I was getting worried yesterday afternoon that I wasn't going to have time to prepare my lesson. People kept calling and coming over related to the upcoming Time Out for Women, and the DAR thing, plus I set up a VT appointment and some other stuff. Jared ended up taking DS to mutual so I […]

Today we covered Moses 3. I was out late last night with a DAR Fall Muster meeting registration I had signed up to help with, and when coupled with a family "crisis", I didn't get much time to work on my lesson for today. Luckily I had taken some notes on the material while we […]

We went out of town over the weekend to visit some family in Connecticut. My cousins Andy and Ricky had a combined homecoming/farewell at their church on Sunday and so we drove up to see them and for the service. My grandma and Uncle Randy flew in from Utah to visit, too, so it was […]

For today's reading I asked the kids to read 1 Nephi 13: 19-29, 40; 1 Nephi 14:23 and Mormon 7:8-9. Our discussion today was on whether the Bible was inferior scripture or not. They've heard all their lives that "plain and precious parts" have been removed, and the difficulty of reading the Bible sometimes means […]

GREAT NEWS!!! The county transportation department was able to find transportation on a bus for our kids, and now the Seminary students will be able to ride the bus from my house to school each morning! Now all the mommies have to do is get the kids here, and the kids' ride to school is […]

Well, it's over. All the preparing and fretting and lack of sleep culminated in a slightly rocky first day of Seminary. I'm so relieved to be finally teaching! Several of the kids arrived right at 6:00 am, which astonished me. We start at 6:10, and I don't know if people weren't sure how long it […]

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy are 80 this year -- EIGHTY -- and I decided I better fulfill a lifelong wish of mine to see them in person. The big Star Trek convention in Las Vegas was coming up, but the timing was really awkward with some things going on in our family, and I […]

Church met only the first hour Sunday due to the hurricane. Several people didn't show and we didn't have enough for Primary to operate, so I spent the rest of the day visiting my students and their families. It was a really good thing to do. I don't think doing those visits is something that […]

So today I feel better that I have in some time about Seminary. My good friend, Brent, taught Old Testament back in the day, and when he heard that I was teaching asked if he could help. We had arranged for our families to get together last night for a Family Home Evening where we'd […]

Well, my tenure as YW secretary will be over when Girl's Camp is done. Sunday I was called as early-morning seminary teacher for our unit. I'd be lying if I said I was thrilled at the prospect at first, but I'm getting more and more excited about the ideas I'm getting. I've never actually attended […]