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05/01/11 Sunday lesson, Luau & soccer games

5/1/11
Pretty good and fast week again.  Let's see...where to start.  So this a.m. I was getting on before church to write to you and had a message in my in box.  So I looked at it was the calendar for May.  On May 1 it said, Lesson #15 Griffin. I was like...WHAT?  So I went to the closet to find the mistake (I was sure it was a mistake) and um...nope, it wasn't.  So I had to give a lesson with little or no prep.  I hadn't even read the lesson once yet.  (I usually read it way in advance to start thinking about things, ya know?) Totally NOT my thing.  Luckily for me I had already gotten lunch ready and was dressed and the girls were ready.  So I printed out the lesson and winged it.  It went ok I guess.  It's hard to judge yourself...so I'm not really sure but I survived anyway.   Ugh. We talked about missionary work and how there was a great amount to do even right here in our ward.  I tried to encourage them to work with all our nonmember girls and to be good examples etc.
Katie's LUAU was fun last night.  They put on a pretty good meal and then did about 1 hour of dancing.  They were really pretty good.  Lot of booty shaking.  The guys got up and did the hauka and some other loud chest pounding dances.  Entertaining.
The girls had 2 soccer games this week and they both love playing goalie.  They are pretty good at it too.  I think they won 3 out of 4 games.  They don't really care as long as there is a treat at the end.
Today we have a meeting with Stake Pres at 4 and then I have meetings at 4:30 and 5-6 for YW so we don't get to go to New Harmony.  Lucky for us though they have been gone for 10 days and have no food in the house so they were happy to come down here and eat with us.  So we'll eat around 6 tonight.  I made chicken, funeral potatoes, rolls, banana cream cheese pie and cookies.  Probably serve some beans too and maybe a salad for me and the old folks.  Lucky for everyone I found the whole lesson thing AFTER making all that or dinner would probably be lame tonight!
I got to do my treasurer duty 2X this week.  The deposits were $75,000 and $45,000.  WOW, huh?!  A lot of it isn't cash but still strange to know you have that much $ in your possession!
Well I hope you are healthy and well.  Love hearing all about your experiences and what's going on there so be sure to think about all the crazy and wonderful things that happended this week and share!!!
Love you lots and can't wait to see and hear you next week!!!! Holy smoke...it's only 1 week away!!!!
Take care, Mom.

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