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Let it be known to all that November 17th is currently the set date in which Steven and I will be endowed and sealed for time and all eternity! I'm super excited though there are uneasiness with learning more about what is ahead of me and the commitment I will be making. I'd say 95% of me cannot wait for the 17th to be here while the other 5% wonders if it'll be too overwhelming. I doubt it will be in the sense that with my enthusiasm and trust in God that I'll be able to handle whatever comes my way.

Once more I've slacked on writing. Other than temple preparations, not a whole lot has happened. I've gotten sick just this weekend, endured a draining week with one child who is very fussy (the last day with me feeling quite sick) and got my pirate costume prepared. The weather has been dreary and with a busy life, I feel I've been missing out on friend and me time. I suppose me time isn't so important and I ought not be use to having a lot especially when kids start coming, but boy do I miss working early and getting home around 4 versus 6pm.

I've also been working on another mural at my mother's clinic. I just have 3 more things to paint; 2 dogs and a squirrel. Then I'll be on to the final mural which will take a long time because I plan to paint one animal at a time in a giant collage that will hopefully take up the majority of the front wall, but I hope for it to be much more simple that with each visit I can just take a moment to paint a small piece to the collage versus giant images that are very much out of my size range when it comes to doing any art.

Thanks for reading! I hope to be starting a new story that may or may not be as regular as my weekly updates. So if you find yourself bored and looking to critic literature, well you can always check out what I've been writing lately (which hasn't been much). Currently Slumber is 50% done and the one to be coming... well the name is still getting tossed around, but it will be a new tab of it's own once ready for reading.

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P.S. The poems are off limits to critiques because I feel they are an expression of self and I am not usually using structure when writing poems.

Wicked

Sorry I failed to write last week. First time in over a year I completely neglected updating you all and I hope some how you will find it in your hearts to forgive me. The week before was a decent week, but due to my failure of not posting, I can't recall any big hits that week, but that could also be due to the amazing weekend I just had!

I've been pretty busy with work and YW. So it was soooo nice for this weekend to hit. Steven's parents and brother came in Friday night and hung out with us this weekend. However I also had planned months ago to see Wicked at the Paramount Theater. So Steven, Saturday, went to see Brave at the 2$ theater while I gussied up and went off to Seattle for the performance of the year.

Wicked was AMAZING to say the least. It was well worth the pretty penny I spent for my nose bleed tickets. The set design was incredible being a mash up of clock works and machinery. It was so artful and beautiful I wished I had had the opportunity to have worked on the set team to create the fabulous set. I loved the "Bubble" they had for Glinda to make her appearance in as well as the smooth trick of the monkey first sprouting his wings. And the animatronics they used were spectacular!! The Dragon (which to me after viewing the entirety of the musical) had really no point but when it was used it was smooth in it's movement. But Oz was THE most amazing robot performance I have seen! It maneuvered so smoothly and precisely that I kept second guessing what my eyes were really seeing. It truly looked like a computer generated image at times when it would move, but when it froze, it was very apparent that it was an actual robot on stage.

I may not be the most refined musical enthusiast, but that's what I saw and liked about Wicked. Plus it was really cool finally seeing the story of how the wicked witch of the West came to be.

Well, after the performance, I hurried home to enjoy the rest of the night with Steven and my in-laws. Now the in-laws were visiting because today was the day Steven received the Melkizedek Priesthood! It was wonderful to have hid family and mine there for it. It was also very kind of Steven to allow my father to join in the circle for his blessing.

Now I have the priesthood in my home and Steven and I are about a month away from finally being endowed and sealed for time and all eternity! So excited!!

Also, a small spiritual note. This morning in my morning prayers I had made mention to HF if he would give me courage to share my testimony more. Well, I figured more would be at next fast and testimony meeting, but instead the Lord had the speakers wrap up quickly leaving about 5-10 minutes of time left over at the end of our first meeting. So up comes one of the counselors to say that Sister Meri Kopsa is to share her testimony with the congregation followed by the bishop with closing remarks. Thankfully whatever it was I managed to say touched my family and some of the other members cuz truly the only thing going through my head was 'breathe, talk slower, think, breathe, talk slower, think...' But just so you all who are reading this post knows, I have a strong testimony. I worry that I might waver once more, but as I ponder about the joy in my life with choosing to live the gospel, I know that this church is true and that I've finally fond my footing. I know the Thomas S. Monson is a true prophet and am grateful for the guidance he gives us in these times. I am grateful for the atonement Jesus made for me and everyone on this Earth. I know I'm loved and that God wants me to come home. And I plan on doing that by going to the temple and being sealed to the love of my life. I leave these things with you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.