Update on the Monson party.

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Funny things that happened:

• When we first got there to set up the buffet table, they were taking pictures of Pres. Monson with the decorations. They told him to look and admire everything as they took a picture, and he mockingly went "Oooooh, aaaaah!"
• After they finished the pictures he came and touched each of our shoulders and said "mucho macho" to each of us...... Haha whatever that means!
• When I went to take Elder Perry's dirty plate from him, he did a kind of basketball shuffle thing with the plates to dodge around the person that walked in front of us, haha.
• The kid to the right of Pres. Monson in the picture is in the same ward as Pres. Uchtdorf, Elder Hales and Elder Bednar. When Pres. Monson asked where he was from and he told him that, he asked if they came to church and said to keep them in line :P
• Also, Dieter always comes up to Trent (that's his name) at church to talk to him, and every time without fail claps him on the shoulder and says "you're a good young man." He did the same thing at the luncheon.
• Pres. Monson made us take his cake plate when he went back for seconds "to get rid of the evidence."
• After we took that one too, they decided they needed a picture of him with a piece of cake. As soon as the picture was taken he hurriedly scarfed down a few bites before his daughter, Sis. Dibb, comes over and says "I think you've had enough, Dad." Haha SO cute.
• When I took his plate he grabbed his glass of milk and put his hand over it to make sure I didn't take that too. (We bring him some 2% milk every year. Also, it's very important that it's 2%. He can tell the difference apparently!)
• One of the times he was posing for a picture he said "hurry up, I can't pose all day you know!"
• After everyone was pretty much gone and we were cleaning up, the Monsons walked around the table to look at all the pictures (of him fishing, mostly), and they got back to where they started and he said "where'd my wife go?" Haha he thought he lost her, but they were pushing her wheelchair behind him the whole time!
• On the note of the fishing pictures, he LOVES to fish and his office is full of fishing pictures and whatnot. The flowers and decorations around the buffet table even had a fishing pole added for decoration!
• Apparently he wanted to bring in the actual fish he caught recently, he was really proud of it or something, but they convinced him that bringing a picture of him with the fish would suffice :P

Over all it was just a very fun, funny day! Watching the apostles laugh and joke with each other was great. And Pres. Monson is just hilarious! I love the man. (:

Happy 85th birthday, President Monson! (yesterday)

Yesterday was the birthday of our beloved prophet, and I got the opportunity to serve at his birthday luncheon at the Church Administration Building (: Coolest experience ever. The entire Quorum of the Twelve and First Presidency were there, and they're all really cool, funny people! President Monson joked with us a lot, and it was just great (: My boss doesn't want the other servers to get jealous or upset, so I'm not allowed to post about it on facebook or anything ): But good thing I have a blog!

The Church is true. President Thomas S. Monson is a true prophet. The apostles are all called of God. I am so grateful for their words of inspiration and divine counsel to each and every one of us!

I really love my mom a lot. I'm sorry for being so negative lately. From now on, this blog is going to have more positivity and enlightenment (: I love life!

Everything's wrong and I hate myself and this keeps happening and no one cares and I can't do this, I can't take it anymore. What is wrong with me?

I LOVE my friends.

I spent the night with Dylan, and I seriously love that boy! We're seriously so similar and he's such a great friend. He helps me understand myself better. It's amazing really, he has come so far in the past year. He's decided the Church isn't for him, but he refuses to be with someone who doesn't believe in a Higher Being at all. He still believes someone's up there, and it helps him out so much, I can tell. His spirituality and astronomy (and whatever else it is, I'm not entirely clear) really get him through the day, and push him to be better. In an odd way, I really do look up to him. He's so strong and confident. Definitely something I need to work on in myself.

And yesterday and today I spent a lot of time with Mallory, whom I also love. We ran errands yesterday, then after we both got off work had a sleepover! Watched Megamind, and went to the temple this morning (: Quite the adventure, that's for sure. The Draper temple was closed so we continued on to American Fork and went to the Timpanogos temple. So wonderful (:

Conversations with Dylan though, really. He questions me and my motives behind what I do. Tonight, he made me think about what I'm actually passionate about in life. As I talked about anatomy, he could see my passion for that and thinks I should do something with that for a living. But I'm passionate about music as well. Music therapy really is perfect for me, because it combines two things I love: music, and helping people. Along with singing and playing the piano, I love country music. And family history. And boys :P And my best friends. (:

Edit: Ha. My last two posts are titled "I love ______." Fantastic. (: