Happy Easter

I can't believe its been nearly a month since I posted. I thought I had better add something so you don't all think I'm dead. But since I don't have much to say, I thought I'd remind you all about Easter. (I wanted to include a picture of Jesus speaking to Mary at the empty tomb but I'm using my friend’s computer. She is from Hong Kong so almost everything is in Cantonese. When I go to save a picture to upload it, I can't tell where it is saved is at!)

Although I am a Christmas-a-holic, Easter really is the more important holiday when you think about it. As our late prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley taught, we wouldn't celebrate Christmas if there hadn't been an Easter. If the Savior hadn't atoned for our sins and been resurrected so that we could all have eternal life, we wouldn't care that He had been born. He would have been the same as any other person. But He wasn't. He came to the earth to fulfill the will of His Father and to save all mankind from death. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He bore all our sins, sorrows, temptations, sadness’s, and all other "unhappy things" so that He could fully understand us. On Calvary, He was crucified for our sins so that we wouldn't have to pay the debt that they require. But most importantly, on Sunday, He was resurrected. While it is important that He died (just as it is important that He was born) that is not the real miracle. Jesus didn't save us from death by His death. The hope of a glorious resurrection came when he became "the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20). Because Jesus Christ was resurrected, we will be too. As President Hinckley also taught, the reason we don't use the cross as a symbol in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is because our message is a message of the living Christ, not the dying one. We rejoice in His resurrection.

"And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory, and that death should have no sting, there could have been no resurrection. But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ" (Mosiah 16:7-8).

So, while you are all out having a good time finding eggs, opening baskets, and eating ham (all appropriate Easter activities just like gifts at Christmas) remember that Jesus is the reason for this season as well and take some time to thank your Heavenly Father for His matchless love and the gift of His son.

Happy Easter!

Thought this was awesome- better when read out loud though

I hadn't heard this one before. Elder Tingey shared this joke at Sunday's Fireside. It was pretty funny because he didn't read it like a joke and it just kept getting better and better with every line. Hope you enjoy it.


A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned on staying in the same motel where they had spent their honeymoon 30 years before. Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel plans. So, the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down the following day. The husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and without realizing his error, sent the email. Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband's funeral. He was a minister who suffered a heart attack.The widow decided to check her email expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted. The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read:

To: My loving wife

Subject: I've arrived

I know you're surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and you are allowed to send emails to family. I've just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then.Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.

P.S. sure is hot down here!!!!!

Funny Thing I Just Discovered

When I was puppy sitting Galvin over Christmas break, I knew I knew of him since he was started in the Roseburg club and I was there about the time he arrived. But I didn't think I had ever met him. Just now I was looking through old posts and apparently in June I threatened to steal him because he was so cute.

LOL. I am such a space cadet sometimes.

So, for Valentine's Day, I served the food at a wedding. How's that for lame?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Poor Me

My blog is proof that I have an incredibly boring life. I always think about posting and then I'm like "what will I say?"

I have a statistics test I have to take by tomorrow (yikes!). I'm worried . . .

As soon as I'm done I'm celebrating. I don't know how, but I'll figure it out. Then I have a Book of Mormon midterm, but umm, it's the Book of Mormon; pretty sure I can handle it. And then no more tests for like three weeks. I don't know how that worked out but I'm not complaining.

Other than that, not much is happening. I've made the decision that when I come back in the Fall I plan on staying until December of next year (including taking classes spring and summer of 2009) so I can graduate when I had planned on (since I'm not staying this summer like I had originally thought, it set me back a bit). I should be able to do it if I carefully watch what I spend and save all the extra to pay for myself those two terms (since financial aid only covers two semesters).

About the only thing in my life that ever changes is the novels I read for fun when I finish one every two or three days.

That seriously is the update on my super exciting life. Pathetic I realize, but I take some hope in the fact that many college students have supremely monotonous lives.

Lindsey- You'll be proud

I went to the beach twice yesterday. Once at midnight (we had to wait until it wasn't Sunday anymore) to catch crabs and then again in the afternoon. Aren't you proud? Swimming in the ocean in Malibu doesn't even compare to the ocean here. Malibu is pathetic after this!

However, I'm definitely not addicted. I'm still just as dedicated to straight "A"s as I was before. But it was fun. I might decide to go again sometime.

Just Because. . .

Since Beverly has been neglected in the recent posts about female black labs, and just because I wanted to, here is a picture of Beverly (now known as Brodie) in her career change home. This picture is kind of old, but I think she has an ageless quality anyways! She is pretty much the sweetest dog ever. I have never seen, nor seen since a dog with such awesome eye contact. It was amazing. And out of all my PITs, she was the only one that ever liked to cuddle. Unless you want her on your lap, you might as well stay off the floor.