I am sooooooooooo tired - it's been a very busy three days! I worked in the grade one classroom at Kawungan on Friday. I think that I am starting to get through to the students about listening. I worked them really hard on Friday - and then gave them about half an hour in the afternoon to do whatever they wanted. They had to complete the four tasks we had worked on that day first and some of them did a really good job of it. Others went to play before they had finished their work (did they think that I wouldn't figure that out? :-) Rachael came at the end of the day to see how things had gone for the week and to ask me to teach for her on Monday (she planned the day with me so that I knew what she wanted me to do) and to pick up the work the students had done during the week. I told her that usually the boys are the annoying ones in classes, but that she had some girls that were even more annoying. She agreed with me on that one. She does have some lovely children, though.
Dad ended up going to the Family History Centre all day Friday - he wasn't signed up to go, but the two women who usually come to work there were both away and so he went in for the day. He mostly worked with two patrons (one member and one non-member) during the morning. He spent the afternoon working on some paperwork and some more indexing.
On Saturday morning, I went to Homemaking at Haidi's house (our Relief Society second counsellor) to learn how to cook some items from our food storage. The first one was meatless sausage rolls - I was a bit wary of those, but they ended up being really tasty. They were made from cottage cheese - I am going to try and make them for Dad - who knows if he will like them since you know how much he likes his meat. :-) They also had rice with turmeric and chili with cinnamon as one of the spices. I am not much into mixing my spices like that - I like to keep my spicy and my sweet separate.
After homemaking, I went with Christine and Robyn to the beach. Christine wanted to visiting teach both Robyn and me and we all thought that the best place to do this was at the beach. :-) We sat on the sand (they sat in the shade and I sat in the sun) and we ate date loaf which Christine made and talked about all sorts of things. I love these times of getting to know my friends even better. The lesson was about the importance of being self-reliant. When I read the lesson, this paragraph stood out for me:
In Relief Society, we are taught self-reliance principles and skills. Sisters can learn about budgeting, debt relief, employment qualifications, the scriptures and the gospel, teaching others to read and learn, technology, physical health, fitness, addiction prevention and recovery, social and emotional health, preventing illness, gardening, food production and storage, emergency preparedness, and many other things that will help us become self-reliant.
When I think of self-reliance, I think of things to do with food storage and emergency preparedness, but I didn't think of it being related to technology, physical health, fitness, or social and emotional health. So, we had a really good discussion about those things. It was neat sharing different ideas between us.
At 4pm, we went to the chapel for a 'Going Away Party' for a young boy in our ward, Reece, who is going on a mission this month. He is a fine young man and will make a great missionary. It was fun talking with our friends at the party - another opportunity to laugh and chat and eat. :-) It's like one big family here - when we received our invitation to come to the event, we were also asked to 'bring a plate' which means potluck. Some people might think 'what nerve to be invited and then be asked to bring food', but it's just the way it is in this ward - everyone just pitches in and I love it.
Although it was Sunday today, it sure wasn't a day of rest. After being at church for three hours (Primary is coming along really well - more in a bit), I had two meetings to attend. First about Primary - I set up a scripture reading plan for the kids (based on one I found on the net) and put it in a baggie along with the bookmarks the children decorated and I laminated) and gave it out to the kids today (I talked with each of the parents after church to tell them about it). A couple of parents told me that I was doing a good job in Primary and that made me feel good. I am trying to get it up and running the way it's supposed to be and it's coming along. After church, we had Ward Council (Dad came, too) where we talk about what's going on in the ward and how we can help each other and the members in our ward. After that was over, I went to my second counsellor's house to meet with her and catch her up on what's been happening in Primary during the six weeks she has been away.
We have spent the evening relaxing as it's going to be a busy day tomorrow having to work with the grade ones. I have been answering emails and Dad has been indexing - now that's an 'evening of rest' at least. :-)
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