10-27-10

The last few days have been full of productivity, and I have been feeling great. I've been working on school and seminary, and am happy to say that I am on top of all of my work. Today Henry and I went on a house rampage and cleaned all of the rooms in the house, which was fun. You can feel the spirit so much more easily in a clean house; I'm totally lovin' it. Seminary has been great, and I had an awesome find in the church a couple of days ago.

I was walking through the hall with Sis. Brinkerhoff, and I saw on the ground a pile of stuff. There was a pair of shoes and a hoodie and some hats and some other things like that. But what i found most interesting were the casettes that were in the pile. There were a bunch of sermons by John Bytheway in there! And even better, there was a book on tape by Brad Wilcox directed to fighting teenage troubles! It was so good to find the spiritual jackpot, but then I wondered who could possibly own this pile of stuff. I had to think of some kind of an idea. Well, maybe it was a "free stuff" pile. But there was also the possibility that the stuff belonged to some irresponsible soul too... And so, I left an note on the pile with my name and number, saying that if the owner of the pile ever wanted to see the casettes again, to give me a ring.

I haven't gotten into them too much yet, but what I have leared so far has been awesome. The tape by Bro. Wilcox is LIFE CHANGING. I swear to anyone who reads this blog, that any mental illness can be cured by Service. Go out and give people some Cool-Aid (what you give or do to people to make them feel cool, accepted, and/or loved). After forgetting yourself and going to work, you'll find that focusing on other's thirst for Cool-Aid quenches you own thirst for it. There is a bunch of other great stuff on that book recording too.

Hayley is going to have a choir performance tomorrow night, and I am going to go see her sing at GPHS. That'll be fun. Hatmen 4 is 2/3rds complete in filming, and I am struggling to find time to get it all done before Halloween. I just need to plan and hope things go my way. But something I have found that I need to work on is to not get fed up when things don't go according to the plan. I need more patience...

Mutual tonight will be a court of honor, nothing too exciting. At least I'll be able to see my singing buddies! That reminds me, this Saturday I plan on helping Sis. Dastrup to set up for the halloween party. I told Jared to come sometime during the day and to bring an instrument, an mp3 player, and ideas. Lots of ideas. I am so excited!