Weekend full of fun in the s.....snow

Cassie and I were able to enjoy ourselves this weekend with all the excitement of General Conference. As is custom, everyone and his dog here in Provo was having a mission reunion over the weekend. Early I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my mission president was going to be in Salt Lake, and the a mission reunion was being planned for Friday! Well, the time came and everything worked out so that Cassie and I were able to go. I obviously was super excited to see all of my old companions and friends, and especially see the president again. Cassie wasn't so excited just because she figured she wasn't going to be able to understand anything (which was true to a certain extent, but not completely). She was a good sport though, and let me drag her along :D
We also had the chance to attend General Conference at the conference center on Sunday morning thanks to my wonderful roommate Jeff. Thanks again for the tickets Jeff! The session was great! And it was really cool too because we went early enough to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform the 4,203 broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word. It was awesome! They closed with Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, which is such a powerful number, especially when MoTab sings it, so the whole experience was pretty much amazing. It was great listening to the prophet and leaders of the church this weekend, and both of us walked away feeling uplifted and wanting to be better people. After watching conference we decided to take some pictures in temple square and happened to run into Elayna and some of her friends as we were taking pictures.
Later that night we were invited over for dinner at the cousins. It was great food and great company! Thank you Daryl and Annie for letting us come over and helping out us poor college students. We appreciate it so much!
Other than that Cassie and I are just trying to survive these last couple of weeks of classes and finals, along with planning the wedding. We're busy, but it's great because it's helping time go by a lot quicker!

HKN - Eta Kappa Nu

I was recently invited to become a part of the BYU chapter of the Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Society. This is a group of "outstanding" electrical and computer engineers who have met the requirements of the group (specifically GPA... which wouldn't have been anywhere close if it weren't for the wonderful 16 credit portuguese test I took last semester!). It was kind of a surprise that I was invited considering I really am just barely starting the program... Anyways, I was inducted into this group and Cassie and I had the chance to attend the induction ceremony/banquet. It was quite the experience. Cassie has been giving me kind of a hard time about the whole thing... and I though I've tried to disagree with Cassie about it, I guess I am an electrical engineer... which makes me an official geek :P Well the banquet proved that a little bit... Especially when the keynote speaker said "You can't spell geek without an EE." Great... Well... He also said that double E's make great husbands, so that's a plus... (except his reasoning was that possibly they didn't have much of a social life, so they do their best when they finally find one...) So, after being inducted and making fun of the whole thing a little bit, I decided to be kind of involved, and so I attended the election meetings for the leadership for next year... And I've now put my foot in my mouth because I left that meeting President of the Eta Kappa Nu BYU chapter. But it didn't really work out how one might expect. Besides some of the leadership from this year, I was 1 of 2 people who were there to participate. Not exactly the biggest showing. So the two of us tried to be extremely passive trying to push the Presidency off to the other one at the meeting. After about ten minutes of this, I was tired and finally just turned to the others there and told them to "just put my name down." Not exactly an election. But... Oh well... It'll look great on my resume, right? Ok, I'm not going to lie, I am kind of excited to do this, because it's finally a chance I have to get involved at BYU. I really haven't done much. So it should be good :) Wish me luck!