A Rabbit Story

Thanksgiving tidbits:

• I spent three days watching cable TV.
• This included The Mask and Post Grad - both movies I have seen before but would never rent or purchase or choose to watch again unless that was all that was on TV and I was all by myself. Ding ding ding!
• Mom and Dad were in SF with Spence, Ev, and crew.
• My only other brother and his crew stayed in Beantown.
• Heather worked.
• Cousins left after our fantastic 3 degree chillfest in Park City at midnight.
• I actually went into work on a DAY OFF. I had stuff to do - they shut down campus for two days and sent everyone home for the HUGE blizzard - we got 0.00 inches of snow from said blizzard - I came in to get some stuff done.
• Campus flooded.
• Did family history and temple work.
• Um, more cable TV.

I am grateful for the house I live in and the family I did or did not get to see. Grateful for my testimony. Grateful for the Gospel. Grateful for the Atonement. Grateful that I got to hang with HJolley for a bit.

Grateful for anonymous gifts.

On Wednesday, when campus was shut down and nobody was in my office but myself, there was not a gift on my desk.

Monday morning, at 7:30am when I arrived, there was.

No note. Any guesses? Origami rabbits have any hidden meaning? Who would have put it on my desk before 7:30am the day campus opened back up?

Oops.

Bless his heart, there is a student who is a little confused.

One of the student secretaries for the department squealed in laughter one day and decided to share her discovery with me. She was grading papers for a religion class that one of our professors teaches.

The assignment was to choose a scripture, elaborate on it, share it with someone else, and then write about your experience. This was the gist of his paper:

I chose the scripture: "...and he came before me, saying -- Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore, give me thine honor." I really like this scripture because it shows that God loved us so much that He sent His Son so not one soul would be lost. We can all be redeemed and saved. All we need to do is repent, or say "Sorry" to God, and we are forgiven. I just really appreciate that Jesus will save everyone. I shared this scripture with my roommate, who is Catholic, and he really got excited about it! It was awesome to be able to share this new doctrine with him.

So... yeah.... talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing. The secretary had to write something like this on his paper: "Um, actually, that was satan's plan - we have agency and can choose the right or wrong, and we will be redeemed based on that. Jesus actually said all the glory would be to the Father, not himself."

I hope he's not too embarrassed when he gets it back. It's an honest mistake... except for the fact that the wording of the scripture right before he began his quote shows: "That satan, ...."

I'm glad his catholic roommate got excited about this "new" doctrine.