A Homecoming dance, church, classes, scrubbing our gross (but precious!... but gross)apartment from head to toe for cleaning inspection and 63 hours (53 awake, 10 asleep)later... and I still haven't showered.
J nasty.. and tired
11 October 2010
06 October 2010
General Conference
Alright all
Living in Utah has been such a blessing thus far! I love the mountains and my SCHOOL and living on my own and many more things. I am so blessed. And although I can't stand how crowded places are around here on Saturday nights (i.e. Costco because no one shops on Sundays) I love a lot about little ol' Provo. One blessing of living in Utah is that if you have an amazing friend who can score you tickets to the Sunday morning session of General Conference, you can see the Prophet and like a gazillion GA's in person and hear them preach the words of God!!! OMGOSH!
Ok so my best friend McKay calls me about a week before conference and says "RIK! I have 2 more tickets to the Sun morn sesh of GC!!! Do you and Natalie want to come??"
me "what?... what??? WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!??!?!?!?! OBVI!!!!!"
and that was that. I had an amazing time!! and LOVED hearing the General Authorities speak :) Let me share some of my favorite thoughts and a few pictures :)
Ok I'm going over my notes and there is TOO MUCH TO SHARE!!! for now anyway :) so I'm going to make you a deal!!! I'm going to stick with some of my favorite things President Monson said in the Sunday Morning session and you are going to go to lds.org and listen to all the other talks for all the other sessions k? I totes promise you won't regret it!!
President Thomas S. Monson- When he made himself the adviser of the Tabernacle Choir "I'm very proud of my choir!" and then he giggled :) haha how great must they have felt in that moment?! Seesh the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is so amazing. I'm so grateful that I got to hear them sing in person!!! and watch them rehearse! And watch them all weekend online. If you're not a member, and you have no interest in hearing LDS prophets speak about our church, but you wanna hear some good music, listen to the LDS General Conference sessions and listen to the Motab sings. I'm sorry but you won't be able to listen to it without feeling the Spirit. But do it anyway :)
Another thing Monson said that I loved was, "Beautiful music touches me that way." I love hearing people talk about the way music makes them feel. Music is so powerful. People who know me well know that I'm interested in music therapy. I am a firm believer in the fact that music can heal. So hearing Pres. Monson say that made me smile :) smile big :D
He also spoke about gratitude. I heard this theme a lot this weekend! BE GRATEFUL!! It's a divine principle :) Be grateful for everything! For your life, for your opportunities, for your family, for living 20 mins away from your brother and sister-in-law, for food in your fridge and your first pint of Ben and Jerry's in over a month, for the scriptures, for Joseph Smith, for a comfy bed, for a beautiful family who loves you, for roommates who are super different but bring out the best in each other, for showers that drain, for professors, for high school teachers who have changed you as a person, for the lessons your parents have taught you, for trials, for friends, for your talents and for your flaws, for your ability to overcome opposition, for your health, for your Father in Heaven and His son's atoning sacrifice. Be grateful. Have an attitude of gratitude and thank the Lord for everything (yes that means praying a lot! it's great, i promise!!)
Lastly, I'm going to combine 2 things. The first being a quote that makes me think of Bob Marley. I love me some bob! (That is, minus the drugs and shadiness and plus the priesthood!!) Bob has a song that says, "You just can't live in that negative way... make way for the positive day." Well said Bob :) ONE LOVE! Now, as much as I love those words, nothing is better than the words from the mouth of a prophet of God. Pres. Monson said, "REFUSE to remain in the realm of negative thought." ---chills. Pres. Mons is the bomb. Can we be honest? Here's my take. Heavenly Father loves us. Lucifer, does not. He wants us to be miserable like he is. He is really good at making us feel like squat because when we are down, we don't want to be grateful, or spiritual, or helpful. We cannot be our best selves when we are constantly thinking negative thoughts. SO STICK IT TO THE MAN! REFUSE to be negative! I don't know about you, but I do not want to give Satan that satisfaction! So I'm sorry mr. man-down-south, but if it makes you happy to see me sad, THEN CONSIDER ME A BURNING BALL OF HAPPINESS! :D:D:D:D
Ok I lied, I'm not combining the last two. Here is the last one :) are you ready? big stuff coming up.
and he said,
Living in Utah has been such a blessing thus far! I love the mountains and my SCHOOL and living on my own and many more things. I am so blessed. And although I can't stand how crowded places are around here on Saturday nights (i.e. Costco because no one shops on Sundays) I love a lot about little ol' Provo. One blessing of living in Utah is that if you have an amazing friend who can score you tickets to the Sunday morning session of General Conference, you can see the Prophet and like a gazillion GA's in person and hear them preach the words of God!!! OMGOSH!
