It's been just under a week so I thought I might as well update today.
On Thrusday the 20th, my family and I drove down to the Mt. Timpanogus Temple and watched my cousin get married. It was the first sealing I've ever had the oppertunity to attend. After the sealing, my cousin and her husband had a short ring-exchange ceremony before my family left. It was an interesting experience that I enjoyed. Its interesting because the core, and most important, parts of the sealing are the same as all over sealings. Because of this, my brother looked over at me after the sealing and mentioned that even though I wasn't at his or my sisters marriage, I now knew what my brother and sister's marriage was like. What an interesting thought. Although I understood the importance of a temple sealing and look forward to one, one day, I did feel like I missed out on watching Chris and Natalie get married to Amy and Jacob respectively when the marriages occured. I have to think it must be even harder for non-members who may not understand the importance of it, and or, may not believe in it's importance. I think what Chris said was inspired and I have to now agree. I don't feel like I missed anything now. It is a comforting thought to have.
Nothing to report on Friday the 21st at least nothing worth remembering.
Nothing really happened on Saturday until that night. Friends from Vernal Utah drove in and we had a pretty good night playing card games and having a good time. We played phase 10 with 7 people. The result was a crazy game with the winner having over 400 points and the loser having somewhere around 600-700 points. I finished a close second when a late round point acculmation hurt my chances pretty bad. Oh well! Perhaps next time?
Sunday was the biggest day of the last week. As most of you will know, before a missionary reports to the missionary training center (or MTC) generally the ward will have the individual speek. I received my topic on the 20th just a few short days before I was supposed to speak. The topic was on Elder Quentin L. Cook's talk at a BYU-I devotional. The topics title was, "Strengthen Faith as You Seek Knowledge." It was an interesting topic and one that required a lot of work. I struggled a lot and I had to really think about the topic. If it wasn't for timely advice from my father, who kows what direction that talk would have taken. For those who were unable to make it, or have requested my talk since, I have decided to publish it on Google Documents and it is available here for your use. After church, we had everyone over for dinner and had a nice evening talking with and interacting with the individual who had driven out to support me. I'd like to thank everyone who came out whether it was a 3 hour drive or a five minute walk it meant a lot to me. So Many Thanks to you all!
Monday was a bit more laid back and included a shopping excursion with Natalie and Jacob. Natalie and Jacob recently moved to New Mexico and into an unfurnished apartment. As such, we drove down to Ikea in Draper in order to purchase some furniture for them. Ikea is an amazing store and to be honest probably the first stand-alone store I've ever been in that required a map. After Ikea, we hit up Target and then returned home.
Tuesday, I was fortunate enough to spend with my father. I had a doctor's appoint in the morning and as such I rode in with my father and spent the day with him at work. We first attended a HP seminar at a driving range and then got to take a short private tutoring session at the driving range with a golf pro. After that we drove to the appointment where everything check out just perfect, like usual. We had lunch and then I sat in his office on my computer the rest of the day while he worked. We both had a lot of fun, at least I did, and we returned home around 5pm that night.
Today, or Wednesday the 27th, has been a bit of a drag. With nothing to do beside watch TV and play with the dogs, I've really done nothing today. The young single adults in my ward were supposed to go to the Go-Kart track and race but I guess I got the information mixed up as I either showed up at the wrong place or at the wrong time. I'm hoping things will start to pick up and I'll have stuff to do between now and the 16th of June. There are only 20 more days till I report and I can't wait.
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