Brittneys College Experiences: Fun in Salt Lake

Sunday was Roberts farewell so those of us living in Cedar drove up to Salt Lake to support him and to say our good-byes. The car I rode in left Saturday morning and got to Brian and Roberts at like 11ish. We had the best weekend ever when we got there their parents had ordered pizza for the group of us. There were 12 people sleeping, eating, and causing mischief, at their house. After eating we wanted something fun to do without spending any money, we are all college students after all. So we decided to meet up with some friends who live in the Salt Lake area at the Gateway mall. We played in the Mac store for a while then we went over to Dick’s and played with everything there. We even found a giant net and caught people in it. After getting bored at the mall, and being able to see the temple from there we decided to go walk around temple square.

On our way over to temple square we thought taking a tour of the temple grounds with the missionaries would be fun. I learned a lot about the buildings that I didn’t know before. Did you know that the tabernacle has the coolest acoustics ever?! A person can stand at the pulpit and talk in their normal voice and be heard all the way at the back of the room. They also did a demonstration where they turned pages of the Book of Mormon and dropped pins and nails. You could hear everything. When they first build it they discovered that it was too loud and you could hear every little thing that went on so they added the balcony later. They also told us an awesome story about how the organ that’s in there got there. We watched the movie about how families are forever. That is a cool presentation, if you haven’t seen it you should go and watch it. After the tour we just walked around the temple and took random pictures. When we decided we were all hungry we started to leave but there was a couple getting their wedding pictures taken so we waited for our whole group so we could walk past really fast so they wouldn’t have to wait for forever for us all to pass. Well as we were walking really fast past them the photographers started clicking furiously and asked us to come back so they could take more pictures. We walked past them like 4 times so they could take pictures. I have never been asked to be in a random persons picture before. We managed to spend a whole day in Salt Lake and only spend $7 for parking.

After the temple Brian and Robert’s grandparents were nice enough to feed all of us and feed their family too. After dinner we sat around and talked for a little while then we went outside to play games. We decided to play missionary tag. Our game was pretty intense then slowly little cousins started to join and we had to become less intense.

Sunday was an awesome day. We managed to get 16 people up, showered, and dressed an hour before church started with only two bathrooms. Roberts talk was amazing, he is going to be an awesome missionary! The ward they are in is amazing, you know when you walk in to a ward as a visitor and you can just feel how they day is going to go? Well when you walked into this ward you could feel the love everyone had for each other. After sacrament we went back to their house to do the mingle thing. I was really tired so I laid down on the floor in the living room, not five minutes after I laid down my friends thought it would be fun to start throwing balls at each other and at me. My nap did not happen.

We all made it back to Cedar safe and sound and ready for the next week of adventures.