Another busy week has come and gone, full of fun surprises and yet more stress to come with everyday work and school. It all started on Sunday when the member of our bishopric called Peter in to meet with him, which could only mean two things- either he did something so bad in the past however-many weeks we've been there or he's getting a calling. Seeing as we don't really know anyone in the ward just yet and with us being too busy to actually do anything wrong, I figured that it was probably the latter. Being the supportive wife that I am, I went with him to church about a half hour early (that and he took the car and I really didn't want to walk to church). When a counselor finally opened up his door, I was surprised that he not only invited Peter into his office, but me as well. We both walked in and sat down to the first thing that came out of the counselor's mouth, "Well, I'm sure you guys have probably figured why we called you here." We both nodded and Peter, joking around, said, "If it's not a nursery calling, we won't take it."
The counselor went silent and looked at me. "Actually we really wanted to call you guys to be our nursery leaders."
Peter and I both cheered and gave each other high fives and instantly accepted it. We had our first lesson that very day and we were very excited to meet the little ones that we would be teaching. The first kid showed up and, like we thought, started crying when his mom left. I instantly picked him up and started rocking him back and forth and within five minutes he was calm, the same thing happened with kid #2. Kid #3 walked around with an "it's all good" face on and she gave us no grief at all. All the other kids started coming in and we had a great time calming them down and trying to entertain them so they didn't think about how their mom's left them in a room with two strange people. At one point, one of the girls wouldn't stop giving me the look of death as we were having singing time and Peter couldn't stop laughing about while I was trying not to notice.
We were only in there for an hour but it was great and we can't wait to get to know our kids more. Hopefully that girl will stop giving me that look but I would say that's unlikely.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
One week later...
This week has been INSANE! Let me tell you!
It started off with classes being ridiculous! All the teachers must have gotten the memo that I'm close to finishing school because they decided to drop all these assignments and tests on me. So I wasn't the most relaxed this week which led to me getting an incredibly bad cold. So poor Peter had to deal with not only me bawling my eyes out cause of school, but hearing gross sniffles and Flem-contained cough along with my crying for the whole week. Bless his heart! On top of all of that, our toilet overflowed so the first few days of our week, there was water everywhere! And Peter had to deal with that too because I was too nervous about school!!! I'm so grateful for his patience and his willingness to help me in anyway he can. Don't know why he picked me but I'm sure glad he did!
Now that this week is over, school is not being so overwhelming, the bathroom floor is dry, and my cold is slowly going away, I'm hoping that I can be able relax a little more and not be so overwhelmed with everything from now on.
I got today off of work, which was really strange. I never get Saturday's off of work. And let me tell you, it was SO NICE to just be able to sleep in and to not have to be able to worry about anything. Peter had to work so I just hung out at the apartment and went around town with my good friend Kylie until he was done.
There ya have it! I would go into details about the week but I don't want to bore you any more than I have with this post. Hopefully my next post won't be so "woe-is-me" or anything like that.
Until then!
It started off with classes being ridiculous! All the teachers must have gotten the memo that I'm close to finishing school because they decided to drop all these assignments and tests on me. So I wasn't the most relaxed this week which led to me getting an incredibly bad cold. So poor Peter had to deal with not only me bawling my eyes out cause of school, but hearing gross sniffles and Flem-contained cough along with my crying for the whole week. Bless his heart! On top of all of that, our toilet overflowed so the first few days of our week, there was water everywhere! And Peter had to deal with that too because I was too nervous about school!!! I'm so grateful for his patience and his willingness to help me in anyway he can. Don't know why he picked me but I'm sure glad he did!
Now that this week is over, school is not being so overwhelming, the bathroom floor is dry, and my cold is slowly going away, I'm hoping that I can be able relax a little more and not be so overwhelmed with everything from now on.
I got today off of work, which was really strange. I never get Saturday's off of work. And let me tell you, it was SO NICE to just be able to sleep in and to not have to be able to worry about anything. Peter had to work so I just hung out at the apartment and went around town with my good friend Kylie until he was done.
There ya have it! I would go into details about the week but I don't want to bore you any more than I have with this post. Hopefully my next post won't be so "woe-is-me" or anything like that.
Until then!
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