today i'm all dressed up in my sassy school girl outfit complete with knee highs. it was asking to be worn and today was the day. i'm down in the cold cold basement on my old slow computer. i don't often use this computer now that karey has a nice fast one upstairs and more convenient like but if she's home i like to let her have her room and her computer to herself. i know what it's like to be invaded merely for one's technological assets. usually i would be in church right now, but it's stake conference weekend and church is already over.
i got up at 7:30 to get ready for church and left by 8:30. karey thought i was insane to go that early. i could read it in her face the night before when i told her the time i'd be leaving. she knows i like to get a good seat but she was sure i was taking my obsession to an unhealthy level. but she didn't try to talk me out of it. she knows better. she was just getting up when i was going out the door and i told her i would save seats so look for me at the front. on my way out i called tania who was supposed to meet me at 8:30 at the town pump. i clearly woke her up with my call. even when she is a little tired her words become almost unintelligable, but this morning her language skills were diminished to a series of grunts and moans. i told her she better call karey for a ride because she was leaving later than me and headed off to church alone. sunday morning driving is so much nicer than sunday afternoon driving. clear roads and green lights. i got to the church at ten to nine even though i had been driving slowly since arriving in burnaby because was starting to feel a little sheepish for coming so early. as i turned onto kincaid i thought about driving around the block to use up some time, but then i saw that there was already a healthy number of cars parked on eitherside and felt better.
i found a place in the fourth row and settled down to read my six pages. i was a little distracted from time to time by the stake choir which was practicing. they had a beautiful full boddied powerful sound and upon listening to crystal conduct them i felt a little twang of jealousy that i didn't join. she had them sing the song through only singing the vowels and then only singing the constenants. it was a big choir with four rows of sisters and two of brothers. it's nice to be in a big choir when you are just one part of the big sound and when you have a conductor who's in control and in charge and knows what they're doing.
conference both last night and today was very good. Elder Kikuchi was here. he speaks so passionately. there were many good speakers. president walker got emotional when he thanked us for our prayers and fastings about getting a temple here and then when president brown of the temple presidency said that they got a little pain whenever we get closer to having a temple here because they'll miss us and then we stood to sing the spirit of God, (stake conf. is one of the only good times to sing that because it is so much better when many voices make it powerful, in my opinion) i felt like "wow, are we really going to get a temple? maybe." i felt the spirit and it made me think of the times in the scriptures when it describes things like when Jesus smiled on them and their countenances shone bright like his. it felt like God was smiling on us if that makes any sense. it was a good spiritual feasting. Elder Kikuchi is pretty amazing. he has fire in his bones like Brigham Young would say. there are a lot of ways i need to better my life.
i got up at 7:30 to get ready for church and left by 8:30. karey thought i was insane to go that early. i could read it in her face the night before when i told her the time i'd be leaving. she knows i like to get a good seat but she was sure i was taking my obsession to an unhealthy level. but she didn't try to talk me out of it. she knows better. she was just getting up when i was going out the door and i told her i would save seats so look for me at the front. on my way out i called tania who was supposed to meet me at 8:30 at the town pump. i clearly woke her up with my call. even when she is a little tired her words become almost unintelligable, but this morning her language skills were diminished to a series of grunts and moans. i told her she better call karey for a ride because she was leaving later than me and headed off to church alone. sunday morning driving is so much nicer than sunday afternoon driving. clear roads and green lights. i got to the church at ten to nine even though i had been driving slowly since arriving in burnaby because was starting to feel a little sheepish for coming so early. as i turned onto kincaid i thought about driving around the block to use up some time, but then i saw that there was already a healthy number of cars parked on eitherside and felt better.
i found a place in the fourth row and settled down to read my six pages. i was a little distracted from time to time by the stake choir which was practicing. they had a beautiful full boddied powerful sound and upon listening to crystal conduct them i felt a little twang of jealousy that i didn't join. she had them sing the song through only singing the vowels and then only singing the constenants. it was a big choir with four rows of sisters and two of brothers. it's nice to be in a big choir when you are just one part of the big sound and when you have a conductor who's in control and in charge and knows what they're doing.
conference both last night and today was very good. Elder Kikuchi was here. he speaks so passionately. there were many good speakers. president walker got emotional when he thanked us for our prayers and fastings about getting a temple here and then when president brown of the temple presidency said that they got a little pain whenever we get closer to having a temple here because they'll miss us and then we stood to sing the spirit of God, (stake conf. is one of the only good times to sing that because it is so much better when many voices make it powerful, in my opinion) i felt like "wow, are we really going to get a temple? maybe." i felt the spirit and it made me think of the times in the scriptures when it describes things like when Jesus smiled on them and their countenances shone bright like his. it felt like God was smiling on us if that makes any sense. it was a good spiritual feasting. Elder Kikuchi is pretty amazing. he has fire in his bones like Brigham Young would say. there are a lot of ways i need to better my life.
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