Here Is What Happened Last Week:

Around Monday the 13th October I received a phone call. What were the end results of that phone call you ask? Well lets just say I was very nervous indeed. It was from one of the members in our Branch's Bishopric asking me if I would mind giving a talk in church on Sunday. Not really knowing what to say or how to react I said the first thing that came to mind. "Yes that would be fine", or something to that affect. Afterwards I realized what I gotten into. Then I thought, Why me, and is he sure he is talking to the right gal? Why now. After a while of searching answers of why and how of me, I finally decided I should start preparing. My talk was on forgiveness. It was a great experience I had all of that week to prepare for it. I tell you what. Not remembering how to do public speeches, I had to first go to www.lds.org and look up on how to prepare a talk, (crazy, I know), but I wanted this to be a GREAT talk, and I knew if it was going to be a great talk I had better study hard for it. Well after finally learning on how to prepare for a talk, I went and I must have read like 7 maybe even more talks on www.lds.org about 4 of those talks were to better help understand me on the topic of the atonement and forgiveness, and the other 3 I guess was to give me some ideas on how I could turn my talk into me. If you get my drift. That week was amazing stressful at some points, because I knew the topic upside down and inside out by this point, but had a hard time putting it together, and then I realized that it was all just kind of flowing together naturally on paper and I was done. Well then came the memorization and practice skills. I knew my talk, because, of course most of it was me, but I decided (Last minute of course!), that I needed some final touches to it. So I decided to, add the story/poem of The Touch Of The Master's Hand at the end. But I also told myself that a poem like this deserves to be recited from memory. So I spent about 3 hours that night, maybe even 4, watching the movie on www.youtube.com buying a couple of versions of the song from itunes (mainly so I could get a feel for voice inflection), and reading and re reading it. It was a great experience that I shall never forget. Call me crazy, but yes, if given the opportunity to speak again, I would definitely go for it. It gave my spirit a great boost. I haven't had made up my mind, but I thought it might be nice to post my talk up, because after all others do it. But I'm still not sure at this point what I should do though, but here is the poem that I recited. Sorry, I couldn't find the right version of the song that I recited from but this song I believe is the version that went with the movie that I watched. I hope your all enjoying your week.