October Friday 17, 2008

 I woke up around 6:20am to go to the Temple to do baptisms for the dead. It was great because all of the people that went are good friends of mine. ( except the two people Greg Abbott brought. I didn't know them. They were friends of Greg's from EFY...or so I here.) I think we ended doing around 300 names. 

After we did baptisms we went to OYLI classes. Pyramid Project was, well as Annie Abbott would say " O mi palabra!!" 

Pyriamid Project is so AMAZING its not even funny!  We did a deeper study of Genesis 1:1-6. Brother Waddell has a really cool program that lets you click on a highlighted word and get the Hebrew word and meaning(s) for it. After Pyramid Project people had lunch. Then after lunch Kenzie dragged me up to Shakespeare class to "visit". It was fun. I wish I could do it. But I'm a little bit to busy right now. Mackenzie had her presentation on the roles of people during Elizabethan life....I think.  (By the way....Good job Kenzie!!!!!!!) Then I left with the Nilson's a little bit before Shakespeare was over to go to French, (Which Sister Nilson teaches at her house.) As soon as French was over my Dad came to pick up Me, Rebecca Black, Annie,Mackenzie and Greg Abbott, Peter,Lilly and Daisy Nilson and Colin and Annie Couch to go to my house for a Halloween Party. Everyone I just named plus Adam Boyce, Kayla Nielson, Maddie and Mariah Smith and Emliy Harlon...of course came early for dinner at 5:30...ish. After dinner we played Hugoo...a game I had NEVER played before, and apples to apples until other showed up around 7:oo.

 The Halloween party was hosted my myself and my friend Emily Harlon. I hope everyone had a GREAT time even though it got a little crazy at times.........and  if I offended anyone.....I am DEEPLY sorry. We played a bunch of different games like: Capture the flag....(by the way good job Bryce you almost had the flag!!!!  Sorry for the jail break!) , Follow the dog..which died rather quickly, Do you love your neighbor?,Signs(Thanks for helping with THE falling clock Greg! That would have been REALLY bad.) and MURDER in the dark. That was pretty fun....but the games were SOOO short! They should have been longer...in my humble opinion.   I think I learned from a few mistakes from that party.  I learned that I have friends that are SO different from some of my others friends that when they get together it gets a little.....lets say......testy for some people. You see, some of my friends like to actually play the games that I said we were going to play,( Thanks by the way.) and then other of my friends don't want to play. They rather sit and talk about jewelry or....other things.  I'm not saying that's bad or anything, but in the invitation I said we would be playing outside, so if they didn't want to play and participate in the party why come?  Is that a selfish thing to ask??? Any way I had a great time playing with my friends and learning some German from Kenzie and Greg. I learned- das its gut ( that is good), das its nicht gut ( that is not good), das ist meins(that is mine).  Greg TRIED to teach me to say "that's my pen", but I don't think I quite got it. Its something like - das ist mien schlieber....hhmmm I think that's wrong to...oh well Kenzie said she would try to teach me because I can't take the French and German class even though I REALLY want to.  

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Song for Young Women standards Night.

Here is a Song that I am singing with other young women. My friend Lindsey and I are First Soprano's, Emmalyn and Hannah are second soprano's and Bryn, and most likely Zoe, are alto.

Title: Always abounding ( Be steadfast and immovable.)

http://joansowards.com/mp3/youth/AA/Always%20Abounding%20(SSA).mp3

Friday October 10 2008

Today in Pyramid Project we discussed Patterns and Truth.  It is mind boggling to think about everything having patterns and mathematical meaning.  Today we learned a more about patterns.  To do this we ( Kayla,Peter,Lillian and I) each got a plant of our choice and our job was to study our plant and find as many patterns as we could see at the moment. Then after our allotted time was up we discussed the patterns we found with each other. After this exercise we received a multiplication table and were asked if we could see any patterns.  After a while we started to see little things and then big things. After we found a bunch of little patterns Brother Waddell (Our Mentor) showed us a multiplication table that he had played with and he found that if he colored the ones the twos the threes and fours different colors and then colored each number that ended with a one, two, three or four the color he had chosen. He found that made a pattern. Then he asked us what else we could do to see what other patterns we could find in the multiplication tables.  I suggested that you could color in each individual number. For example if the number was 134 you would color the one yellow the three red and the four green. So that was really fun.

Then we talked about how to find truth and is it important.  Then for an activity we had scales and we measured different things and compared things then we did some thinking games. Boy did I feel stupid. One of the things was "How do you fit 'Ten Horses' in nine stalls?" I think I'm going to do that to my family. MWAAAHHAHHAHHH.........forgive my pathetic evil laugh.  After that class was done I went to the Nilsons house for my French class (which was about 2 and a half hours later.) French was really fun. The people taking French are Colin Couch, Maddie Smith, Rabecca Black and myself. OH! BY THE WAY.......I got braces yesterday and they hurt immensely. I look forward the getting them off and having beautiful teeth. Well that's it for now.