Yesterday was Saturday. I wanted to get back home for the big Celtics Vs. Bulls game. Game 7, do or die in Boston. The series has been so emotional to watch. Last minute buzzer beaters, triple overtimes, technical fouls, near suspensions and ejections...you name it. It has been a heated series and a fun one to watch. It's the difference between Dennis Rodman in the early 90's playing for the Bulls, and Tim Duncan right now playing for the Spurs. Duncan is boring. He has no pizazz. Rodman led the league in rebounds and also lead the league in excitement. He was fun to watch. You never knew what you were going to get from him...or what color is hair would be that game! He was scrappy, in your face and emotional every game. That's exactly how this series has been! I'm glad to see that Boston came out on top.....and glad that Tim Duncan and his Spurs got kicked out of the first round with only one win against Dallas. Thank goodness for that. Oh and just for the record, I'm rooting for the Nuggets out of the West and Boston our of the East, though I'm pretty sure I know what will happen...
No, instead of watching basketball yesterday, we went on errands. After next Sat. though, I think I will finally be caught up with life. We finally cancelled our cell phones with T.mobile. Got our Verizon cell up and running, did the Costco thing, and the Walmart thing too. I'm glad it's Sunday. Our ward is super friendly and well diversified. We did have a couple crazies today. One was in Sacrament meeting. It was testimony meeting and we had a girl go on and on...and on about how great and friendly this ward was. She said "This ward is so great. It doesn't matter if you're poor or rich, or a good person or someone who was doing bad things or.........and this ward is so excepting like that and other wards...well, they're just not. I hate to say it but it's true. This ward is different." Something to the effect of that. I was cringing in my seat because there was a recently baptized convert who had just borne testimony before this girl who also said the ward was great (of course being baptized into it) and I just hope this new girl doesn't believe that other wards are much different because I disagree with that other girl for the most part. Another thing that was interesting was in Sunday School when our teacher professed multiple times that he felt the spirit stronger at church then in the Temple. The lesson was on keeping the Sabbath day holy and he was trying to make a point of feeling the spirit in church, but I pretty much just thought that both of these instances were a "Too Much Information" type of thing, or maybe a "keep it to yourself" thing. Relief Society was wonderful as always and the lesson was on strong marriages and families. One thing I would like to share that I don't ever want to forget, a story:
A dad and his young daughter in the room. She wanted him to play with her but he wanted to read his newspaper through. He'd stop and play with her for a bit then try and get back to his paper. She kept bugging him and so finally he tore the cover off of a magazine that had the earth on it , tore it into little pieces and gave it to her and said to put it together and when she had it done, then he would play with her. She agreed and started to put the puzzle together. After about 3 minutes she was done and he couldn't believe how fast she'd finished. He asked her how she did it that fast and she said that there was a picture of a family on the back. She said once she got the family put together the world took care of itself.
I loved that visual lesson. I thought it was really neat. We were talking about the Proclamation at the time in the lesson and how the world is distancing itself from our beliefs at a pretty rapid rate. We talked about having strong marriages, families, and homes. We talked about having one on one time with each child to make them feel like a strong part of the family. We talked about not being too busy in our schedules and the whole lesson was fairly good but I didn't want to forget that story.
Have a great week everybody!
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Good post- cool story in RS, WAY cool the spurs are out and the Celtics advance.
But I know what you mean about those weird moments in church. I always cringe when people say weird things and hope that no investigators were in earshot. I wasn't there, but one time in our Gospel Essentials class, the lesson was on the Sabbath Day and the teacher said that it's okay to play sports on Sunday if it's with your family. And I think that no one in the class disputed that, so GREAT.
I'd never heard that story. That's pretty incredible. Dad said that he has heard it before. Puts things in perspective. Glad you like your ward...you just don't go "on and on" about it!
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