What a weekend

This weekend was one of those weekends where I had nothing planned for activities (outside of church/break the fast today). However(!), I ended up doing a whole bunch of stuff that is now causing me to be really tired at the moment. I got a text Friday from a friend asking if I wanted to go to the trail clean up at Point Defiance for National Trails Day the next day. I said I was all for going and we went with a couple of our other friends. We ultimately ended up walking around some of the trails with a few other people we didn't know to pick up trash since there was too many people to help build "speed bumps" to prevent the land moving. Wasn't too bad. Afterwards, we went and got ice cream at Dairy Queen and then to Denny's for lunch to celebrate a friend's birthday. The girls and I went to the Enrichment activity (swimming!) and it was so much fun. I hadn't been swimming in a couple of years. Going to the bottom of the 12.5' pool wasn't the best idea since I hadn't swum deeper than maybe 6' in years. The pressure on my ears was bad. As in you feel it for the next five minutes after resurfacing bad. It sucked. But I at least have an idea of what my brother went through as a child when we would fly from one place to another. After swimming, I went to help move Jenny's dad from one place to another, which wasn't too bad, before meeting up with Alicia again at a McDonald's. She and I ultimately ended up at Red Robin's with four other people to do a birthday dinner kinda thing for Paul again. We didn't leave the restaurant until midnight or so. So much fun.


Today was Fast Sunday, so that meant no eating all day until after church at 3PM (so glad to be at the branch -- Break the Fast is at 4:30PM at my home ward). A baptism was announced for someone who had been coming to the branch pretty regularly lately at 5PM. Between Break the Fast and the baptism (everyone is somehow done eating by 3:30PM), Jenny, another girl, and I ended up at Spanaway Lake and hanging out there until it was time to meet up with a few other people for Nathan's baptism (he's the third guy from the left). It was so amazing to see someone else get baptized, especially when it's so close to the two year mark of my own baptism. I even ended up talking to Nathan about my own and a bit about my missionaries. The missionaries at the branch are pretty cool but they could never replace my missionaries (the two who taught me and baptized/confirmed me [I miss you, Cracroft and Strange]). I hope he won't forget his baptism like I haven't forgotten mine. After the baptism, some of us went to Sprinker and had invited Nathan and Nick (someone else from the branch) in the process, so I got to know Nathan a bit better in the process (I had been meaning to get to know him better, so mission accomplished [well, kinda]).

Call me crazy but I've been listening to a lot of the Mulan soundtrack. "I'll Make a Man Out of You,"  "A Girl Worth Fighting For," "Honor to Us All," and "True to Your Heart" mostly. I absolutely love these songs. Which is why I'm sharing them. :)