Urban Poly Princess

They served Teriyaki and Sweet and Sour Kabobs with baked potatoes. I think kabobs go more with rice but then I think everything goes better with rice. Thank U mom!!! I stayed up turning my apartment into Christmas. It looks amazing HOWEVER I still need my couch. I have 5 strings of lights for my small tree I bought last year. I only needed 4 this year.

I decided to finish my tithing settlement with bishop since I didn't sign up and I needed to complete it. He was extremely complimentary the entire time. He always tries to build our ward members up. He asked me what I wanted to improve spiritually. I had to think. He thought I was thinking about a bunch of things BUT I had to think because I feel great about myself spiritually. I feel good about my relationship with my father in heaven, with studying the scriptures and the temple thanks to the amazing opportunity it is to work there. I finally told him I need to get married. He asked me what I needed to do to accomplish that. I told him if I knew that I wouldn't be in this ward. Then I told him I needed to lose weight and perfect my physical fitness level because it affects my spirituality too. He told me I can get healthier but that I'm not obese. He told me things that were like DUH!!! He said to look first and foremost for someone who loves god and is committed. He said it's like a business merging two companies. I then told him there was no one in the ward I was even remotely interested in. He told me it was alright and that because I want to get married situations will arise and I will recognize things I haven't before. I told him I didn't think so but yeah whatever.

Saturday was my first bride. She was gorgeous as was her husband although they looked like they weighed 80 lbs combined. Her dress was amazing. She got it online and ordered it custom-made from somewhere in China. She only had to alter the sleeves. Those are cheap too BUT her dress looked like she spent a fortune on it. I like her veil too. It was very windy outside. I looove that she slipped on these flat boots that looked like thick knitted socks under her wedding dress. You can't see her feet anyway under all that satin so at least her feet were comfy.

They had a normal amount of guests NOT the ridiculous amount with Poly weddings. I told Sis. Smoot my dream wedding would be at the Las Vegas temple with ONLY my immediate family in attendance. An Elvis-themed reception would be awesome too!!! I wonder if I could get my future husband to go along with that. It would eliminate the expense and excessive pageantry of a Poly wedding. Plus I would love to tell people I went to Vegas to get married. If there is a way to avoid having to look at roasted pigs sitting at my wedding table I am ALL for that!!! I don't think I'd have a choice if my father was still alive. I have A LOT more freedom now although I'd take the pigs if it meant having my dad back. I miss him so much and I always thought he'd be at my wedding AND around later to be the greatest grandfather to MY kids not just George's.

Mosiah 13
33 For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even ^aall the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began—have they not spoken more or less concerning these things?

The Moral Force of Women - D. Todd Christofferson
I wish to express gratitude for the influence of good women, identify some of the philosophies and trends that threaten women’s strength and standing, and voice a plea to women to cultivate the innate moral power within them.
A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children.