Even though the month of February is short as far as days are concerned it has been a crazy one and very busy. I have not enjoyed all the snow that we have had this month, but I sure enjoyed the week of spring-like weather. I hope that break is enough to see my through to the real spring-time because I am so completely done with winter I can hardly stand it. I’m not really sure why this winter seems so everlastingly long, but it sure seems like it has been winter forever this year. Maybe the newness of living in snow wore off the first year of being here and now I find it to be a pain like everyone else. I don’t know. I’ve certainly not enjoyed driving in it this year and I feel like I’ve done a lot more driving in it than I had to last year and I’m sure that’s part of it. I am so grateful that we never lost power during the entire winter. I’m sure this is due only to the fact that Consumer’s spent quite a bit of time chopping up trees that were causing damage to the power lines this past summer after a large number of power outages occurred last spring. I don’t mind losing power so much as I mind losing water. That’s pretty hard to deal with. Someday I will be the proud owner of a generator and it won’t matter anymore, but for now I just get to pour water in the toilet tank and try to flush as little as possible when the electricity goes out.
School has been busy and is progressing quickly. I like the shortened class schedule because I find that I’m already getting quite bored with my classes and I still have a few weeks left for two of them. One is now finished and I didn’t do as well in it as I would have liked to, but did well enough I’m not complaining. I’m doing better with my on campus classes, both of which I have an A in currently. I’m very happy with those grades and I guess I just do better when I’m in a classroom than I do when I’m online. Sometimes the lectures get boring, but I will take the trade-off for the better grades as that opens more opportunities for scholarships and such.
This past Friday my psychology instructor talked about the five languages of love which I found so interesting I wanted to share it with you. Perhaps it will help you, I don’t know. The first one is “Acts of Service” this is a person who shows their love by serving others. If someone wants to say “I love you” to this type of person, they should do an act of service, like the dishes. The second type is “Giving and Receiving Gifts” this is a person who gives gifts just for the fun of it to show their love. Third is “Words of Support” which is someone who shows love by the things they say. Fourth is “Quality Time” and this person needs to spend time with people to show they love them. Lastly is the one so many of us think of when we talk about showing love, “Physical Touch” and includes things like kisses, hugs, and cuddling. He was talking about how we can improve our marriages by speaking our spouses love language. So if your spouse is one who speaks the language of Words of Support then you should compliment them often and about as many things as you can. In return, they will feel more loved. I enjoyed this idea very much and I can see why when I do certain things for Andrew he tends to feel more loved and does things for me that show me he loves me (I’m an Acts of Service person). It was very interesting. I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. If you want to learn more, the person who originally came up with the idea is Gary Chapman and he wrote a book entitled “The Seasons of Marriage” which I’ve not read so I will not recommend it nor will I condemn it. I assume it’s a good book and I would like to read it. If I do, I will let you know.
During the month I gave an informative speech in my speech class and talked about four beliefs of the LDS Church. I got feedback from most of the people in class (a few were absent and it was an assignment) and almost everyone enjoyed the speech. I’m glad to hear that. This next Wednesday I do a demonstration speech about conducting music and then I have two more to do, one impromptu and one that is persuasive, which I plan to do about Relay for Life. I figure since I’m a team captain that should be a good topic for me to talk about.
This month we had New Beginnings in Young Women. Sadly, I didn’t feel well enough to go but I did earn some ribbons to add to the one I earned last fall. I’m excited to be progressing through the program again (I did it when I was a young women myself) and am looking forward to completing it sometime this year and getting my medallion this fall.
Andrew left town on February 6th and began work in South Point, OH. He ended up coming home early because they were ahead of schedule on their project so he surprised me this past Wednesday around 6:30am when he showed up. It’s nice to have him back again. I always miss him when he is out of town. I hope that he will not have to stay out of town for such long periods of time for long. A few days I don’t mind, but a few weeks is not good in my opinion.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
January 2011
Hello Everyone!
