a good man

i cleaned my room yesterday.  man oh man did it need to be done.  piles and piles of books and clothes are put away.  i even hung two pictures.  it's amazing what peace you feel when a room is de-cluttered.  "there." i thought, "that's a room the spirit will feel comfortable in."  and it's true.  it's so much easier preparing a lesson in a clean room as opposed to a messy one.  all that clutter and chaos blocks my spiritual arteries.  i enjoyed planning my lesson today.  i enjoyed teaching it too, but there was so much i left out.  so much delving that could of been done and discussing and 'seeing'.  i feel like i gave the cliff notes of the actual lesson i learned myself this morning.  

also i felt bad because kent smith thought that he was supposed to substitute today and he was obviously disappointed.  so then joy, who was also asked to substitute for the upcoming weeks was super careful of confirming the dates with me.  "i don't want the same thing to happen to me." she told me.  i tried to be positive with kent.  he said he had worried over the lesson all week.  i said "well teach it for fhe or something."  but he said earnestly that it was too deep for his kids.  poor guy.  i felt bad.  i know what it's like to have a lesson weighing on you for a whole week.

diana wong taught rs and one of the ladies interrupted her in the beginning and asked her to use a mike, so she got the wandering mike that you have to hold but mary-anne came to me and asked me if the clip on mike wasn't working and i assured her that it was.  i just put it away because they never use it in rs.  and at the same time joy pipes up and says "laura knows how to do it!" and diana is saying "it's ok!"  but mary-anne wanted me to go get it so i went out the clerk's office and retrieved it out of the drawer and on the way back in brother daniel stopoed me to ask me to tell maria-elena that he wanted to order some bread for the scout fundraiser....then i snuck in and went through all the motions of setting it up on the stand showing mary-anne how to do it while trying not to be a distraction.  and there was a little bit of a kerfuffle when i was trying to put it on her and the mike fell at which point i said "oh gosh." and went and sat down.  

we drove this lady shelly wong (not chinese) home from church.  we just found out that she lives by us.  she's a pretty funny character.  just the way she talks.  when she got in the car she said "will the seat-belt fit fat shelly?"  and when heather helped her put it on "oh the seatbelt fits fat shelly!".  when we dropped her off she said maybe sometime she'd invite us over for tea and elicia pipes up "and cookies?"  "well i don't have cookies but i have crackers." says shelley.  they she said "i may even invite you over for lunch!  and i may make you something suberb!" (not a typo).  haha.  elicia and i took an instant liking to her.

had a lovely long nap.  worked on the blog book adding pictures and stuff.  then leesh and i drove out to visit my dad.  we'd been fasting and leesh was getting a blessing.  we found dad sprawled out in his huMUNGeous stuffed chair waking up from his own nap.  we had a nice visit.  elicia tried out the vibrating exercise machine.  we talked all about dad's gramma orpha and stuff.  elicia received a beautiful blessing.  then we talked more.  and dad said to me "hey laura if you want to you could make some cookies."  and that's when i explained that we hadn't eaten yet and that's when he offered us some food.  we settled on grill cheeses. "i hope you girls like sharp cheese." said dad.  do we! dad and i kind of had a system going where i would mustard the sandwiches and cheese them and then dad would fry them.  there was two for each of us and dad cut them all in half and piled them on a plate.  elicia got us ice water and we gathered in the  dining room with some kickers spicy ketchup.  i mentioned how the twins sometimes eat the kickers by itself.  dad nodded.  "they're strange." he said.  then he said how they would eat nutella by the spoonful.  "oh ya, i'd do that too." i admitted.  

then we just sat around and gabbed and yacked until we realized it was 10:30 and we had to go home.  it was really nice.