All I Want for Christmas
11-30-08
I already have my two front teeth. So I guess I am going to have to find some other things I want. Hmmm.
I like BYU, a lot of other people like it too but I like the Cougars. So I have been wanting some stuff with the blue and white on it for a bit now. Like a BYU football and hoody. But BYU isn't the only thing I want. I also like good movies, and here are a few that I would like: Transformers, The Matrix Trilogy (edited of course), The Bee Movie, and Wall-E.
I would also really like the Risk II computer game, that would be fun. Well that is about it off the top of my head. Other than any good fun surprises that you think up.
That's all. Eli
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
J 17 Ranks
Ranks
11-20-08
there are five classes in Polar Star this year: first in the morning is Writing Class taught by Sister Meeks and my mom, and after that is Science Class provided by Sister Huntsman, then after lunch comes Shakespeare oversaw by Sister Hampton, and then the last set of classes is Key of Liberty by Sister Musellman and Sister Scherbal (first term) and at the same time Sword of Freedom taught by Sister Taylor and assited by Sister Meyers(second term).
I'm taking all the classes (except Key of Liberty, which I already took last year) and the one that I want to talk about right now is Sword of Freedom.
Now Sword of Freedom class is about the Civil War. And as you complete the different requirments you earn ranks, which are signified by silver and gold stars that you put on your kepi (Civil War hat). Right now I'm just the third rank of First Leutenant, that's six ranks away from the top rank of Leutenant General. And get this (yes this is due from all my procrastinating), I have till the end of class monday to get all those past off.
Now don't worry, I've got it under control. So far this week I've already earned four of those six ranks. that means that I only have two to go. And they're just finishing up memorizing some things.
No worries.
Eli
11-20-08
there are five classes in Polar Star this year: first in the morning is Writing Class taught by Sister Meeks and my mom, and after that is Science Class provided by Sister Huntsman, then after lunch comes Shakespeare oversaw by Sister Hampton, and then the last set of classes is Key of Liberty by Sister Musellman and Sister Scherbal (first term) and at the same time Sword of Freedom taught by Sister Taylor and assited by Sister Meyers(second term).
I'm taking all the classes (except Key of Liberty, which I already took last year) and the one that I want to talk about right now is Sword of Freedom.
Now Sword of Freedom class is about the Civil War. And as you complete the different requirments you earn ranks, which are signified by silver and gold stars that you put on your kepi (Civil War hat). Right now I'm just the third rank of First Leutenant, that's six ranks away from the top rank of Leutenant General. And get this (yes this is due from all my procrastinating), I have till the end of class monday to get all those past off.
Now don't worry, I've got it under control. So far this week I've already earned four of those six ranks. that means that I only have two to go. And they're just finishing up memorizing some things.
No worries.
Eli
J 16 Catching Up
Catching Up
11-20-08
Well. I haven't been turning in my assignments for Polar Star as promptly as I should for the last few weeks. But who doesn't miss a month here or there? Well that's what I'm doing this for, I'm trying to get back on track the last few weeks so that I still get credit. And so far, it's actually looking up a bit.
Not like I got all the stuff done in a day, but. Well, it's getting to that point. I figure that if I stick to the schedule and don't mess around and play computer games when I should be studying. I'll be perfectly fine, well not perfectly, its not like I like being swamped by homework and staying in the house all day.
Anyway, this little writing here is helpping my in and of itself. So I'm not bad off after all.
Eli
11-20-08
Well. I haven't been turning in my assignments for Polar Star as promptly as I should for the last few weeks. But who doesn't miss a month here or there? Well that's what I'm doing this for, I'm trying to get back on track the last few weeks so that I still get credit. And so far, it's actually looking up a bit.
Not like I got all the stuff done in a day, but. Well, it's getting to that point. I figure that if I stick to the schedule and don't mess around and play computer games when I should be studying. I'll be perfectly fine, well not perfectly, its not like I like being swamped by homework and staying in the house all day.
Anyway, this little writing here is helpping my in and of itself. So I'm not bad off after all.
Eli
Vote For
Vote For!
11-20-08
Cassius!
I was told that we were supposed to write a paper about if we HAD to choose between Brutus, Cassius, or Antony for President. Which would I pick?
