Able to 'See'

My family has a gift.
For guessing gifts.

Particularly my Father and my Brother.
Seriously, it's like they look at the present and they know. O.o Even if you hide it in something that looks totally nothing like it. They know. O.o Crazy!

Well, tonight, I was able to channel this little gift.
When me, Kikay and friends did a little gift exchange.

Lol it was with nearly every present that I would get it in my hands and go "Oh, it's this."
And then I'd open it.
And it would be that!!

O.o Totally crazy!
But fun.
But crazy! :D

And the gifts were all totally awesome!! ^^ Hehe.
I can't wait to use/wear them. ^^

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

A Soon Farewell?

It hit me today.
That I won't be typing on my current laptop for much longer.
I mean... Christmas is nearly upon us!
And I'm getting a new laptop. O.o
I've known this for a month, but now it's practically here!

What am I going to do?
This laptop has been my buddy for years now.
Yet, on Christmas Day, I might never turn it on again.
The new laptop may take over everything.

I'm really undecided how I should feel about this.
Though I bet I'll turn on my laptop....
If I need ITunes, or two computers on at once.
We'll see. :)

For now, I'll enjoy these last few days with just me and my laptop. ^^;;

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

The Dream

 I was a farmer of a large crop of big dandelion white puffs, it was a major crop but from out of the sky came a giant black airplane with side helicopter blade thing and revving it's engines blew all the white dandelion puffs away, with the exception of one small bedraggled plant that I had managed to save. I ended up in a court room, trying to convince the 'big government' to let us have our crops back, but they were refusing to do so because they were going to do something with mud and producing that and they were trying to get me to give them the last dandelion puff....

Then the unholy tones daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)

-S.N.D

P.S. Post was written on Sunday, due to falling asleep Saturday night. Oops.  

Stocking Mayhem

My roommates can be rather amusing at times.
Last night, was no exception.

What happened?
Well, Lesha was stressing out a bit.
She had a major final to study for, homework still, and packing to do.
I could sense the stress coming off her in waves.
The worry.
The 'how am I going to do this?!' sort of aura.

So I decided that I needed to take it down a notch, and relax her.

How?

I brought out the Christmas Stockings.
I got my roomies presents and put them in stockings.
I was going to wait until this morning to give them.
But I figured the time was right for last night.

So I brought them out.
And they pulled out a variety of things,
But the highlight was when they pulled out the mini Nerf Guns I got them.

-If you've seen Men In Black, it's basically the size of that 'cricket' gun.

They saw those, and both of my roomies faces light up.
What happened next?

They proceeded to race to see who could get their guns out of the packaging and shoot the other first.

Lol totally hysterical.
and Lesha won.

Haha totally a fun moment to see. We all were laughing like crazy.

And that little Nerf Gun?
Totally has a lot of power. Just like the MIB cricket gun.
It shoots further, faster, and hits with more force then the bigger semi automatic Nerf Guns my roomies already have.

Hehe.
Moral of the story?
Don't count out the little guy.
He packs a punch. :)

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

You Should Stay

I remember a critical time in my life and how grateful I was when a still, small voice gave me direction to make an important decision.
I had been with a retail firm for a number of years.
We had enjoyed extraordinary success.
We wanted to expand the business but needed a great deal of capital.
In an attempt to raise the money, we contacted the best financial advisers we could find.
They encouraged us to merge with a larger firm.
The merger was successfully completed, and I was asked to sign a five-year contract to give continuity to management.
Within a mater of months I found myself in a very difficult situation.
The new owners wanted me to violate a trust that I felt I just could not do.
After long discussions, they continued to insist and I continued to refuse.
Seeing there was no way to break this deadlock, I agreed to leave the company.
The timing for me was devastating.
I had a wife who was seriously ill and required a lot of medical attention, a daughter away to college, and a son on a mission.
I spent the next year just getting enough consulting work to pay my expenses.

After struggling for about one year, a company called me from California and invited me to come out and talk to them about working for them.
I went out and negotiated a very good contract; I was delighted with the opportunity.
I told them that I had to return home and discuss it with my family before I could give an answer.
I returned home and after a careful discussion, I convinced my family that it was the right thing to do.
In the process of calling the firm to accept the offer, a voice just as strong and powerful as I have ever heard came to me and said, "Say no to the offer."
I could not ignore the voice, so I turned the offer down, but I was distressed.
I could not comprehend why I had been told to do such a thing.
I went upstairs to my bedroom, sat on the bed, opened the scriptures, and they fell open tot he Doctrine and Covenants, section 111.
This was the only section given in the state of Massachusetts, where my home was at that particular time.
These words literally jumped out of the page and met my eye:

"Concern not yourselves about your debts, ... I will give you power to pay them. ...