Ok so my best friend McKay calls me about a week before conference and says "RIK! I have 2 more tickets to the Sun morn sesh of GC!!! Do you and Natalie want to come??"
me "what?... what??? WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!??!?!?!?! OBVI!!!!!"
and that was that. I had an amazing time!! and LOVED hearing the General Authorities speak :) Let me share some of my favorite thoughts and a few pictures :)
Ok I'm going over my notes and there is TOO MUCH TO SHARE!!! for now anyway :) so I'm going to make you a deal!!! I'm going to stick with some of my favorite things President Monson said in the Sunday Morning session and you are going to go to lds.org and listen to all the other talks for all the other sessions k? I totes promise you won't regret it!!
President Thomas S. Monson- When he made himself the adviser of the Tabernacle Choir "I'm very proud of my choir!" and then he giggled :) haha how great must they have felt in that moment?! Seesh the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is so amazing. I'm so grateful that I got to hear them sing in person!!! and watch them rehearse! And watch them all weekend online. If you're not a member, and you have no interest in hearing LDS prophets speak about our church, but you wanna hear some good music, listen to the LDS General Conference sessions and listen to the Motab sings. I'm sorry but you won't be able to listen to it without feeling the Spirit. But do it anyway :)
Another thing Monson said that I loved was, "Beautiful music touches me that way." I love hearing people talk about the way music makes them feel. Music is so powerful. People who know me well know that I'm interested in music therapy. I am a firm believer in the fact that music can heal. So hearing Pres. Monson say that made me smile :) smile big :D
He also spoke about gratitude. I heard this theme a lot this weekend! BE GRATEFUL!! It's a divine principle :) Be grateful for everything! For your life, for your opportunities, for your family, for living 20 mins away from your brother and sister-in-law, for food in your fridge and your first pint of Ben and Jerry's in over a month, for the scriptures, for Joseph Smith, for a comfy bed, for a beautiful family who loves you, for roommates who are super different but bring out the best in each other, for showers that drain, for professors, for high school teachers who have changed you as a person, for the lessons your parents have taught you, for trials, for friends, for your talents and for your flaws, for your ability to overcome opposition, for your health, for your Father in Heaven and His son's atoning sacrifice. Be grateful. Have an attitude of gratitude and thank the Lord for everything (yes that means praying a lot! it's great, i promise!!)
Lastly, I'm going to combine 2 things. The first being a quote that makes me think of Bob Marley. I love me some bob! (That is, minus the drugs and shadiness and plus the priesthood!!) Bob has a song that says, "You just can't live in that negative way... make way for the positive day." Well said Bob :) ONE LOVE! Now, as much as I love those words, nothing is better than the words from the mouth of a prophet of God. Pres. Monson said, "REFUSE to remain in the realm of negative thought." ---chills. Pres. Mons is the bomb. Can we be honest? Here's my take. Heavenly Father loves us. Lucifer, does not. He wants us to be miserable like he is. He is really good at making us feel like squat because when we are down, we don't want to be grateful, or spiritual, or helpful. We cannot be our best selves when we are constantly thinking negative thoughts. SO STICK IT TO THE MAN! REFUSE to be negative! I don't know about you, but I do not want to give Satan that satisfaction! So I'm sorry mr. man-down-south, but if it makes you happy to see me sad, THEN CONSIDER ME A BURNING BALL OF HAPPINESS! :D:D:D:D
Ok I lied, I'm not combining the last two. Here is the last one :) are you ready? big stuff coming up.
and he said,
"Love overpowers jealousy."
Testify.
L-O-V-E
O-V-E-R-P-O-W-E-R-S
J-E-A-L-O-U-S-Y-.
I don't know how else to break it down. It just does! take that to heart! <3 (omgosh i made a heart!) and yes the "period" is important enough to receive its own hyphen! Love overpowers jealousy! PERIOD! Let that one touch you :)
OK! Picture time!!!
So this is j the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR practicing before the Sunday afternoon sesh of GC. TOO SICK!
Temple Square after conference :) So picturesque!
