I've been watching the Twilight movies in my spare time. I convinced mom to watch the first movie with me. She doesn't understand the obsession, not that I am obsessed. I refuse to devote endless hours to something so meaningless. The next night I watched Twilight again, this time with the commentary. Soon I will watch New Moon, and then again with the commentary. I'm also keeping my eye open for when Eclipse tickets become available.
What else is new? Um.... since I'm not in school this term, I have found a few other things to keep me busy. Institute classes this term are very interesting: Principles of Successful Marriage, Understanding Church Government, and I completing the last term of the Old Testament.
The marriage class is going to be interesting. President Sherry said he is going to stay away from the ideals of marriage and try to focus on the practicalities. He said "If any of you have tried to talk to me about marriage you know that I try and stay out of it and not discuss it with you. I learned very fast in my early years as an Institute Director that I shouldn't play match maker or therapist." We're going to cover: The Proclamation, Developing an Eternal Perspective, Myths and Expectations, Understanding Love Languages, Effective Communication and also some politics with same sex marriage and other issues.
I really like the church government class because I have a hard time knowing who reports to who for the men's half of the church. I've pretty much known that if I needed anything I either went to Dad, the Bishop, or home teachers, but I have never understood what High Council men were for if they don't hold any keys. The class goes over priesthood keys, general organization, and the churches stance on different issues as outlined in the handbook.
We are continuing our class on the Old Testament. We began 2 Kings last night and will finish the Old Testament sometime in June. Bishop Williams in an excellent teacher. He is very scientifically minded, so last night he had this whole probability problem on the board to demonstrate the odds of the creation. "Based on this many amino acids that can create this many proteins, and you need to form a peptide bond and the chances of that are such and such. And if there are 10 to the 139 opportunities at any given moment for you to get the exact combination. And there are 10 to the 40,000,000 odds you will pick the right protein out of a pile. So you have a 1 out of 10 to the 40,000,000 chance the earth will be created out of 10 to the 139 opportunities available." And YES I got those numbers correct, according to Bishop Williams. His point was that even some scientist who do not believe in a God cannot argue that the earth was not created randomly.
Kelly, your science report on soda has me inspired to write my own. What should I write a report on? I feel I should try and further my education while I am not currently in school. Should I do more of a book report kind of assignment, or a research project? Any ideas for topics?
Fhe last week was amazing. I was very impressed with the idea to hold a debate. My friend Kirby was in charge even though he is not in the community. He explained that in the early days of the church, members would hold debates as a way to practice for when they were confronted by anti-mormon sentiments. They learned to argue in productive and non offensive ways. Kirby gets up and explains that when he was in high school he was on a debate team. He outlined the order of the debate, 4 minutes each team, then 3 minutes each to ask the other side questions, and then 4 minutes each team for a rebuttal. Our options for debate were Torture, and something else, "or we can just throw in national healthcare for kicks," Kirby is a BIG Obamanation fan, yuck. I wish we had argued something a little less touchy, like ice cream flavors, but the excitement had to be there for the debate to work. My friend Jessie was placed on the against torture side. She stands up to the microphone and says, "Every girl in this room knows what it's like to be tortured... (long pause, and we all start to laugh because we think she's going to talk about cramps). You're at a sleep over, and your friends pin you down and tickle you until you pee your pants. They want to know where the candy is, but you keep telling them you don't know where it is. There's 5 of them and only 1 of you." I have no idea how she can say this without laughing. Then the jury decided 5 to 4 against torture.
I normally do everything possible to avoid fast food because it will literally make me sick to my stomach, but twice this week I've had to order happy meals for mom while she is watching Brennan, Asher, and now Jenny's kids. I decided to eat lunch before we left and then just have a drink while I was there (all sodas, they don't even have lemonade available, seriously?). But I did learn a good lesson while sitting there: go to McDonalds while the power is out. Why? Because they hand out food for free. They can't keep it warm, and if they didn't give it away they would have to throw it out. So we got about 5 boxes of chicken nuggets, bags of cookies for everyone, and some ice cream cones. Not bad McDonalds, not bad at all.
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