"Tarry in this place, and in the regions round about."

A great peace came to my soul.
Within just a few days I was offered a fine position in Boston.
A few months later I had the great privilege of hosting a conference in which President Harold B. Lee, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, was the featured speaker.
The conference was a glorious success as we feasted on the words of President Lee.
The following July, President Joseph  Fielding Smith passed away and President Lee became the prophet.
Three months later I was asked to come to Salt Lake, where I received a call to leave my profession and join the General Authorities.

I have often wondered what would have happened if I had not heeded the Holy Spirit in its counseling me not to leave Boston.

L. Tom Perry -"That Spirit Which Leadeth to Do Good"  -April 1997 General Conference

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

The Dream

There was a crime that needed to be solved, but nobody had any answers, or suspects. It was completely wide open. So who came back from the dead to solve the case? Sherlock of course. He showed up at Watson's house. Watson, was at first angry, but then laughing and slapping Sherlock on the back like it was all a great joke before they set out to avoid being caught by the bad guys and of course, solve the crime.

Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)

-S.N.D

Mall Shopping

Whew.
Who knew that shopping could be so much more exhausting than working?
I certainly didn't.
Of course, I usually don't spend that much time shopping.
But today, I decided to get all the gifts I needed to get.
Since after today shopping will probably only get crazier.
At first, I was just wandering around, didn't buy anything at the first couple of stops. Which was frustrating, because I thought I would, and it's depressing when you don't.
Or when the game plan has to change when you can't find what you were looking for in the first place.
But then I got really into it.
Literally, I ended up in a perfume shop and I'm sure those fragrances have permeated my coat. *shakes head* lol
And then, when I couldn't find the one thing I wanted to...I just started to flag.
Needless to say. I'm really glad that I'm finally home. A little poorer, but with most of my gifts bought. ^^ Woot!
Hopefully I won't need to do this again anytime soon.
Though I did find it interesting.
That every year, I seem to find everything I need to get in one store. It's totally crazy.
This year, it was Barnes and Noble.
Last year, it was Hobby Lobby.
Who knows what it will be next year. :)

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

The Dream

I was about to head to bed as it was super early in the morning, when my next door neighbor Mandi, dropped by and asked if I wanted to come to a performance at the local school with her. I said sure, and went, and we ended up staying up all night, I ran into my mother and brother in the audience, and my mom was like "What are you doing here! You need to get some sleep." And I was like "I'm okay." It was 11:30am at this point. "I can stay up." But she and my brother disagreed. They told me there wasn't any reason for me to be there, and that I wasn't going to miss anything. After confirming this with Mandi, and took my family's advice and headed back home to sleep. I ended up waking up around 8 or 9pm with the realization that I hadn't accomplished anything -namely Christmas shopping- that I'd planned for my day off. Instead I'd slept the day away.
There was an old gravestone near a park..amusement park maybe? That had the name of a brother on it. His surviving brother went to the gravestone to take a picture with him. Then in the visual of a series of photographs, the scene changed, showing the brother in the same spot, smiling, but a cactus appeared, growing bigger and bigger, eventually covering the gravestone. The cactus had a face on it, that probably of the deceased brother. And as the cactus grew, it grew into the living brother, sneakily moving in under the clothes, somehow growing into the skin. At first the living brother didn't realize, but as the images progressed his facial expression became a bit pained and he tried to fight it. But by then it was too late. Until the cactus stood there with the living brother's head among it's many 'branches' until in the end just stood the cactus. I was able to flip back and forth between the pictures and change my view point so I could see a frontal and a back view of the change and just how the cactus managed to make this living brother apart of it.
I ended up in a school, we were in groups of three doing presentations. My group consisted of myself, Ryan Kent, and a younger version of my Aunt Anna. and we had to do three different short scenes depicting a scene from three books/movies that we'd learned. I was the princess from Sleeping Beauty, Ryan -my prince, and Aunt Anna was part of a different story. We hadn't realized that we actually needed to act out scenes, and so hadn't prepared that, but when a different group went up to also perform a scene from Sleeping Beauty we had to scramble to make things work. Where Ryan and I would do the dancing scene at the end of the movie, and then Anna and I would do a tap dance of the 'first meeting' from the story she was in, and...idr what Anna and Ryan were going to do, but we had to change the plan when Ryan said that he had to leave early, and so Taylor Mill was going to jump in and help, so he and I were going to do the musical number, then he and Anna would do the dance scene, but I had no idea how Anna and I could do a scene together my mind went blank between us and I feared we were going to fail because of that...

