We are going to be the new ward librarians!
For enrichment this week the sisters put together an “ice cream potato bar.” They formed vanilla ice cream into potato shapes, rolled them in hot chocolate powder, and put them on tinfoil covered cookie sheets in the freezer until we were ready for them. Then we could put all kinds of good stuff on them. Don't worry, McKay and I haven't bought ice cream since we got married.
We also sat in a circle and went around telling random things or secrets about ourselves, which felt like a good ice breaker to me. It was funny to hear one lady in our presidency telling us the most rebellious thing she had ever done was stay out late- once. Another lady in the presidency went skinny dipping on their farm when she was growing up with her sisters, one girl confessed to never having picked her nose until a certain college roommate- after she thought it was gross her roommate was did that, she started to do it herself. Funny how much who we spend our time with rubs off on us. The oldest lady there told us about how she used to practically stalk her husband before they got married, and there was lots of other funny stuff. Our ward seems to be a mix of old people and newly marrieds- not a lot of in-betweeners.
So I'm totally switched over to my new job at Woodruff Elementary helping the 5th grade teachers. Sometimes I was starting to hate changing sprinkler pipes.
We also broke into groups and each group visited an old lady who was homebound. I went with a group of 5 girls, and I had been married 2nd longest! It’s been four months now. We visited an older lady named Lula, and she invited us in and asked us what was new in the ward... about 6 times, among repeating some other things. I was glad to hear her kids were close, and she said they were all good kids and visited her. She said her husband had died two weeks prior, and we were surprised the relief society presidency hadn’t told us, but afterward they told us he had died in the spring. I think it would be hard to be old in our society, especially.
I have been trying to figure out a plan B. Plan A is get into University of Utah Occupational Therapy school this coming year. President Hinckley said to be prepared with a plan B, which I agree with. I don’t really want to do anything besides occupational therapy- equine therapy and rec therapy only require like a 2.0 to do them, it’s weird because I don’t know if I think that’s too easy and I like a challenge or what, but I also feel like that could be sort of a waste of all the hard classes I have taken thus far- I would have to go back and take the different pre-requisites. Also some of the degrees I am sort of interested in don’t seem very useful, like if something happened to McKay and I became the main provider, as an occupational therapist I could work very little and make enough money, so I could spent as much of my time as possible with my family. I’ve thought about nursing but it seems like they focus a lot on medicating, and I like the physical therapy aspect of helping yourself heal without drugs. I want to finish my degree asap so I can put my main focus on kids. So since I really want to do occupational therapy, and U of U is the only OT school in the state, I could wait another year to apply there or could apply out of state, but I’d have to take some different classes and going out of state mucho increases tuition expenses and McKay would probably have to go back and take classes as well. It would be fine if I did horses or something, I wouldn’t mind having lots of random jobs just because I would have my bachelor’s degree. Also with horses, the thing about OT that rocks is that I would be using my passion for horses to help other people. I’ve seen too many people driven broke by their horses, trying to make it. This is why I sold Twink, McKay said if I wanted to keep her he would be okay with that. Plus the more knowledge we earn, the more we can help people.
I went and played Frisbee on “the quad,” I didn't know anyone before playing, someone had announced it in my psych class. I got there and they were doing drills, and they were all guys. A woman was on the sideline keeping an eye on kids, and I asked her if she was with the frisbeers, yes, and her name is Jo. They are more about plays and stuff here than St. George, but I guess I can expect that at a university more people will be serious about ultimate. It was cool, more women showed up and they were all probably at least 35, and one of them, Meme, was super hard to keep up with, she was really quick. There were also some older guys there, also showing that to stay young you gotta’ eat right and stay active. One of them had a gray beard, I’m going to guess he was like 60, and his legs were like a 26 year old runner’s, and he was diving all over the place with everyone else.
At the Whittier communitity center, they are putting in a playground accessible to people with disabilities and everyone else. To build it, they asked for 2,400 volunteers. McKay was stressing over an upcoming biology test (which he aced:) so I called Liz Cornwall. I had forgotten she was sick but she was raring to go. We got there and got put in charge of directing people even though we took a while to figure out what we were doing, and we did some cleanup and pounded some nails.
Jenni Bringhurst, Liz Cornwall, Julia Braten, Supe Lillywhite, Nate McArthur, Glen Mesa, and Emily Mortenson live up here, among some other people I know. I want to play soccer before it snows!
I have done a lot of baking lately ( when my mom hears that she says to make sure I eat lots of veggies and be careful). McKay likes to buy frozen corndogs, so I made some cornbread and slipped in pieces of hot dog since we didn’t have sticks, and it was a hit. Not healthy, but I’m sure it’s better than the greasy store-bought stuff.
I am taking an institute class about the parables of Jesus Christ, our teacher is new but our class is very full. Our teacher is awesome- his wife died due to a mistake made in a hospital, and the doctor told him he could take legal action, but Brother Gentry chose not to. He remarried, and he calls his step children "bonus children" because the connotation of step children reminds him too much of Cinderella and wicked stepsisters, etc. So he now has ten children!
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