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I know I've been posting a lot, so sorry.  Also, this post may contain spoilers for Charlotte's Web, Romeo and Juliet, and Me Before You, so if you don't want those ruined for you, don't read this.  Also, this isn't meant to be morbid, but these are my thoughts, and I wanted to express them. Last week, BYU was putting on a stage adaptation of Charlotte's Web.  Mommy suggested I go, and I figured why not, especially after reading that Charlotte uses aerial silks to mimc a web.  The show was really beautifully done.  All the characters were cute, but the girl playing Charlotte was wonderful.  First off, the strength that goes into aerial silks must be crazy, but she did a great job. The way she moved was like a spider, and her costume was excellent.  But most of all, she made you love her.  Charlotte's Web is a childhood classic, but I always found it funny that everyone loved the spider so much.  I do not like spiders.  but by giving th...

I can only remember one home teacher from my pre-college life, and that is Brother Tracy Kendall.  Brother Kendall was the best home teacher.  He visited our family every month without fail.  Being at college, I've really missed Brother Kendall.  My home teachers my first semester were okay, but since then, I haven't had much luck with home teachers(although I've had even worse with visiting teachers).  However, my luck may have changed. This past Sunday, we had an unexpected visit from our home teachers.  They didn't have an appointment, but they just came over to introduce themselves, and to talk with us.  They were very friendly, and I did already know them.  I appreciated that they took the time to come see us, because I've had home teachers who have never introduced themselves to me.  My first semester in this ward, I didn't even know who my home teachers were.  I'm not normally the kind of person that needs help from my home teac...

In the recent "Batman versus Superman" movie, Lex Luthor says something that really gets me thinking.  He says "If God is all-good, then He cannot be all-powerful.  And if He is all-powerful, then He cannot be all-good."  What Lex Luthor doesn't understand, is that God can be good and powerful.  Lex thinks that if God were all-powerful, He wouldn't let bad things happen to anyone, but He does, so He cannot be all-good.  He is, of course, referring to Superman, but I'm understanding this as our God.  God may sometimes be angry or sad, but it is justified.  He never uses His power to wreak havoc just because He feels like it.   Not a whole lot is known about Lex Luthor's backstory.  The only clue we get as to his feud with Superman is the story about them being friends as children, but Superman accidentally using his powers in a way he thought was helpful that was actually harmful to Lex.  But in Jesse Eisenberg's portra...

This past week, I was working a lot of hours early in the week, because the more I work in the beginning of the week, the earlier I finish on Fridays.  This past Friday, I only had to work two hours, so I was finished at 11:00 am.  I had to go to Orem to get my broken phone screen replaced, and I had to buy a new watch battery because mine had died, and I had plans to go to the temple with Whit at 1:00 pm.  I got everything done, and managed to schedule an appointment to get my car's oil changed the next day.  Basically, I was winning at adult-ing :) Whit and I decided to go the Provo Temple this time, so I would have experience in both temples.  As we went into the dressing room, this cute old lady came up to us and asked if we wanted to do initiatories, because there was no line.  Apparently, there's normally a long line for initiatories, so it was nice that we wouldn't have to wait in line.  Unfortunately, I didn't have my family names with me bec...

I was planning on going to the temple Friday night.  I figure most people are doing other stuff on Friday night, so the temple wouldn't be too busy.  However, as I sat at the desk at work thinking about going to the temple that night, I got kind of nervous thinking about going on my own.  I went to do baptisms alone most of the time, but it feels different with endowments sessions.  At the DC temple, I had my family, but I was also very comfortable in that temple.  It's where I went for youth temple trips, so I was fine in that temple.  But my ward has been assigned the Provo City Center Temple, and having never gone to that temple before, I was very nervous, despite knowing that there would be plenty of temple workers around to help.  I guess it was just scary to go to my first endowment session in that temple alone.  So I texted my friend Whit and asked her if she was free that night to go with me.  She wasn't, but she suggested that we go ...