Tyler and I stopped to see the Christmas decorations at the new Nuskin building in Provo. Still haven't quite figured out the purpose of the enormous building, but they had fantastic decorations. I am obsessed with the huge Christmas stars they hung.

They also had these pretty winter forest decorations set up. They had a prettier scene, but I didn't take a picture.

In other news, we had stake conference this weekend. It was pretty good I guess. They did a lot of encouraging members to be missionaries, which isn't really my cup of tea so I was feeling a little uncomfortable, but there were some really great messages. One of the messages was that we have to act on our beliefs. There was a story given that I really connected with. It goes like this. The guy, whose name escapes me but is a new member of the Seventy, used to be a mission president. Whenever they got new missionaries or sent missionaries home from the airport, it was totally chaotic because it's a bunch of young adult boys at an airport. So the Seventy man told one of the airport people who was always really helpful, "We are so grateful for everything you do for us, we couldn't do it without you." And the airport man says, "President, talk is cheap. We want donuts." Ever since then, the missionaries brought donuts with them. Moral of story, actions speak louder than words. Your beliefs mean nothing if you don't act on them.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks also spoke at conference. He was pretty funny actually. I got to shake his hand. It seems weird that it's such a big deal to shake an old guy's hand (okay, was that an inappropriate way to refer to an apostle?) but it really was. It was interesting to me mostly because I felt really calm and peaceful, and I'm really not a calm or peaceful person. (Fun story, when it was a crazy snow storm, Tyler was trying to teach me how to drive in the snow and he says, "the reason most people are so bad at driving in snow is because they drive too fast and they don't stay calm." And then I asked him if he was trying to politely tell me that I can't stay calm and he said yes.) But back to the Sunday story. It was a great experience and I felt really good afterwards.

So those are my feel good stories of the day.