Well I say Cassius. Why? Well, in class we compared the three candidates with three real life candidates from this past election. We decided that Brutus was a lot like Ron Paul, has good ideas but isn’t really in the real world. Cassius was like John McCain, because he was a war hero who knew what was going on in the world. And Antony was a reflection of Barack Obama, a really good speaker, but just wants to “lead away the hearts of the people”.
So I say Cassius is the best bet here. Because he is the only one that would take control of the government and do the right thing with the war that they had on their hands. In the play, it talks about how Brutus doesn’t want to tax the people to pay for the war. But Cassius is just trying to keep the moral of their troops at a believable level by paying them.
Brutus is right that it isn’t perfect that they are taking so much money from the people, but he doesn’t see that it is necessary in the big hullabaloo that they got themselves into.
Marcus Antony is a good guy, but he has been driven to weird things by the death of his “God”, Caesar. He believes that the only thing for him to do on the contrary is to attack the people who tried to overthrow the man he saw as the “Good Guy”.
So those are my reasons for “voting for” Cassius. But you have to understand that I only support him because he is the person that I think would be the least terrible, if you know what I mean. Cassius would do what was necessary to make the war, that the other people made, as non destructive as possible and save the republic.
We can’t know exactly how Cassius would have handled things. But I think he would have done a pretty good job at it. Better then the other two.
Eli
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Was Sherman's Raid Right?
Sherman’s Raid
11-18-08
The Civil War is known as the first “All Out War”. Where men in uniform, on a designated battlefield, were not the most important targets. The civilians and, more importantly, their crops and industries that were feeding and supporting the masses of armed, uniformed men were some of the more important pieces of tactics.
The army was just the thing that they were trying to stop. And there were many different ways to do that.
One of the ways was to destroy their capitol city and dissolve their government, and in so doing, taking away their cause. Another means was to simply over power the oppositions army and make the government surrender, in stead of attacking outright.
The way that General Sherman decided to help win the war was to weaken the armies so they surrendered causing the government to surrender. How was he going to do that? He was going to take the third option.
This third option was to take out the industry and other support that sustained the armies. In other words, destroy anything and everything that the Confederates were using.
So General Sherman marched down through Georgia and destroyed their biggest cities and industries. Atlanta was one of his first targets, and then he made a very wide B line for a port on the coastline, Savannah. On his way he burned and destroyed any crops or other supporting faculties that the Rebels used.
So General Sherman was just trying to do his part to help the Union cause in the war. And it did help. When he made it so the Union controlled that entire band of land. He cut the Confederates armies into even more small sections.
And, here is one more thing to think about. In more recent wars, taking out the opponents factories and other munitions was just one of the things that both sides did.
The other side of the story is, that even though it is looked upon as “just part of war” in recent years. Doesn’t make it ok. Even though it did help the war, he was still killing, or at least ruining the lives of, many innocent people.
So I say that, even though Sherman’s march to the sea was just another part of a very bad and bloody war, it was not a moral thing to order. But it was also a very tactically brilliant and maybe Union cause saving move on his part. That should be carefully examined from both sides before making a final decision.
Eli
11-18-08
The Civil War is known as the first “All Out War”. Where men in uniform, on a designated battlefield, were not the most important targets. The civilians and, more importantly, their crops and industries that were feeding and supporting the masses of armed, uniformed men were some of the more important pieces of tactics.
The army was just the thing that they were trying to stop. And there were many different ways to do that.
One of the ways was to destroy their capitol city and dissolve their government, and in so doing, taking away their cause. Another means was to simply over power the oppositions army and make the government surrender, in stead of attacking outright.
The way that General Sherman decided to help win the war was to weaken the armies so they surrendered causing the government to surrender. How was he going to do that? He was going to take the third option.
This third option was to take out the industry and other support that sustained the armies. In other words, destroy anything and everything that the Confederates were using.
So General Sherman marched down through Georgia and destroyed their biggest cities and industries. Atlanta was one of his first targets, and then he made a very wide B line for a port on the coastline, Savannah. On his way he burned and destroyed any crops or other supporting faculties that the Rebels used.
So General Sherman was just trying to do his part to help the Union cause in the war. And it did help. When he made it so the Union controlled that entire band of land. He cut the Confederates armies into even more small sections.
And, here is one more thing to think about. In more recent wars, taking out the opponents factories and other munitions was just one of the things that both sides did.
