Go GC!

Can I just say I love General Conferance? I have found the perfect analogy. General Conferance, is like Red Bull. It gives you wings.

I always try and look for themes and such when I listen. I think the big topic was service and reactivation. Basically, we need to get off our bums and go to work. Too bad I have a lazy bum!

What I find so hard about General Conferance is, I feel like yeah lets go! We love our prophets! The Church is true! Jesus Lives! Amen! (hey thats my middle name) But I still don't do anything about it...*sigh*... maybe next time.

Favorite moments:

The kid who stood up and smiled at the camera on accident. I laughed a lot.

"Occasionally discouragement may darken our pathway; frustration may be a constant companion.. “Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great.” President Thomas S. Monson (I was waiting for the small helm moment here but...alas...)

“It seems to me that you are so concentrated on finding the nuggets that you overlook the many precious simple flecks that you have here" - M. Russell Ballard

"In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us; and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers." ~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"In fact, I bet there are some out there right now texting 'Pres. Uchtdorf has been talking for 10 minutes now, and still no aviation analogy ...'"

Preach the gospel at all time, and if necessary, use words. -St. Francis

I know there was more...but go ahead, comment, share your ideas of the themes or quotes or something. Comments equal love dontcha know.

Pondering

I sometimes get a little terrified of the prospect of not always having classes, having to learn, and get stuff done with a deadline. I suppose as my 21st birthday comes more quickly than I would like, I start thinking about where I want to be. There are so many options, and I know that I have a plan, but maybe that's not what I REALLY want to do. But, the point of this post, is that I am also trying to be a little more......responsible for my future. Shocker, I know! I actually, literally, went into the high school, and talked to the principal (who happened to be my adviser then, as well as my brothers) about how to get hired, after I graduate. It was weird. She said the best way is to do your student teaching here. The only problem with that is that at BYUI, you don't really get to choose where you go, and that if a school asks for you, you definitely will not go there. At least, that's what everyone says.

Maybe I could pull the handicapped card?

Old update

I wish I had something very exciting to write about but I don't, so I thought I would just put in some pictures that I have laying around. Halloween etc.

This is my quartet. We spend some sundays playing hymns in the Gardens, but now it is too cold. The best time to go shopping in Walmart, is Halloween. You find the weirdest stuff.


Halloween pictures of us putting cobwebs outside our apartment. We even put dead leaves on it to make it look more realistic. Anyways, I apologize that this is not a very exciting post.

Schedules

How many second violinists does it take to change a light bulb?

None. They can't get up that high!

BYU IDAHO SYMPHONY/SINFONIETTA

FALL 2010

I. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANNUAL HALLOWEEN CONCERT
“Cowboys!”
October 28, 29 & 30 6:00 & 8:30 pm, Barrus Concert Hall

Repertoire: Williams The Cowboys Overture
Barry Suite from Dances With Wolves
Copland Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo


II. SINFONIETTA

Featuring Spring 2010 Concerto Festival Winners!

November 5, 7:30 pm Barrus Concert Hall

Repertoire: Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Suk Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Chopin Piano Concerto No.1, Romance
Bruch Scottish Fantasy, Finale

III. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - OPERA

November 16, 18, 19, 30
December 2, & 4 7:30 pm, Snow Drama Theater

Repertoire: Mozart The Marriage of Figaro


What's the definition of an alto?

A soprano who can sightread.


Baroque Ensemble

Concert: Tuesday November 9, 7:30 pm, Barrus Concert Hall

"Wagner's music has beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour."

--Rossini

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Trip

I figure its about time I put up my pictures from Canada, so here you go. It isn't all of them, but I think it is enough. The picture of the hockey game we went to wouldn't cooperate, but you know that you can't go to Canada without going to at least one hockey game.

The pictures so far are of the 5AM trying to leave, and dinner at 5 guys in Montana and then entering B.C. and Heather sleeping on her bed from England so we were told. The hotel guy brought us Cuban chocolate. We were very happy. That is a train station car inside redone.

Elise and I at the train museum found a safe...

Elise is getting away...yeah, we are pretty silly...




There's a jellyfish and some pictures of Vancouver. And the one below is the first time I saw the ocean! There was some clam still in the shell.
This is the columbia river and over here is Vancouver

Last Post from Home

This was a post that I forgot to publish right before I left home, so I figured I would be very sequential and post this one and then post the one that everyone has been dying to see. Hopefully not literally.

This is my older brother trying out his new contacts. First his right eye! Actually, I didn't take any of him trying the left one....
Attempt #1



YAY!!

After that, we made T-shirts! So much fun!





My shirt! Its awesome!


And Aaron's shirt is pretty awesome too!

Books, Books, and... Phone?

I admit it. I like books! Ok, I'll try again. I LOVE books! I think they may be the one thing other than extreme MOOSETRACKS which makes the world go round. But I learned something new about books.

When playing in Borders, stay away from the books! Thats very deep right? Borders can be awfully dangerous if your a Helm. Well actually, any bookstore for that matter! They should put a sign up "If your a Helm, please stay only 15 minutes and only buy 2 books." That would probably be a really long sign so maybe something a little shorter and more inconspicuous. But that was the best I could do at this moment so there! I am awesome. I went into Borders with a PlAN I was going to buy this book and this book. TWO books! Yeah...right! I came out with a few more than that. (2 for mom...a couple for me....one for dad... ok, maybe not that many!)

When I came home I was going to start on my new book, and I started the prologue and it didn't start where I had remembered it leaving off. So I looked at it. Yep, this is the book I bought and it looks ok. It has the right author and the right name. So i began to explore the boring information at the beginning that no one reads. DOH!! I bought the last book in the series. Yep, I felt stupid, really stupid! Well, at least I have the last book, though I don't know what good it will do for awhile at least.

On a more positive note, I have a new phone. I have had the old phone for about five years. Recently, (ok the last 6 months or so) Its been freaking out randomly. "No, I will not stay on while you write a text to your sisters! I refuse!" Dumb thing! It is definately time for a new phone! While at the Verizon store, the lady who was helping me said "Wow you must take really good care of your phone to have had it for five years, maybe you deserve a really nice one!" I am thinking, I like where this is going! I looked over at dad and sweetly suggested an I phone, and he gave me the don't even think about it/whatever kind of dad look. Nope, no Iphone for me! I like my phone and I am just glad it works!