Sweet stuff-particularly the tracks Viva La Vida and Death and All His Friends.
If you have not yet joined the Church of Coldplay, highly recommended that you do so. Pretty sure one can maintain memberships in both. Each album has been better than the previous...
In other fun news we had our Ward's annual "Movie in the Park" night, last night. Our activity chairman runs a mobile party-planning/entertainment business, so once a year he sets up all his movie gear and snack stations in the Nephi park and treats the ward to a big screen movie experience. It was a blast--the whole ward came out with blankets and lawn chairs and watched National Treasure 2, and had nachos, popcorn, candy and soda while just kicking back and visiting with everyone. I have decided that small towns are awesome. Sure big cities have the theater, opera, 24 hour Chinese takeout/delivery and a huge section of town dedicated to drugs and hookers, but where else but a small town of 5000 people can an entire group commandeer a public park, with the cities blessing, to openly flout Hollywood copyright restrictions and put on a Dolby Digital show for the ward? SWEETNESS.
Agi and realized again what a cool place we've moved to--just sitting there in the cool dark of the evening chatting with our new neighbors, while all the neighborhood kids played together on the park equipment, and all the young men ran around shooting each other with marshmallow blowguns fashioned out of PVC pipe and duct tape. We met a new set of Catholic neighbors who came out to have fun as well (we are now no longer the newest family in the neighborhood) and we'll have fun with them talking about about becoming the fish out of water--they being the only Catholics in a sea of Mormons, and us just coming from a place where we were the only Mormons in a sea of Catholics, albeit non-practicing ones...).
Small-town life rules. Nights like last night make up for paying a little more at the grocery store or only having one Mexican restaurant to choose from instead of 10. We love it here.
On a related note--In the interest of ensuring we can stay in this awesome small town--I'd like to ask you all to kindly include us in your prayers and fast next month. I'm not one to typically ask for anything, but we could use the extra help and support your thoughts, prayers, and fasts could provide. I really need to find a job, and it is getting a little frustrating dealing with the non-success I've been finding in the past few weeks. I have come to realize I am likely not going to get anywhere on the "non-strength" of my own spiritual efforts, so please add your efforts to my own little weak ones. THANKS.
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