One (Fairly) Busy Week

It was just another week here in Austin at the Larsen house. We did to lots of church related activities though! Friday was our ward visiting teaching conference. We had delicious fajitas, and I felt so spiritually uplifted and motivated to do better as a visiting teacher and as a person in general. We also had a silent service auction based on points earned mostly through by identifying sisters from the ward by interesting facts about them. There were over 200 women on the list. I learned that we have smart, talented, amazing women in our ward! And the things that were provided for the auction were creative as well as showing the skills of the women in the ward. 

Daniel participated in the priesthood MAP activity. They asked the elders to go and find those members that are recorded by the church but that haven't been active in the ward. Generally where the ward is not sure whether you are just not coming to church or if you have moved to a new location. Daniel did have a few doors closed in his face, but at least one person was really nice and stopped to talk with him. As a reward, we got to go to a new and fancy restaurant. Daniel tried their salmon, and I had their steak. (along with salads, appetizers and desserts) We even ended up drinking water from fancy glass bottles. It was a fun evening.

Sunday we had a pretty standard meeting schedule, but we did get moved into a new classroom for our Sunday school class. This room is bigger, is not right next to all the adults in the ward AND it even has windows. What an upgrade! Unfortunately, the students in our class don't do well with change. They had a hard time settling down and getting ready to learn. I just have to remind myself that we all have those same instincts, but we've just learned to behave more maturely in certain situations. (It doesn't mean that we all aren't secretly like 12 year olds at heart!)

Today, I even had book club. We read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.  We had a really good time talking about the book, and all agreeing that we don't quite understand why the character would behave in the manner they did, but that the story was very well executed in style. We did wonder why all the Bronte sisters wrote about angry/scary men. Conclusion: we have no idea! Anyway, it was a fun night!