Bananagrams

This week I went to my friend Mary's to visit and spend time with her and her little girl Ellie. While there we played the amazingly fun game Bananagrams. While working on my crossword grid I was able to spell spoons and then unintentionally connected forks through the "s", and I found it to be rather funny and ironic. I then made the goal to use the "k" to spell knife. I was very excited when I was able to spell these three words and to have them all be connected. I realize this might not be all that amazing or thrilling to those of you who aren't familiar with Bananagrams, but trust me, it was amazing. For those of you who don't know the game and would like to learn more you may click here. Thanks Mary for a wonderful visit and a fun time playing games!

Proof of my cleverness!

Three

A couple of weeks ago I was given my third calling at church. My newest calling is that of a ward missionary with emphasis on certain investigators. I'm not exactly sure what is I'm suppose to do because the ward mission leader hasn't talked to me. I do know that the ward missionaries are supposed to have regular meetings with the ward mission leader and the full-time missionaries, but it doesn't happen. So I will just have to wait and see what this calling will be like.

I am also a Sunday school teacher for the 14-15 years old youth. This can be a challenging calling. I actually teared up about a month ago after class was over because I practically had to pull teeth to get the kids to participate in class. I was just so frustrated because the gospel is so important to me and I want it to be important to the kids too. They could at least act like they care. It isn't bad all the time and I try to be excited every week to teach them so that hopefully they too will be excited.

My favorite calling that I have at this time is that of activity days leader. I love planning the different activities for the girls to do and seeing their enthusiasm and excitement to be at church every first and third Wednesday of the month. I am also excited that last month we had a recent convert move into the ward and that her daughter turned 8, so I now have three girls. The girls are loud and rambunctious, and thankfully they get along very well. I love working with my three girls and the relationships that we are all building together. This past Wednesday I had the girls come to the house to make cookies for activities since we aren't supposed to cook in the church kitchen. While the cookies we baking we played Pretty, Pretty Princess, and I told the girls that I played this game when I was in elementary school and one of the girls responded, "That means this game is really old." Hahaha. Activity Days is always a fun adventure.

On a side note that has nothing to do with this post: Today marks my 6th year anniversary of returning home from my mission.