date night.

so i've realized that coming home i've been...super lame. i don't like to do anything anymore! i just don't find anything...entertaining. so what did i do on a friday night? i started to do my homework. however...friday nights are date nights here in good ole Provo so Adam and I went on a double date with his roommate Jesse and another VC sister that I got to serve with! small world. we saw Monsters University (finalllllllly! only saw the billboard for it a billion times on my mission) and then got some froyo. afterward, we watched another movie (yes...another movie) at their apartment. Signs. last time i saw that was in theaters and i about peed my pants. remember the part when they show a video clip at some kids birthday party and the alien just walks across the screen? yeah...that part. hated it again the second time around. however, watching it this time wasn't as scary...i only got scared when adam would shake me at certain parts of the movie.

for some reason, i thought a lot about the second coming during the movie (Signs...not Monsters University). in the movie, everyone is just trippin out because well...aliens are invading the whole world! when i watch movies like it, it also brings me back to a mormon message by Elder Nelson. he was sharing a personal story where he was once on a small airplane when the engine on the wing caught fire. it exploded and burning oil was poured all over on the right side of the airplane and the plane started to spin down towards the earth. a lady on the plane was hysterical and Elder Nelson felt so sorry for that women because he was absolutely calm. even though he knew he was going down to his death, he was ready to meet his maker. the plane started to work again and no one died.

now, do i think if the world were to really be invaded by aliens that i wouldn't be scared? heck no i would be scared out of my mind! but...i hope that i too would have the same feeling that Elder Nelson had. that no matter what the outcome would be, i too would be ready to meet my maker. that i would even feel the same way Enos, a prophet in the Book of Mormon, felt when it was time for him to enter into the next life when he said, "And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest. And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen."

love,
Liv