A little fun

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Tonight my roommates and I along with a couple girls from our dorm went ice skating at an activity the BYUSA put on. $4 for the entire night which consisted of ice skating, broom ball, food, and Santa! We never saw Santa and I cried really really hard. The ice skating was fun though! One of the girls kept saying, "Okay! There's a group of boys! Let's go talk to them!" We never ended up talking to any boys though. I was more than okay with that. Striking up conversation with random people has never been a very happy thing for me. If there were people we already knew who were skating around I'd be more than happy to go talk to them. This one girl is really outgoing and happy so she's great at it. She happens to be my visiting teaching companion! I like her a lot. :)

Before we went to the "Freeze Fest" as it was called, I had cleaning checks at 2:00 so I cleaned all morning. After cleaning checks Morgan and I put up my Christmas lights in our room. I love love love love Christmas!! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :D I'll be sad when we have to take down our lights, but for now, I'm thoroughly enjoying them. When we plugged in the first strand, they lit up and consequently lit me up. I couldn't help but release a squeal of excitement. We ended up using 3 strands of the 6 I've accumulated during Christmases of past years. Our room is full of Christmas cheer. Now, we need a Christmas picture of Christ and it will be complete! Wunderbar! Feliz Navidad mis agmios! Happy day to you!

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