Urban Poly Princess

I worked mostly in the baptistry but spent the last hour in new name issue. I always enjoy talking to the other ordinance workers. It is surprising to me how many ordinance workers have children who aren't active in the church right now. I want to take my children to do baptisms for the dead regularly, like EVERY Saturday or something like that. I want them to get into the habit of regularly attending and participating in saving ordinances.

I was so tired I thought I'd fall asleep right away but now I'm not as tired after eating the macaroni Asian dish I created and a couple of the dinner rolls I made yesterday. I REALLY like this Crystal lite stuff. I wish it used stevia. I just made my 4th pitcher. I miss my dad. The temple reminds me of him because he was an ordinance worker there. I'll never forget the story he told me about this man who cheated on one of his construction jobs. My father had a horrible temper. It is amazing he didn't beat the guy up or send one of his nephews to do it for him. He told me he felt so good when he worked at the temple that Saturday and saw the man in one of his sessions.

Father's day always reminds me he's not here with me anymore.

Tomorrow we have a missionary committee meeting at noon. I was a little annoyed with Jon on Sunday because he kept talking to me and I had to physically turn away from him because I wanted to talk to Curtis BUT he just wouldn't shut up or get that we were DONE talking about the meeting and he needed to keep moving because I wasn't interested in talking to him further. Jen brought her pet hamster to church and wanted to know if I wanted to see it. OH HELL NO!!! ANYTHING in the rodent family needs to back it up around me.

Choir practice is also tomorrow at 12:30 so my Sunday starts at 12 and finishes after 5 because we have hotdogs I think. I'd like to see Curtis tomorrow but I doubt I will because it's father's day and he has a close-knit family from what I am able to derive from his MAAANY family pictures doing various outdoor stuff like hiking and horseback riding. I feel really prissy when I look at the stuff they do together. My family gets together and does BBQ get-togethers, my immediate family does a lot of karaoke and just dance.

My friend Tali posted on Facebook that he wants a girl who loves camping, the great outdoors and doesn't need makeup. Sooo nooot meee!!! I looove ALL girly girl things. I haaate camping, going without electricity, animals in general and mud. It would be cool to milk a cow once AND take a bunch of pictures. I am such a wimp however. I wonder if they butcher their own cows. My dad always said the best meat was when you killed then cooked and ate it right after that. My Tongan family roasts pigs all the time.

A farm boy with style who designs houses from Wellsville. NOT exactly typical. I kill houseplants, I don't like animals OR dirt. I'd like to think meat comes nicely in those styrofoam boxes covered in saran wrap. I love meat. I'm not going to be vegetarian anytime soon BUUUT I still don't like thinking meat is animal flesh. The carcass of a dead animal. My Poly family will give him points if he knows how to butcher animals, also if he can plant and harvest stuff. I'm sure he knows how to do some of that stuff. How do you grow up on a farm and not know how to do any of that. I don't understand where he got his GQ thing from. He looks like a model for real. I need to spend time with him next week. I wonder if he's ever been to a musical before. Ballet? I've NEVER met anyone who doesn't like a musical once they've had the chance to see one.

He probably hates rap and r & b. I hope he likes rock at least. I am never going to like country and that is what he enjoys. I don't see ANY pictures in a cowboy hat from he or ANY of his family members. I own 2 now and I was so excited to have the chance to wear one at the rodeo I attended and then the fair. He is a farm-boy but I don't think he's really a cowboy although all the characteristics are there except the obvious hat-wearing one.

Alma
19:36 And thus the work of the Lord did commence among the Lamanites; thus the Lord did begin to pour out his Spirit upon them; and we see that his arm is extended to all people who will repent and believe on his name.

The Witness - Boyd K. Packer