General Relief Society Meetng

So Ally and I, through the grace of our good friend Michele and her neighbor Darcia, got tickets to the General Relief Society Meeting last night. They got to sing in the choir. I bet that was a fabulous experience - it was amazing to listen to them! Anyway, the whole meeting was just fantastic. It's great to have an event that is so uplifting, comforting, and encouraging that I can still feel the high today. I did wonder, though, how many women were especially pleased that it was the handsome Elder Uchtdorf that addressed us at the end of the meeting. Prior to the meeting Ally and I wandered aroung Temple Square and took pictures. I loved that, as well, since this was my first time actually seeing the Christus. How odd is it that I have been a Mormon un Utah all my life and have never seen it until now? I'll prolly write more on this later, I still need to download my pictures.

Friday night I was at the best party of all time. Even though the reason for the party had mixed emotions it was extremely good to have so many friends gather together in once place to see off Becky and Richard. We'll miss you! I was really a wonderful thing to eat sugar, sit and chat, and play Nintendo like the old days. And, us single ones got the opportunity to play with the little kids. ;)

WOAH!

I spoke too soon when posting my previous post. The Aggies won today 42-17 against Idaho! This is Utah State history!

Fall is Coming

So this is the second game in a row that I haven't been tempted to attend. I'm still supporting my dear Aggies, but have finally given in to the idea that I do not need to pay to see them play because I can already predict the outcome. I suppose I'll eventually go to one, though. It's threatening rain today, anyhow. I don't really want to sit in the rain and watch my team lose.

Tomorrow I am being set apart for my new calling as stake choir director. When I was first called I wasn't really enthusiastic about it, but now it has grown on me. Not so much the idea of people lookin' at my butt in the tabernacle as much as the idea of once again having the opportunity to use music as a medium to bear my testimony. And, because I'm in charge, I picked one of my favorite hymns (ok, it's not an official LDS hymn), "Behold the Wounds in Jesus' Hands" as well as several of my other favorites. My friend, Sara, convinced me that a string quartet would be a cool way to accompany the choir, so we're planning that for the Saturday night session. I'm excited!

School this week has been fairly normal. Our plans for offering exploratory elective classes for our middle school kids is well underway. We solidified the classes being offered, teachers, and rooms. Monday the kids will register and hopefully by the end of next week we'll have class lists and the teachers can begin to really plan. My band students are doing well, despite having Friday Zone-Out Syndrome while my professor was observing me. Oh, well. They're still great kids.

On a side note: why is it that almost all chick flicks have romances rooted in deception of some kind? Intentional or not dishonesty doesn't seem to be the best foundation for a new relationship. But what do I know? I'm still single.

For Melissa

So this week seemed generally uneventful. Discussion has begun on setting up new exploratory and fun classes for our middle school age kids at school. We set out a survey for the kids to fill out and got requests for cooking, badminton, pyrotechnics, English, and some other more common classes. It was fun to see the results. Yesterday I felt like I spent most of my day spending money. I bought Mario Kart for Wii, bought peaches at the local farmer's market, went to DI, ShopKo, Hobby Lobby, Michael's, and Wal-Mart. I am happy to report that I already have a start on my Christmas shopping. Playing Mario Kart on the Wii is hysterical fun, by the way. Come over, we'll play. ;)

Time Travels When Ya Aren't Lookin'

Hey kids, it's been a while since I posted... So, since January a ton of stuff has happened but I'll give you an abbreviated version: February was my birthday, March was boring, April I went to NYC for a fabulous week hanging out with Jenny, venturing into the city, we watched Hairspray and Wicked on Broadway and saw Michael Buble in concert. Simply amazing. Um, May was when school got out, June Ally and I went to the Glenn Beck Insiders Convention in Akron, OH, but really the highlight was historic Kirtland. July I drove to Michele's a lot, August school started again and here's September already. Nuts, huh?

Anyway, the pic above is from the Tesoro in AF, there on 100 East and what? 100 North? I had to read the sign out loud to figure out what it was saying. It made me laugh, depsite the fact I was buying gas at 10PM in the middle of a lightning storm. It was Saturday and I needed to drive the next day... what could I do? All I can say is that I am indeed grateful for stern English teachers while I was in school.