A Rather Fun Day. :)

Woke up this morning in time to take a shower and head right back over the YSA conference thingy for breakfast, after which we split into groups to do a scavenger hunt/food drive cross. We didn't collect a specific set or number of things, just asked people if they had anything on our list, from food to clothes to cleaning supplies. I met some new people, seeing as I only slightly new one person in my group (my visiting teacher, in fact), and the other three were in another stake. It was fun. We saved a few people trips to D.I., and collected at least two truckloads overall of stuff for St. Anne's Homeless Shelter. Huzzah!

After that activity, I went shopping at Kohl's because I've been much lacking in flippy-floppy footwear for a good while, now. I got two cutely casual pairs, one black and one brown, to go with all my outfits. Huzzah, again! And they were more than $2, so I'm hoping they'll last a good long while. (I mean, not a ton more . . . we're still talking discount shopping.) And while I was there, I found this terribly cute pair of silver strappy shoes on clearance for just $9. Score! And now I at least have candidates for wearing to a certain someone's wedding. ;D

Here they are. Aren't they cute?

(though, as Becci tells me, I'm gonna have to put some effort into getting rid of the callouses on my heels, if I want the full effect. :P)

Back to the YSA for dinner, which Cafe Rio catered in for us (yum!), and then an incredible fireside with speaker Mariama Kallon, who grew up in war-torn Sierra Leone, Africa, and had a severely tragic childhood--her parents, brother, and sister were all killed by rebel soldiers. She talked about how finding the Gospel changed her life and gave her a reason to hope again, and how receiving one little hygiene kit meant so much to her and the women around her that she was able to share it with. It was a pretty amazing story.

Then we had cheesecake (don't you love church functions and food?), I met some more new people, who were pretty darn cool, and headed home once more.

Here at home I finished my laundry, walked on our elliptical machine (as it was too late to start an outside walk when I got home), and wrote in my blog! Huzzah! And listened to some more Dr. Laura, of course. ;) The getting-to-bed-on-time thing is still in the works, as I'm sure this post's time stamp will show, and I still need to take a shower (yeah, a second one. Yucky sweat go bye-bye.) and read some scriptures tonight. But hey, see? I got so much more done today than I did yesterday. I'm improving already! Huzzah! :D