This month has been a very busy one for me. I just took the second of two finals today, the other I did a few weeks ago. I think I’ll end up with a B in the class that I took the final for today. I hated that class and am glad to be done with it. It was supposed to be about Humanities, which to me is more a study of human history and behavior and how we developed and so forth. The course turned out to be almost like an art history course with a little history thrown in. It was quite stupid. On the 10th I started three new classes at Baker College over in Jackson. Technically I guess it’s only two because one is online. So far I am enjoying all three courses, which is nice because I spend quite a lot of my time doing work for them so I might as well enjoy it. I hate APA formatting though. I don’t know anyone who enjoys it, but having to use it to write paper after paper is especially not enjoyable.
Andrew sort of heard back about the job he wants. He was told that he is hired effective February 6th, but we don’t know a lot of details other than that. We know his first job is in Ohio, I forget the city and we are fairly sure he will be a supervisor, but we don’t know salary nor do we know anything about whether we need to get a 2nd car, if we’ll someday have insurance, if there is going to be extensive travel or only occasional or any of that kind of thing. We are waiting for them to let us know when they can meet with Andrew in order to work all of that out. It seems they are very excited to have him work there, but they sure aren’t good at the hiring process. I hope they are better after he starts working there. I’m not so big on all the uncertainty that has come so far from the whole thing thus far, but we both still feel really good about the job and feel that this is where he needs to be. I sure hope we are right.
January has been eventful for me as far as the Church is concerned too. I have a new calling now. I was the 2nd counselor in the Young Women presidency, but I have been asked to serve now as president. I can’t say that I’m excited for the change, but I’m grateful to be able to serve where the Lord needs me. Megan was almost happy when they released me as 2nd counselor, but then when I was called as president the excitement faded. I feel sorry for her because I’m sure it’s hard to always have Mom there and not be able to do whatever and say whatever. She says it’s cause I tease her (I do it good-naturedly) but I think she wishes she was in there without me sometimes. I can’t say that I blame her. I have two wonderful counselors, Ruth Montross and Sarah Sill. Both are very busy women, as am I, but I know that the Lord will work through us if we will let Him.
Megan turned 13 on the 9th, so she is an official teenager now. I don’t know why she thought it was such a big deal, but we all seem to at that age. It’s funny because later in life we don’t want to think about our birthdays at all if we can help it. I am at the point where I don’t care one way or the other about mine, but I realized that today marks four months till my next one and I can’t believe it has come around so fast.
We went sledding a few times and that was fun for Andrew and Megan more than it was for me. I’m not much on climbing hills and then sometimes they go so fast they scare me. I’m not big on being scared, so I don’t do much sledding.
I hope your Christmas and New Year’s was nice. Ours was pretty good. We had the Elders here on Christmas Eve and had a good time visiting with them. We called my family on Christmas Eve and Andrew’s on Christmas. We really want to start doing that more often, but we haven’t done it since then so we aren’t doing too good at that.
I started a program to help me lose weight, there are nearly 99 of us in the program. It’s a different program than I have done before. As part of this program two local places are offering special membership prices. I can’t afford either right now, so I didn’t join either one. Maybe some other time. We all have to weigh-in on Mondays at one of the two places and we also are raising money for the American Cancer Society at the same time. If you would like to sponsor me you can do so by the pounds I lose or you can do a flat amount that you’d like to donate. The money is due the end of June and I will let you know what I’ve lost at that point. I’ve been working on losing weight for some time now, but I have been doing better since I started this program. I workout at home more often than I’ve done before, so I think I might actually get much of my weight off that I need in order to be healthy. I certainly hope so. I plan to go to Girl’s Camp this summer, so I need to lose a bunch of weight before then so that it will be easier for me to get around when I get there. I’ll try to remember and keep you updated as I go.
I guess that’s it for this month. Love and miss you. You are in our thoughts and prayers often. We hope all is well.
