It is late Friday night, and I am waiting up for Jared. He is running tech for a play at the high school. It's a small play done by the Advanced Theater Studies class called Laramie. They had their first performance last night, and according to Jared it went really well.
This week was quite busy, but if I don't include a lot of unecessary details this post won't be too long! Last Friday morning when I helped in Seth's class his teacher talked to me a little bit about his progress in math. She confirmed what I thought...he's really not struggling with math. She was surprised by his low score on the Global Scholar test, so she asked what had happened. Turns out that he only did a few problems and then decided he didn't want to do anymore! He can be stubborn like that sometimes. His teacher did also agree with Frank and I that having him in math intervention might be good for him even though he isn't really struggling with math concepts.
We had an enjoyable evening with our carpool family (the Caraballos). We made homemade pizza and they loved it! We enjoyed visiting and getting to know them better.
On Saturday we went to see Meet the Mormons, and enjoyed it a lot. I had a special leadership meeting in Virginia that evening, done by a member of the General Sunday School Presidency. It was really good, but I was up late and then I had a busy Sunday with the usual early morning start for Ward Council. I taught RS and everyone was tired & hungry and kind of zoned out so it was hard to get participation. I wasn't too happy about that. That evening we had a "cottage meeting" which is something our ward does once a month. The intention is to create an atmosphere where a basic gospel doctrine can be taught in a very non intimidating way. So they have the meeting in someone's home, casual, with refreshments. They show a brief video from lds.org and then have a short discussion. The idea is that ward members can invite non members or less actives to attend this meeting. This month's meeting was focused on the women, so we've been encouraging the RS sisters to invite friends and less active sisters to attend. Well, I'm sure some of the sisters did extend invitations (I did) but unfortunately none of the invited made it. So the meeting was attended by just active members, but at least we tried! And it was very nice anyway.
I can sum up most of the week pretty quickly. We had the Elders over for dinner on Monday and the Sisters over this evening. I did two food orders, both for young single men, so Frank came with me for one and I met the other one at the church to do his. I did some necessary clothes shopping on Monday. I went to the temple on Tuesday (it was soooo nice to do that again) and met Frank on the way home for lunch. I spent Wednesday afternoon doing visits with the Sister missionaries. We left notes on two doors (less actives), visited briefly with another sister's husband, and were finally able to actually visit with two other less active sisters. We had a really good visit with the first one, the second one was good too but it was just a short visit. On Thursday I had a presidency meeting. Today there was no school. I took Seth to a pumpkin farm and I got my hair done. That is the summary of the week!
I wasn't sitting around in between all of those things. I had lots of miscellaneous RS stuff to do along with all the usual household chores. I also looked into what Tanner will have to do to get a mission deferment...he's thinking he definitely won't go back to school Winter Semester and is starting to work on his mission papers...and filled out a passport application for him too. In between everything else I tried to get some reading done on the book chat book. So far it is pretty good.
I will finish up with picture of our trip to the farm today. It was a perfectly beautiful day to be outside...sunny, warm, a little windy. We've had quite a bit of rain this week (it rained really hard on Wednesday) but fortunately the farm wasn't too muddy. It was a lot more than a pumpkin patch, too. They had a ton of other activities like hayrides, a corn maze, big slides, food, etc. We did come home with a couple of pumpkins. Here's the pictures:
(The bright things at the top of the picture is my hair! It was windy and my hair kept blowing in front of the camera lens.)
(Big bouncy "pillow")
Corn maze:
Waiting for the hayride:
Views of the farm:
On the hayride:
In the pumpkin patch:
Fun day! :)
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