I Saw the Prophet! and Bye-Bye Brother
This week I got to do two cool things. On Tuesday I attended the dedication of the new Joseph F. Smith Building at BYU. I went with my brother who is a student at BYU. You can read about the dedication here: http://byunews.byu.edu/archive05-Sep-dedication.aspx. President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke about Joseph F. Smith and said a prayer to dedicate the building. The rest of the first presidency of the church was also there along with many other notable people. Cool! This was the first time for me to actually see the Prophet in person, although he looked very small from where I was seated.
I also got to take my other brother to the MTC and see him off on his mission to California. That was such a cool experience.
I Moved to Utah
Wow, I haven't blogged in forever! I can't believe it's been so long, I was doing O.K. for a while there. I've always been bad at keeping in touch with people and keeping a journal. I think the two are kind of related, they have to do with talking about what's happening in your life and I like to live my life but I think I don't like to re-live it, especially if that means writing it down. I'd rather be doing something more fun. And then I'm also critical, when I go back and read my journal entries I don't like what I wrote and I don't feel like it represents my life well. I usually give up or start over. Now I'm finally going to push through and keep a journal, even if I can't write that often. I'm keeping this online blog of what's going on in my life for my friends to read but I've realized that I don't feel comfortable writing very personal things here including a lot of my spiritual experiences, because anyone can read it and make fun of the things I consider to be special. So I've decided to keep a separate journal of personal things, mostly spiritual experiences that I've had so that I can remember them and so I can share the experiences with my close friends and family and someday my kids can read it. A lot of the scripture that we have is like a spiritual journal that someone kept. So using scripture as somewhat of a guide I can see what would be important for people to know about my life and it's not the everyday mundane things, it's the important spiritual things that I learned from and that other people might be able to learn from as well.
My husband and I are living in Provo Utah now and we really like it! I like living in the city. I can walk everywhere, like to downtown Provo and to the store. I always wanted to live where I could walk places and get exercise that way. Some of the places where we lived in Tennessee were way out in the country. There are definitely pros to that (lots of land, it's pretty, it's quiet) but I didn’t like having to drive for 20 minutes just to pick something up at the store.
Our new ward (church congregation) is a good mix of all ages of people. There are a lot of young couples which we like but there are also all ages, kids, teens, middle aged people, old people, and I like it that way. I always felt like singles/student wards were not as spiritual or something. I just didn’t like them. I think it’s because they lack kids and parents and I think kids are a really fun thing about church. So I’m glad we’re far enough away from BYU to not be in a student ward.
Our house needs a lot of fixing up and so far we haven’t had much time to do it. We haven't even finished unpacking and we've lived here for over a month. I'm doing stuff little by little.
