I think I have a right to say that things were a little too busy the Sunday before, and yesterday I didn't even have my iPod in the house, so.
This is basically a summary of these past few weeks. More summarized than usual. Woah.
First thing: just a few hours after the last post, Coatrack called me up and asked me if I wanted to go to the youth group activity at his church. It was pretty sudden for me and I wasn't totally sure about it, but I said "Okay" anyway.
I have barely even gone inside any church buildings that aren't LDS (only 2 Lutheran ones for Up With Kids! and Blondie's recital and festival at a Baptist church), and I just agreed to go to what is basically a sermon for Baptist teenagers.
So, even though I was really awkward and quiet, the kids and priests (pastors?) were really nice and some fun stuff happened, so I don't regret going. But the overall feeling of the building was really weird to me. I felt a little uncomfortable being in there.
And something I pointed out to my parents later was that, while the lessons themselves weren't bad and taught simple but true principles, there wasn't much actual scripture for the pastor (yeah, I think pastor) to work with. He had to be more like "What do you think about this? What's a possible answer?" rather than "This is the answer, and here's why." He couldn't explain. While here I was, scripture references that fit the situation and would've added to the lesson popping up in my head, but I couldn't share them because they weren't from the Bible. I was too afraid to actually share my knowledge even if I didn't drop the scripture with it. And none of the actual members of the church ever added their opinion to anything either, which makes me wonder whether they actually knew much doctrine but were too shy to share or they just had no idea.
It was also bugging me how there were different Bibles. Like, the words the priest was reading out of his were different from the ones we were given. The basic idea of the verses was the same, but those were different translations! That really was so "What the what?" to me.
Anyway, this experience helped me a bit more to understand what the Protestant churches are like (though I still don't know what the difference between all of them is). And it actually grew my testimony for my church, because it proved that we actually have the full truth. We have so many answers the others don't. I mean, I felt kinda like I knew more than the priest himself, and he studied this- this is his job.
So... yeah. I really hope Coatrack and all the others in that room are invited to the Mormon church someday so they can have a part of the full truth, the full gospel.
Well, after it's more packing (which was exhausting and took much longer than anticipated) and doing the road trip. We went through Idaho and stopped at a hotel two times (or was it three?) before we arrived.
More summary, yay!
I spent about a week living with my sis in her apartment, which was... interesting. It was a bit weird since my sister was the one cooking meals instead of my mom. But it was also nice, since we got to hang out more than we have done in a long time. Her roommates were a bit nasty, though.
Last Monday was my first day at school. It's a pretty different school. There's two things I don't like, which are that people tend to be too loud and not do any work, and that sometimes I couldn't talk to teachers when I wanted (or needed) help. Otherwise, I like it. I think. Well, those are the two main disadvantages I can think of.
But there are some cool things about it. Like I can work on what I want where and when I want to. So if I was stuck on the next assignment for a few classes, I could just work on a different class until I can get the help or the block goes away.
The teachers and students are generally quite nice, too. My first day was pretty weird, since people were all excited to meet me because I am my sister's ...sister. Yeah. I haven't dealt with the "You're her little sister?! Oh my gosh! You guys look so alike! She's so cute!" kind of attention in quite a while. Basically a few years, really. It was amusing and nerve-wracking and mildly annoying to a point.
We have an official house! Er, um, apartment... condo... thing. This was this whole mess that happened with another house that would take really, really long to explain, but at least we got this place, and hopefully it was the best decision to take this place.
Last Friday, my sis convinced me to go to a Latin-dancing singles' party, even though I'm kinda too young to be there... And I ended up only be taken out to the dance floor by guys that basically had no idea what they were doing. Somehow, I was still exhausted by the end, and I was feeling pretty bleh the whole day after... Plus, since then, I got a dry throat and I've been coughing and occasionally sneezing like crazy. I think it's annoying my family more than me. And I am actually some more water and ate a few candies to make it go away sooner, but it's not letting me go. Ugh.
Now to just post a few pics I didn't put up earlier.
I got the pic! *cheering* I accidentally missed the opportunity during our road trip last year, but now I have it!~ *happy humming*
I found these doodles in my Chemistry notebook, I believe, and I just thought they were cute.
Carter when I had put my Scooby-Doo hat on him. (The pic's cropped since I'd written his real name next to the drawing.) I thought it was funny that his hair was so curly and thick and stuff that the hat didn't even go all the way down on top of his head. Though it doesn't look that much like him, I'll admit it looks closer to the real person than most of my attempts at portraits.
I had drawn that in our last class together... And only Coatrack knows I drew this.
Alrighty then, that's all! Hopefully I actually go into more detail about anything next week.
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