Introduction

Hello, reader, my name is Emily Shepherd. I was born in ------------ on October 6th, 1994 and have lived in -------------- for my entire childhood.

The school year of 2010-2011 was my sophomore year at Bear River High School. I took Seminary all three trimesters of that year and filled the larger part of the Seminary notebook I was given at the beginning of the year with notes and musings (not many doodles, though, because I’m no good at doodling). Apart from the usual 59 minute long class periods I spent in the Seminary building, I also spent a good deal of my free time there as well.

The Seminary building at our high school is one of the best places to spend free time. They keep it at a reasonable temperature, the water is holy, and sometimes the Seminary teachers will talk to you, granted that you aren’t loud and annoying and also as long as you don’t bring a crowd along or if they don’t have something they actually have to be doing.

My first impression of Seminary teachers was that they were, 1) weird, 2) dorky, 3) they enjoyed shaking your hand a bit too much, and 4) they all wear glasses. I was pretty much correct in my assumption apart from them ALL wearing glasses, but I was wrong to think that their kind of weird/dorkiness was a bad kind. Actually, I’d go as far as to say that they are actually smarter than they look (It‘s probably all of that holy water that they drink).