Primary!

~ Highlight of the Day: Teaching four lovely little 7 and 8 year olds about telling the truth :) ~

 

I have been officially called as a Primary teacher! I've taught Sunbeams (4 years old, or 5? ) before, for maybe 2 or 3 weeks, but that was ages ago, so I'm a little rusty. I'm sure I'll catch on quickly though :)

 

This truly is an inspired calling. To be perfectly honest, sitting in an auditorium is synonymous with sleeping as far as I'm concerned, and when you add the whole terribly-sleep-deprived thing in there, there's just no hope for me. But there is no sleeping in primary. You just can't do it. There's so much energy and so many wiggles to go around that it would take a miracle to sleep through any of it. So there you have it - I will be mentally attending my church meetings from now on. . . even if they are on a 1st grade level :)

 

As for addressing some of the recent world news you all may have been hearing and wondering about. . . We've heard of demonstrations in the city, but we have not seen any. Yesterday we had a very lengthy discussion with our Palestine professor about it (we all had a lot of questions), and we were cautioned to stay out of the city (it being Friday and all). We went into the city today without any problems, and we aren't expecting there to be any trouble while we're on our Turkey trip. They've asked us not to bring anything Israeli with us (which is a great excuse not to read my Israel readings :), but I though that's what our plan was from the first anyway.

 

They're keeping us informed, and we're being sensible about it, so life's pretty normal.

Well, as normal as life can be when you're planning on watching the BYU vs Utah game at 5am and then flying to Turkey :)

 

I may be able to post while I'm in Turkey. It depends on if my roommates bring their computers, and if we can find internet. . . We'll just have to see!