Elisa and I spent all Saturday pruning our tree and staining our deck. They are both looking really nice, though you can’t tell how big of an improvement it is. We went on a couple early-morning hikes and jogs. There’s a girls’ camp hike that’s coming up that we are preparing for. It’s been fun because before I was sleeping in until 8:30 every day, and now I sometimes get up earlier than that.
I think the only other thing we were doing is planning our honeymoon. We are trying to decide which of the Greek islands are worth visiting. We’ll only have a week or so for all of Greece. Some of the places we are thinking about are some well-known names like Crete and Mykonos and Patmos. (I knew of Mykonos because that’s the name of a Greek restaurant in D.C. and Bellevue. And Patmos is the island where St. John got exiled and then wrote Apocalipsis). Ooh, and Santorini the one with all those white houses built up on the cliffs perched over the blue water.
The deacon’s quorum was fun again today, partly because we had three boys. We were talking about how God is the father of our spirits. One of the boys asked about the controversy of evolution vs. creationism. He’s only 12 years old too. I think that was the first question that I really wanted to know the answer to, back when I was in 7th grade and we studied biology the first time. So I told him that I’d bring him a candy bar for asking such a good, hard question, and I promised to bring the declaration, “The Origin of Man,†that the First Presidency put out in 1909. It’s an interesting document because it says that man was created with a plan and a purpose, not randomly and haphazardly. But other than that one hard and fast declaration, it leaves the door open for people to believe all the other aspects of evolution.
I have been working on applying to the General Studies Major through BYU independent study. It will definitely test my self discipline but it will be so nice that I am pursuing a degree again. I’ll be happy to have the flexibility with all the tentative plans to work abroad or finish a doctorate with Chad. That’s all my exciting news.
Ooh! We were able to put the bed together. It is absolutely terrifying. I was so scared to sleep on it for fear it would collapse in the middle of the night. Chad decided to prove his handiwork by full-out leaping on to the bed over and over again while I cringed at the sight. It didn’t break. But when he finally convinced me to try diving full force onto the bed, he admitted it was a bit scary to watch. No fatalities yet.