Week 41
Classes began at OSU on Monday, and our quiet town is gone.  The roads are crowded and parking places on the street around the institute are "double booked"--more cars than there are painted slots.  The institute parking lot gate has been open all week, so some of the frat boys sneak in and park their big pickup trucks or cars in our lot.

The young man who was baptized last week is just on fire!  He doesn't go to school this semester and works evenings, so he comes to a different institute class every morning.  He is anxious to learn and really seems to love the classes.  Today after the church meeting block Elder Kerr conferred on him the Aaronic Priesthood and ordained him to the office of priest.  He also gave a blessing to a sister on Friday (he's given several blessings to students since we've been here--I love being married to a man who honors his priesthood and is worthy to exercise it whenever called upon).

In sacrament meeting I gave a talk about the value of institute and the need to balance the secular with the spiritual.  The high counselor also talked on that subject.  Quite a few YSAs are die hard institute attenders, but quite a few don't come.  Hopefully some more will commit to coming.

I've heard of extreme Frisbee for a long time but never knew what it was.  On Monday that's what they did for FHE, and I learned that it's one more game I'd never be good at (sort of like touch football with a frisbee).

The players and the watchers

Main Street in Stillwater has some fun little shops and some fun statuary.  Elite Repeat (where we volulnteer on Saturdays) is on Main Street, and reached a milestone this week--it has donated $2.8 million dollars to charities since moving to the current location a few years ago.  Here are the statues on Main Street (and on Lewis Street by the Municipal Building).

And here's one on campus:

Spirit Rider

These cowboy silhouettes are located in lots of places around town--these are at Boone Pickens Stadium at every entrance.  

We're in serious cowboy country!