living in a small-er town

payson, utah-- danny says it's grown tons since he was a boy but i think it's still small. here are examples to living in a small town in utah:

1. on fast and testimony sunday-- the older people in the ward let us know who's alive and who's not doing so well. they talk about people i've never heard of. i'll look at danny and he'll shake his head in awknowledgment to whatever the man is saying. when he realizes that i'm lookin at him he'll tell me that it's the sheirf son or the old stake president.

2. when i go to walmart (yes walmart is the "biggest" store around) i see people with weird mustaches, the kind that go down to their chin, and they wear tight clothes with plaid shirts on and boots. the girls have their hair so high off their head! teasing your hair is a sport down here!

3. i tell people that i live in the old Letham house. it's the family who use to live in our house. everyone knows who they are. they seem cool...Ben was the patriach in the ward and Barbra sang in the tabernacle choir. everyone has had either piano or voice lessons from Barbra. one person giving a talk in church was talking about having lessons at the Lethams house.

4. we'll be at smiths and danny will see people he knows (which probably isn't so weird due to the fact that he is from here.) then he'll tell them that we bought a house in the old Letham's house and they all seem to know where that is. danny saw the mayor at smiths.

5. i got my hair cut in payson-- they teased it! i've never teased my hair ever. i went home and pointed it out to danny and he laughed and laughed!

6. everyone talks about 4-wheeling and hunting! we were at a church activity last night and one of the gals who's hair is super high off her head said that their 4-wheeler caught on fire

7. there are multiple generations who live in our ward (i guess maybe taht's not so weird bc we have families and their kids family living in my home ward.) some people have never moved out of this ward. i was chatten with a fellow at this activity last night and he said that he's lived in this ward since 1930! and was the first missionary to be sent out from this ward!

8. people say-- "i were going down to the store." or " We was doing something..." proper english my friends! i'm not that great with english but i know when it sounds wrong!

9. Sometimes i see people at walmart or smiths with cowboy hats on!

10. there are 2 exits and 7 stop lights for this town (that i can count at this time, danny probably knows exactly how many.) 2 of the lights are new since i've known danny.

and finally

11. let me tell you a story that happened last night! i had finished a movie and went to bed with danny who was already sleeping bc he had to work in the morning. it was 1045. ten min or so had past and i hear sirens! multiple sirens. at first im' thinking, geez that accident was bad, but it kept coming closer and soon i could see the lights in my windows. crap! our neighbors house is on fire, is what i'm thinking! i look out my bedroom window and the lights and sirens are right in front of our house! Maybe it's our house! danny yells to get some real clothes on but i'm so bewildered that i didn't do anything except look at the window. danny and i run out of our bed to the family room to look. i remembered my other neighbors wife from the party last night said that her husband (who has had a stroke a few years ago) was not feeling well! crap, my neighbor had another stroke, is waht i'm thinking. as i'm looking out the window i see a fire truck, police cars, and an ambulance all drive slowly by my house! then i see tons of cars. they are all honking their horns! what in the world is goign on! i said, maybe the war is over? then danny hears someone yell from their car, GO PAYSON! danny remembers seeing in the news that payson high school was in state for wrestling! guess waht, payson wrestling team had won state champs and decided to drive all the way up main street (the street i live on) to the high school honking their horns! i was so pissed. who does that! who wakes up the whole town for high school wrestling! and to make it worst, the ambulance, fire truck, and police cars, were allll involved! i was just glad that it wasn't me who had to work at 6 oclock in the morning! man!

living in a small town is weird!