.New Creature

I don't know what it was about this little dinner we had at Sister Nichol's house last week. But ever since then I have seriously been looking at my life and my calling a little bit differently.

Sister Nichol is a really sweet, really cute, really little, older lady in our ward. She invited Air and I to come to dinner at her home with the missionaries. Holy wow! I had no idea how proper and polite someone could be! (Okay, maybe I did... she is pretty much exactly like my Grandma Leary in Utah)

When we sat down at the table the first thing we noticed was the fact that we each had 3 plates in front of us. I think that’s the very same moment that Air and I panicked a little. What are these for? What do I do with so many plates? Sister Nichol said something like “Oh don’t worry if you don’t know what all the plates are for.” So Air relaxed and grabbed a roll and placed it on the plate directly in front of him… big mistake! Sister Nichol quickly corrected him, “Don’t put that there. This plate at the top left is your bread plate”. From then on I just waited to see what she told Air to do before I did anything. ANYTHING. And it paid off.

It was hilarious.

We probably should have thoroughly studied this diagram before dinner

Walking into her home was like stepping back into the 1950's. She has a beautiful and ginormous organ in her living room... only I don't think that was a standard thing in homes in the 50’s either.

I loved every minute of it

Laughing at the missionaries for showing up for dinner an hour late. Hearing Sister Nichol’s interesting life stories. Talking about the gospel and how important it is to her. Hearing her conversion story. Discussing music, family, missionary work. Accepting some really generous gifts. Writing in Sister Nichol's "guest book" (for real). We gathered around the piano and sang a hymn… which reminded me of my family growing up. We loved to sing together around the piano. Something that I miss doing quite a bit.

In seminary (did you think I'd have something else to talk about?) we've been talking about changing ourselves and becoming new creatures again and again throughout our lives. I've been trying to become a new creature, but I seemed to be stuck in a rut. I wanted to show my students that the gospel is precious and something to be passionate about and grateful for. I don't think that my example and teaching method were putting out that message as much as I wanted to. I think I've found a way out now, and I'm extremely happy about that.

I'm finding even more joy in teaching seminary now.

Thank you Sister Nichol.

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.Gift idea anyone?

I just got an email from uddercovers.com. They are giving away free nursing cover-ma-jigs! I got one of these last time they had this promotion and it worked like a charm (no, I'm not nursing nor soon-to-be). I know that lots of you are having babies now or plan to have more soon? Or you might just want to give this to someone as a gift? (Christmas!)

DIRECTIONS:

Go to uddercovers.com, click on "Shop Now", select the product you would like and you will automatically be directed to the center of the page where you can enter in the promo code. Type in 'Christmas' and it will bring your product total to $0! You can use the code more than once - you just have to open a new browser/window to do so. Good Luck!

This promotion gives you a $32.00 discount off your total order no matter what you put in your cart. It's valid once per transaction; you just have to pay $8.95 shipping, I believe.



Let me know what you think if you get one, would you? Merry Christmas friends!


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.methodology

The best way to learn scripture mastery is to sing them in the shower.


And that's how we do it, every day.


I've memorized 12 scriptures that way so far this semester!


My seminary kids think that's crazy... they laugh at me every time I pass one off
{Yes, I told them}


Works like a charm. Seriously.


And my showers may or may not be substantially longer since I've been doing this... no comment


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.vehicular motion

No, we couldn't really afford it; but when a really sweet deal falls into your hands you have to jump on it sometimes

Right? I think that's right?

Air's sister Tara didn't need her old car; so his parents let us have it so long as we paid the shop for something called a "distributor"(?). I obviously know a lot about car parts.


Aren't we lucky??


It will be pretty nice to have another car. We've had a few instances lately where Air and I have needed to be in two different places at once, but couldn't because of our one car.
Once I have a job it will probably be even more useful.
Did I mention it has snow tires?? :)


blessings blessings everywhere.


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.star-struck

This is really pathetic, but today I had a moment where I felt a little star-struck... on facebook of all places.


See, I have this friend, Jess, who I used to work with at the Math Lab at UVU (back when it was UVSC). I later got him a job working with me and my friends at Wheeler Farm's day camp for a summer. He was great with the kids and he would bring his guitar and play them songs and he would draw them pictures. I was pretty proud of myself for picking such a good day camp worker, since I was a head counselor.


These days he is getting more and more well-known and established as an amazing artist and musician down in Utah.


Currently you can see some of his artwork and enter a giveaway here on cjane's Provo blog. If you haven't heard of the infamous Utah blogger cjane, you probably haven't been blogging long... or you just don't surf around looking at blogs during your free time? (that's what I do)


Anyway, here's what happened to me on facebook today:

I totally blushed when I saw that she read my comment and commented back.

And that's the pathetic part.



the end.


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