Good-Bye Dinner

The Goa's left this week to visit his family and then to return to America. We had been wanting to have them over for dinner before they left, to say thank you, good-bye, and just because they are awesome people that we like. We realized that last Sunday would be our last chance and invited them over, it didn't hurt that it was Mother's Day and we could give her the day off from cooking. Along with the Goa's we also invited the Sister Missionaries.

Alan and William were watching TV and it was a nice warm day so we decided to move the table out to our "deck," it looked really strange in the kitchen without it so of course I had to take a picture.

We're not used to making large quantities of rice so we had the Sister's check it to make sure that it was ok.

A lot (Funny story about Alot--you should check it out HERE) of people equals a need for a lot of curry. It was a little more challenging trying to keep track of such a large quantity cooking, I now have more of an appreciation for the cook who cooks for 50+ everyday)

Sister Goa and Cougar arrived a little bit earlier than Bro Goa and Hyrum so we had some just stand around and talk time.

This is Cougar's cool hat that he had made, #26 was his number at school and on the back it said "GO USA!"

The Sister Missionaries and Cougar (and his cool hat :D)

The were sweet and brought watermelon for dessert. It was super yummy (and the leftovers lasted until Wednesday- watermelon everyday...YUMMY!) and kind of weird to see red watermelon again (we always eat yellow watermelon at school)

Hyrum looking sweet and cute (you know that somethings up :D)

We will miss the Goa's they have been good friends while we have been here (especially Sis Goa translating for us in Relief Society- it will be an interesting remaining month and a half without her)

Time Budget

We had our visiting teacher over today after church. She gave us a wonderful message from the March's Ensign (you can see the VT message here). Sister Goa said something though that has been running through my mind all evening, she said that Satan has realized that he can't tempt us with the bad things like smoking, drugs, and drinking. So instead he has begun to tempt us to do "good." Now at first that doesn't sound very bad, it even sounds like a good thing, hey Satan's on my side! But upon referring to the talk entitled "Good, Better, Best," given by Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles during the October 2007 General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (you can read it here). You discover that what Satan is doing is not in the best interest of you and I. He is tempting us to be not the "best" of our abilities.

I think that this has been running through my mind over and over this afternoon because I realize that it is very true for me, not that my days are always filled with bad activities, but they aren't filled with the best activities either.

What does this have to do with time budget? One of my areas that I am not doing the best at is time budget, I spend much too much time on facebook, twitter, playing games and other such things. I am starting a new goal, a new rule, every night I can not be on facebook after 9pm and have to turn my computer off at 10pm, unless I am working on my class. I am hoping that by making this new change/goal that I will be able to accomplish 2 things: that I will be able to go to bed earlier and receive the sleep that I need (lately I have been going to bed between midnight and 1, not a good thing when I should be getting up at 7) and I hope that with the time that I am not using my computer that I have been that I will be able to fill my time with more scripture study, pondering, prayer, conference talk reading, and other wholesome activities meant to build my testimony and help me to become the best that I can be.