Hi everyone...
This week has been full of excitement and full of activities. Since Sunday, which was stake conference (which was fabulous) I have thought of a lot and have seriously changed my feelings on a lot of things and have expanded my horizons.
Nathan has a bad ankle so is going to PT and is on workers comp this week but his employer (the school district) rocks and they are behind him and are helping him out in every way possible.
I had a bad day on Monday. I didn't feel well because I think that I stressed myself out so much over my homework that I stayed home and spent 10 hours that day doing it. I did well on it, 20/20 points, but I still killed myself over it.
I worked long hours the rest of the week to make up for the lost 10 hours. I helped train the new hires this week too. That was a blast. I love that. I want to be able to do that in a true employer setting. Employee training and development is just a dream for now that I want to make a reality within the next year.
Completing my masters will help me do that and I am so excited.
I want to have a graduation party the night of graduation in July so, I will. I will probably have it here at the house and swim and invite everyone that I know and can think of. It is going to be so much fun. More on that later.
Nathan went with the missionaries again this week and had a great time. The zone leader is in our ward and he is an awesome guy. The elders are doing a great job in the ward and they were seriously sent to this earth at this time to spread the gospel. While he was out, it gave me time to work on my team project for class and to watch CSI without any football interruption (don't get me wrong, football is exciting but there is more to life than, well.......Football).
Friday, we rented We are Marshall and oh my gosh...it made you laugh, it made you cry and it made you think of how grateful you should be for what little you have. I know that I did and it was awesome. We cleaned house on Saturday and I did more homework. We took the shower door off the bathtub in the front bathroom and it made a huge difference to the size of the bathroom. By taking off the door, it added at least 3 feet to the bathroom. It looks really good.
We cleaned it too from top to bottom.
Saturday night we rented Transformers which is such a good movie too. I was so tired from doing laundry, cleaning the bathroom (that I have never used) and changing it around to making it something that is usable and suitable for our family and guests; anyways, I was so tired that I think that I missed more than half the movie...thats OK...we can rent it again or just buy it later.
Today was fast and testimony meeting at church. It was nice. Relief Society was fabulous though. The spirit was there so strong and I felt so much joy as we talked about the purpose of prophets and apostles and the reason for following their counsel. It was fabulous.
Other than that...today was full of football (again) and Americas Home Show where they fix and/or rebuild a home for a family that is in desperate need for it. I love it...it is so touching and everyone can learn so much about service and being of a charitable nature to the rest of the world and our families.
More next week. Talk to you later.
Karen Wicke (Nihipali)
