Today was our ward Christmas sacrament meeting. This is my favorite Sunday of the year (well....after the Primary program). I always sing in our ward choir and I just love singing the songs at Christmas! We also have a fun tradition in our ward - we always close with the Hallelujah chorus and invite anyone in the congregation who knows the song to come and join us. Today we had at least 60 people up there - not bad for a ward choir! We usually have this girl, Tiffany, who is a piano major at BYU play the piano part for this song - but she got married and isn't in the ward anymore. SOOOOO, they asked me to play it! YIKES! I play a lot for the choir, but this particular song is a stretch for me and I had to practice for weeks to get it up to scratch. I was super anxious about the whole thing as I really didn't want to mess it up! However, the whole thing was an amazing experience for me today. I was concentrating so hard throughout the whole song and when I played the last note and the choir finished, I experienced absolute joy! I just couldn't stop this giddy smile on my face! Partly because it was all done and I hadn't screwed up (too badly) but mostly because the spirit was so strong as we all sang praises unto Christ this Christmas season. And that's how it should be. I loooooove singing this song at Christmas, but playing it was pretty awesome too. I absolutely love Handel's Messiah and it was a privilege to be a small part of it today.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
My thoughts on Breaking Dawn Part 2
My mom called me up this week to go see Breaking Dawn Part 2 with her. I've been to see all the other Twilight movies with her, so thought I better finish out the series! Here are just a few thoughts.....
Good things
1. Twist surprise ending. I won't say what happens for those of you haven't seen it, but it was a great surprise!
2. This is the last Twilight movie.
Bad things
1. All the middle age women sitting behind me who giggled insanely when Edward or Jacob said ANYTHING!!! Not funny things, just anything.
2. Very little plot. There were quite a few parts of the movie that were just downright boring.
3. WAY violent. There is one scene where several vampires get beheaded in a quite gruesome fashion. I found out that this movie was originally rated R because of the violence. The producers decided to change the sound effects so the beheadings sounded less "squishy" and that pushed it down to PG-13. Ridiculous. I was this close to walking out, and really should have done so.
4. So many kids! Why do parents bring their very young kids to movies like this? Behind us (by the middle age ladies) were a family with three young kids, probably ages 10, 7, and 4. There were a number of other young families as well. This is NOT a movie for kids (see point 3). There is also a pretty lengthy sex scene right towards the beginning of the film. It's PG-13 so you don't "see" anything, but it's pretty darn intense for kids this age!
5. People clapped and cheered at the end of the film. I'm such a cynical crank, but the movie seriously was not that good!
So Breaking Dawn didn't exactly float my boat - I've never been a super fan of the series (see my earlier post, all the way back in 2009 - Death to New Moon), and I've never really understood the hysteria behind the books or the movies. Sorry girls!
Good things
1. Twist surprise ending. I won't say what happens for those of you haven't seen it, but it was a great surprise!
2. This is the last Twilight movie.
Bad things
1. All the middle age women sitting behind me who giggled insanely when Edward or Jacob said ANYTHING!!! Not funny things, just anything.
2. Very little plot. There were quite a few parts of the movie that were just downright boring.
3. WAY violent. There is one scene where several vampires get beheaded in a quite gruesome fashion. I found out that this movie was originally rated R because of the violence. The producers decided to change the sound effects so the beheadings sounded less "squishy" and that pushed it down to PG-13. Ridiculous. I was this close to walking out, and really should have done so.
4. So many kids! Why do parents bring their very young kids to movies like this? Behind us (by the middle age ladies) were a family with three young kids, probably ages 10, 7, and 4. There were a number of other young families as well. This is NOT a movie for kids (see point 3). There is also a pretty lengthy sex scene right towards the beginning of the film. It's PG-13 so you don't "see" anything, but it's pretty darn intense for kids this age!
5. People clapped and cheered at the end of the film. I'm such a cynical crank, but the movie seriously was not that good!
So Breaking Dawn didn't exactly float my boat - I've never been a super fan of the series (see my earlier post, all the way back in 2009 - Death to New Moon), and I've never really understood the hysteria behind the books or the movies. Sorry girls!
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