Kiersten’s Blog

The picture has nothing to do with the post but I love it. It's taken by Nina at Urban Birdie. You can see other pictures (with a link to her page) she took of Ashton in our photo albums.

Today was much better than yesterday.  We may be going to Disneyland after all.  I can’t say it was all fun and games, though.  During sacrament meeting, London was looking at pictures on my iPod and I was trying to get her not to push the screen so hard.  She yanked her hand out of mine and poked me in the eye, which caused my contact to get stuck way up in my eye.  The only way I know of moving it out of that area is to use a little tiny plunger-like thing that I keep in my makeup bag.  My makeup bag doesn’t come with me to church, so I had Taylor hurry home to find the plunger for me.  I was able to remove the contact without any permanent damage (I think) but we both missed a lot of sacrament meeting.  London felt bad and offered me her contact.  She thought it would make me happy.  I guess she doesn’t realize that she doesn’t wear contacts.  It was a sweet gesture, nonetheless.

London couldn’t wait for sacrament meeting to be over because she was so excited to give her first talk in primary.  She did a great job and had no issues whatsoever with stage fright or talking into the microphone.  She even pronounced almost everything perfectly.  It was fun to see her in primary.  Here’s what she said (with a lot of help from me), “John 3:5 says, ‘I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.’  We are born of the water when we are baptized.  Jesus came to John the baptist and asked to be baptized.  He wanted be obedient and to show us that we need to be baptized too.  We can get baptized when we’re eight years old.  After we are baptized, we will be confirmed.  This is being born of the Spirit.  When we are confirmed, we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.  The Holy Ghost helps us to be good and choose the right.  It tells us the things we should do.  I want to follow Jesus and be baptized and confirmed when I’m eight.  In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.”