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The Feast - Thursday

Thursday was a bit sad, knowing the conference was ALREADY half over. I switched from Pr. Preus's in-depth to Pr. Mallie's because Pr. Preus's was being taped by the camera crew and my dad ordered the DVD. Though I'm not sure what's up with the DVD anymore... Anyway, Pr. Mallie's was about talking about the Bible with atheists, and was very good. Also very crowded. Aaron, Nathan, Tarja, and I sat on the floor just inside the door.

Pr. Mallie's example of what divine inspiration is NOT (complete with dude voice):

Late.
Must sleep.
Can't fight.
Night night.

You *must* have the dude voice with that. ;)

Eating lunch with MHers is awesome! Enough said.

Rev. Wilken's flight had been canceled due to a tornado, so Aaron and I went to a breakaway about volunteering for HT instead. We were the youngest people there, and learned that sometime in the future HT hopes to have a conference in Canada. Probably in Winnepeg.

That day for free time we went up Pike's Peak. This time Rae joined our group as well. The drive up there was awesome, even though I wasn't in the van. Tarja, Cody, Grey, and I were in the car with my dad. It's pretty exciting to drive next to thousand-foot drops without a guardrail. :D RachelD had recommended the doughnuts they sold at the top, so we MHers got in line after running through the gift shop. We were having a lot of fun with the high altitude. Aaron and I bought a round of doughnuts, but dad confiscated mine after I got out of the line, so Rae bought some for us. They were goooooood. When dad came inside to find us awhile later, we found out that everyone else was ready to go and we hadn't even been outside yet. It was cold and rainy. However, Aaron, Ethan, and I were determined to take pictures, and ran to the lookout point.

On the way back down the mountain, we lost radio contact with the van. Cody was very concerned, but we found them around a couple more corners. Cody, our walkie-talkie man, then couldn't get ahold of the other car behind us. Dad told him to say, "I miss you, Kira." Instead Cody said into the walkie-talkie, "I love you, Kira, ok? Will you answer?" Hehe. Cody is fun. After a few minutes the car caught up to us and we could again talk to them.

Cody- "I was having an emotional breakdown."
Kira- "Aww, thanks, Cody. I love you."

Our car filled with laughter. Kira hadn't even heard what Cody said before!

This is a picture of the van about to drive off the edge of the mountain (I was more worried for them on the way down than the way up)-->

At the bottom of the mountain, we decided to stop for supper. Somehow, the two cars got separated from the van. I spent a very anxious hour knowing the people driving the van wanted to go to a restaurant where they wouldn't be able to make it back before the next in-depth, and that the MHers with them most definitely did.

However, though Rae didn't, Aaron and Ethan beat me to the in-depth.

Pr. B- "You are not free to be a hitman or a gangster."
Aaron- "Drat."
Pr. B- "You are free to do anything except sin."
Everyone else- "Yay!"

Pr. B showed us the means of grace, complete with a little lightsaber dude. "You know, I have an actual visual aid!"

After the in-depth, we all signed each other's books and got Pr. B to sign them too. Then we took a picture of all the MHers who were there at the moment.

After the evening service I wanted to run back to the dorm so I asked Aaron where everyone would be.

Aaron- "You still have to teach me how to juggle."
Me- "Do you want to come with me?"
Aaron- "Ok."

We sat in the common room of my dorm block and talked and I taught Aaron how to juggle.

Nathan enters.
"We didn't know where you guys were!"
Apparently everyone else had thought we were coming back. Oops.
Nathan exits.

Time passes.

Nathan and MHers enter.
A random girl asked to have a picture of the lightsaber people. That was funny. Then we started another big lightsaber battle.

Compline once again ended the day.

posted by Heidi @ 3:00 PM