But then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again. :)

-S.N.D

Musical Joy

 

There are times when I come across random videos that just make me smile.

And because I've been craving the piano recently,

this particular video was a singular joy to watch. lol

I would have loved to be there in person to see all of the piano's antics with the piano.

It seems like it would have been a fun use of time. ^^

Hope you enjoy!



 

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi

October 1997 General Conference Saturday Afternoon

James E. Faust -The Sustaining of Church Officers

Neal A. Maxwell -"Apply the Atoning Blood of Christ"

• We are to press forward, whatever the length of the near horizon, while rejoicing in what awaits us on the far horizon.
• Alas, as Church members we sometimes behave like hurried tourists, scarcely venturing beyond the entry point.
• Intensification can be part of tutoring. Otherwise we may be like superficial students comfortably coasting and merely auditing a course. Then comes the intensifying moment: we suddenly find ourselves enrolled for credit, and it's pass or fail!
• Strange as it seems, we sometimes respond better to larger challenges than to the incessant small ones.
• One can be sincerely grateful for his major blessings but regularly murmur over minor irritations. One can have humility that is hierarchical: being humble up, but not humble down. Enduring large tests while failing the seemingly small quizzes just won't do. Such shortcomings must be addressed if we are really serious about becoming more like Jesus.

Robert D. Hales -In Remembrance of Jesus

• The universe is virtually incomprehensible to man.
• "I will call you friends, for you are my friends."
• Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Where the light of Christ is found, the darkness of Lucifer, even Satan, must depart, defeated. May we follow the light and choose the right.
• We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.

Richard D. Allred -The Lord Blesses His Children through Patriarchal Blessings

• "Patriarchal blessings contemplate an inspired declaration of the lineage of the recipient. A patriarchal blessing also includes an inspired and prophetic statement of the life possibilities and mission of the recipient. It may include such blessings, promises, advice, admonitions, and warnings as the patriarch may be prompted to give. It should always be made clear that the realization of all promised blessings is conditioned upon faithfulness and the Lord's will."
• Patriarchal blessings are a guideline or similar to a road map that indicates the paths that may be traveled and destinations that may be reached if we stay within those paths. They may bring comfort and joy and encouragement when we have need to look, to listen, and to feel of the contents of these blessings so that we may go forward on life's journey, not alone, but with the accompanying Spirit of our Father in Heaven.

Eran A. Call -The Home: A Refuge and Sanctuary

• The home is being threatened and challenged more today than ever before.
• There is no public morality without private virtue.
• "The greatest of the Lord's work you brethren will ever do as fathers will be within the walls of your own home."

Richard J. Maynes -A Celestial Connection to Your Teenage Years

• If you want to reach your potential in the future, if you want to become the person the Lord wants you to be, you had better work on it today, because it is a true principle that we become what we do.
• It is very likely that a goal or vision not connected to everyday life by specific action will become just another unrealized dream with nothing more than hope to support it.
• The little things that confound the wise also confound Satan.
• It will ultimately be your love of the Lord which will help you commit and then stay true to your celestial daily plan.

Joseph B. Wirthlin -Valued Companions

• "Motherhood is near to Divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels."
• In bearing testimony and establishing truth, two are better than one.
• As a caring touch comforts a frightened child in the night, so the warmth of the Holy Ghost can touch our hearts and calm our fears. As the soothing voice of a loving parent can quiet the crying babe, the whisperings of Spirit can hush the nagging worries of our lives.
• For all the blessings of righteous companionship, there are also dangers and evils of falling in with bad company.
• We are often judged by the company we keep.
• Our most common English expression of farewell is the word "good-bye" and this came to us over the years as a contraction for the expression "God be with you." In  day when people recognized our dependence on God more publicly, this wonderful phrase was used at times of departure to express love. It is still a sweet expression invoking the companionship of God during periods of separation. The phrase "good-bye," then, when fully understood, means, "If we can't be together, if we must part, if I can't be with you--then may God be with you."

Richard G. Scott -Why Every Member a Missionary?

• "Therefore, ... let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed."
• Not everyone can be a full-time missionary. If you can, do it. If not, seek other ways to serve that meet your present circumstances.
• "Missionary work is not limited to proclaiming the gospel to ... people now living on the earth. [It] is also continuing beyond the veil among [those] who have died either without hearing the gospel or without accepting it while they lived on the earth. Our great part ... is to perform on this earth the ordinances required for those who accept the gospel over there. ... I hope to see us dissolve the artificial boundary line ... between missionary work and temple and genealogical work, because it is the same great redemptive work!"
• Church service has always been based on an inspired call rather than volunteerism.

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi