Conference Time!

This weekend marks the 180th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It means President Monson, the prophet, and the Twelve Apostles, and other leaders of the church will speak to 14 million people in 5 different sessions. It takes place in Salt Lake, and therefore, I am going. Hooray!

General Conference weekend can be described as a LDS holiday, in joking terms. If you're employed in an LDS position, most likely you'll get work off (teachers at the MTC get that off and not 4th of July... haha), it is a time for families to gather together, and Temple Square in Salt Lake is teeming with members, from literally everywhere. Aside from the actual messages, which are so spiritually enriching and refining if you are willing to let them be so, being in and around the conference center and Temple Square is my favorite part. We always try to count how many people we know, but it really is inspiring to see so many people in one place that are all trying to do the right things with their lives. It is a good reminder that the world may be going to pot, but there are people who will not let their individual circumstances and standards go with it. Morality and integrity might never make it back alive on television, or in the news, but it will always remain in the hearts and homes of millions of people, Christians and non-Christians alike. There is still goodness in the world, and there is still hope.

Here's inside the conference center, where I'll be spending Sunday morning. You can be there too, if you want to watch any of the 4 broadcasted sessions: www.lds.org will broadcast them live and you can watch from the comfort (or privacy) of your own computer. :)

... I know that this is the work of the Lord. You haven't come these long distances for nothing. It is to feed your souls.


Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign Nov. 1974, p 113

Word of the day: raconteur \ra-kahn-TER\, noun;  a person who excels in telling anecdotes.

So Long Sweet Summer.

Okay so technically the summer holiday has been over for a month. But I've been busy, a'ight?

Busy with what? Well. I will tell you.

James and Taryn got married in Bountiful, Utah. Hooray! So much fun to have family gathered for the dinner in Salt Lake, and then to be in Bountiful for the sealing and reception.

The next day after the reception, I drove back to Colorado to finish painting murals (more details on my art blog) and miraculously pack all my belongings. I don't even know how that happened.


We had a Colorado reception on August 27th, so we were driving back to Utah on Saturday the 28th. I  moved into my new apartment that night and started school the next Monday.

And it has been a whirlwind ever since. 

I could go into all sorts of detail, but it sufficeth me to say that school is great. :)  Busy, but great.

And I also think that the Lost Boys are here at BYU. And by Lost Boys I mean all the dashingly handsome, tall, witty, intelligent, socially competent men that you wonder where they have existed all your life, and then you stumble upon them walking across campus, and then you never see them again. I'm positive they're figments of my imagination. What a cruel joke imagination can play.

But I love my new ward, and it is filled with great, great people, of both genders. So I'm not too concerned about the Lost Boys. (At least for right now. ;)

It does not surprise me that the only difference between Oblivious and Obvious is just two little letters, because more often than not, they are the same thing instead of being totally opposite. Case in point:

Our living room window faces the hoop of our basketball court. We often are sitting in our living room while some game or another takes place, and occasionally we'll get a ball to the window. It's part of life.

However. When certain specimens of the male variety want to gain certain attention from a female within our apartment, they think they're brilliant when they throw the ball against the window and win a glance from within.

They think we're oblivious. 

How obvious. 

Word of the Day: frabjous \FRAB-juhs\, adjective; 1.  wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.