First things first. Hey, it's November, time to do some hiking. We hiked North Mountain which is all up in our grill, right next to where we live. It was beautiful weather and we got a taste for how big this city is. The pictures don't really do it justice.
I went out with the missionaries to visit some chick they had recently met, and when we showed up to her apartment there was a guy without a shirt yelling and screaming and there were some women yelling and screaming back. One of them asked if we were Mormons and if we could pray for that bastard. Then she tried to hand one of the Elders a knife and said that he had threatened her with it. Well we somehow made it past this fiasco and as we were knocking on the door 3 or 4 cop cars converge on the scene. The missionaries just were talking and doing as missionaries do while the cops were trying to calm the guy down, then handcuff him, then start searching his stuff. Being a missionary was rarely boring. The girl they were there to talk to came to church that Sunday! And fast and testimony meeting was good!
The Phoenix temple dedication was this month and there's not much to say about that except we're excited to have a temple close by. Emily has been attending dance practices for the young women in our ward for the Phoenix temple dedication. The celebration was great, they told some of the history of Arizona and had dances celebrating Hispanic culture, the early settlers, and there was even a dance dedicated to the invention of air conditioning.
We went to the beach for Thanksgiving. Huntington Beach That is. Not only did we eat some good food but we went to LA and checked out the LA temple and then went to a piano concert by Hershey Felder. I knew nothing about what it was going to be like but I was pleasantly surprised. It was really good!
Hershey Felder likes to act the part of musicians and people from history such as Ludwig van Beethoven and George Gershwin.This night he acted the part of a Jewish immigrant named Irving Berlin who wrote some of Americas most icon songs, such as God Bless America and White Christmas. He talked about/acted out what was going on in his life and how he wrote each song, and then would of course play each song. It was really a mix between a play and a concert. We were quite impressed, it was very well done.
Then we ate ice cream and sat on some cows
Emily visited her old house and Elementary school. We found a tile that she had made for the schools 25th year anniversary, and they put the kids tiles in the walls.
Things we're looking forward to:
1) I've spending tons of time in the past 7 or 8 months learning about computer stuff, mostly programming. (more on that another time). I think I'm ready to get a sweet entry level position as a PHP developer.
2) We're probably going to move once our lease at our apartment complex is up. We have no idea where we'll move, but we might move to another city, another state, or somewhere in Phoenix. Who knows! Life is fun.
Books:
I'm reading a Steve Jobs biography. I love it. He's kind of crazy and I kind of see a lot of his quirks in me.
Emily is reading a book about poetry! It's very poetic.
