Last night my Bishop talked to me about Grinding

I had a getting to know your bishop interview last night and I decided that I really like my bishop. He told me that we need to fill the large gap between my generation and his generation. That's were the grinding came in. He told me he didn't know what it meant and all I thought was "Please don't make me explain it to him!!!". He said that he had to go home one night and call up one of his kids and ask them. Could you imagine that confersation? ("Son, what does it mean to grind?" "Well dad...") He told me this interesting story of when he went to go listen to a motivational speaker. The speaker told everyone who was born before a certain date to raise their hands. When they all raised their hands, he asked them if they had a twenty dollar bill or anything higher on them at that very moment to keep their hands in the air. When about 95% of the people still had their hands in the air, he said the reason why they have this is because they grew up during the depression and they learned to always have money on them in case anything happened. The speaker then asked the next group of people who were born before another date to stand up and whoever had a twenty dollar bill on them to keep standing. He said the reason why so many people in that particular generation had that money on them was because they had heard the stories of their parents from the depression and it became a habit for them because of their parents. He asked another group, which were a much younger group, to raise up anything worth five dollars or more and about 95% of the group held up credit cards. I don't really know what that had to do with anything, but I thought that story was good. He said that the reason why we (my generation) needs to conect with the older generation is because we all need to help each other out and be one big happy family. I like my bishop because he always says "we need to be one big happy family".

On a side note, I slept through my 9:00 class yesterday meaning I woke up at 9:30 and missed it. I made the horrible mistake of telling Dustin this and he made me a special chart. It says "Elisabeth's On-Time Chart" and it's hanging on my closet door. When I am on time to all of my classes, I get to put an X in one of the boxes, but if I'm late or miss a class I have to put a frowny face in the box. There are pictures of celebrity boys who "all girls think are hot" on the chart because "Elisabeth, everyone wants you go to class". I am very disgusted at the fact that Dustin thought I could possible think pasty Ashton Kutcher or creepy Elijah Wood were attractive. I do feel a tad bit humiliated as well...