just two random things

Well, it has been a little bit since I've written anything, and a lot of things have happened, but since I don't have to time to include every exciting second of my life, which is basically every one of them, I'll stick with a two experiences that have occurred in the last couple days that make me laugh and bring joy to my life.
The first is that I have a new friend. Her name is Rita. I met Rita over the phone at the Referral Center at the MTC. She had called last month to receive a Joy to the World DVD and I was making calls to give an example to the Elders I am working with right now. Rita's information popped up on the screen, she being my twentieth try to catch someone at home, and so I was taken off-guard when she answered. Upon investigation, also known as simply asking her, I learned that she hadn't received her video and she was sad about it, really had wanted to receive it. It took me about a second to realize that Rita was not from the United States of America because she had a thick, heavy, Italian accent. It reminded me of my Aunt Doris, I told Rita so. Rita said she didn't want to have the missionaries bring her the DVD because she was a Catholic and was always going to be a Catholic, and she was a 63 year old woman and nothing in the world could change her from being a Catholic, she had a niece, in Chicago, or Michigan, or something that has the letters c, h, and i in it, that was Catholic, then Jehovah's Witness, then Mormon, then Catholic and when she was Jehovah's Witness, she quit wanting to work for Rita because Rita was earning too much money and money is not a righteous thing to go after and Rita thought that was weird because we need money to leave, it wasn't like she was worshipping the money that the Lord was blessing her to have, but she was Catholic and was always going to be Catholic. (She really did make all of that, and probably more, all one sentence). So I realized that Rita wasn't going to just say yes to having the missionaries come see her, I decided to take a different approach. She acted like she knew a lot about the church, so I asked her how she did, then she started to tell me again about her niece in that other place back east, but she knew all about it she said and she didn't understand how come religions couldn't just get along we all believe in the same thing essentially. Well I felt like she wasn't quite ready for my answer about that either, I knew I had to find a common ground with her, so I asked her about prayer. Bingo. She prayed, and boy did I hear many great stories. Actually I can say that she is pretty much amazing, she had some miraculous stories, and I felt the Spirit strong as she told me some of them. There was, however, the whole Mother Mary thing, so I decided to try for the Bible, this was my favorite part I think. Rita started to tell me about how her...daughter-in-law I think...gave her an Italian Bible since she didn't read English very well. She was given the Bible five years ago, but hasn't ever opened it. She explained to me that she felt bad, but that she had told the Lord that the day she opens that Bible, she will never close it again. So I invited Rita to open the Bible this week. We're going to chat again next week. I'm excited to talk to my new friend Rita. Oh her Italian accent makes me so happy, I wish there were a way to type in an Italian accent.
The second thing that is kind of new is that I decided that I could and should and why not get married on the 20th of August of this year. The fun part is telling people. I decided just this past Sunday. It is a lot just an act of faith, deciding on a goal and then moving forward with it. There are many parts to this goal that I'm working on. I'm going to ask boys on dates now a little more than I used to....that's not hard to do when you never do it :). And I'm going to employ a little bit of flirting maybe...I don't know, I haven't really thought about how I'm going to accomplish the goal, I just set it. I should probably work on the ligistics of the execution. I told my parents on Sunday night when I was talking with them. They laughed at me. I'm not quite sure how to take that response. My mom said that I should probably meet someone in order to get married to the in seven months...I didn't realize that that was all the time in between now and August 20th. I told my Bishop tonight...he laughed too. I'm not quite sure how to take that one either...so yes, it was random, I'm not even sure how it came up, but I feel okay about it...so we'll see :)
Hm, that's all I think for now.

Zipadeedodah-day

The snow is falling outside and I get to be inside! That's a wonderful relationship. Sunday night I celebrated at one a.m. that it was the last time that I am obligated to stay up that late because of work. No mas! Oh happy day. I began the semester off right by sleeping-in yesterday. No classes Monday mornings I think just might be a very happy thing. So I did that, enjoyed a very relaxing morning around the apartment. I went to my class at one about. It was wonderful to be in school again. I'm excited this semester to be taking a bunch of psychology classes and to be philosophical and stuff. I've loved my classes and the way that the professors approach the topics so far.
I can't believe how much the snow has fallen over the last day, tonight, as I walked home from campus, I completely slipped and so now my bum is wet, speaking of which, I should probably change. It was pretty much embarrassing, but I am pretty smooth on my get-up procedure. Gratefully, the two guys that I had been walking next to just seconds prior had passed me up and I didn't need to have them watch me fall. That was a blessing. The last time I was around this much snow was in Sun Valley Idaho. I pretty much slipped every other day, maybe that is why I am smooth on getting up, I've had a little practice. It is a lot easier to get up in pants than it was in a skirt though. When I was there we had about this much snow on the ground, and we made snow angels in our skirts...don't worry it wasn't during proselyting time.
Hm, this is all a bunch of randomness, mostly just because I am procrastinating looking at all the things that I'm supposed to be doing...so I probably should be getting to that right about right now...