Archive for October, 2007

The Phantom Cell Phone

I don’t know how many of you have experienced this phenomenon before, but here in the mission, we call it the ‘Phantom Cell Phone Ring.’ It involves thinking that your cell phone is vibrating, thus indicating a ring. This is shortly followed by a sudden realization that you have no cell phone. As you may [...]

Painting the Rockses Red! (Or, rather, orange…)

I did have a really fitting, witty title all ready for this week, but it needs a picture to go with it, and I just so happened to forget to bring my camera to the library today… Maybe I’ll use it some other time.
To expound on this week’s title, I need to tell you all [...]

dry.” Even in Arizona.

This has been a jolly good week. Actually, there hasn’t been much worthy of report, except that we had one of the most entertaining dinner appointments ever yesterday.
You see, we recently had a family with six daughters move in to one of our branches. We had dinner scheduled with them. Anyway, we showed up and [...]

Some Salty Substance

I learned one very important thing this week, apart from everything that was said at conference. That one very important thing is that it is not good to use random salty-looking substances for cooking, even if you were told at one point that it was sea salt.
You see, my companion decided to make a recipe [...]

Took a Hike

Yeah, we really did take a hike. This morning. Up a small mountain. It was good fun.
Anyway, this week has been pretty good. It wasn’t quite as amazing as last week, but still rather enjoyable. We had Zone Conference on Wednesday, which was very enjoyable, even though we did get a little rebuking (for [...]