That Little Bit of Good

You know what I really enjoy? I really enjoy the weekly devotionals here at BYU-Idaho. They are always so uplifting and often quite entertaining to boot. Of course, the speakers are fantastic, but, as is usual, there are some other aspects of devotional that deserve a little recognition, as well.

• Similar to the Salt Lake Conference Centre, there are two projection screens on either side of the pulpit and stand that display a countdown to the start of devotional. The organists playing the prelude music somehow always manages to time the end of the hymn exactly with the 00:00 on the countdown. I don't know how they do it! I'm impressed.
• I usually sit about 2/3 of the way back on the floor level, so I can see a lot of the other students sitting in front of me. I love when a speaker says something particularly insightful and you can watch everybody's heads go down all at the same time, trying to write down what was said in their notebooks. You can always tell what the next addition to all the apartments' quote walls will be.
• As the congregation, we get the words to each hymns projected onto the screens. The chorister, however, is expected each week to have all the verses memorized and look super peppy as they conduct the songs. Kudos to them for doing it. It always makes me laugh, though, when the chorister forgets the words and is left just smiling awkwardly on the big screen.
• You can always count on that one guy to laugh so much louder and so much longer than everyone else. Which then gets the rest of us all going again. It's a hoot.

Really, I love devo!