Scripture chases and orange juice

Yesterday we had a scripture chase for seminary. In my church high school aged youth go to seminary before school in the morning.  Well, in most places.  If there are a lot of LDS youth, sometimes they have it as part of school, just like any other class, and in places where everyone is to spread out(sometimes some people will have to travel half an hour or more from different towns) it just wouldn’t be practical for the youth to travel to seminary, then back to their own town to go to school, so they have it on Saturdays instead.  Every year we study one book of scripture, Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants.  Four books and four years of high school.  Every year we also have twenty five scriptures from what we are studying that we are supposed to memorise, called scripture mastery.  A lot of the time they have a game at the end of the year.  Different places do different things, some people will do a scripture bee, to see who has them all memorised, some a scripture chase, to see who can turn to them in the scriptures the fastest, and some something else.

Here we had a scripture chase.  Some people get really competitive at these things, which I don’t like so much, because it is supposed to be about learning the scriptures, not about beating other people, but I guess a lot of people just like to compete.  Anyways, there were jokes going around, and Ryan and Logan started saying that the other seminary class(we have two here) was going to poison us, particularly this on girl.  They were going to poison us because we were the fastest in the class(Logan could find a scripture in three seconds, he had Ryan time him on his stop watch).

So, yesterday we went to this thing, and there was food there, and they were joking about how we couldn’t eat the food because this one girl would poison us.  Well, I start getting a drink of orange juice, and the girl who was supposed to poison us was right in front of me, and offers to pour me some juice.  I of course accept, thinking on the one hand how nice she is, and on the other how funny the whole thing was, although I didn’t laugh until I was away from her and with my brothers, who just shook their heads at me.

The scripture chase was fun.  We also played a memory game, where the cards were all over the room, and we all ran around picking up different cards(it was like a tag team thing, one member of your team out picking up two cards at once), and we had to match the scripture on one card to the reference on another.  It was really fun, but people kept moving the cards, in memory the cards are supposed to get put back where they came from.

Other than that not much has happened.  I haven’t really done anything, just stayed at home and read.  I have been looking into colleges.  There is one near here that I could get into without having to take my GED, which I was not looking forward to taking.  I would much prefer to just jump right into college.  Ryan and I both want to go, since you can go at sixteen.  We think that we will only take a couple of classes the first semester, to get used to it, then start more the next semester.  We will have to see how it goes.  For some reason he still wants to take both the GED and the ACT.  I would rather not have to take a seven hour test(not counting the practice test and the tape test that they told me I have to take before I can to the actual GED), plus another test that is three hours long if I don’t have to.  Oh well, if that is what he wants to do.