Yesterday and Today

This whole week has been just great.

I feel like I've re-unlocked the power of prayer. I've really seen the Lord's hand in my life this week. He answers prayers! It's so cool! Seminary is really changing my life. You can ask God for anything that is of His will. I love it! This week lost things have been found and my happiness has grown thanks to prayer. I love my Savior so so much. :)

I think my voice reguarding the Stake Dances have been heard. I wrote a letter to the young men's president and gave it to him last Sunday. Last night he thanked me for the letter; something will be done about it. On the inside I gave a huge "YESSSSSS." I was really happy. Well, that night we listened to a lot of seminars about missionary work. I didn't know what the activity was and came unprepared: I didn't bring a notebook! :( One of the speakers brought a bowl of sticky rice and soy sauce and some other really delicious sauce that was red, spicy, and sweet. He let everyone sample a bit of it. After his lecture everyone went outside for cooking smores. However, I, a guy named David, and some other cool dude whose name I didn't catch tarried. We ate up almost all of the leftover sticky rice!! It was SO delicious! My current most favorite Asian food. I could've kept eating that stuff all night long. I'd sure like to learn how to make that dish. It's probably really simple. That was a fun night; good and social. Noah Smith is a stud! When I went to go give him a hug, be picked me up like I was made out of styrofoam, flung me around, then placed me back on the ground again. What does that guy eat?? It's either that or I am a lot lighter than I think I am.

Today I was hoping to get my permit but, just like yesterday, it didn't happen due to lack of organization and following through. Today my totally awesome piano lesson got in the way (but it was a really fun lesson! I'm loving learning basics; I can see it increasing the quality of my playing gradually). Yesterday dad was ready to go, but I was still studying for it and when I did get out of the house, it was too late to take the test there. We are going to try to go there again tomorrow; third time's the charm!

Today was a total music day for me. Thanks to some heavenly guidance, I was able to not only find my lost Phantom of The Opera Songbook, but also a lot of music from the musical Les Miserables. I fell in love with it all all over again. I spent a lot of the morning just sitting in front of the piano, playing tune after tune, enjoying every minute. I look back on it now, and I realize that I probably should've gotten some work done during that time. Grr... Keenan, keep on praying for discipline!

I'm listening to the soundtrack of Les Miserables from my dad's old tape player. :) I really really like the finale. It is just, oh, what to say... everyone should learn this story. Throwing music into the story increases it's awesomeness by 100%! I love it.