Happy Easter

Happy Easter all! I'm grateful for a Savior who sacrificed himself and rose from the dead so that we could live again. 

 

Manti Open House

    I crashed Meg and Aaron's date (with Meg's permission) to go to the Manti Open House on March 16. I do love this temple, and I'm excited for it to be open again. We ended up getting there really late, and I didn't think we would get in. It ended up working for our benefit. Instead of having to stand in line for hours, we only had to wait around 30 min. When I say hours, I'm not joking. My friend was in line for like 6 hours when she went. 

    One of my favorite parts was we got to see the Assembly Room/Hall. I had never been in that room before. I enjoyed seeing it. I also learned from Meg that my Grandma Gardner was baptized here when she was 8 years old. I was a little surprised when she said that since typically you only do baptisms for the dead. To be fair, I don't think churches had baptismal fonts yet when my Grandma was 8. 

    Thanks Aaron and Meg for letting me tag along!

March Library Book Club: Sea of Tranquility

From Amazon: "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads

“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. 

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. 

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment."

I think this by far has been my favorite book from the library book club books. I'm not sure why this one in particular spoke to me, but it did. It was interesting to think about life in the future and if we would colonize the moon or have time travel. It's interesting how different moments in time all lead up to one single moment. Could it be possible to have those different moments in time, maybe even moments spanning different eras/decades, converge into one moment? These were all the things we discussed. It was a great discussion of a fun read.

St. Patrick's Day Decor 2024

 

We got a pretty good snowstorm here in Ogden. I didn't get any pictures before I left for church, but I did get this picture on my way home from church today. I thought the world looked very pretty. Although I'm ready for no more snow in the valley (but the mountains can get a lot more), I am grateful for the moisture and the beauty it brings.
 

Nail in Tire... Again

I'm not sure why my luck is this way, but I got another nail in another tire. I've only had this car since Oct. 2020 and this is my 3rd nail in a 3rd tire. The only thing that made this one not so bad is that it didn't immediately make my tire go flat. 

I was driving to choir practice on Tuesday, February 27 and I noticed my tire pressure light came on. I immediately changed the digital screen that's on my dash to the one that shows the tire pressure. I see the passenger rear tire is 10 psi lower than all the rest, but it was holding steady. I prayed that it would stay steady the rest of the night (since nowhere is open at 7:30 or 9:oo pm). Luckily it did. I decided I would take my car in to have the tire checked the next day.

The next day came and I took my car/tire in for a look. The tire was still at the same psi as it had been the night before. I told them about the tire and they took a look. After about 20 min they came back with the nail stating that is what was causing the air to leak out of my tire. The good news is they could repair the tire. I agreed and waited another 20 minutes for my tire to be fixed. It's been holding air steady since. Glad this nail situation didn't turn out like some of the others have!