The other side of the story is, that even though it is looked upon as “just part of war” in recent years. Doesn’t make it ok. Even though it did help the war, he was still killing, or at least ruining the lives of, many innocent people.
So I say that, even though Sherman’s march to the sea was just another part of a very bad and bloody war, it was not a moral thing to order. But it was also a very tactically brilliant and maybe Union cause saving move on his part. That should be carefully examined from both sides before making a final decision.
Eli
Letter Home from Gettysburg
Dear Folks,
There was another battle this week. It was at this little town called Gettysburg.
When the scouts got back to the old army and we heard that the Rebs were just a bit away and starting to turn about to come and get us. We were all a bit anxious. We had seen Fredricksburg and didn’t like the sound of it. I said that I hoped that just because the two towns sounded alike, didn’t mean they had to be the same.
But, we were able to get to the little town before the Rebs. So we set up on the west side (that’s their side) of the little range of hills beyond the town. The good old 83rd Pennsylvania was set next to last at the south end of the range. Only the 20th Maine was in our southern direction.
And how the Rebs did come by Jove! We ourselves had both the Alabama 4th and the Alabama 47th directly attacking us. That was hard fighting that was.
And, to make it worse, part of the way through the battle. The 20th Maine started to get bent around northeast, and I was afraid that they’d get turned clean in half so that the enemy soldiers could start shooting us in the back from the east.
But the 20th Maine was able to hold and actually crush a good bit of the 15th Alabama, which was the regiment posted against them. So we finally pushed them back and the little scared Colonels of the Confederates were ordered the retreat.
Even though we won, and we win a lot, it never does feel like a complete victory to me. Lots of my good buddies were injured and a couple died. But that’s what I’m willing to do for this great country of ours, take care of it for me.
Oh gosh! Look I’ve wasted all this good paper telling you people about battle plans and the like. I’ve missed the important stuff.
How’s my good brothers back there? And how did the planting go?
Well, that’s about all the paper I got so.
Have a happy Fourth of July and give my love to all the family.
Sincerely, Frank
There was another battle this week. It was at this little town called Gettysburg.
When the scouts got back to the old army and we heard that the Rebs were just a bit away and starting to turn about to come and get us. We were all a bit anxious. We had seen Fredricksburg and didn’t like the sound of it. I said that I hoped that just because the two towns sounded alike, didn’t mean they had to be the same.
But, we were able to get to the little town before the Rebs. So we set up on the west side (that’s their side) of the little range of hills beyond the town. The good old 83rd Pennsylvania was set next to last at the south end of the range. Only the 20th Maine was in our southern direction.
And how the Rebs did come by Jove! We ourselves had both the Alabama 4th and the Alabama 47th directly attacking us. That was hard fighting that was.
And, to make it worse, part of the way through the battle. The 20th Maine started to get bent around northeast, and I was afraid that they’d get turned clean in half so that the enemy soldiers could start shooting us in the back from the east.
But the 20th Maine was able to hold and actually crush a good bit of the 15th Alabama, which was the regiment posted against them. So we finally pushed them back and the little scared Colonels of the Confederates were ordered the retreat.
Even though we won, and we win a lot, it never does feel like a complete victory to me. Lots of my good buddies were injured and a couple died. But that’s what I’m willing to do for this great country of ours, take care of it for me.
Oh gosh! Look I’ve wasted all this good paper telling you people about battle plans and the like. I’ve missed the important stuff.
How’s my good brothers back there? And how did the planting go?
Well, that’s about all the paper I got so.
Have a happy Fourth of July and give my love to all the family.
Sincerely, Frank
Chamberlain -- Hero Paper
Chamberlain
Scholar to War Hero
11-14-08
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was the first of the five children of Joshua and Sarah Dupee Chamberlain. He was born on September 8th 1828 in the town of Brewer Main.
Chamberlain learned to read young and in his early years of school worked to learn Ancient Greek. He did this because he was looking forward to going to a good college.
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine was the college he entered at age twenty. He was there from 1848 to 1852, four years later. Before he graduated, he met, and learned from some interesting people.
One of the people he met was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer famous for her book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Chamberlain actually listened as she read sections of her book before she decided to publish it.
Joshua Chamberlain graduated with honors from the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and went on to Bangor Theological Seminary for three additional years of study before finding a place to start his career.