This month has been a very busy one for me. I just took the second of two finals today, the other I did a few weeks ago. I think I’ll end up with a B in the class that I took the final for today. I hated that class and am glad to be done with it. It was supposed to be about Humanities, which to me is more a study of human history and behavior and how we developed and so forth. The course turned out to be almost like an art history course with a little history thrown in. It was quite stupid. On the 10th I started three new classes at Baker College over in Jackson. Technically I guess it’s only two because one is online. So far I am enjoying all three courses, which is nice because I spend quite a lot of my time doing work for them so I might as well enjoy it. I hate APA formatting though. I don’t know anyone who enjoys it, but having to use it to write paper after paper is especially not enjoyable.
Andrew sort of heard back about the job he wants. He was told that he is hired effective February 6th, but we don’t know a lot of details other than that. We know his first job is in Ohio, I forget the city and we are fairly sure he will be a supervisor, but we don’t know salary nor do we know anything about whether we need to get a 2nd car, if we’ll someday have insurance, if there is going to be extensive travel or only occasional or any of that kind of thing. We are waiting for them to let us know when they can meet with Andrew in order to work all of that out. It seems they are very excited to have him work there, but they sure aren’t good at the hiring process. I hope they are better after he starts working there. I’m not so big on all the uncertainty that has come so far from the whole thing thus far, but we both still feel really good about the job and feel that this is where he needs to be. I sure hope we are right.
January has been eventful for me as far as the Church is concerned too. I have a new calling now. I was the 2nd counselor in the Young Women presidency, but I have been asked to serve now as president. I can’t say that I’m excited for the change, but I’m grateful to be able to serve where the Lord needs me. Megan was almost happy when they released me as 2nd counselor, but then when I was called as president the excitement faded. I feel sorry for her because I’m sure it’s hard to always have Mom there and not be able to do whatever and say whatever. She says it’s cause I tease her (I do it good-naturedly) but I think she wishes she was in there without me sometimes. I can’t say that I blame her. I have two wonderful counselors, Ruth Montross and Sarah Sill. Both are very busy women, as am I, but I know that the Lord will work through us if we will let Him.
Megan turned 13 on the 9th, so she is an official teenager now. I don’t know why she thought it was such a big deal, but we all seem to at that age. It’s funny because later in life we don’t want to think about our birthdays at all if we can help it. I am at the point where I don’t care one way or the other about mine, but I realized that today marks four months till my next one and I can’t believe it has come around so fast.
We went sledding a few times and that was fun for Andrew and Megan more than it was for me. I’m not much on climbing hills and then sometimes they go so fast they scare me. I’m not big on being scared, so I don’t do much sledding.
I hope your Christmas and New Year’s was nice. Ours was pretty good. We had the Elders here on Christmas Eve and had a good time visiting with them. We called my family on Christmas Eve and Andrew’s on Christmas. We really want to start doing that more often, but we haven’t done it since then so we aren’t doing too good at that.
I started a program to help me lose weight, there are nearly 99 of us in the program. It’s a different program than I have done before. As part of this program two local places are offering special membership prices. I can’t afford either right now, so I didn’t join either one. Maybe some other time. We all have to weigh-in on Mondays at one of the two places and we also are raising money for the American Cancer Society at the same time. If you would like to sponsor me you can do so by the pounds I lose or you can do a flat amount that you’d like to donate. The money is due the end of June and I will let you know what I’ve lost at that point. I’ve been working on losing weight for some time now, but I have been doing better since I started this program. I workout at home more often than I’ve done before, so I think I might actually get much of my weight off that I need in order to be healthy. I certainly hope so. I plan to go to Girl’s Camp this summer, so I need to lose a bunch of weight before then so that it will be easier for me to get around when I get there. I’ll try to remember and keep you updated as I go.
