Day 11: Truth about Lies ... and awesome drinks

First, the picture... This is my view of dessert tonight. Dinner was good, but my favorite part was the huge brownie and coffee I got to enjoy during hymns and Wednesday night study. This brownie was huge! It was definitely worth skipping the chocolate eruption cheesecake I could have had at lunch.

I have other pictures to follow, but I wanted to share something I learned tonight first. It's not like I didn't know the main lesson already, I mean it's that lying is bad and truth is good, but the speaker for tonight gave a very good example. He talked about Abraham and Sarah, about their lie that she was his sister, and how that one little lie affected the course of history. If you do not know the story, in short it is that Sarah was very beautiful so when she and Abraham entered Egypt they decided to tell the people she was his sister that they were brother and sister so that he would not be kept.  After hearing about Sarah, the pharaoh took her as his wife and kept Abraham in great riches. Soon he found out that Sarah was married to Abraham and banished them because of their bad morality, but he let them keep all their riches and servants. Sarah thought she could not have children so Abraham had a son with her servant and named him Ishmael, then he ended up having a son with Sarah. It was then said that Ishmael's descendants would be against each other. Muhammad is in direct lineage of  Ishmael, directly followed by Sadam Husain, Gadaffi. I think that's crazy how one little white lie causes such big things in history. What would have happened if Abraham had not lied about Sarah being his sister? What are untrue things we say that could be more important that we think?


Now for some lighter stuff... My mom and I went to Sweet Pepper's today and had lunch with one of our great friends! We just had to eat there because they have the coolest new drink machine!

Coke has come out with this cool new drink machine that pretty much allows you to make up your own drink concoction. All you have to do is decide what brand you want (Sprite, Coke, Coke Zero, Fanta, Barq's, Dr. P, etc) and click on it, then it goes to another screen and you pick what flavor of that flavor do you want. There were so many options! I ended up with vanilla Coke, my mother ended up with strawberry Sprite, then lime Coke, and Pam ended up with grape Fanta. It's insanity! Everyone should definitely go to Sweet Pepper's Deli at the Renaissance and check it out.