Friday at around noon I get an IM from Joseph that says he needs to talk to me ASAP. I kinda was nervous because my parents were coming in out of town and I thought that something was wrong with them. Anyway come to find out they wanted Joseph to do a remote for Comedy Sportz that night......IN VEGAS. So to make a long story short I got a sub for the rest of the day and we left an hour later. I have never been to Vegas before and Curt invited me so I couldn't resist, though I did feel a bit werid becuase I was with only boys.....We got there and did a show for a tri-stake youth confrence. I enjoyed observing and noticing the kids, fashion, and some challenges they face. It was a really good experience for me because it brought me back to my days in Colorado where no one was LDS and where we looked forward to Youth Confrence for months. I could not help from thinking that I was going to move there, and teach there, and try to find someone to marry there......Man I love Joseph and am so so so glad that I am here, teaching, and married to the most amazing man in the world! Not that I wouldn't have loved Las Vegas but I am just really happy to be where I am. I also could not help but think about the future of the world and the church and I looked around at these young people and thought-I really hope they can do it and I prayed right there and then for the youth of the chuch to be strong and hold on to their testimonies. During the show I sat by a sister who had just been baptized two weeks before. I couldn't help think about Bri and how she has fallen away from the chuch and how I hoped that this young girl would hold stead fast to the truth. The kids loved the show and after we went back to the hotel and then left to go walk the strip. It was midnight and we got back at 3am....I felt like a single college kid again. The city was beautiful and so so much money went into making it look good. But they don't call it sin city for nothing. So many bad things happen there and it is really hard to keep your eyes and thoughts on good things. Joseph and I were talking about how surprised we were to see all the evil, in the people and the city. I just kept thinking that I really can't wait for the Savior to return again. People have such a false sense of fun and happiness, and it makes me really sad. I also felt odd becuase of the way that I was dressed-and that is exactly how satan works to make us feel that we are the weird ones not the other way around. We were walking back to the hotel and there was a man who was drunk and yelling things from his car, he said something about Mormons-the thought came to me that the persecution is going to get worse as the world becomes more separated between the truth and the not.
On the way home Matt had really bad gas and it was really funny at first, then it just anoying.
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