my sabbath

i don't have a whole lot to say. i'm just addicted to kzion. i love love love the beautiful soothing music that it plays and so i just want a reason to sit here at the computer and listen. today was a good sunday. testimony meeting had a more than usual mishmash of testimonies and minitalks and even a couple sermons. one thing i definitely felt was that our ward really is starting to get excited and motivated to do missionary work. during sunday school i sat at the back and had a long nice visit with delanie. i'm sorry to say that i didn't get a single thing out of sunday school because i didn't listen at all. not one tiny little smidgeon. then relief society the lesson was on testimony. at first the ladies were kind of giddy and rowdy and i felt sorry for sister mclaren and soooooo glad that it wasn't my responsibility to try to spiritually uplift these sisters who seemed to openly have a bad attitude. jeesh young womens was bad enough. for example sister hunter loudly proclaimed that she was glad that she was not in town for the last enrichment night. that is just rude and shows a lack of appreciation for the efforts of the people that are putting it all together. although most people laughed, if i was in sister mclaren's position i would have felt quite sad from such a comment. anyhooo, the meeting turned around though when she talked about times that our testimonies have touched people around us without us even being aware at the time. that generated a lot of people sharing experiences and i once again felt the underlying excitement to share this message with the people around us. i had just such an exciting experience with erin sipple. she is joseph sipple's wife and they live here in nanaimo. we've been doing things together for awhile and every now and then she brings up religion. we were talking on friday and she was telling me how she misses belonging to a spiritual group that helps her to grow. it was as if she was asking me if she could take the discussions! so i asked her and she said she does want to take them. i just felt the spirit so strongly when i talk to her about it. it is exciting for me. i love this gospel and the way it has helped me and i love to share it's message, but as a stay at home mom i just don't have many opportunities because all my interactions are with members. that sounds like the way people talk on amazing race: "as christian models,..." "as world travelers..." etc. laura, lauralei doesn't even remember us. do you have those pictures we took at parkside? if you do email me one and i'll pass it on to them. well, pretty music or not, i better go to bed so that i'll be able to face the busy week ahead.
good night.