Sunday, June 12, 2016

Happy Birthday Ian!

 Apron courtesy of Ian's brother Michael

who lives in Birmingham, England. 

I was up at 5 am to finish preparing my Primary lesson.  James was up early too to finish preparing for his Gospel Doctrine lesson.

Alma 14:23 - 15:4 Study Notes

26 - And Alma cried, saying: How long shall we suffer these great afflictions, O Lord? O Lord, give us strength according to our faith which is in Christ, even unto deliverance.  And they broke the cords with which they were bound; and when the people saw this, they began to flee, for the fear of destruction had come upon them.

General Conference talk: "Always Retain a Remission of Your Sins" by Elder David A. Bednar.

James put potting soil in plastic cups and gathered cantaloupe seeds for each member of my class.  I do appreciate his help.  I type reading assignments for his class every week so I guess we help each other.

I am also doing an experiment in my class using a bottle with four tablespoons of vinegar and a balloon with two teaspoons of baking soda.  You put the balloon on top of the bottle and allow the soda to mix with the vinegar which causes a chemical reaction and blows the balloon up.  It is to demonstrate the principle of faith.

Alice Wilhelm was the youth speaker in sacrament meeting today.  She did a great job speaking about patriarchal blessings.  Millie Scott spoke on love and service and Jerry Scott spoke about the word of wisdom.  Never before in church have I been taught how to make booze and drugs.  

Zemira, Curtis, and Kacey were in my class today.  Brylea, Paula Johnson's granddaughter from Snowflake was visiting and I had Jace and Colter from Sadie Westbrook's class.  It went very well.

After the block James and I went to the bishop's office and were set apart as temple cleaning coordinators.  Brother Thompson set me apart and John Wilhelm set James apart.  The bishop is out of town.

After lunch and our nap James and I read scriptures together and then I read to him from our current novel, Julianna.  I worked on my Primary lesson for next week, my blog, and texted with Dallin.  He is coming up here for his birthday and is bringing a girl friend named Claire with him.  

I sent a text to Alex and Michael inviting them to read scriptures with James and I.  Since we can't actually read together I invited them to follow our schedule and then we would take them to dinner on July 2nd at the restaurant of their choice.  I never heard from either one of them so I am assuming they are for it.

We had a nice sunset this evening.  I am more of a sunrise person than a sunset but I captured this one.