I guess that’s it for this month. Love and miss you. You are in our thoughts and prayers often. We hope all is well.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
December 2010 update
This month has been a busy one for me. I can only imagine that it has for you as well. December is just one of those months that you can always count on it being busy. The month began with a bang, literally. On December 2nd was Megan’s band concert. I went to pick up Andrew from work and found out that he had literally just been laid off. We were not totally surprised by that because he has worked in the automotive field for many years and he saw the signs coming. There were two managers that talked to him and both told him how much they liked him working there and were sad to see him go, but the owners had given the managers the ultimatum and they had no choice but to let him go. He had already been looking for another job though, so we were one step ahead of them. I wish they had waited long enough for him to find something else. He has had several interviews with new places, but we haven’t heard anything back yet. One place sounds especially promising, but we are still waiting to hear back from them. I hope it’s soon. We have unemployment and very understanding landlords who agreed to work with us on the rent, but we can’t do that forever.
School is going well. I’m nearly done with both of my classes. I will be glad to get out of school, but I don’t know when that will happen. I think I’ll be around 40 when it does happen. I’m not just pulling that number out of the air either. I’m pretty sure that’s when I’ll be graduating. Next semester I take World Geography, General Psychology, and Oral Communication. Boy what a class load that is! The first one is a six-week online course and the other two are campus classes that are ten weeks long. I hope I do well and can keep up with the work.
As busy as the month has been, it’s not much to talk about this month. It was the usual stuff pretty much. You know; laundry, dishes, cooking, all those normal everyday things. With Andrew not working we have been spending more time together as a family and that’s been really nice. As a result though there isn’t much to say!
The Branch Christmas party was nice. We had lots of people show up and the food was good. We talked about how all of us put up stockings and give gifts but so many of us forget to give a gift to our Savior, and He is the reason we are celebrating in the first place. It really made me think about what I can give to my Savior and the only thing I can think of that I can truly give Him is my will to be the same as His will. This is much harder to do than one would think. I’m trying to do it, but I feel like I’m doing a pretty bad job of it some days.
School is going well. I’m nearly done with both of my classes. I will be glad to get out of school, but I don’t know when that will happen. I think I’ll be around 40 when it does happen. I’m not just pulling that number out of the air either. I’m pretty sure that’s when I’ll be graduating. Next semester I take World Geography, General Psychology, and Oral Communication. Boy what a class load that is! The first one is a six-week online course and the other two are campus classes that are ten weeks long. I hope I do well and can keep up with the work.
As busy as the month has been, it’s not much to talk about this month. It was the usual stuff pretty much. You know; laundry, dishes, cooking, all those normal everyday things. With Andrew not working we have been spending more time together as a family and that’s been really nice. As a result though there isn’t much to say!
The Branch Christmas party was nice. We had lots of people show up and the food was good. We talked about how all of us put up stockings and give gifts but so many of us forget to give a gift to our Savior, and He is the reason we are celebrating in the first place. It really made me think about what I can give to my Savior and the only thing I can think of that I can truly give Him is my will to be the same as His will. This is much harder to do than one would think. I’m trying to do it, but I feel like I’m doing a pretty bad job of it some days.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
November update
Hello all,
This month seems to have not been quite so busy as last. Sadly I think I got less done personally than I got done in October when I was so busy. It seems funny that the busier we are with other things the more we get done with what we need to do. I find this true in many instances. It’s almost like we feel a greater need to accomplish our own agenda when we are busy working on other agendas. The month began with a bang if you will. Andrew came home and announced his manager had been fired. In the automotive industry this is always a scary thing because generally speaking they eventually lay off about half of the current staff as well. I’m not really sure why that is, but that’s the way it goes. We were on pins and needles for a few weeks, but now we are starting to relax. We still don’t know if his job is safe, but we are doing all we can for him to find a new job. We are leaving the rest in the Lord’s hands. For now things are still the same as they were on that particular front.