Fanny Adams was the adopted daughter of a local clergyman who Chamberlain married in 1855. They had five children, but one of them was born premature and two others died while still young.
He started out in a place familiar to him, his old school Bowdoin College, where he taught as a professor of rhetoric. After teaching every subject there, except science and mathematics, and could speak nine languages other than English: Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syrian. The war broke out.
The firing on Fort Sumpter stirred many men to go and join the army. This was the same for the young professor at the little college in Maine. When he went to enlist, he was offered the command of the 20th Maine Regiment as a Colonel.
He declined this offer, saying that he wanted to "start a little lower and learn the business first”. So instead of being in complete command of the 20th Maine, they simply made him second in command.
Now commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel, and not knowing a thing about how to fight much less command, his regiment went out to war.
The 20th Maine was sent to the battle of Antietam. Where they did not do any fighting, but were kept as reserve. After Antietam they fought at the Battle of
Fredericksburg under General Ambrose Burnside, where the 20th lost some men in the assaults on Marye's Heights.
After Fredericksburg, Chamberlain was promoted to Colonel, and the 20th made their way down to Gettysburg. Where they were positioned on the far left, or south, end of the Union army.
The story of Little Round Top is well known to you, and you know that Chamberlain amazingly and bravely led his troops to a bayonet charge that saved the position, and possibly the battle.
Some time after these battles, Chamberlain got very sick due to war wounds. And General Ulysses S. Grant appointed him Brigadier General, expecting this to be more of an honorary rank since many thought Chamberlain was about to die. Chamberlain did not die and served diligently until the end of the war, even receiving the medal of honor for his services.
After the war Chamberlain went back to Maine, where he worked as the president of Bowdoin College until he no longer could due to sickness. Soon after his retirement, he served four terms, totaling four years, as the Governor of Maine.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain died at age 85 in 1914 at Portland, Maine and is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick, Maine.
I see Chamberlain as my hero, because even young in life he knew what he wanted and went out and got it. But he also loved his country enough to go and serve it, even though he suffered personally because of it.
Scholar to War Hero
11-14-08
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was the first of the five children of Joshua and Sarah Dupee Chamberlain. He was born on September 8th 1828 in the town of Brewer Main.
Chamberlain learned to read young and in his early years of school worked to learn Ancient Greek. He did this because he was looking forward to going to a good college.
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine was the college he entered at age twenty. He was there from 1848 to 1852, four years later. Before he graduated, he met, and learned from some interesting people.
One of the people he met was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer famous for her book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Chamberlain actually listened as she read sections of her book before she decided to publish it.
Joshua Chamberlain graduated with honors from the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and went on to Bangor Theological Seminary for three additional years of study before finding a place to start his career.
Fanny Adams was the adopted daughter of a local clergyman who Chamberlain married in 1855. They had five children, but one of them was born premature and two others died while still young.
He started out in a place familiar to him, his old school Bowdoin College, where he taught as a professor of rhetoric. After teaching every subject there, except science and mathematics, and could speak nine languages other than English: Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syrian. The war broke out.
The firing on Fort Sumpter stirred many men to go and join the army. This was the same for the young professor at the little college in Maine. When he went to enlist, he was offered the command of the 20th Maine Regiment as a Colonel.
He declined this offer, saying that he wanted to "start a little lower and learn the business first”. So instead of being in complete command of the 20th Maine, they simply made him second in command.
Now commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel, and not knowing a thing about how to fight much less command, his regiment went out to war.
The 20th Maine was sent to the battle of Antietam. Where they did not do any fighting, but were kept as reserve. After Antietam they fought at the Battle of
Fredericksburg under General Ambrose Burnside, where the 20th lost some men in the assaults on Marye's Heights.
After Fredericksburg, Chamberlain was promoted to Colonel, and the 20th made their way down to Gettysburg. Where they were positioned on the far left, or south, end of the Union army.
The story of Little Round Top is well known to you, and you know that Chamberlain amazingly and bravely led his troops to a bayonet charge that saved the position, and possibly the battle.
Some time after these battles, Chamberlain got very sick due to war wounds. And General Ulysses S. Grant appointed him Brigadier General, expecting this to be more of an honorary rank since many thought Chamberlain was about to die. Chamberlain did not die and served diligently until the end of the war, even receiving the medal of honor for his services.
