I forgot to mention somehow last week that I did my second talk in church evar. It was different in that I had to base it off a General Conference talk. My parents said it was easier, and... I mean, it was faster to prepare, but I feel like I wasn't so meaningful and am not totally sure how to do talks like that. Most of it was just reading straight from the talk. People said I did good, but I don't think I put much of my own words in it...
It's weird how I can be shaking when public speaking- worse because I often shake/bounce a leg, whether there's a reason or not, so it's like I was both shaking my legs and shaking from nervousness at the same time- and scare the church leaders sitting behind me, but keep my voice pretty smooth and clear. Apparently, it's pretty impressive. Not that that means I will be more willing to speak in the future!...
So, for the past few weeks, I've been saying out loud D&C 58:42-43 and 64:9-11, both Scripture Masterys (I think they write it like that, despite being incorrect...) at least once daily, when I'm doing my morning and night prayers. I didn't do anything even remotely similar for any other scriptures, but I felt those were very important to have so memorized they are engrained in my brain and heart.
And that paid off in YW today. We were each given a question about forgiveness and had to find a scripture that answers it. D&C 64:9-11 answered mine perfectly, so I didn't have to do anything but recite it. *victory laugh*
Yesterday there was a wedding in our branch. It was weird because they actually did the ceremony in the church building. It was cute and stuff, but I think that's only the second, maybe third, wedding ceremony I've ever been in. (Weirder because the guy marrying them was my branch president.) I've been to receptions, though.
I mentioned that I was writing a fic where the characters come to our world, right? Yeah, still working on it. It's enjoyable. I haven't worked on something long for a while, and just this beginning part is quite long. I'm probably putting in too much detail and fluff, but it doesn't matter too much since it's only for me, not anyone else's eyes (unless I redo it and it's absolutely amazing). For some reason, I decided to title it "Waiting for a Sign". Maybe I'll actually figure something out later in it that will make the title make sense. *giggle*
Oh yeah. I decided to look trough reviews for my old stories... I noticed some that I either didn't notice before or I hadn't really read... Turns out my stories didn't make as much sense as I'd thought. *sweat drop*
My dad left on a road trip ...Thursday? to his new job. Yeah, about a week after my sister. This wasn't as bad, though, since I've dealt with being away from my dad before. However, now that it's just me and my mom... It's freaking weird. Now the house is very quiet since it houses just two people. But I'll try to use this time to get closer to my mom and do more real stuff. Go to restaurants, cook together, have more time to talk, just us.
I've mentioned Scaehime, right? I got to Skype with her for a bit last Friday! I know it's stupid, but I've always felt cool for being friends with her because she's a college student. *ehe...* I finally got to see her FACE. She looked different from what I expected, but... I mean... it's difficult to determine someone's looks if their profile pic isn't a picture of them. I probably look totally different to what people expect, even if I've given them a basic description (like brown eyes, brown hair...). She was cool, but didn't have much prepared to talk about (not like I did either).
Blondie has been so excitable lately. To me, at least. She was telling me about dance and the musical and how she wants to admit to a guy she likes him, etc. I don't really know much about crushes, but she didn't care, she just wanted to tell someone. (She told me she actually admitted to him a few days later.)
Jumping back to stories (huehuehue), that other one I was working on, (which was totally just lightly inspired by Blondie's idea,) I had the sudden inspiration to draw them. In the middle of math class. *sweat drop* I had to act on it, because who knew if it would return! I still managed to pay enough attention to get the gist of what she was teaching.
I finished it at home, while my mom was out getting her hair dyed to look normal (blonde ombré just looked so wrong- she agreed to it to help a friend get her hair-dressing certification).
Drawing somewhat realistically! *gasp* *To quote my sis: I knoooow huh?*
First two are Hispanic twins (respect for da roots, man), Katarina (AKA Kat or Kati) and Carlos, who have fire and water; third is Stone, who has earth (I'm so clever); 4th is Andrew (he was originally gonna be the average blond football-player, but my hand decided to make him look different from the original vision... I don't even know if he's, like, Egyptian now or something... But at least I know that his hair is black, but still buzz cut, cuz that looks better, I think), who accidentally gets air instead of the fifth, Ella. She's named after one of my stuffed animal elephants. For reals, dawg.
I guess, if there's room next post, I'll explain the concept here more. Bye, cuz some girl is bugging me to use my iPod.
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