Yes, it is true. I still can't even believe it. After three years(which seemed to really fly by) of conformation classes clogging up my Tuesday nights, I am now free! Oh yeah, and I made my conformation, but that's not nearly as exciting as a free Tuesday night. (Just kidding!). So I made my conformation yesterday, on Sunday but we had to go to church on Saturday to make our stoles(these things that pastors wear that we got to wear too but we had to glue stuff on them), practice for conformation day, and make cookies for a dinner at another church. That was from 3:00 until 6:00, so my Saturday was pretty booked. I also had to make two batches of cookie dough cheesecake bars for a bake sale for my choir concert. On Saturday in the evening, I made my science video with Stacey and Marisa (It's quite hilarious, it includes Marisa's voice being really high-pitched and funny because we fed her some helium, some classic element jokes, and we even smelled a tree or two.) The following morning, I had my pre-conformation breakfast at church. The breakfast was from Jason's Deli, and it was things like mufffins, cinnamon rolls, and cheese danishes. It was very delicious! Then we had to go to the "Narthex" (the back part of the church) and walk out while the chancel choir sung hymns. I want to give some of you an idea of how small my church is, because I know that a lot of you had to attend two hour conformation ceremonies with hundreds of kids getting confirmed. This year, my church had eight confirmants: Me, Maggie, Mark, Teddy, Meghan, Marti, Michael, and Kyle. We sat in the first pew, stood up and said "I do" when the pastor asked us questions. Then each of us with our family was called up to the altar. My family and my two pastors placed their hands on my heads while one of my pastors blessed me. Then I had to turn around and face the congregation while my small-group leader read a verse from the bible that she had picked out especially for me, and said some nice things about me. It was very sweet and made me very happy, but I must say it was quite awkward just standing there while Mrs. Nelson talked about how proud she is of me. All in all it was a very nice service and I'm glad to be confirmed and I'm really tired right now so i'm going to bed. The end.
me: aka an awesome personHello i'm Emily. Some things I do often are dancing, running, playing clarinet and tripping over things... I hope you enjoy reading about my super-exciting life! Archives
October 2013
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