I’m really excited about the upcoming Messiah sing-along. I like music that is challenging but I also like it when the group sounds good together.

We had a great time this weekend going to a movie (Breach) on Friday night, going to the temple Saturday AM for veil worker training (all the lockers were taken – they had gotten RSVPs from about 40 people and 1200 showed up (600 men and roughly as many women given that the lockers were all taken). It’s fun to see the temple used past capacity. And the sister ‘directing’ us where/how to go was hilarious. At one point she raised her voice and said, “I shouldn’t yell in the temple, but…” and she proceeded to tell us all in the crowded hallway what was going on. When they finally were able to open a session for folks other than the male veil workers, she stood at the door after the spanish group was seated and said, “Who traveled more than 3 hours to get here… Two hours… One and a half hours…” At that point, they opened it up for general folks to enter. That session was in spanish, which was fun for me. I’m not fluent, but I pretty good at comprehension, so I didn’t use headphones. And it helps that I know what is being said. But maybe I shouldn’t have volunteered to be in the prayer circle… Brother Redd was officiating. I think I did OK, but there were a few phrases where I had no clue what I was saying.

I was hoping to get up to a coin show a friend had invited us to. But given the delays because of the crowd at the temple, we ended up going straight to the V’s for Rusty’s birthday cake/present party and then went to the friend’s home for dinner. My friend brought his nickel collection and a jeweler’s loop, and I had fun learning about numismatics and examining the range of mint and almust uncirculated coins he had ammassed.

Later than night we went on to watch the local high school production of Beauty and the Beast. It was really well done, and in some points compared favorably with the broadway production. The girls had a blast collecting autographs afterwards.

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