ONE RULE!!!

I have been Chauffeuring the Smith kids to a few of their activities lately. They are used to having many rules in a car about food and seat belts and so on. So I just told them that in my car I don't really care if you get food on the seat or take your shoes off because the car's name is Junker and it lives up to it's name. So yesterday I had Cami and Jared, we were on our way home from getting baby food and doing scout stuff when Cami says in a very loud voice so I will completely understand her," I really need to go Pee!" If you live in Prescott then you know about the all the construction on Gurly and Shelton, I was in the middle of it. I turned in my seat and asked in my patient voice if she could hold it till we got home. The answer was of course a very impatient/apprehensive voice,"NO!!!" I made a few really quick choices and decided that I needed to change the direction of the car! She then informs me that she really needs to go and really can't hold it much longer. I was in front of the college at the time and cut through the back roads to get to the nearest place with a public restroom. Thank you Whataburger for the use of your toilet! I don't even think I shut the door to the car as I ran Cami in and informed Jared that he should come inside the fast food place with us. As we are waiting for Cami to finish (she really did have to go!) Jared looks at me and said he was going to go to the restroom too.
That is my one rule! You are not allowed to relieve yourself in the car.

~Night~

This is a book that I think all people should read to understand some of what was happening during the Holocaust. This was an amazing book that made me really think about our freedom in a new light and understand their pain. Some people might say that this book was not that bad but whoever say that has been desensitised by what is acceptable in the media now days. The really sad thing is that all this we like to think is just in the past, when every day things similar to what is in this book are happening lots of other place all over the world.
Some how I managed not to cry through the whole book. I then got to the Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance speech of the author's at the end. This is one of my favorite quotes from it:
"one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs."
~by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986

How much do we complain about our lives when there are people on other sides of the world that are treated like cattle.

S.H.P.

Patriotic. That was the Scavenger hunt photo subject this week. I haven't done any of the others lately because I have been working up a storm and just breathing the rest of the time. A.K.A......School. I really love being busy with it all though. The breathing is from a very intense book I am reading right now about the Holocaust. I have to breathe every few pages because I can see all that is happening. Some people will say,"oh, I'm a very visual person!" I am that phrase in a nutshell. It is all like I am really there when I start to read. That is one of the reasons I am so selective in what I read.

Just to tell you about these photos though! I was walking to seminary this morning and was looking for a good photo. I could just do one of the many flags that I see on the walk there. Imagine my delight when I see my friend Caleb walk up with two layers on(both blue) and a rose in his pocket for a good friend of his at school. The only thing I needed was something white. That is a wall in some person's yard that we walk past every day! At first he didn't want to go alone with it but in the end I got the shots!

Qutoe of the day!

"Chaiya, I love your car! It sounds like a motorcycle. pause... But it smells like dirt so I don't think that I like it."
~Camile M.