Sleep Over at Bishops

About three weeks ago we had a sleep over at our bishops house and it was great! We made pinata's for our Halloween party. Bishop McGarr even made some of us that were hungry dinner, also made us some snacks. We stayed up late and watched a few movies. We watched Mamma Mia, which made me think of my Aunt Momo because that's the only other person that I've watched it with. When my aunt and I watched it, she sang along with it during the whole movie. I loved it! We also watched another movie. It was so great to get to know the girls in my ward better along with the bishop and his wife.

Picture to come.

Ward Prayer/Munch and Mingle

Here in the BYU student wards they have this thing called ward prayer. In my ward what we do is get together at 8:30 p.m. and there's one apartment that is spotlighted. So we get together announce the things that are going on that week, get to know about all the roommates in the apartment being spotlighted, have a spiritual thought, song and prayer. You can feel the spirit so strong during the singing sometimes, it's really great! Then after we have prayer we go to that apartment that was spotlighted and have a thing called Munch and Mingle. The people from the apartment that was spotlighted provide some kid of food, so we eat and mingle with each other.

Good and Bad things about Utah.

Good Things about living in Utah:

1. I love having all my neighbors be singles and of the same faith. You can just go to a neighbors house and hang out.

2. It's great being able to just meet in the middle of your apartment building (solarium) to have ward prayer, Family Home Evening, etc.

3. It's great to not have to drive 30 to 45 minutes if not longer to go to activities.

4. I have met some wonderful people here in Utah.

Bad Things about living in Utah:

1. I don't have the kids that I'm use to being around back home. Number One, The Beast, Pretty, Snort and Little Guy, and their parents of course. I miss going over to their house and just playing with them. Being able to see Little Guy start to crawl, and Snort starting to walk. I've been blessed though that Aimee has been sending me some pictures from her phone. Like I was about to see Rachel's first hair cut when she was in the salon chair!

2. Not being around my family.

3. Not being around my YSA friends from the Branch and surround area.

4. Miss out on baby showers

Burnt Towel

LOL, O.k. so I burnt a towel. I have been having problems with my ears for about 3 years now and doctors have not been able to tell me what's wrong. I went to a Chiropractor for a few months, and it started working, but we couldn't afford it anymore. So I was having problems with my ear a few days ago and a friend told me to put a warm towel on it. She said it's better if you use a dry towel and microwave it, so I did. BAD IDEA!! I looked at it in the microwave and it had gotten brown in the middle, so I stopped it and pulled it out. I had burned. I was told that if I would have kept it in there a little longer it would have caught on fire. Yikes. Don't want that happening.

Settling in Utah

When I first got to Utah I stayed with a long time friend of mine, Alicia, that I know from EFY. I called her up about a week or so before moving here and like I've said before this isn't the first time I've thought of making the move. So when I told her I was going to be coming, she said you aren't going to back out on me again are you? LOL I said no I'm really coming this time, I even have a friend coming home from Utah so that she can drive up with me. So when she found out I didn't have a place to stay yet she said that I could stay with them until I could find a place.

So I ended up staying with Alicia and her family for a week. I would look at apartments and not feel right about them. I would just walk in and think this doesn't feel like home and then have a hard time wondering if I was going to ever find a place to feel simi-homelike. After I looked at two places I called a friend of mine Tia and she told me to come over and we could spend some time together. That was much needed time with a friend of mine from back home. She comforted me and I felt like I was somewhere that I would relax for a while. Thanks Tia !

So shortly after that I got a call from the same people that I had talked to about the other apartments and she found another one that was in my price range that was a single bedroom and asked if I would be interested in looking. So I did. I felt better about this one then I had the others.

Then I called another friend, Bree, from Texas that is living here in Utah and she said that there were two rooms open right in her apartment. If I got one of those rooms then we could be roommates. So the next day I called the lady up and told her that I wanted to look at the room and she met me there. Now I'm not sure if it's because I knew one of my friends would be my roommates and was already living here, but I felt really good about this one apartment. I'm so grateful for the Holy Ghost and being able to find an apartment that I feel good with.

Travel from Texas to Utah

On August 24-25, Sarah and I drove from Texas to Utah. I left my house later in the morning, so that I could say bye to my dad when he got home from work before I left. There were some points where Sarah had to ask me if I was o.k. because I was just start crying while driving.

We stopped on the 24th in New Mexico and was able to stay the night with my mission president. It was so nice to see them and be able to catch up a little. :) It made them happy that I thought of stopping there on the way to Utah. There were two ways that we could have gone, Colorado or New Mexico. Well, I told Sarah that if we went to New Mexico we could stay with my mission president and she said, that's a great idea. :) So we did, and I'm grateful we did.

I have a new Addiction

O.K. since coming to Utah I have gained a new addiction. There is a girl in my ward that really likes the T. V. show 24 and was watching it one day in their apartment when my roommates event over. So we sat down and watched some and got into it a little. So they started talking about how they were starting with season 1 and watching all seasons to catch up for season 7 that starts in January. So I asked if I could borrow season 1 disk because they had already watched the first ones and so I borrowed them and started watching.

I watched season 1 and liked it and the more I watched the more I got into it. I'm so addicted now. One night I stayed up until like 3 or so watching it. We are now on season 3. I am actually watching some right now! :) It's so good that after you watch one hour you want to see the next right away. My friend Dana said that the further you get into the seasons that better it gets. She's right.

When I was at home I watched a few episodes just while flipping through channels and catching them when I would find them on, but now I am really into it. In January when season 7 starts we are planning on have 24 parties to watch the episodes! :)