i completely hadn't expected any adjustment time but it feels super weird to sit with the congregation during sacrament meeting since i'm not on the stand leading the music. like seriously, super super weird.
we decided that in young womens, we're going to have a combined lesson the first sunday of each month, instead of breaking up into classes. as members of the presidency, we're going to take turns teaching it. today was my turn. i prepared a lesson on "finding joy now" with the main theme coming from that verse in mosiah 2:41 where it says,
41 And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and ahappy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are bblessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out cfaithful to the end they are received into dheaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.i'm terrified of speaking in front of groups, and the idea of giving a lesson is especially daunting because i can't just type it up on a paper and read it. well, i had faith and just stood up there and started spouting whatever came to my mind... for over 30 minutes. i was afraid it would just come off as one huge ADD hot mess so the first things i said were "teaching is not my thing" and "the objective of this lesson is to know that we receive joy and happiness when we keep the commandments, so if you ever get lost, that's what you're supposed to be learning. ha, i'm glad none of the bishopric was there. but really, all in all, i think it went okay. it's amazing how much i love those girls already. even the ones i don't know yet.
baby girl was so good during sacrament meeting. at least six times she fully emptied and reloaded the entire contents of my purse. the family behind us was loving it. especially the dad. after the meeting he extended his arms to baby to hold her and she wouldn't go. i told her he was going to take her to nursery and she dropped all reservations and lunged towards him. ha. this girl looooves nursery. honey said that when he went to get her after church, she saw him and turned around to keep playing. when he called her name some more she went to her friend michaela and grabbed her arm. someone wasn't too eager to head home.
at church today i met with a member of the bishopric to ask about a couple of things, namely, when i could expect them to call a laurel adviser. as we were finishing up he said, "are there any other questions you have?" to which i replied, "actually, yes. i'm going to call a meeting with my presidency this week. what are we supposed to talk about at those?" i wonder if anyone is second guessing that revelation they received. just kidding. kinda.
two weeks ago i started unbroken and after two pages wanted to return it to the library and never look back. but everyone and their brother.... just kidding, i everyone and MY brother, said it was amazing and that i had to read it. 200 pages in i still wasn't liking it but was forcing myself through it. the last 100 pages i read all this afternoon. sadly, the thing that kicked me in gear was that i got an email from the library that it's due on tuesday. but, that was the thing to make me read a few more pages and get hooked til the end. it really is an incredible story. and written in easy language that would make it a really quick read. unless you're like me and you lead a really sheltered life that consists of rainbows and butterflies. then it'll be emotionally difficult to read and with every page you'll want to pull louie out of the book and tuck him in a warm bed while you feed him comfort foods. i guess i'm glad i read it, but i'm also glad it's over... which is extremely rare for me with books i read. but this book made me intensely sad and i'm kinda in a hurry to forget about it. and typing that out makes me feel guilty like a really bad person.
moving on.
tomorrow i'm taking dinner to a family in our ward. whenever i take someone a meal, i take this taco bean sort of soup i make that i'm in love with. someday though i'm going to need to branch out. anyone have any good suggestions for meals that are great to take to people?
there is so. much. snow. holy cow, it's like every road and sidewalk that's been plowed has a ten foot wall of snow built up on either side. none of it has gotten dirty yet and it's all still perfectly white. it is stunning. i mean seriously, it is absolutely breathtaking. on our way to church i commented to my christopher about how it looked like a blanket of diamonds. to say it was shimmering seems like a gross understatement. driving by a small field covered in untouched snow, it was hard to look at it straight on. the sun was reflecting from it so brightly and it was glittering out of control. oh my goodness. i really can't get over how gorgeous it was. it left me speechless.
i forgot how long cold's linger with you. baby and i got sick over a week ago and i kept waiting for it to get worse but it never did. baby's only symptom was/is a runny nose that i wipe a million times a day. luckily for both of us, she still loves blowing and wiping her nose. my symptom was a sore throat that got worse and worse until it turned into that light feathery cough that you choke on whenever you try to speak. as far as being sick and having a sick baby, this is as cush as you could ever hope for. that being said though, will it ever go away?!
and lastly, before i go to bed, i'd like to express my appreciation for the superbowl. on the weekends, nap time in our house goes something like this: baby goes down for a nap, i get in bed with a book... that will hopefully soon lull me to sleep, honey tells me he's not going to nap, i fall asleep for about 20 minutes before i'm woken by our crying baby, looking to my side, honey has passed out. i don't know how he does it, but it seems like honey always manages to fall asleep right as our baby is waking up and then i'm on my own for the next two hours, bitter that we're not all in bed (bitterness comes from the fact that baby's weekend naps are freqently shorter than her normal naps during the week). today though it went like this: baby down for nap, me reading unbroken, honey went to church for clerk stuff and came back, i'm still reading, i fall asleep, i wake up at 5:30 realizing that honey had closed our bedroom door and gotten our baby up from her nap an hour before. so i'll say it again, thank you superbowl, for keeping my honey awake this afternoon so he could play with our post nap baby while i enjoyed some sleep. because really, he'd been awake since 5 am and there is no way on earth that would have happened otherwise.
ps- honey put baby girl to bed tonight and immediately brushed his teeth and got in bed with me (i am always in bed with my electric blanket... because it is heaven on earth) for scriptures and prayer. he was asleep before 9 pm. how precious. i sure love that guy.
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