YEAH!!!

We have a new YW in the ward!!! Her name is Annie and she came to our ward for the second time on Sunday! (The first time was when we were in the OBX) The best thing is that she lives 6 houses down from us!!!!!! (Yes I counted =) )

She came to SED last night and we took her home. (our car is now known as the bus because we take alot of people) We get along really well because we were in the car for a really long time while my brother and my dad did something in somebody elses house. (also someone we took home) She says she is always friends with the bishops daughter wherever she moves because she was in Northern Missouri because thats where she moved from and other places and now she is here to!!! =)

The sad thing is that she is only renting the house because her dad is the main electrician for the new high school we are getting.


PS: Last night at SED we talked about the new handbook and there is a rule where we can't hug anymore even with other YW as friends! Not just in the church building but anywhere! It's a crime if I can't hug my friends!!!!!!!!! *SAD* =(

And yet I find myself smiling!

So recently we found out that my tae kwon do instructor is moving to Seattle. Yes I know this is very sad because I have had him the whole time I've been in tae kwon do and I'm close to getting my black belt and he has to leave!!!! He's really nice and he's a really good instructor.

He's leaving on the 12th (which is a Friday but I usually only go on Tuesday and Thursday)

He is leaving the building to 2 instructors whose names are: Mr. Walker (whose only 17) and Mr. Knopke (whose only 23). Mr. Walker will be over the recommended black belts and black belts. So I will have Mr. Walker and the colored belts get Mr. Knopke (the new guy). Mr. Walker has already been here for a couple of years so I know him pretty well.

Here is a picture I took with Mr. Rojas (the one that's moving)

He's leaving and yet I'm smiling is that a bad thing!?!? =)

A Midterm

Tuesday was karate testing and it was my first time doing a midterm which is in between a recommended black belt and a real black belt. A recommended black belt is half red half black and you have to test 3 times for 3 black stripes you get put on the belt.

The 4th time you test is for your black belt and that's where you have to break boards and stuff like that. Recommended is training to break the boards and stuff like that. I just got my first stripe put on.

They have a point system for midterms which is how they decide if you pass is if you have enough points from when the judges were watching at testing. Its really stressful because they judge your points on:

1. If you have good stances
2. If you yelled in the correct places (or if you yelled at all)
3. How loud you are
4. How snappy your form was
5. If you were paying attention to where your target was
6. And everything else

To get the most points you have to do everything correctly on all 5 forms you have to do. Perfect points would be 270 points. They showed us our points when we went to get our belts and I got a 250. And since they take off points in tens that means I only did 2 things incorrectly!

I think that's pretty good for my first time doing a midterm. I'm happy. =)

My weird-but-cool poem

For writing on Monday I had to write a limerick. A limerick is a poem that has 5 lines to it and the first 1st,2nd and 5th lines rhyme while the 3rd and 4th lines are different from the others but they also rhyme. I think its kinda dorky but my mom said to post it anyway.

So here goes:

The outer banks was so much fun

Out on the beach where we watched crabs run

We say it rain a bunch

We went out to eat for lunch

Too bad there was no sun

Don't laugh I know it sounds weird but its harder than it sounds!

Honesty

Last Sunday in Young Women we had a lesson on honesty. The YW president taught the lesson. I needed to add that because:


1- I really love my current YW president. I have had 3 since i joined.

2- I love her even more because she is bringing me a king size Heath Bar on Wednes day because I memorized the 12 apostles.

3-And more.

Here are some quotes and things that I thought were interesting:

---"Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight" (Proverbs 12:22)

---Mormon , speaking of the converted Lamanites who were known as the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, wrote: "And they were among the people of Nephi, and also numbered among the people who were of the church of God. And they were also distinguished for their zeal towards God, and also towards men; for they were perfectly honest and upright in all things; and they were firm in the faith of Christ, even unto the end" (Alma 27:27)

---"Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:39 or Mark 12:31)

---"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" (Matthew 7:12 or Luke 6:31)

Those were ones in a story by Bishop Richard C. Edgley.

Here is a quote I found in a book i was reading:(It was really good even my mom and dad read it and they said that)

---To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. (e e cummings)

Bamber

About 2 years ago my homeschool friend Amber (aka Bamber) moved to Washington. Sadness!!!

But last week she bought her own plane ticket to come out to Columbia for a little while! Excited!

So I got to go see her at Brianna house. (another one of my homeschool friends. Because we all

know i'm so very popular. *smiles*)

Here are some pictures we took while we were talking.

Here is a picture of both of us:

Here is a picture of all of us:

(Amber,Brianna and of course me)

We had alot of fun.

My sewing experience

Lately for young women we have been working on a project we do every year for our personal progress. It's one of those ten hour projects that have to be thought through alot and the one we do every year is a fun one because the leaders think of it and we (the young women) don't have to!!!!!! So this year we did sewing. To make this 10 hours we are sewing two things we are sewing a bag and a skirt. I recently finished my bag and am almost done with my skirt. The bag is just so cute I thought I had to show you.

So here it is. Pictures can't even do it justice.

They are so much better in person.

It's even reversible!!!!!!!!

I take this everywhere now it is my new favorite thing and my parents are getting our sewing machine fixed so now we will have a working sewing machine that I can use to make more! If anyone wants one just tell me. :) ;)

I will have to show you my skirt when its finished.