jenny_wildcat | Boy, This is Totally Cracked-Up

In honor of my watching Sailor Moon in Japanese, I thought I'd take a gander at the live-musical version (as opposed to the live-action version that was on TV). I found several YouTube videos of it... oh boy, that is nuts. I guess when you have something that popular, there's bound to be a few odd ideas to go along with it. :/ Eh, maybe it'll grow on me... eventually... someday... possibly...

In other news, today was the first day that our singles branch met for church. We just had sacrament meeting since they didn't have any teachers or leaders called yet. They presented the new branch presidency and set them apart after the meeting, which was really neat. The branch presidency spoke as well as both stake presidents. One interesting story of note (that I could tell about on LiveJournal and most people would get it) is a story that my stake president told. When he was in college, he attended a student ward at the University of Utah. His stake president gave a talk in some setting-or-another and had the bishopric, the stake presidency and their wives stand in front of the congregation. The stake president then said that this was the point of these college kids being together in a ward like this - to get married. And then he told them to get on with it (He said something to the effect of "Go and do thou likewise"). We laughed at my stake president's story, but then he told us that they were not going to do that to us. The point of having a singles branch is not to get all of us married off. The purpose in having this branch is so we have a place to come together and worship the Savior and feel the Spirit. We have a greater chance to serve and learn and grow in the church in this setting rather than a family ward and we can get to know each other and, yeah, if some of us get married, yippee (those are my words, not my stake president's).

Anyway, it was a good meeting. My new branch president assured me that they were going to put me to work, which I'm happy about. I need something to do (crap, I'm going to wish I hadn't said that ^_^). Like I've said before, I am taking the position that this is a chance for me to learn how to lead and serve in the Church, like all our leaders keep talking about. I'm part of the next generation that's going to keep the Church going and I'm going to need to know how to do that and this'll help me practice. I don't say this to toot my own horn, it's just a fact. So there.