This week was busy, but mostly with the usual things so I don't think there is a ton to write about. Last Saturday I had a quiet morning while Frank was gone doing work for a client and Seth was helping set up the tech stuff for Stake Conference. I used that quiet time to do Seminary lesson prep and I did manage to get everything ready for Monday's lesson and planned lessons for Tuesday and Wednesday. On Sunday afternoon I got everything else ready (Power Point slides etc.) for the other two lessons, so I was ready to go for this week, which was great. I had to plan shorter lessons (about 30 minutes instead of 40 - 45 minutes) because we had the kids take turns telling a little bit about themselves so we had to leave time for that. On Monday Tammy and I each told a little about ourselves to give them examples of what to do. Tammy had a slide with a bunch of pictures that represented different things about herself and I brought in several objects. Every other day this week we had 3 or 4 of the youth talk about themselves. Most of them just got up and told a few things about themselves, though. Two of them prepared slides with pictures and no one has brought in any objects. We have still managed to learn a few things about them, though.
I guess I got a little side tracked from what happened on Saturday. As I mentioned, it was Stake Conference for us this weekend. Frank and Seth were both helping with the tech for both the Saturday evening session and the Sunday morning session...Seth at the stake center and Frank at our ward building. On Saturday evening they were doing a test broadcast from the stake center to our building so Frank was at our building. The last couple of conferences before this one, I went with Frank to our building to watch the Saturday evening session but since last time they actually had a lot of problems with the broadcast and I missed the whole meeting, I opted to go to the stake center by myself this time. Actually, I didn't go by myself...Seth came with me...but I was sitting by myself since Seth was running around helping with tech stuff for the whole meeting. For the Sunday morning session I also went to the stake center because I was singing in the choir. I had choir practice before the meeting started but Seth also had to be there early to help with the tech stuff, so that worked out perfectly. Both meetings were very good.
On Sunday afternoon Tammy and I met at the church to make sure the tables for Seminary Monday morning were set up correctly. The YSA ward sets them up for us since they are the last ward to have meetings in our building every Sunday. Last week, Seth made sure they were set up correctly but he didn't go to the YSA ward meetings this week since he went to our stake conference meetings instead. It's a good thing we checked, because when we got there none of the tables or chairs were set up.
I feel like all of my lessons went pretty well this week and I am really happy with our class. So far, almost everyone has been awake and participating every day and there is usually a comfortable and happy / fun atmosphere. Every day, there are some great comments and we have even had some of the youth actually raise their hands and offer comments without being asked! *This is earth shattering!!* It's mostly the freshmen who are doing this--go freshmen!! Show the older kids how it should be done! 😊Really, they are all so sweet! The new kids from Frederick High School are also participating and I feel like a lot of the kids we've had for a couple of years are participating a lot more too. And they just seem happier and more comfortable with us. So yes--good things happening in Seminary! I got Monday's lesson planned on Wednesday and Tuesday's lesson planned yesterday. I still need to prepare some Power Point slides and some handouts and make some copies. And I'm not super happy with Monday's lesson, so I may do some tweaking. But it feels good to have most of the heavy duty part of the preparations done for next week.
Frank got his MRI on Wednesday morning but unfortunately we don't have the results of that yet. I was really hoping they would call him today. Now we'll have to wait until at least Monday before we know what is going on with his shoulder. In the meantime, it is still hurting a lot...I feel like even more than before. He asked for his temple shift off this week, just so he could give his shoulder more of a rest.
Seth's week was a lot like last week...he went to classes, didn't have a lot of homework, and today was the only day he was scheduled to work. He did have a longer shift this week than last week, though.
Today I went to the temple and did an endowment session. When I arrived, there were two sisters from my stake getting out of the car next to me...they were both in my ward at one time before boundary changes, so I know them pretty well. Another sister who is currently in my ward was also in the same session with us. It's always nice to see friends at the temple!
I stopped on the way home to get some chicken from Costco and then spent the rest of the afternoon working on the budget. Tonight Frank and I went on a date--we went for a drive and then stopped at this cute little restaurant to get some pie and ice cream. I had been there once with friends and discovered that they had a lot of pie choices and I knew Frank would like that so I decided I should take him there to get pie sometime. Frank got blueberry pie and I got peach pie, and of course we shared with each other so we both got to try both kinds. It was yummy, and fun to spent some time together. The drive was beautiful too.
We have continued to have nice weather (although we're probably not getting enough rain) and Frank and I have gone on walks several days this week. I try to take at least a short nap most week days, although I didn't get a nap today or yesterday. I feel like I am a lot more productive after I've had a nap! I talked to both Scott and Tanner this week and they are both doing well. Scott will be starting his new job soon and Tanner is back in school, although he is only taking one class currently.
Like everyone else, we were pretty shocked to hear about Charlie Kirk's assassination on Wednesday. I really didn't know much about him, but it has felt pretty personal to me for two reasons...first, because he was the same age as Scott and second, because it happened in Orem. It feels so strange to me that this relatively unknown city where I lived for 18 years is now being heard about all over the world. And what a tragic thing to be known for! It's also really disturbing to me that someone would be shot just for being vocal about their opinions / political views. And even more disturbing that some people who don't agree with his political views have actually expressed happiness that he was killed. I don't understand why some people can't see that an attack on anyone's freedom of speech is an attack on everyone's freedom of speech. I could go on, but I'll leave it at that. Just a terrible thing to have happened.
Oh, one other thing I did this week--I started crocheting a hat. It's been a while since I've done any crocheting, so I've had to re-learn a lot of stuff, but I've made some progress and I'm about half way through with it now. It's been fun for me to be working on a project again! I'm also going to start on a small (very small) quilting / sewing project soon. I'm currently gathering all the supplies that I will need.
That's everything I can think of to report for this week.
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