Sunday, May 22, 2011

I had early-morning meetings (and after church meetings also).  So I got up "early" (7:15) so I could shower.  I gathered all the bags (scouting, 2 primary, my scripture bag, quiet bag, and I let the kids get their own scriptures) and grabbed a piece of left-over pizza & yogurt for breakfast.

I had a phone call the night before from a teacher saying she was hoping to be back to teach primary, but if she didn't make it, then I would know where she was.  

After ward council, I went to the chapel for sacrament meeting and Annette (one of my counselors) had me talk to a boy that hadn't come in a while & invite him to stay.  I also let him know that he could go to class with his friends (even though his birthday would put him in a different class--they get the same lesson).

During sacrament meeting, Benjamin was really restless.  Rusty took him out twice.  After the second time, the phone rang in the foyer.  The deacon that was by the bishop went and got it.  I turned my attention back to the speaker (and to the restless Benjamin) when Rusty poked me and said the phone call was for me.  I immediately knew it was one of the teachers.

And it was--she had already gotten a sub. but her daughter lives in a house/cabin just up from her and when she didn't see her car go by, she got worried (daughter doesn't have a phone) so went up to find out what was up.  Her daughter had a flat tire & she didn't think she could change her clothes, then change the tire, and then change back into church clothes, and make it in time to teach primary.  (These 2 teach our 2 CTR 5 classes).  

I was hoping to combine the 2 classes & have the substitute teach both of them.  But after sacrament meeting, we saw how many kids were there.  We had a few less-actives and some visitors too.  And I knew that we needed another teacher.  The first 2 people I asked couldn't stay the whole time, and then I saw that the other CTR teacher had still not made it back.  So I decided that I would just teach the CTR classes left (Emmalee is in CTR 5).  So I grabbed a book & had Rusty come in to be an extra set of hands.  There were 10 in the class.  The lesson actually went really well.  It was about obeying and how Nephi obeyed Heavenly Father.  We sang "Nephi's Courage" about 4 times.  And each time I got to the word "obey", I would pause and the kids would sing it for me.

Needless to say, although everything went great for me in the classroom, this is the time that we meet as a presidency & get things set up for sharing time.  So it almost felt like a scramble.  We are concerned about the reverence and respect (or lack of) in our primary.  But we have decided it's not just in our primary, it's also at school and maybe in the homes also.  So for our 5th Sunday, I will be doing a sharing time about reverence and respect.  

After church, I had a scout meeting.  I was a bit frustrated because our Cubmaster didn't attend.  It's hard to plan pack meetings without him.  Anyways, we got some things settled and when I got home, the roast was done & cut, Brienna had made the Au Jus sauce for french dip and had also toasted the buns.

After we had cleaned up the table, Emmalee, Callum, Brienna & myself played Crazy Uno & Mormon Bridge.  Zane was sleeping.  He got home Saturday afternoon very, very tired.  He slept most of Saturday afternoon, got up about 7:30 and ate some dinner.  Then fell back asleep before 9 pm.  And then slept some more Sunday afternoon.  He definitely needs his sleep!