This week was a little bit crazy. It was just one of those weeks where a lot was going on with my RS responsibilities and I had other extra things too. On Friday evening I talked Frank into taking me to see more fireworks--a nearby town has a carnival every year and they were having fireworks that night. We had to wait quite a while for the fireworks to start, but we were much closer this time so they were a lot more impressive than the ones we saw on the 4th. We had a nice unobstructed view, too. It was a nice way to finish off my birthday.
On Saturday we got all the DVDs etc moved from the old entertainment center to the new one. When the Elders brought Tanner back from an appointment (he went with them to one), they helped Frank and the boys move the old entertainment center (really an armoire) down to the basement. We are using it for storage and now that area of the basement looks pretty nice. After dinner, Frank and I went to the temple. It was the last day before it closed for maintenance, so we really wanted to go one more time before then. We were pretty tired, though, so we did sealings because we thought we'd fall asleep otherwise. It was really nice to be there, as always.
The less active sister that I mentioned in my post last week actually did come to church and stayed all three hours, plus she came to our RS evening meeting on Wednesday. Another less active sister that I've visited a couple of times also came to Sacrament Meeting. Things like that make my day! We took Wanda to church this week too which always makes it a little hectic but I love her so I don't mind. We had a severe thunderstorm watch that afternoon and at one point the wind started to blow super hard and the clouds looked like this:
It doesn't really show in the picture, but the clouds actually looked a little greenish and one part was starting to twist around. But thankfully, it all blew over quickly and didn't turn into anything bad. We did get some rain but nothing more. Erin and Dan came over for dinner that evening so we got to see the new ring first! :) It's beautiful! We didn't have my cheesecake on my birthday after all, so we saved it for Sunday dessert. Here I am, showing off the cheesecake (which Frank actually made) and wearing my new fancy apron that I made:
We enjoyed visiting with Erin & Dan. Plus, they brought this really yummy salad to go with our dinner. I'm glad we had that day of rest before the busy week began. I did food orders on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday (and had visits with all three families as well). I had a visit on Monday, Presidency meeting and a meeting with the bishop on Tuesday, and our monthly RS evening meeting on Wednesday. Oh, and I also had to meet the visiting teaching coordinator at the church to log her into the computer so she could put her report in. For some reason her name had been removed from the computer so she couldn't log in herself. I think that's all the RS stuff, but isn't that enough? Oh yeah, and I also have been praying about a new counselor since I am, indeed, going to lose my current 1st counselor. But thankfully, I get to keep my other counselor and secretary--at least for now. I have the new counselor figured out now too--well, if they give me who I asked for, that is.
Besides all the RS stuff, Jared and I did community service this week on Monday through Thursday from 11:00-1:00. Our ward had signed up this week to help a local charitable organization that serves lunch and provides a craft for kids in low income areas every week day during the summer. Jared still needed the community service hours for his Citizenship in the Community merit badge so I thought this would be a good way for him to fulfill those. I went with him to help. Seth came with us the first day and he enjoyed playing with the other kids (since our ward was helping, there were even a number of other kids there that he knew from the ward). Seth didn't want to come the other days, though, so he stayed home with Tanner. We helped serve lunch to the kids and Jared played basketball with some of the boys. It was pretty fun, but it made for an extra busy week. One day all the cub scouts from our ward came over and they made air rockets with the kids. They liked that, but then yesterday another guy brought a bunch of snakes to show the kids and they LOVED that! He had six snakes--they are all his pets so they were pretty tame and the kids loved holding them. Jared and I got to hold them too. I took some pictures on my phone that I'd like to include but our mini SD card reader is missing so I can't get the pictures off of the phone and onto the computer. Hopefully by next week we'll get that done.
Doing those things--along with all the normal things I need to do each week--pretty much filled up my days from morning until night. A few days I was barely home. The boys helped out by doing a few chores every day. Jared also had reading to do for his class every day. Yesterday I took Tanner over to my 1st Counselor's house so she could help him with his Calculus packet. He has work he has to do over the summer but they didn't give him a book or any other resources to help him figure out what he had to do--doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Anyway, he had done most of the things in the packet before but he didn't remember how to do a lot of them so he needed some help and I knew my first counselor is good at math so I asked her if she could help him. She was able to help him remember how to do most of the problems and she also directed him to a website that will help him figure out the rest so that was very helpful! The boys have also been working on scouts a little and they are both almost done with the Communications merit badge, so I guess we are making a little progress.
Seth had a minor accident this week. On Wednesday he slipped while he was in the kitchen. He fell forward, and he fell so quickly that he didn't get his hands out in front of him so he hit his chest pretty hard on the kitchen floor. He was complaining that his chest hurt later that day so we decided to take him into the doctor to make sure he was ok. The doctor determined that nothing was broken or cracked, just bruised. He's still a little tender but seems to be healing fine.
Last night we had the Elders over for dinner and tonight Tanner and I went with them to a dinner appointment. They had an appointment with one of the less active single sisters in our ward, so they had to take another male with them and they also knew I wanted to meet her so they asked her if we could both come and she said yes. We had a very yummy dinner of Hawaiian haystacks and we enjoyed getting to know her a little. She's a very nice lady. She asked me if I did card making or scrapbooking and I said I have done a little scrapbooking but I haven't done it in a long time. So she took me back to show me her scrapbooking room--it was really nice! She said she is going to try to come to church this Sunday, so hopefully she will.
I had Tanner drive home from that appointment. She lives really close to us so he didn't have to go far and not on any really busy roads. I've been having him drive short distances like that when the opportunity arises so he is getting a little experience with driving the car. He is very cautious--sometimes too cautious--but I'm glad he is taking it seriously.
Frank took Tanner and Jared to work with him today--he had volunteered them to help one of his co-workers move a bunch of things from one office to another. She took them to lunch as a thank you, and she told Frank that they were great workers. Tonight they went to a meeting to plan their meals for Camp Helaman and now they are at our former bishop's house. He was really big on encouraging the youth to read the Book of Mormon, so as a thank you for him they created a video for him with all the youth talking about what the Book of Mormon means to them. They are going to show it to him and have treats too I think.
Frank has a ton of work to do for his clients. He's been working every spare second, so his week has been as busy as mine.
I almost got hit twice yesterday--in the same intersection! First a car almost ran the red light--thankfully I looked to my left and saw him coming and realized in the nick of time that he was not going to stop so I stopped. He woke up and came to a screeching halt in the middle of the intersection but if I hadn't stopped first, he would have hit me. Then after he went on by (he was blocking the intersection, so he had to keep going) I started to go forward again when the car on the opposite side of the intersection from me decided to turn left right in front of me! I looked at the light again--yes, it really was green for me! Crazy. Just glad I didn't get hit.
I think that brings you up to date on all our news for this week.
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So jealous that you got to see the ring! :)
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