PICTURE TIME!!

Hello all. Hard to believe it's week two. Today, you will find some photos attached. The internet is kind of weird here, so there are going to be three different posts, that way I won't block the system. But first, some stories.

The first thing I need to say is that I love music majors. The other day we were singing the opening song for Old Testament, and a kid who is a music major got up, and started playing the piano. So funny. He did it with so much zeal, so much fervor, so much gusto. (I realize those are all basically the same word.) But it was just funny to sing "How Great Thou Art" hymn style (opposed to choir arrangement style) with crescendos, decrescendos, svartsandos (spelling major!), and all those good things. Fermatas too!

Last night I attended one of the best lectures I have ever been to in my life. One of my professors here, Brother Andrew Skinner is a knowledgeable man. He gave a lecture on "The Dead Sea Scrolls," and it was incredible. We get to go to a few different places where they were discovered, as well as go to an exhibit at the Israeli Museum that I can't remember if they reproduced the scrolls, or if they are actual remnants. (Shows how well I payed attention.) But as I was sat there, learning about these treasures, I kept thinking to myself, "how I wish I had prepared better before I came." 

Overall, that is the general feeling I experience almost everyday. I wish I would have been better prepared, with even the basics. What a good analogy for the coming of Christ. I hope that as I am studying here the things I learn will be planted in my memory and will help me become a better person. That way when Christ does come, I will be prepared, unlike my experience in coming here. Being prepared when Christ comes- now that's something to be excited about.

This is a view from the balcony attached to my room. Each room has its own private balcony. Plush- right?