I knew that I was going to be teaching today as I was asked to do this day (Monday) at Pialba State School and that it was grade two. It turns out that the teacher was going to be in the school all day doing some assessment with the children. It turned out to be a lovely class - two boys who were challenging, but overall I had a really good day. As the teacher was there before school, she was able to review with me what I needed to do that day and I also was able to ask questions to clarify things. So, my day went really smoothly. I told the teacher at the end of the day, when I gave her my card, that I would like to supply for her again if she needed someone.
Dad worked on area number six of his census district - this was the area in which we were going to have a house built before we bought this one. There has been so much building going on that there are way too many dwellings for one area so they are going to have to make it into two separate areas or put another person on for that area. Dad says there are sixteen houses in the street that we were going to buy on - in some areas of Hervey Bay they are just going crazy with building.
Guess what? I got another call to teach today - I was so happy! This time it was for a grade one class at Kawungan - Fiona, the teacher, is really nice and has been great to me - when I got to school, she was there - her daughter wasn't feeling well and so Fiona came in to write up a day plan for me. She left me a lovely easy day - she basically said I could do as much or as little as I wanted to (except for reading rotations because it involved two other teachers). She warned me about one little boy who was a handful. The class was amazing and I had a terrific day! Even the little boy who is a handful was pretty good today. Mind you, I made him my 'carpet example' - I kept mentioning that everyone should be doing what Logan was doing: sitting like Logan was, watching me like Logan was, being quiet like Logan, etc. It really worked well and so my day went smoothly. I really enjoyed being in a grade one class again and it made me look forward to taking over Luise's class in October. I also got a call from Tracer asking me to supply teach for two hours at Torquay State School on Friday - this works out great as then I can stay there and volunteer in Chantelle's class and then talk with her about ideas for her class - she wants help with her literacy centres - it's great to be wanted. :-)
Dad spent the day doing a lot of different stuff: he spent the morning inputting info re: the census areas he has been canvassing into his computer program; then he came home and mowed the lawn; and then spent some time this afternoon working on his seventh and final area - he was able to get almost all of it done, so he should be able to finish everything up this week. He also received some more applications for census collectors which he will have to go through and will likely start interviewing people next week.
We had the missionaries for supper tonight and I made my delicious penne pasta with bacon - oh, I love this dish - it is so yummy! :-) Elder Richardson asked Dad and me to write in his book - he is asking people he is close to if they will write something so that he can remember them when he gets back off his mission - he's only been out six months so far, so he has a ways to go. He feels an affinity to Dad and me for some reason - he says we 'get him'. :-) He even called me 'mommy' tonight. :-) We asked them to come earlier next week as we don't have much time with them if they don't come 'til 5pm and they have to leave at 6pm for their meeting with the Bishop.
Dad had his PEC meeting tonight with the Bishopric and Chris, the Elder's Quorum president. As the Bishop wasn't at the meeting last week (he was ill), he wanted to review the people on the ward list. They are trying to find out whether less active members are still in the area and they also want to decide who will be their home teachers - whether it will be Dad's group or Chris' group. It's a long process to go through, but it will be really good in the end when everyone will be assigned to the members in the ward and more people can receive monthly visits.
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