October Conference 2014

October 4th

Guess who is on her way to General Conference?! I took the Frontrunner to Salt Lake City and met up with Laura and her new boyfriend, Drew. Salt Lake was gorgeous and treated us well. I scored three great tickets from an older man walking outside the tabernacle. Thank you kind sir!

Travel by train!

Classic Laura and Emily pose.

Plus Drew!

We found our seats and they are super awesome!!!

Conference was wonderful! We listened to the morning session earlier that day and then met up in Salt Lake for the afternoon. Afterwards, we drove back to Provo (stopping at Lehi Inn-N-Out of course). Drew went to the Priesthood session with his dad and Laura spend the night with me. I am sure I have said it before, but I LOVE that Laura lives so close to me.

October 5th 

Laura left in the morning to have breakfast with Drew's family. 

Miranda and I drove back up to Salt Lake for the Sunday afternoon session!

Come join the ranks.

We met up with Jackson, our FHE dad and Miranda's cousin, in Salt Lake. These tickets were from our Relief Society President. It was so exciting to go two days in a row.

Driving back from a great conclusion to conference. We may or may not have been teasing Jackson for crashing in the backseat. He was out of it before we were out of Salt Lake.

I know that the talks at this General Conference were inspired. Not only did I spend the weekend with people I love, but I was able to hear God's word to his children today. It does not matter where you sit when you listen to General Conference. It can be a car, a family, room, a church building, or The Conference Center. It matters where your heart is. I was able to feel the Spirit and better learn how to improve myself and the beautiful world we live in. Please do not turn off your ears because you are not sitting in a pew. The leaders of the Church love you. They want you to be happy and God wants you to be happy (even if things are hard right now). Never doubt that.

P.S. Snapchat is life. Support your cougars!

(Noh!) Theatre

October 2nd

Into October at last! Reese, my acting teacher, offered the class free tickets to see him in Damn Yankees at the Hale Center Theater in Orem. Who says no to free tickets? Miranda and I went to see the baseball show about a man who makes a deal with the devil so his team can win the pennant. 

Just like back home. However, the Hale in Arizona is a little bit bigger and newer.

The show was great! I haven't seen this one before. 

October 3rd

Break out time in TMA 201. Our group had our presentation on Japanese Noh Theatre and it was sick. One of the girls in our group served in Japan so she had connections to somewhat traditional costumes. We had instruments that we pretended to play to Japanese music while the guys sword-fought with fans. For those of you who are extremely cultured, it was the story of Atsumori.

It was nice going first out of the four theatre presentations. We set the bar high.

P.S. Every first Friday is free bagel day at SouthEnd Market. Yay bagels!

Animation Night

September 30th

This semester, Marie, Jenni, and I all joined the Disney History Club to make sure we could hang out. This activity was animation night, where some of the club officers taught us how to draw Disney characters.

I think they ran out of name tags, so Miranda made us a joint one. It says "Emilanda."

                        

Me, Marie, and Jenni. We nailed it.

Me, Jenni, and Marie

Look how long Marie's hair is now! Gorgeous. I look crazy in this picture. After animation night we went to Applebees for karaoke. Marie blew everyone away of course. Karaoke isn't my favorite, but it is fun with these two.

Not a great picture, but Marie and I can heel click like a boss. 

Miranda Stew

September 27th

It's only September and I'm already being harassed about not wearing a jacket. In my co-workers defense, it was raining. I'm so happy without sweater-weather though. At least it isn't snow yet. Here we are on a group shopping trip getting the essentials: food, phone accessories, and hair products. What more do you need?

Leilani, Emmy, and Mykaela

Sometimes you buy so many vegetables that you do not know what to do with them. Miranda and I basically cut up everything we had and dumped it into my crock-pot. Since they were all of Miranda's vegetables, we decided to call it Miranda Stew. It was pretty good if I do say so myself.

Just another cooking adventure with Miranda and Emily.

Wa-la!

P.S. A gem from Elder Stock. He is my favorite person to email and write to. lol Keepin it real Elder.

Actors from the London Stage

September 26th

Rachel, Alyssa, and I sat together in the Mary Lou Fulton Courtyard (aka JFSB courtyard) to watch some fellow thespians from London perform Much Ado About Nothing. Much Ado is my favorite Shakespeare play. Miranda and I were also watching a youtube series based off of the play around this time. It was by some kids in New Zealand. They called it Nothing Much To Do. I suggest it if you like modern takes on classics.

Anyways.... The show was great! Each of the actors played multiple characters on the small, blank stage. We loved Claire (Leonato/Hero/and others). She came to our acting class the day before and worked with the whole class. The games and exercises we did with her, I think, are the reason our class grew so comfortable and close so fast. She helped us create a safe family environment. We meant to send her some kind of thank you, but it still has not happened. Claire, wherever you are, know you rock and that Reese's Acting Fundamental class defined the semester for most of us.

Me, Rachel, and Alyssa.

We did have to move it inside though during intermission. It started to rain a little during the end of the third(?) act.

Brenna, Jessica, Me, Rachel, and Alyssa.

Brenna and Jessica saved us great seats when we had to move into the Pardoe for round two. The change of space did not phase the actors at all. I'm glad we had a back up theatre, rather than cancelling the show.

Me, Todd, Rachel, and Sean.

After a fun few hours with Shakespeare, Rachel and I went to a dance with Todd and Sean. It was so fun. The crowd and music were a little questionable at first, but we love dancing. We all dressed super classy for the event and got Sonic after a few hours of jamming in mess of fog and party lights. Sean saved the day by driving us to the dance since the rain was off and on all night.

P.S. It is very important to note that Laura Hawkes opened her mission call this very day! She was called to Washington Kennewick Mission to speak Spanish. Huzzah Hermana Hawks!!!