You Must Have Thought I was Crazy!!

These past two weeks have been amazingly stressful and very busy! I loved being able to watch conference and feel some strength come from the apostles and prophet. I always tell everyone that President Monson is so cute and I wish he was my grandpa I love how he just hooks your attention in his talks and you can feel his love and the spirit as an outpour upon you.

But seriously, last weekend felt like one of the busier weekends we have had in a long time. Both Jonathan and I were dead exhausted from school by Saturday that we decided to watch conference in our bed with our laptop! It was so fun to snuggle down in the blankets while being in church clothes and taking notes. I thought it wasn't going to work very well but both of us actually did really well, not one shut eye for either of us. On Saturday night Jonathan was a trooper and went by himself to the Priesthood session. That is one thing that we have found difficult in moving to Edmonton. It seems like everyone is so friendly except at church and more often times than not you are the one who has to pursue a friendship. But Jonathan being so amazing and an example of the Savior always for me went to Priesthood and I was on an adventure to go grocery shopping.

I still hate driving in Edmonton, so Jonathan drove to the chapel and I took the car from there. Every time I get behind the wheel of the car in Edmonton I have to honestly stop and give myself a pep talk before I get behind the wheel. Honestly I was not joking about the horrible drivers over here who don't stop even when they are close enough to kiss your car. Anyways, I went off on my grocery adventure and I have to say, grocery shopping is a whole art in itself especially when you and your husband are both students. It the art of being frugal and I am glad that my mom taught me how to spot a good deal when you find them.

The first store that you can score good deals on some stuff is Giant Tiger, they have everything you ever desired in that small packed store, from pantyhose to a roast for dinner. I was really proud of myself for the wonderful deals I found there because I was able to find a bag of onions for only $1.48 and a little ham roast for $4.00. The other store I love shopping at and drag Jonathan off to a lot of the times is Walmart. I have to tell you I am disappointed that they are just in the process of building their SuperCenter because my you can find cheap stuff there but usually you can find a good deal on something os that is always good. Along with this art of grocery shopping is that it requires a lot of time which I still have to learn. I was thinking that it only would take me two hours to get through Giant Tiger, Walmart and Superstore.... Ha! who was I kidding it was 7:15 when I got out of Walmart and still had Superstore to go so I botched the idea and drove to the Stake Center to pick up Jonathan.

It was so nice to see Jonathan after being separated to see him, and he was so sweet. When I pulled up to the church Jonathan was standing there with two Rootbeer floats in his hand. So I pulled into a stall and we ate in the car while we chatted and caught up with each other. It felt like we were dating all over again and I got butterflies as I sat in the car and laughed with Jonathan. When we got home that night Jonathan and I got home we learned how to do video conference call on Skype with his family so we showed them our apartment and ate some soup and sandwiches while we chatted. At the priesthood session, the missionaries had asked Jonathan is we could pick up an investigator for the Sunday morning conference session and this is where all the hilarity of our day began.

When we called the missionaries to get the address, Jonathan and I had a good laugh because the missionaries who live in the same apartment complex as us were quite funny in what we asked to do. Jonathan and I both don't know Edmonton very well and our lack of skills in direction many times leads us to dead end roads with a lot of laughs. So Jonathan had asked the Elders if we could follow them to the investigator's house... this is how the conversation goes.

Jonathan: Can we follow you to pick her up?

Elder: Uh we can't have people in our car it's against the rules

Jonathan: No can we meet you in the parking lot and follow you to her house

Elder: But we will be leaving our house at 9:45 and we won't be at the church

Jonathan: No we'll meet you int he parking lot of the apartments to follow you.

Elder: But we are not allowed to have people in our car.

*By this point both Jonathan and I are holding back our laughter*

Jonathan: No No! We live in the same apartment complex as you we will meet you as 9:45 in the parking lot so you drive your car and we will follow you in our car.

Elder: Oh right okay see you tomorrow!

So we went to bed without a problem and woke up in the morning, and we were out the door before even the Elders were. This is where our whole fun began because as we were following the missionaries to this lady's house, we were stopped at a red light. Jonathan looked out my window and pointed at what I thought was a funeral; what is that he asked? So I proceeded to explain to him... "well you know when people die you put the dead person inside of the coffin to take them to the burial site." "What?" Jonathan asked me giving me a weird look, I thought he didn't understand so I proceeded to tell him again. "Well, you know after a person dies you put them in a coffin and put them in the back to be able to take them to the burial site." Jonathan looked at me again and said "I know what that is but what's that?!" He then proceeded to point at a huge silver metal thing. By this point we burst out laughing, wherewith I responded "you must have thought I was crazy!" and Jonathan was laughing "at first I felt kind of dumb because I was thinking that you knew more than I did about Edmonton, and then I was thinking that you might be right that you just put the body in the tube and maybe shoot it out. But then I was thinking no I think that's a bat" Haha!

Sorry it's a picture in the winter but this is the

metal thing Jonathan was pointing at.

It is a huge metal bat down 97th Street.

We laugh and laugh about it still as we think about this huge metal bat that shoots dead people out of it to get them to their burial site. Oyyy Jonathan must have thought I was crazy trying to tell him that this metal bat held dead people.