A few from our friend, Einstein

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Last night, our goldfish Pepe left us.  He was a fair fish, and right after we got him he had some traumatic experiences, which included flipping out of his bowl, being nearly boiled alive, and falling probably four feet to the floor.  He revived from all of those, so we were pretty sure he could live through anything.  But yesterday he got stuck inside a hollow porcelain statue in his bowl and even though he was alive when we broke it to get him out, he died a couple of hours later.  Neil just found out...and is quite distraught to say the very least.

EXCITEMENT!!!!!!

Big news...my new French horn came today!  I've had the same one for 5 1/2 years and this more advanced one will help me play so much better :)  It's a silver Conn 8D (not that that means much to any of you).  Anyway, I've been waiting for this for months and months!  Here's my baby:

The Sacrament

The sacrament is a sacred ordinance.  It is the only ordinance in our church that you do over and over for yourself.  You're baptized once for yourself and sealed once for yourself- but we take the sacrament every week.  I took a class at EFY (church youth camp) and the teacher said that Jesus drank the BIG cup of sin (Matthew 26:39) and is asking us to drink the small one (literal cup).  Of course the sacrament reminds us of the Atonement, as the bread and water symbolize the body and blood given, and it reminds us of baptism as we renew those covenants we've made.  Romans chapter 6 brings baptism and the Atonement together: "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." (v. 3-4)  I have a testimony of the sacrament and its power.

"No more sacred ordinance is administered in the Church of Christ than the administration of the sacrament."
David O. McKay   

Finally today I couldn't handle it any longer...

and duct taped Grant's mouth shut.

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

-Einstein