I LOVE to see the Temple....and go to Conference.

One of the many things that I love about living in provo is living so close to the temple! I love the fact that I can go any time I want and I can just walk right in without an appointment. :) Did you know that the provo temple is the busiest temple in the world? (probably becuase it is right across the street from the MTC and both BYU and UVU students go to it haha :) ) We have gone to the temple a lot :) here are a few pic from a couples times that we went :)

Austin Chapman came to visit his bro (Ryan) and so we decided to go to the temple. From left to right, Ellen, me, Ryan, Austin, Ryan C. This was a way fun trip! I love going to the temple and spending time in the house of the Lord...there is nothing better! (Ryan has more pictures on his camera I just don't have them :) )

The next time that we went it was really late so our pictures are kind dark haha :) This time is was Daniel, Shaye, me, Ryan, and Brandon.

This is Shaye and Danielle....The temple is supposed to be in the back ground but sadly....you can't see it :( It is still an awesome picture though :)

Brandon decided to plank in font of the temple teehee :)

Shaye and I took a picture hugging in front of the temple so of course......

Brandon and Daniel had to take one as well!

Along with the temple I was blessed to be able to attend the Saturday morning and evening sessions of General Conference! It was wonderful! Although we were in the balcony the seats were perfect and it was an amazing experience to be able to go!

For saturday Morning I went with Ryan, Shaye and Austin (cause he came down to visit for the weekend again) It was awesome!! 

The first session was amazing! There was one unusual thing though. When we started President Monson was not there. We thought that was quite odd. But then he came in during the congregational hymn (while everyone was already standing haha) After he spoke (which i will talk about in a moment) he sat back down and slept the entire rest of the session. It was quite odd but a beautiful session.

So back to President Monson's talk. He announced all the new temples that are being built. He announced that the provo tabernacle that was to become another temple!! Provo gets another temple!!! :D Im sooo excited! I cannot wait!!! This is what it is supposed to look like :)

I super excited!!! :D :D :D It is going to be beautiful!! After it is built, I will have two temples just down the street from me :) 

So anyway, for the second session I went with Shaye, Ellen, and Ann (a girl that lives down the hall from us) It was another beautiful session :) going to conference at the conference center was wonderful and a new exciting adventure for college :)

I am so grateful that I have to opportunity to live where i do! I am grateful that i can just walk down the street to go to the temple instead of driving three hours to go. I am grateful that I can go and be in the presense of Prophets and Apostles. I am grateful for their beautiful words of wisdom and the help that they have and will be in my life!! I love BYU!!

Holy War Weekend

According to Wikipedia the Holy War is a college rivalry football game between Brigham Young University and University of Utah. Isn't that the truth!! The BYU v. Utah game is the biggest rively in Utah and everyone likes one or the other. Whether it is Football, Basketball, rugby, or gymnastics University of Utah is our rival! We are determined to beat them at anything and everything we can. The first rivalry game of the weekend? The Worlds Largest Dodgeball Game :)

They needed to break the record of 2,500 people so what did property solutions do to get enough college students there? Free T-Shirts and J-Dawgs (best hotdogs ever!)!!! So being the typical college students we were up for breaking a world record and for free stuff! :) Since we really wanted the free T-shirt we decided to leave super early. Ryan Chapman, Shaye, Ellen, and I all Piled in Ryan Reese's car and drove to Thanksgiving Point where the game was. We got there 2 hours early! haha :) It was worth it though! we got our t-shirts and our food :)

Once we got there and it finally stopped raining we were freezing cold. Then We got to actually play dodgeball! It was crazy! I am pretty sure that BYU had twice as many people as Utah! There definitely wasn't enough balls but it was a fun experience! When we decided to be done Ryan Chapman, Ellen and I ran out and over to the side. Ryan Reese and Shaye were still in there and when they started to come out they looked at each other and went right back in.

So a little back ground story before i go on.....When we first went in i was talking about how funny it would be if we took one of the dodgeball's how as a souvenir. I was totally joking around!!! so when Shaye and Ryan looked at each other i guess they decided to go back and get a dodge ball for me hahahahaha. So they came back with a dodge ball and guess where it was??? In Shaye's Jacket!!

Hahaha she had decided to try to pass it as a pregnant belly to get it out. I didn't look much like a pregnant belly but it was rather amusing nonetheless! On the bright side she got it out ;)

So with Dodgeball in tow we left the dodge ball game :)

It was a funny event and an adventure that will forever be marked by the dodgeball I have in my room :) So after this adventure we were talking and realized that it was the weekend that the Lion King was in 3D in theaters!! :D we were all soooo excited and wanted to see it sooo badly that we decided to go. We drove home (well back to the dorms anyway) picked up Brandon and Blair and we were on our way :)

It was waaayyy fun!! Everyone loved that movie in the first place and we all had a blast signing along and quoting the movie the entire time. I'm pretty sure the people around us were pretty annoyed with us hahaha :) Shaye and Ellen I think were the most fun to watch because they were all out jamming the entire movie! It was very entertaining.

When walking out of the movie theater we found a photo booth.....so the girls decided we would try to squeeze in there and get some pictures. The pictures turned out quite funny if i do say so myself, and it was way fun doing it. Well when we came out of the photo booth this is what we found...

I know it is a little blurry but yes, that is Ryan, Ryan, and Brandon all of the kidding quarter rides. The started off in a car with Stuart little but then the upgraded to the safari jeep. (and yes they did actually put quarter in and ride it!) It was rather amusing and while this was happening a security guard walked up and he creepily followed us all the way out of the mall.

After the movie and being followed by the creepy security guard we decided we were hungry and so we took a drive to in-n-out burger (which are now all over utah)! we ate there and went back home and slept FOREVER!!

And then.....IT WAS GAME DAY :D

University of Utah vs. BYU.... the rivalry to beat all rivalries and guess what....we were 8th row :)

I don't have a picture of me from this game but we were rather close and it was awesome! this pic looks like we are father away but there are people on the field haha. Although our team sucked it up at this game (yes i will admit that) we had a blast! and guess who we saw?!?!

JIMMER!!!! 

(he is the one in the white long sleeved shirt)

When we very first walked into the game he walked right passed Ryan and Brandon and me! we didn't realize it until he was like right next to us and we were all stat struck. We could have reached out and touched him if we wanted! It was awesome! (on a side note, if any of you know who Brandon Davies is, Ryan saw him in the cougar eat once and thought that was rather cool)

Well as I said before we did not do so hot at the game, the score at the end was 54 - 10 and the stands were pretty much empty by the fourth quarter. But that is ok! it was a fun weekend and I loved every minute of it!! :D