We had a great day Sunday. We never know what to expect. Both of us had pretty great classes. Marc said he had the best discussion yet in Sunday School. I can tell by the way his students interact with him that they really like him. They are just not used to having to participating in class. But Sunday he was able to bring them out of their shells and it went well. My class went well too. The Stake Primary President was there so we were hoping the kids would be well behaved. They were probably the best we've seen them. I was pleased with the way my class went as well. The girl that likes to give me fits was especially well behaved. I only had to remind her a couple of times to sit in her chair. She is the non-member who likes to stand on the piano bench, pace in the back of the room, crawl under the table, etc. This week she listened and actually asked thoughtful questions about the lessons. It gave me hope. I realized before class that I have changed from hoping she wouldn't come to being genuinely glad she was there. Maybe she could tell? One important thing I've learned from working with these kids is to just go with the flow and not let chaos and noise stress me out.
Transfers was this week. We couldn't believe how fast they came up. We feel like we just had transfers! That 6 weeks flew past. This is when I felt really "useful"! We have been super busy all week (my excuse for neglecting the blog.) I was fairly running all day Tuesday going up and down stairs, setting up tables and chairs in the 3 rooms, feeding missionaries, cleaning up after missionaries, putting tables and chairs away, helping lines of 4 or 5 missionaries at my desk who needed something (remember I wanted to be useful). Marc spent the day mostly giving driver's tests, issuing tiwi cards (the cards the missionaries use to log in to the small computer box that keeps track of their speed and driving.), getting ready for reports, etc.
The day after transfers is just as busy. I'll post Marc's description of yesterday in a separate blog. It was hectic but fun. A couple of sisters had trouble with overweight baggage and we took them to the airport not knowing how everything would work out but having faith that it would (it did). It becomes easier and easier to have faith the more we have experiences where we know the Lord truly is in charge and really does care about our success.
All in all I prefer the really busy days to the sit-around-looking-for-something-to-do days. When we met the new missionaries at the airport on Monday I found myself telling them that New York was a great place and that they would love it (as I always do) and, this time, I actually meant it.
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