After the war Chamberlain went back to Maine, where he worked as the president of Bowdoin College until he no longer could due to sickness. Soon after his retirement, he served four terms, totaling four years, as the Governor of Maine.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain died at age 85 in 1914 at Portland, Maine and is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick, Maine.
I see Chamberlain as my hero, because even young in life he knew what he wanted and went out and got it. But he also loved his country enough to go and serve it, even though he suffered personally because of it.
Service of Honor
Service of Honor
10-26-08
The United States of America has been involved in many wars. Starting with the Revolutionary War at the birth of our country, and going all the way to today’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are not proud of war, because it is never pretty. But war is necessary under certain circumstances. The people that fought in these wars were, and are, great men and women. In dangerous places and times they willingly sacrificed for their country.
My grandpa served on a battleship in the south pacific during World War II. While serving, he lost a lot of his hearing and can’t hear very well now. He spent a lot of time away from his family, and the things he experienced in his service still bother him today. But he served for his country and he is a better man because of it. I honor him because he has great knowledge and has sacrificed for his country.
There are many veterans that have served in wars. But there is a different kind of veteran to be honored.
Veteran - A person who is long experienced or practiced in an activity or capacity.
I would like to add that there are many kinds of veterans. There are veterans in all walks of life. They perform service in all they do, whether it is for specific people, or for a group.
Many people have long-time experience and perform strong service. For instance, my dad has never served in the military. But in his line of work as a counselor to young people, who need help with trauma and finding their way back into society, he performs service for many people, keeping families together and assisting individuals in their needs. I see my dad as a veteran not just because he is my father, but because he makes a difference as he helps other people in all that he does. And I see that as worthy of great honor.
I strive for service and expertise in everything I do. I try to do my duty in the Boy Scouts program, live up to the standards and guidelines that my parents have helped me set, and, ultimately, strive to keep to the strait and narrow path that God has set for me. And I do this because of the examples of great men and women.
Great Veterans.
Who deserve honor, and respect.
10-26-08
The United States of America has been involved in many wars. Starting with the Revolutionary War at the birth of our country, and going all the way to today’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are not proud of war, because it is never pretty. But war is necessary under certain circumstances. The people that fought in these wars were, and are, great men and women. In dangerous places and times they willingly sacrificed for their country.
My grandpa served on a battleship in the south pacific during World War II. While serving, he lost a lot of his hearing and can’t hear very well now. He spent a lot of time away from his family, and the things he experienced in his service still bother him today. But he served for his country and he is a better man because of it. I honor him because he has great knowledge and has sacrificed for his country.
There are many veterans that have served in wars. But there is a different kind of veteran to be honored.
Veteran - A person who is long experienced or practiced in an activity or capacity.
I would like to add that there are many kinds of veterans. There are veterans in all walks of life. They perform service in all they do, whether it is for specific people, or for a group.
Many people have long-time experience and perform strong service. For instance, my dad has never served in the military. But in his line of work as a counselor to young people, who need help with trauma and finding their way back into society, he performs service for many people, keeping families together and assisting individuals in their needs. I see my dad as a veteran not just because he is my father, but because he makes a difference as he helps other people in all that he does. And I see that as worthy of great honor.
I strive for service and expertise in everything I do. I try to do my duty in the Boy Scouts program, live up to the standards and guidelines that my parents have helped me set, and, ultimately, strive to keep to the strait and narrow path that God has set for me. And I do this because of the examples of great men and women.
Great Veterans.
Who deserve honor, and respect.
Superstition
Superstition
10-24-08
Have you ever spilt salt? Bad, luck right? Well if you believe it, then go on ahead and counter it.
Spilling salt is one, of many superstition that have survived to this day. Superstition is pretty much anything that you believe in, especially if there is evidence against it.
So if superstition is anything that is simply believed in, many religions are just a lot of superstitions that have been grouped together under one name.
Of course, that means that just having simple faith doesn’t count much to some people. They all think that it’s just a bunch of superstitions.
So, how superstition plays a part in my life? I think I have already made it clear. Yeah, if your afraid of black cats (and I’m warning you one of my cats is black), or sometimes you avoid stepping on the cracks in the parking lot or on the sidewalk, then that’s all right.
