17 August 2008

Michelle's Mission Moments

So, my sister Michelle received a mission call recently and was called to the Argentina, Buenos Aires North mission. She will be leaving for her 18 month service on Tuesday. For my non-member friends, missionaries for my church leave for 18 or 24 months. During this time they have very little contact with their family, but devote their entire energies toward the study and preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are called by the Apostle's of the Church to serve in various parts of the world. I was called to Salt Lake City, Utah, of all places. My wife was called to Bahia Blanca, Argentina. So it is pretty cool that Michelle and Noelle will have served in the same country. Michelle will be in the Mission Training Center for the next 8 weeks to study the Spanish language as well as she can, then she'll be thrust into the country hoping she remembers enough to hold a conversation AND understand the responses. In any case, the family set up a blog for her at http://michellemission.blogspot.com/.

01 August 2008

Books

My beautiful and smart wifey posted a list on her blog listing the top 100 books and bolded the ones she read. I'm only going to post the ones I've read.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (all 3 books)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling* (entire series)
6 The Bible* (started, I got half-way through Isaiah)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (really, just the prequel to No 2)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (unfortunately, stupid book)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (great sci-fi book)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis* (entire series, great adventure)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis* (okay, this is one of the series from #33, but if it makes me look well-read, then that's great)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (They killed Piggy!)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (started it, first chapter, great opening, though)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I've read some of them, one or two, Hound of the Baskervilles.)

Not on the list that should be:
Princess Bride