, he was sold as a slave and worked as a shepherd in the countryside. As a result, he spent much of his time isolated from other people. In reaction to his lonesome and weary travels and captivity, historians believe that St. Patrick turned to religion as a means of comfort and tranquility. In particular, St. Patrick turned his attention to Christianity for his solace.

However, after over 6 years of slavery, St. Patrick finally escaped his captors under “divine” direction. As he wrote, God spoke to him in a dream, telling him to leave Ireland.

As accounts suggest, he walked nearly 200 miles to Ireland’s coastline and eventually made his way back into Britain where he had yet another divine “vision.” In this dreamlike state, St. Patrick stated that he was urged to return to Ireland as a Christian missionary.

For the next 15 years, Patrick devoted his life to learning Christian teachings through intensive studies and was finally ordained as a priest. After receiving this honor, he left for Ireland with a two-fold mission. On one hand, he sought to minister to Christians already living in Ireland, while on the other he begin to convert the Irish people as a whole.

At the time, the majority of Irish culture was dominated by a form of nature-based, pagan religion, yet in his attempt to convert the majority to Christians, St. Patrick did not aim to completely destroy their traditions. Being familiar with both Irish culture and language of the day, he instead integrated the country’s age-old celebrations with an ultimately Christian teaching. For example, he used large bonfires to celebrate Easter and even “superimposed” the image of the sun (one of the most important symbols to the Irish at the time) onto the Christian cross. This image is now what we know as the Celtic cross. With this more “natural” transition to the Christian religion, St. Patrick was able to convert a large portion of the relatively small Irish population after many years of effort.

Until the day of his death, St. Patrick continued to visit several churches he had founded and offered religious advice to the Irish people.
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Whew. . .all of this and I thought that it had something to do with getting “pinched” if you didn’t wear green. Where did I go wrong all these years? Green beer. . .where does that come from? Leprechauns? Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? I’m confused 😉

Well let me stop the confusion and apply a 10% St. Patrick’s Day Sale to all of our services at Mission Repair. Not to worry, we won’t judge you if you’re not wearing green. We’ll just give you 10% off today through Sunday March 20th, 2011. Just use coupon code “IRISH” when checking out online or when you call in to place your new order at Mission Repair.

Have a great and safe St. Patrick’s day.

Ryan

Galaxy Tab repairs- we specialize in all of them.

Hello everyone, it’s a wonderful afternoon here at the Mission Repair base- we’re happy to let you know that we are repairing truckloads of Samsung Galaxy Tablets- OK, not truckloads, but most certainly many more that I expected to receive. Our press outlets really worked for this product line and we’re saving a ton of these devices from the landfill.

Additionally, there has been a lot of question about “which version” we repair and here’s the short answer. We repair all of them.

We’re happy to service all versions, whether it’s the Sprint, TMobile, Verizon, US Cellular or AT&T branded version, we’ve got you covered. Want to know what else is covered? If you have your Samsung Galaxy Tab Repair done by my staff at Mission Repair, and if you ever break it again anytime in the future, we’ll repair it again under our “Got Repair” program. How about them apples?

Have a great Wednesday today and St. Patty’s day tomorrow!

Ryan