The Spirit of Christmas

Maybe its just because its Christmas time, or maybe people are nice all year round and I'm just more inclined to notice around the holidays, but people are nice.
Unbelievably nice. Not all people.
But some people.
So I want to advertise two specific people:
First, my professor of Pearl of Great Price, Kerry Mulhestein. If you have to take PoGP at BYU take it from him. First he is very knowledgeable and you learn a lot but his class is not too hard.
Second, if you get married and then get the flu and skip class every day and don't do your homework until late because you know you'll fail poetry if you don't spend every minute of your life working for that class and then you send Kerry an email apologizing that all your assignments were turned in a month late he will respond with this little number:

Dear Rebeccah,

Here is a late wedding gift for you. Get those papers in before the end of classes, and email me, and I’ll give you full credit. For the third response paper, write a page about how something in the PoGP can enhance your marriage. After the last day of class I can’t accept any work, so do it right away.

I am very excited for your marriage, and would like to make it a more positive semester to have been married in.

Kerry Muhlestein

Can we talk about the nicest man in the world? It specifically says in the syllabus that anything turned in late will automatically be marked for 50%. Dang, Muhlestein. Thank you.

Second man is John from Board of Provo, a skateboarding, skiing, and snowboarding shop in Provo. Let me first describe how cute his shop is: His little puppies are always there, sometimes his wife is there, and if she is then their two little kids are there. Yesterday when we came in (and John was like "Hey guys, how are you Travis?" Because he knows us by name) his three year old daughter was doing somersaults and calling out, "Look at me Dad! Look at me Daddy!"
It was so cute!
And Travis said "I'm taking my brother snowboarding tomorrow at Sundance for demo day." (Board of Provo brings their boards out and lets you rent them for free in the hopes that you buy one) "and I was wondering if you were going to have any boards his size?"
John asked how tall he was, his foot size, and his weight and then disappeared downstairs. He came back with a newly hot waxed board and boots and told Travis it would be a pain to wait in line for a new board, and he could just take this one tonight and have Tate use it.
Also, he could do this for free.
John and Travis are not really friends. They just chat a little over the counter when we buy new mittens or a coat every once and a while.
Renting a board for the day is usually about 25 dollars.
He just made Travis promise to bring it back.

Gah! I cannot get over it.
It is so nice.
I love Christmas. I love nice people.

So if you need a new snowboard, go to Board of Provo.
And if you need a religion Professor, or a Professor of Egyptian Excavation and Ancient Near Eastern studies, get Professor Muhlestein.