We had a leadership training meeting the next weekend and I was released from Activities Committee Chair. The Church has ended that part of the administration effort. The Ward or Branch Council will essentially decide what activities to hold. The actual committee for each of the activities will change. Since I had already planning the Christmas party I will be finishing that effort up. That will be on December 18th at 6pm. As always, I’d love to see you there. There were lots of other changes that were announced in that training session. It will be very interesting to see how they all play out.
The same weekend was also Stake Conference. Elder Dallin H. Oaks from the Quorum of the Twelve came and spoke to us. I guess it has never happened in the history of the stake to have a member of the Twelve come and speak to us. It was really inspiring. He had come to a Stake Conference we had back in AZ not too long before we moved here, maybe a year or so. I think it’s very interesting that he was at both of these conferences and I can’t help but think that maybe there was something I should have taken away. I tried to figure that out and am hoping I got it right, but boy am I curious to know if I really did so or not.
We had a youth service project and also had YW in Excellence this month. The service project was done to help a couple get their property ready to be foster parents for some horses. I don’t know if they have the horses yet or not, but I think we got them ready for it. At YW in Excellence we had a royal theme. We talked about how life is like a fairy tale and in between Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After every princess has her share of trials, heartaches and disappointment. It all turned out in the end for each of them and it will for us too if we hold onto our faith in Jesus Christ. This went quite well with a talk by Brother Young today. He said that whoever accepts the Son (of God) get it all. We get everything when we choose our Savior. We simply have to make that choice to put Him first and all else will follow.
Thanksgiving was interesting at our house this year. It was just the three of us. We had wanted the Elder’s to come over, but they had already been invited by another family. We had a smaller than usual turkey and didn’t end up eating until around 7pm because it took so long for the thing to cook! Next year we will go with a regular sized turkey and cook the way we usually do. I didn’t like having dinner so late. I like it around 2pm or so, then we can play games and eat again around 7pm when we are ready to. We started off the day as always watching the Macy’s parade. I have always watched it. I’m not sure why I like it so much, but I really enjoy it. This year Megan took a great interest in watching the bands. She loves to see a flute being played during anything. She has a great love for the flute.
Now that Thanksgiving has passed Christmas season is upon us. We put up some of our Christmas decorations, but not all. We were sad to see that one of our blow-up characters, Frosty the Snowman, will no longer blow up all the way. We took him back down. We have really scaled back from what we normally do for decoration. I think I prefer it this way. I was so excited to put out all my nativities. I have eleven and then I bought another. I have twelve now. I had to buy the one I saw this year, it was Charlie Brown and simply too cute to pass up. Plus it was on a pretty big sale. Normally $25, I paid $15. It was good. I guess I’m somewhat a collector of them. It’s what the season is really all about anyway. I’m hoping that eventually I will be able to put a nice one out in the front yard, but for now all we have is the Peanuts gang and the Pooh gang. Sadly, Snoopy, Woodstock and Marci all missing from the Peanuts group because they were stolen a few years ago. We bought some wood to make new ones, but they haven’t been made yet. They are quite an undertaking. I think this year we will get them made and painted, but I also need to repaint all the ones I have already made. They are starting to show their age. I’m nearly done with the Christmas cards. I like to get them off early.
Tomorrow is the Christmas parade here in town and I look forward to that. I guess it’s supposed to rain, so we’ll take our umbrellas, dress warmly and take something warm to drink as well. I think we’ll need it. Next Sunday, the 5th is the First Presidency Christmas devotional. I love to listen to that and watch it of course. It will be at 8pm local time. You can come to the building and watch it or if you prefer, you can watch it online at either the Church’s website or BYU will also carry it I’m sure. They will have video archive within a week on the Church’s website if you want to watch it later when it’s more convenient for you.
I guess that’s it. I’m always surprised by how much I have to say. I really enjoy sharing this with you each month and I hope that you enjoy hearing from me as well.
