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Average Week

Here are some photos from my temple trip today. I got to bring a family name that my grandma had found for me to do baptisms for! Now I'm gong to mail that name, and the others that I've done back to my grandma for her to continue doing their ordinance work. It was an awesome experience ☺

 Note the photo bombing Elder in the background

Also, for dinner in the Cannon Center today there were rice and beans. Not as good as the ones I would make back home, but they were pretty okay.

In other news, the countdown until finals week and Christmas vacation is on!! Here I come Mississippi.. I miss your 70° weather 💘

Lastly, this is how my hair was done for the choir winter concert on Saturday. My roommates worked actual magic.

Fall Concert

The last couple of days have been so fun!! I had the Fall Concert for Mens&Womens Choruses, and it was awesome. I had a lot of people come to it too! Friday night my Uncle Kirt and Aunt Lezlie came, and then on Saturday night my Grandma and Grandpa Black, Uncle David and Aunt Kim, and Spencer and Shayla came! It was awesome to have so many wonderful people come see my concert :) My parents even got to watch it through the live stream online! I'm glad they got to see it too.

I was also lucky enough to get to spend the day with my Grandma and Grandpa! We went to Café Rio with my friend Erin, and then took a look at the library and got ice cream. Grandma gave me the cutest Christmas decorations. I'm so excited to put them up! She also gave me a name to take to the temple Tuesday when I go. I love my grandparents!!

This is Lizzy, she's in my Spanish class.

Courtney the Alto II who sits behind me.

After the concert, Gideon helped me bring a case of water bottles back to my apartment. Erin met us there and some dancing and Skipboing went down. Spencer and Shayla even walked in halfway through and joined the game. This was Spencers second time playing, and he won again! It's straight magic.

Erin didn't Skipbo, Erin napped.

Halloween

This Halloween was pretty fun, even though it's the first Halloween in probably 18 years that I haven't gone trick or treating. I had a good time though. A lot of people wore costumes around campus. Favorites included whoever was playing the Bagpipes and the girl who was actually the Panda Express. Spencer Shayla and I went to Panda Express later, and then we went to Baskin Robbins. While at Baskin Robbins, who do we see but Whitney and Stephen from Studio C! I swear I see these people everywhere! Later we just went back to my building where we played some Skipbo and Spencer became the chief "bequeather" of cards after his victory. We had some pretty stirring conversation and then I had to go register for classes. I'm signed up for..

Social Dance 280

Psych 210

Spanish 321

American Heritage 100

Foundations of the Restoration

Women's Choir

The literal Panda Express

Whitney and Stephen from Studio C!

Spencer bequeathing all the cards

In other news, the Women's Choir sang at the devotional Tuesday. We sang "I Know Heavenly Father Loves Me". It was really nice. Then the Sunday School General President gave the devotional on The Book of Mormon. It was really good. We have a concert this Friday and Saturday.

I'm third from the left on the front row

Giant devotional teleprompter for the speaker

Tuesday was also Temple Trip Tuesday, which was nice as always. Didn't see Temple Man though.

Today is Wednesday, and Wednesdays are officially my favorite days because I get to hear from my favorite missionary! It was awesome getting to talk to Trystaun today and hear all about the MTC and about how the mission is going for this the first week.

Today I went to a Día de Los Muertos celebration. It was a lot of fun! We got to color some skulls, make paper flowers, and there was even some face painting going on. I didn't quite get into that though.

This is Kathy, she lives in the dorm across from me.

And this has nothing to do with anything, but here's a creeper picture of Gideon in the library.

He's the one in the white shirt

Adorbs

So Friday night there was a Halloween party for all of Helaman, and the cutest thing went down. There was a boy dressed up as Flynn Rider, and he was SUPER into it. He had a frying pan and a horse and it was awesome. We asked him where Rapunzel was and he said that we still looking for her. Anyways, about 20 minutes after we meet Flynn, someone dressed up as Rapunzel walks in. So we alert Flynn and cuteness happened. He fell on his knees in front of her and kissed her hand it was absolutely perfect. So we snapped some photos and here they are. Maybe I'll be Rapunzel next year.

Kinda a Funny Story

Okay, so on Tuesday we made our usual temple trip. It was very nice, but this time was a little different. Normally, Erin and I end up waiting about 5-10 minutes for our friend Gideon because he stays behind in the font after we're done and baptizes some more people, and this time was no exception. However, while Erin and I were waiting for Gideon one of the temple workers asked Erin and I to help do a few more family name confirmations. Of course we said yes, and we did. The temple worker who had asked us was younger, a recent RM, and he remembered my name but not Erin's. Not much to say there, but I said to him, "Yeah, good memory." Anyways, after we finished Erin and I went back outside to wait for Gideon. Gideon comes out and gives me a slip of paper and says, "So that temple worker wants to ask you on a date but his shift isn't finished at the temple yet." He had written his name and number on this piece of paper! I JUST GOT ASKED ON A DATE IN THE TEMPLE. Anyways, I texted him later that day and so far no dates have been asked and nothing exciting has really happened, but it's still a quality story.

In other news for this week, Trystaun left for his mission Tuesday and on that Tuesday I got a letter from him! He had sent it Saturday so I got it the day he left! It was really nice. I'll hear from him next on Wednesday during his preparation day when he's allowed to send emails. I'm excited.

Also this week I had a social dance lab, so we basically went to a huge dance and got to practice our moves and just have some fun. It was Halloween themed, so you could either go dressed up or in costume, and as a person that doesn't love to wear dresses, I decided to go as a girl from the 80's. My roommates followed suite and also dressed up to an 80's theme, but they were just going to a hall Halloween party. We looked super cute. Blue eyeshadow, ratted hair, and lots of blush.

Called to Serve

Wow, this has been a crazy week. On Monday my best friend was set apart as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and on Tuesday he left for the Missionary Training Center in Mexico. Trystaun has been called to serve for two years in Logan, Utah, Spanish speaking. In these two years I won't be able to call him or text him or see him, but I will get to receive weekly emails from him. Looks like Wednesdays or going to be the new highlights of my week! I'm so proud of Trystaun for his desire and willingness to serve. He's going to be such an amazing missionary, and I'm so glad that I get to call him my best friend!!

Buena suerte Élder! Te extraño mucho pero yo sé que vas a ser un misionario fantástico. Nos vemos en dos años!