Homesick not for home

So, today I've had a weird phenomenon that I only discovered recently. I was homesick for a place that is not, technically home. It's so cold here in Utah plus Saturday I saw a bunch of my old companions from my mission, and suddenly I'm homesick for Texas. So I tried to rectify it by calling a couple of people from the mission, but I think it only made it worse. So, now I'm homesick for not home, but its ok. I'm also happy with the things I'm doing.
As a side note, I realized I need pictures, but I also realized that my camera broke right after my mission and I don't really take pictures anyway, but I will try next post to put up pictures. So that's all for this post. Its been fun, and I think its helped, I'm a little less homesick.

Draper Temple Open House

I had the opportunity yesterday to go with my youngest brother, Daniel, to the recently completed Draper Temple to walk through it. It was a very neat experience. I had fun explaining just a little bit to him, and seeing the temple. It's really pretty, but very different than any of the other ones I've been in. It has murals of the Salt Lake area scenery in one room and that was by far the neatest part. There was a lot of craftsmanship in different places. Also, the best moment for me was walking into one of the rooms (the celestial room), and the feeling that was there. It almost hit me like a wall as I walked in, and I definitely wasn't expecting that. Going to the sealing room was not helpful for my desire to meet someone and get married. I guess all in due time.
It was also neat to hear from my little brother the feeling that he had. He said he'd never felt like that before. I loved seeing all the children there and I know that going makes a difference, having done that with my own temple (Mount Timpanogos) many years ago. The Lord truly loves us, I know that for sure.

Reading and Real Life

I recently just finished the Twilight series. I know I'm a little behind, but I wasn't quite ready to jump on the bandwagon. It only took me a week to read the whole series, plus the partial draft of "Midnight Sun" that I hope gets published one day (Twilight from Edward's point of view). Suddenly I don't have a life anymore, and it doesn't help that the fictional character's life is a lot more interesting. It does get you wishing why life can't be as interesting as a book. Except as I write that I realize that there's too much tragedy and conflict in a book, that maybe I don't want that in my life. There are other elements that I think I would enjoy. Ok, so I've never been romantic in my life, but somehow, now I want to be. I've hated watching, reading, thinking about anything romantic at all, but now I think I might want it. Yep, comparing reading with real life causes trouble.