This month seems to have not been quite so busy as last. Sadly I think I got less done personally than I got done in October when I was so busy. It seems funny that the busier we are with other things the more we get done with what we need to do. I find this true in many instances. It’s almost like we feel a greater need to accomplish our own agenda when we are busy working on other agendas. The month began with a bang if you will. Andrew came home and announced his manager had been fired. In the automotive industry this is always a scary thing because generally speaking they eventually lay off about half of the current staff as well. I’m not really sure why that is, but that’s the way it goes. We were on pins and needles for a few weeks, but now we are starting to relax. We still don’t know if his job is safe, but we are doing all we can for him to find a new job. We are leaving the rest in the Lord’s hands. For now things are still the same as they were on that particular front.
We had a leadership training meeting the next weekend and I was released from Activities Committee Chair. The Church has ended that part of the administration effort. The Ward or Branch Council will essentially decide what activities to hold. The actual committee for each of the activities will change. Since I had already planning the Christmas party I will be finishing that effort up. That will be on December 18th at 6pm. As always, I’d love to see you there. There were lots of other changes that were announced in that training session. It will be very interesting to see how they all play out.
The same weekend was also Stake Conference. Elder Dallin H. Oaks from the Quorum of the Twelve came and spoke to us. I guess it has never happened in the history of the stake to have a member of the Twelve come and speak to us. It was really inspiring. He had come to a Stake Conference we had back in AZ not too long before we moved here, maybe a year or so. I think it’s very interesting that he was at both of these conferences and I can’t help but think that maybe there was something I should have taken away. I tried to figure that out and am hoping I got it right, but boy am I curious to know if I really did so or not.
We had a youth service project and also had YW in Excellence this month. The service project was done to help a couple get their property ready to be foster parents for some horses. I don’t know if they have the horses yet or not, but I think we got them ready for it. At YW in Excellence we had a royal theme. We talked about how life is like a fairy tale and in between Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After every princess has her share of trials, heartaches and disappointment. It all turned out in the end for each of them and it will for us too if we hold onto our faith in Jesus Christ. This went quite well with a talk by Brother Young today. He said that whoever accepts the Son (of God) get it all. We get everything when we choose our Savior. We simply have to make that choice to put Him first and all else will follow.
Thanksgiving was interesting at our house this year. It was just the three of us. We had wanted the Elder’s to come over, but they had already been invited by another family. We had a smaller than usual turkey and didn’t end up eating until around 7pm because it took so long for the thing to cook! Next year we will go with a regular sized turkey and cook the way we usually do. I didn’t like having dinner so late. I like it around 2pm or so, then we can play games and eat again around 7pm when we are ready to. We started off the day as always watching the Macy’s parade. I have always watched it. I’m not sure why I like it so much, but I really enjoy it. This year Megan took a great interest in watching the bands. She loves to see a flute being played during anything. She has a great love for the flute.
Now that Thanksgiving has passed Christmas season is upon us. We put up some of our Christmas decorations, but not all. We were sad to see that one of our blow-up characters, Frosty the Snowman, will no longer blow up all the way. We took him back down. We have really scaled back from what we normally do for decoration. I think I prefer it this way. I was so excited to put out all my nativities. I have eleven and then I bought another. I have twelve now. I had to buy the one I saw this year, it was Charlie Brown and simply too cute to pass up. Plus it was on a pretty big sale. Normally $25, I paid $15. It was good. I guess I’m somewhat a collector of them. It’s what the season is really all about anyway. I’m hoping that eventually I will be able to put a nice one out in the front yard, but for now all we have is the Peanuts gang and the Pooh gang. Sadly, Snoopy, Woodstock and Marci all missing from the Peanuts group because they were stolen a few years ago. We bought some wood to make new ones, but they haven’t been made yet. They are quite an undertaking. I think this year we will get them made and painted, but I also need to repaint all the ones I have already made. They are starting to show their age. I’m nearly done with the Christmas cards. I like to get them off early.