From behind- no back of a building should be that beautiful..
except for maybs the House of the Lord :)
I had to get one of Angel Moroni in there obvi! Tell me that's not beautiful :)
Next time I go, I am taking pictures from the front! WOO!
L-O-V-E
O-V-E-R-P-O-W-E-R-S
J-E-A-L-O-U-S-Y-.
I don't know how else to break it down. It just does! take that to heart! <3 (omgosh i made a heart!) and yes the "period" is important enough to receive its own hyphen! Love overpowers jealousy! PERIOD! Let that one touch you :)
OK! Picture time!!!
So this is j the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR practicing before the Sunday afternoon sesh of GC. TOO SICK!
Temple Square after conference :) So picturesque!
From behind- no back of a building should be that beautiful..
except for maybs the House of the Lord :)
I had to get one of Angel Moroni in there obvi! Tell me that's not beautiful :)
Next time I go, I am taking pictures from the front! WOO!
J lovin' being Spiritually fed :)
Cheese art..
So Natalie and I had a slight problem today. We were cutting slices off a block of cheese to eat with some crackers. About 30 minutes in we both said that we thought the cheese we were eating was disgusting. Medium Cheddar.. not our fav. So in any normal situation, two people would throw away the gross cheese and try something new. Natalie and I felt super bad about throwing away almost an entire block of cheese... so we just kept eating it.. for an hour. Then Dezzy and Kenzie came in and asked what we were doing. "J eating this cheese..." Dezzy tried some and almost threw up. She said we should really just toss it. I said we couldn't waste it so we needed to do something with it!
..... (awkward silence).....
.....(more awkward silence).......... (abe lincoln)......
SCULPTURE!!!!!!! So I decided to make a cheese sculpture of my main man ABE!!!
It took precision and focus but I think he turned out pretty well :) for a novice anyway :)
J workin diligently!!
The finished work. Abraham Lincoln. Isn't he handsome? HONESTLY!
..... (awkward silence).....
.....(more awkward silence).......... (abe lincoln)......
SCULPTURE!!!!!!! So I decided to make a cheese sculpture of my main man ABE!!!
It took precision and focus but I think he turned out pretty well :) for a novice anyway :)
J workin diligently!!
The finished work. Abraham Lincoln. Isn't he handsome? HONESTLY!J learning new skillz in college :)
01 October 2010
I love my brother.
Just so we're clear, I've got the best brotha in the world. I don't know if y'all know this but I have a fussy printer in my kitchen. So my brother and I were talking today and he was like "I'M COMING TO FIX IT!" and I was like "OKAY BATMAN!" (not quite how it went down.. but close enough.) So Devon arrives at 2:20. At 2:45 Rikki leaves for choir and Devon says he will be done around 3. At 2:48 Rikki sends a text to all her roommates saying that Devon is in over, fixing our printer, thus, don't be alarmed when you come home to a man in the kitchen. Mmm.. I think I'm bored of 3rd person. OKAY! I went to choir, and then to the advisement center at the Wilk and had a good chat about my FUTURE!!!!! On my way home I picked up some Jamba and called my mom to tell her about all of my endeavors! It is now just about 5 o'clock. So I'm on the phone with my mom and I'm sippin' my Strawberry Nirvana (HUN CAL!) with soy protein (I later shared said smoothie with my brother, but CONFESSION! I didn't tell him there was soy protein in it because I don't think he would have drunk it.. drank it.. drinken it), and I walk into my kitchen and I see my BROTHER!!!! OMG DEV!? WTFLIP are you still doin in my hizzle?! (Next part is Dev talking) "Me? Oh, I'm J fixin' yo printaaaa still." (Again, not quite what he said, but close enough.) Me- OMGOSH brother its been 2 hours and a half!! (I think that may have been said in my head.) Nonetheless!!! My wonderful brother stayed at my apartment for over 3 hours fixing my printer because he is the bomb and I just love him so much. SO MUCH! It was super good seeing him :) and chatting with him! And listening to him make fun of the stupid people who live behind me. Isn't life great? AHH! what a great day! And want to know the best part?? I'M GOING TO HIS HOUSE TOMORROW TO WATCH GENERAL CONFERENCE WITH HIM AND NICOLE!!!!! I love my family :) And General Authorities!! WOO!
J GRATEFUL FOR MY BIG BROTHERRRR :)
J GRATEFUL FOR MY BIG BROTHERRRR :)
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