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Victor, Cristian, and Ionut working on the Romanian translation team at General Conference.

She is all grown-up! Today is the big day when she will choose from the tray her future profession, we will cut her mot, and eat the finest cake!
Please vote with us on what you think Emory will be. You should pick 3 answers. Poll closes today at 8PM EST.

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PS: In the comments section please write your name and your choices. That way we will know who chose what. 🙂

(This is an assignment I (Cristian) wrote for a class. We were meant to explain the encounter with Columbus from the point of view of the native. )

(Check out the pdf attachment to read all the footnotes)

“Great Christians and most excellent and most powerful Princes, King and Queen of the regions of Spain and the isles of the sea, our lords, in this present year of 1494 I write to your majesties to inform you of my happenstance.” Columbus puts his scribing tool down and looks at his sores. He could hardly concentrate on writing and stop shaking long enough to write this short sentence. His vision seemed blurry and his body was mutilated by the countless sores that appear as tiny tomatoes under his skin trying to burst through . The tremors of his fingers and lips scarcely ceased as once more attempted to write. “I am ill of an unknown cause and I am not sure when the Lord will see fit to receive my soul. My situation is desolate and forlorn beyond measure. My crew abandoned me and probably considers me dead after our land incursion on the day of 14th of January in the year of our Lord 1494. As the Lord saw fit, our ship the Santa María to run aground and as she could not be unstuck, we used her destruction as an opportunity to build a trading post with the natives. We labored unceasingly to make use of all its goods to build what we called in honor of our Lord the settlement of the Villa de la Navidad . While the remainder of your majesty’s ships returned to our lands for supply and to bear the good news of my discovery of a new route to the Indies, I decided to show leadership and remain here until the ships return. I have thus done as your majesties commanded and read the Requerimiento to the natives, took control as the first governor of the Villa de la Navidad, and started trading with the natives. As initially our trade with the Indians did not yield much gold, I saw fit to capture some of the Indians and have them learn our language and customs. We were planning to have them translate and aid us trade with the rest of the tribes. Furthermore, in seeing that many of them wore small pieces of gold pierced to their noses, lips, or ears, we thought it necessary and just to capture them so they can lead us to their deposits of gold .” Again his hands shook, he looked confused. He seemed not to know where he was. He cried and shouted something I did not understand. He looked towards my direction and called me to him.

Continue reading Tibi Retribuetur Enim Tibi in Resurrectione

What do a temple marriage and a high security prison have in common? You guessed it! Haha. Good thing that one is by choice and a lot more fun than the other! Congratulations to Toni and Ryan Murray on January 8, 2011. They were adorable, and I had a great trip to California. Char got to come along, which made it lots of fun, and we got to visit the Caseys in San Jose on the way up to Oakland. We also met some new friends at the pre-wedding excursion to Alcatraz Island (see below) and made sure the car was decorated sufficiently at the reception before I locked my keys in the rental car. Oops…but typical. All in all, it was a nice excursion, and I’m very grateful to Toni’s mom for making it possible for me to attend.

I took Lelu out for a walk and I noticed in the distance that a fire hydrant was spewing water like crazy. There were some kids playing in it as well and I thought I should take Lelu to have some fun.

She liked it but was somewhat afraid to go in the full steam. She is great and we love her muchly.

Hit the read link to view the videos.

Continue reading Neighborhood Fun

So… I get a call from Heidi, I –of course– am studying, and she is very sad. She was crying and telling me that she could not talk. I kept asking her what was wrong, and she could not tell me. I thought one of the babetters got hurt. I said I will be home in a sec. It took me like 10 minutes to get from the library home on my bike. I came as fast as the wind. I come in expecting the worse, and I was relieved to find out that the babetters were safe. Heidi, on the other hand had had some sort of a work related yawning accident where her jaw got stuck open out of its socket. She was in a lot of pain and couldn’t talk or even swallow.

This is what she typed to me because she could not talk:

“My jaw popped out, but now it won’t close. It’s going to break.

I just yawned, like I sometimes do, but it didn’t go back in. it usually pops back in”

It was quite the sight. Heidi could not close her mouth… she looked sad. I took her to the InstaCare and after the obligatory pay or you won’t even see the doctor and two hours of work on her jaw she was fine.

Here are the pictures of the scary event.

The scary part

The fun part

The joyous return to normality.