Tomorrow is the Christmas parade here in town and I look forward to that. I guess it’s supposed to rain, so we’ll take our umbrellas, dress warmly and take something warm to drink as well. I think we’ll need it. Next Sunday, the 5th is the First Presidency Christmas devotional. I love to listen to that and watch it of course. It will be at 8pm local time. You can come to the building and watch it or if you prefer, you can watch it online at either the Church’s website or BYU will also carry it I’m sure. They will have video archive within a week on the Church’s website if you want to watch it later when it’s more convenient for you.
I guess that’s it. I’m always surprised by how much I have to say. I really enjoy sharing this with you each month and I hope that you enjoy hearing from me as well.
Monday, October 25, 2010
October 2010 update
Dear Lisa,
This month hasn’t been much of anything, yet still busy in its own way. The last Saturday of September was the General Relief Society meeting. I enjoyed it very much. I was surprised to see President Monson tear up and have to actually wipe away a few tears. It was very touching. He talked about judging other when we have no right to. He told the story of a young couple who moved into a new house and every week for a few weeks she kept complaining to her husband about how the woman next door couldn’t get her laundry cleaned, which was hanging up where the couple could see. After several weeks, she remarked how the woman must have learned how to finally clean her laundry. Her husband spoke up and said he knew what had happened. He had gotten up earlier that day and washed their windows. I couldn’t help but think about how we can each be that way so often in our lives. I know I am guilty of it. I am amazed at how when I get to know someone better, they are much smarter than I thought they were initially. I hope you know what I mean. It’s very sad to think that we are so mean to one another and yet all we want from others in their compassion and understanding.
The beginning of the month we had General Conference. We went to most of the sessions at the Chapel, but Sunday afternoon I gave up and decided to sit on my soft couch at home and watch it on the Internet. Those chairs are not the most comfortable chairs to sit on. I think the talk that most affected me was Elder Holland. He spoke about gratitude. He did so in such a way that I felt he was talking to me personally and thanking me for every effort I have ever made in the Church. I’ve never felt so appreciated from someone I have never met.
October also brought the Road show. We have been practicing for what seems like an eternity, on the 16th we finally performed. We went to the Vicksburg auditorium. It was so fun to watch what everyone had come up with. Although I know that I’m quite biased of course, I think ours was one of the two best. The one by Kalamazoo (all three wards) had some amazing dances, but there was no story line, so I didn’t like it as well as the other one. I can’t remember who did the other good one though. Sorry about that. Anyway, the kids had lots of fun. I was quite happy with the way it all turned out, but I’m also glad to moving past that and onto something else.
On the 23rd, just a week after Road show was finished, we had a huge garage sale at our house as a fundraiser for the Scouts and Young Women for camp for next year. We did pretty good. I think we made about $550. We probably would have made more, but the weather wasn’t getting along with us too well. We gave the rest of the stuff to Goodwill. They were pretty overwhelmed with all we had to give them. We probably could have done a 2nd yard sale and raised just as much money again, but I was so tired of the stuff being here and taking up my garage space that I wasn’t about to put it all away again. Still, if I had realized in advance how much there was I would have planned on two garage sales. Most of the kids came to help at one point or another and we enjoyed being together.
I finished my math class finally and ended with a B. It’s not what I had hoped for, but I’m glad it’s over with anyway. I also finished my creative writing class. I got an A in that one and I was happy to see that. Now I’m taking another creative writing class for fun and a Humanities course. I also went and enrolled at Baker College in Jackson. I will start there on January 10th. I go in for orientation in November. I am excited to be getting on with obtaining a degree, but I can’t believe all the schooling I will need to get my degree. I will need 239 quarter hours to finish the degree up and that seems like an awful lot. I don’t know how that works from semester hours, so right now I’m just in the dark as to what that really means. I am in high hopes that I will be able to transfer a lot of my classes over and not have too many to take once they are transferred over. I haven’t heard yet about that. I am planning to really get in and take a huge load of classes so that I can finish as soon as possible and get into a school and finally be able to teach. I want to try and take as many classes as I can on just two days of the week so that I can substitute teach on the other three days if anyone needs me for whatever reason.
