Service Project

Tonight I went to the Wilkinson's Center with my DS group and we helped make First-Aid kits for Missionaries and for people in Indonesia.  It was a really fun project and we had a blast putting them all together and we also got hot chocolate and bread afterwards.

Then we went to the Provo temple and we did baptisms for the dead and it was great.

All in all we got 3 hours of service towards our projects for University 101 and it was really fun.

Baking skills

Today in my Cooking class we made apple pies!  It was a blast!  We made the crust and the filling and then put it together and took it home to bake.  Mine has a lattice top and it looks really cool!

Here's me holding my pie, trying to take a timed pic but unknowingly spilling apple pie juices onto my pant leg!  haha  see the stream?

Here it is before I baked it...

And here it is after!   Mmmmmm!

Well it tasted delicious and I had Amy, Julie, and Summer over to help me eat it.  Well suffice it to say that we succeeded. ;D  Then I took a slice over to Grandpa Ellsworth because he let me borrow his pie pan to make this.  He liked it too.  :D

Disciple-scholar groups

For my disciple-scholar group I made a group on facebook called Keeping Commitments with the Rubies! so that we could discuss our group project.  Here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32363409565&ref=ts

Night of Aesthetic Beauty

Tonight we had an activity with our Humanities class and we all got to bring the most beautiful thing we had ever seen or heard or something that we had created.  I brought a short film to a song that I loved called "The Dying Soldier" and I put pictures to it.  Here are some pictures and the video itself.

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Tonight, I made dinner for my roommates by using the skills that I learned in my Cooking Class this week.  I made a delicious frittata and it turned out great.  I was really happy that I learned how to make this in foods class and all of my roommates and friends loved it!  I also had lemon poppyseed muffins.  This shows just how important it is to keep learning about as much as you can, you never know when you will need the knowledge!  Here are some pics:

Hugh Nibley: “If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he’ll do if he comes. He’ll just quote the scriptures to you—so you’re wasting your time waiting for what we already have.”

I love this quote from our readings online and it really made me think.  Many people pray for a manifestation or an angel to come to them and to tell them that God is real and that faith is sure.  This quote assures all that the scriptures hold everything we need in them and more.  The rest of the talk was excellent but this was my favorite part.

Brigham Young said: “There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.”²⁴ It would be punishment enough to go to hell and not hear a note of music for all eternity.

This quote just speaks to me because I love music and I could never live without it.  I think constantly about what a world without music or sound would be like and I shudder at the prospect.

The paper about Indian culture is also very interesting.  The idea that organization just creates chaos is really mind-boggling.  But I do believe that organization is good in many ways.  For instance, the Church could not run as it does without the organization that it has now and maybe, if everyone lived like the Indians, it would be ok but not everyone does and so organization keeps things running.

Education in Zion

For my assignment this week, I went to see the Education in Zion exhibit at the JFSB.  It had lots of stories and quotes about the rise of church academies and the fall that came after.  It talked about the struggles between science and religion and the horrible things that occurred due to this.  Teachers were fired, students enraged, and the public was in uproar.  But the University pulled through all of this and emerged into the world-class establishment it is today.  The exhibit also spoke about the creation of seminary and institute and it was very interesting to learn all about it.  Here are some pictures of the exhibit itself: