<3,
Katie
September 21, 2014
Happy Sunday!
I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Today, I got the chance to go to the Ogden Temple dedication. I couldn't go to the actual dedication but what happened was the live dedication was streamed to the LDS Institute building next door, so I was able to go to that. In order to go, I had to get a yellow temple dedication ticket, which involved showing a current recommend to a bishopric member. The only way you could get into the church was if you had your ticket and showed one of the men at the one of the 2 open doors, everything else was locked. The reason that you had to have a ticket and only were able to go in through certain doors is that since the dedication was being streamed to the institute then the building was an extension of the temple. It was a great experience! The temple matron and president both spoke, along with 3 other general authorities, and then President Monson spoke and gave the dedicatory prayer. After that, there was the Hosanna Shout, which is done at every dedication and you have to have a white handkerchief for it as well. I've never been to a temple dedication before, so this was a really awesome experience for me :) If you ever have the opportunity to go to a temple dedication or an open house, GO! I have never been to an open house, so that is next on my bucket list :) If you want to see what temples are in the building process and how far they are along in construction, you should check out this link to see all of the temples in progress, their locations, and they also have pictures showing what they will look like, which is pretty cool, too. Anyways, happy Sunday, and I hope ya'll have a great rest of your weekend :)
<3,
Katie
<3,
Katie
September 20, 2014
What's up?
Hey, everyone! Sorry it's been such a long time since I've posted. It's been just barely over a month that I've been at Utah State now, and so much has happened since I last posted. I have tons of pictures that you can check out on my College Pictures page!
It's been great here at college :) I have great roommates: Emily, Emily, Maggie, Erica, Emma, Summer, and Catherine. So far no issues have occurred in our room about dishes or cleaning the bathroom, so that's good! There are also so many awesome people in my dorm building. I live in Honors House, where people who are in the Honors program can live if they choose. Not everyone who lives here is in the Honors program, but they are still taking challenging classes and participating in some of the Honors program criteria. Anyways, the 1st 2 floors of my building are Honors House, and let me tell you, it is a party! It's funny because other people who have lived in Honors House before have mentioned that it's always boring and the common room is empty and no one really socialized. But, this year, the Honors common room is the place to be. There's always someone in the common room and everyone is always hanging out, chatting, playing Swedish Twister, or making something in the kitchen. It's super fun! There is a program the 1st 2 floors do where every week, one of the apartments hosts a kind of open house where people in that room plan an activity and then everyone on 1st and 2nd floor can come and have fun and get to know who all is in the apartment. My apartment hosted the 1st one, so we just had a relaxed ice cream social where we provided ice cream and toppings and made posters to advertise that said things like, "I scream, you scream, the cops come, it gets awkward" and "BYOBAS: Bring Your Own Bowl and Spoon" :) It was great! We got to just hang out in our living room hanging out and talking to everyone. This week though was awesome. A room of guys downstairs hosted a "Black Tie" event. Their posters were great; they started out the invitation with, "The gentlemen of room 101 cordially invite you to a black tie event." The event happened last night. What happened was everyone was told to wear "Better than Sunday best" and to bring their own bowl and spoon again. We went to the guys' room and 2 of the guys were wearing sunglasses and earbuds acting like they were communication devices and they were the bouncers asking for your ID to make sure you were actually a member of Honors House. If you weren't, you weren't allowed into the party. We ended up moving the party out into the common room because there wasn't enough room in their living room. The invitation mentioned a fancy dinner, which turned out to be a HUGE pot of Ramen and some amazing chocolate and raspberry dessert or peach cobbler!!! Then we went outside and were having our own little dance party by the fire pit. Those were some of the best things our building has done so far.
Another great aspect about college so far is church. I am LDS and my ward meets in the LDS Institute building that is literally 15 feet from my apartment building. I love my new ward so far! There is ward prayer every Sunday at 8 where you can come and if there is something you want to be said in the prayer you write it on the board and it is added into the prayer. Another interesting thing that has happened with church while I've been here is I have been called as 2nd Counselor in the Relief Society (there are 2 for our ward: 1 for buildings A and B and one for my building C just because there are so many women). If you don't know what Relief Society is, it's the women's organization in the LDS church. I'm super excited about working with all of the amazing girls in my building!
Now with some of the other random things that have happened in the past month:
1. I learned to ride the bus system so I could go get food (a plus!)
2. I haven't had to pay to get back into my building because I forgot my key inside *thank you roomies
3. I only got lost once and that was trying to find the Library the 3rd week of school
4. I haven't gotten run over by bikers yet
5. I haven't become a True Aggie yet (darn it!) (if you don't know what that is, Google it)
6. I haven't missed any classes yet
7. I actually made friends! It's funny how talking to people actually helps you make friends! (who knew?!?)
So those are some of the things that have happened in my first month of college. Next post won't be so long because I'm going to be a lot better at keeping up on posting. I haven't gotten homesick yet, but that is still a possibility.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed hearing about some of my experiences, and I'll talk to ya'll again soon!
<3,
Katie :)
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It's been great here at college :) I have great roommates: Emily, Emily, Maggie, Erica, Emma, Summer, and Catherine. So far no issues have occurred in our room about dishes or cleaning the bathroom, so that's good! There are also so many awesome people in my dorm building. I live in Honors House, where people who are in the Honors program can live if they choose. Not everyone who lives here is in the Honors program, but they are still taking challenging classes and participating in some of the Honors program criteria. Anyways, the 1st 2 floors of my building are Honors House, and let me tell you, it is a party! It's funny because other people who have lived in Honors House before have mentioned that it's always boring and the common room is empty and no one really socialized. But, this year, the Honors common room is the place to be. There's always someone in the common room and everyone is always hanging out, chatting, playing Swedish Twister, or making something in the kitchen. It's super fun! There is a program the 1st 2 floors do where every week, one of the apartments hosts a kind of open house where people in that room plan an activity and then everyone on 1st and 2nd floor can come and have fun and get to know who all is in the apartment. My apartment hosted the 1st one, so we just had a relaxed ice cream social where we provided ice cream and toppings and made posters to advertise that said things like, "I scream, you scream, the cops come, it gets awkward" and "BYOBAS: Bring Your Own Bowl and Spoon" :) It was great! We got to just hang out in our living room hanging out and talking to everyone. This week though was awesome. A room of guys downstairs hosted a "Black Tie" event. Their posters were great; they started out the invitation with, "The gentlemen of room 101 cordially invite you to a black tie event." The event happened last night. What happened was everyone was told to wear "Better than Sunday best" and to bring their own bowl and spoon again. We went to the guys' room and 2 of the guys were wearing sunglasses and earbuds acting like they were communication devices and they were the bouncers asking for your ID to make sure you were actually a member of Honors House. If you weren't, you weren't allowed into the party. We ended up moving the party out into the common room because there wasn't enough room in their living room. The invitation mentioned a fancy dinner, which turned out to be a HUGE pot of Ramen and some amazing chocolate and raspberry dessert or peach cobbler!!! Then we went outside and were having our own little dance party by the fire pit. Those were some of the best things our building has done so far.
Another great aspect about college so far is church. I am LDS and my ward meets in the LDS Institute building that is literally 15 feet from my apartment building. I love my new ward so far! There is ward prayer every Sunday at 8 where you can come and if there is something you want to be said in the prayer you write it on the board and it is added into the prayer. Another interesting thing that has happened with church while I've been here is I have been called as 2nd Counselor in the Relief Society (there are 2 for our ward: 1 for buildings A and B and one for my building C just because there are so many women). If you don't know what Relief Society is, it's the women's organization in the LDS church. I'm super excited about working with all of the amazing girls in my building!
Now with some of the other random things that have happened in the past month:
1. I learned to ride the bus system so I could go get food (a plus!)
2. I haven't had to pay to get back into my building because I forgot my key inside *thank you roomies
3. I only got lost once and that was trying to find the Library the 3rd week of school
4. I haven't gotten run over by bikers yet
5. I haven't become a True Aggie yet (darn it!) (if you don't know what that is, Google it)
6. I haven't missed any classes yet
7. I actually made friends! It's funny how talking to people actually helps you make friends! (who knew?!?)
So those are some of the things that have happened in my first month of college. Next post won't be so long because I'm going to be a lot better at keeping up on posting. I haven't gotten homesick yet, but that is still a possibility.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed hearing about some of my experiences, and I'll talk to ya'll again soon!
<3,
Katie :)
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