I guess that’s about it for now. I hope you are all doing well. I’d love to hear back from any of you anytime!
This month hasn’t been much of anything, yet still busy in its own way. The last Saturday of September was the General Relief Society meeting. I enjoyed it very much. I was surprised to see President Monson tear up and have to actually wipe away a few tears. It was very touching. He talked about judging other when we have no right to. He told the story of a young couple who moved into a new house and every week for a few weeks she kept complaining to her husband about how the woman next door couldn’t get her laundry cleaned, which was hanging up where the couple could see. After several weeks, she remarked how the woman must have learned how to finally clean her laundry. Her husband spoke up and said he knew what had happened. He had gotten up earlier that day and washed their windows. I couldn’t help but think about how we can each be that way so often in our lives. I know I am guilty of it. I am amazed at how when I get to know someone better, they are much smarter than I thought they were initially. I hope you know what I mean. It’s very sad to think that we are so mean to one another and yet all we want from others in their compassion and understanding.
The beginning of the month we had General Conference. We went to most of the sessions at the Chapel, but Sunday afternoon I gave up and decided to sit on my soft couch at home and watch it on the Internet. Those chairs are not the most comfortable chairs to sit on. I think the talk that most affected me was Elder Holland. He spoke about gratitude. He did so in such a way that I felt he was talking to me personally and thanking me for every effort I have ever made in the Church. I’ve never felt so appreciated from someone I have never met.
October also brought the Road show. We have been practicing for what seems like an eternity, on the 16th we finally performed. We went to the Vicksburg auditorium. It was so fun to watch what everyone had come up with. Although I know that I’m quite biased of course, I think ours was one of the two best. The one by Kalamazoo (all three wards) had some amazing dances, but there was no story line, so I didn’t like it as well as the other one. I can’t remember who did the other good one though. Sorry about that. Anyway, the kids had lots of fun. I was quite happy with the way it all turned out, but I’m also glad to moving past that and onto something else.
On the 23rd, just a week after Road show was finished, we had a huge garage sale at our house as a fundraiser for the Scouts and Young Women for camp for next year. We did pretty good. I think we made about $550. We probably would have made more, but the weather wasn’t getting along with us too well. We gave the rest of the stuff to Goodwill. They were pretty overwhelmed with all we had to give them. We probably could have done a 2nd yard sale and raised just as much money again, but I was so tired of the stuff being here and taking up my garage space that I wasn’t about to put it all away again. Still, if I had realized in advance how much there was I would have planned on two garage sales. Most of the kids came to help at one point or another and we enjoyed being together.
I finished my math class finally and ended with a B. It’s not what I had hoped for, but I’m glad it’s over with anyway. I also finished my creative writing class. I got an A in that one and I was happy to see that. Now I’m taking another creative writing class for fun and a Humanities course. I also went and enrolled at Baker College in Jackson. I will start there on January 10th. I go in for orientation in November. I am excited to be getting on with obtaining a degree, but I can’t believe all the schooling I will need to get my degree. I will need 239 quarter hours to finish the degree up and that seems like an awful lot. I don’t know how that works from semester hours, so right now I’m just in the dark as to what that really means. I am in high hopes that I will be able to transfer a lot of my classes over and not have too many to take once they are transferred over. I haven’t heard yet about that. I am planning to really get in and take a huge load of classes so that I can finish as soon as possible and get into a school and finally be able to teach. I want to try and take as many classes as I can on just two days of the week so that I can substitute teach on the other three days if anyone needs me for whatever reason.
I guess that’s about it for now. I hope you are all doing well. I’d love to hear back from any of you anytime!
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