February 7, 2012

     Bright and early Life & Teachings started out my day. Onto Plenary where we learned the connection between faith and reason. Went to lunch and then one on one with Burns. We went into Oakhurst and went thrifting/searching for mirrors for our hall event we had tonight! I then took a great nap, worked on some homework, watched Psych with Jess, and time for dinner! After dinner we had a staff meeting where we were reminded of the importance of silence and time spent alone. We also planned some neat events for later this month! Then...I worked on paper due in Life & Teachings with my roomie Taylor!
    Alas, it was time for our girl's hall meeting. We talked about issues with outer beauty that we face and set forth a challenge for this week: no makeup all week and we're covering up all the mirrors. Even though I am leading it, this will definitely be a challenge for me. At the end of this week, on Saturday, we're going to celebrate this challenge week by dressing up and going to Fresno for girl's night out! So stoked! After this, we split up into roommates and I gave each of the roommates 1 mirror and a permanent marker. The instructions were to write lies that the world tells us and that we believe about outer beauty. After writing and discussing, I told them to break their mirror by dropping a rock on it together. The point being: We are told all these lies about beauty and we can try to erase them or cover them up as much as we like (being in permanent marker...that's impossible) but until we break all conceptions of the world's beauty, we can never rebuild or (re)define our perception of beauty based on the Lord's standards. I believe it went really well and it sparked a lot of great conversation...I stayed up to 4am talking to girls as a testament to that! So much for the mounds of homework I have! Sometimes though, you just gotta put people before stuff.