But if you’re just using “Superstition” as an excuse to not have faith, or receive the gospel. Then you have a few problems to figure out.
So in final conclusion, superstition is fine. But like a whole lot of things, if it is used wrong. It has crossed a line and is no longer innocent fun, and then it isn’t fun at all.
Eli
10-24-08
Have you ever spilt salt? Bad, luck right? Well if you believe it, then go on ahead and counter it.
Spilling salt is one, of many superstition that have survived to this day. Superstition is pretty much anything that you believe in, especially if there is evidence against it.
So if superstition is anything that is simply believed in, many religions are just a lot of superstitions that have been grouped together under one name.
Of course, that means that just having simple faith doesn’t count much to some people. They all think that it’s just a bunch of superstitions.
So, how superstition plays a part in my life? I think I have already made it clear. Yeah, if your afraid of black cats (and I’m warning you one of my cats is black), or sometimes you avoid stepping on the cracks in the parking lot or on the sidewalk, then that’s all right.
But if you’re just using “Superstition” as an excuse to not have faith, or receive the gospel. Then you have a few problems to figure out.
So in final conclusion, superstition is fine. But like a whole lot of things, if it is used wrong. It has crossed a line and is no longer innocent fun, and then it isn’t fun at all.
Eli
Of the Son
Of the Son
10-26-08
There’s nothing you can do,
You shouldn’t even try
You haven’t got a clue
You could just sit and cry.
But deep inside you knew
It simply was a lie.
This time you’re at a loss
It comes to every knave
To all men it is gave
It sweeps just like a wave.
But triumphant from the cross,
We come up from the grave.
And for all men to live,
Through all that you have done
Through trips and trials spun.
Look to the holy one.
He can alone forgive,
Look ye apon the Son!
Eli Gardner
10-26-08
There’s nothing you can do,
You shouldn’t even try
You haven’t got a clue
You could just sit and cry.
But deep inside you knew
It simply was a lie.
This time you’re at a loss
It comes to every knave
To all men it is gave
It sweeps just like a wave.
But triumphant from the cross,
We come up from the grave.
And for all men to live,
Through all that you have done
Through trips and trials spun.
Look to the holy one.
He can alone forgive,
Look ye apon the Son!
Eli Gardner
Friday, November 7, 2008
J 15 A Brand New Year
A Brand New Year
11-7-08
Thursday evening, at about four o'clock, Josh, Jana and I were dropped off at our ward building by our mom. We were meeting there with the young men and young women to drive down to Salt Lake.
All the young men got into the Jenks' Blueberry (their blue fifteen passenger van) and we started off. We drove and drove until we got to downtown Salt Lake City, and searched out some parking for the Conference Center "event". The Blueberry was to tall to fit in the parking garage, so we went to the north side of our destination and found a parking spot on the side of the road.
When we got to the Conference Center, there were (as always) a lot of people there trying to get in. But we found our way in and got into some seats in the first balcony on the right.
It started out with a guy coming out and talking to us about how it was going to work. Because we were the crowd for this thing. So he introduced all the main actor people and stuff then said that the first thing that was going to happen was a little opening thing and then Elder Jeffery R. Holland was going to speak.
The opening song was pretty cool. But it was dwarfed by Elder Holland's talk, which was all about the "new year of 2009" but it was really good all the same.
Continued in the next entry.
Eli
11-7-08
Thursday evening, at about four o'clock, Josh, Jana and I were dropped off at our ward building by our mom. We were meeting there with the young men and young women to drive down to Salt Lake.
All the young men got into the Jenks' Blueberry (their blue fifteen passenger van) and we started off. We drove and drove until we got to downtown Salt Lake City, and searched out some parking for the Conference Center "event". The Blueberry was to tall to fit in the parking garage, so we went to the north side of our destination and found a parking spot on the side of the road.
When we got to the Conference Center, there were (as always) a lot of people there trying to get in. But we found our way in and got into some seats in the first balcony on the right.
It started out with a guy coming out and talking to us about how it was going to work. Because we were the crowd for this thing. So he introduced all the main actor people and stuff then said that the first thing that was going to happen was a little opening thing and then Elder Jeffery R. Holland was going to speak.
The opening song was pretty cool. But it was dwarfed by Elder Holland's talk, which was all about the "new year of 2009" but it was really good all the same.
Continued in the next entry.
Eli
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