Impatiently awating Monday

Dad took off a couple of days ago. The next day nothing made me happy. I think the two are unrelated but I decline from swearing to it. Have you ever had a day where nothing went wrong, beautiful weather, everything sunshiny and happy, but just was a bad day? That was yesterday. I'm trying to get over it. While trying to not wallow too much in my self pity, I will briefly mention that going to teach a bunch of 7th and 8th graders can make those bad days....interesting. Everything was exaggerated for me, a couple of whining kids really bugged me, severely increasing my surliness. But there was a girl who took some advice from me, that worked, and thanked me; that was nice. Some other kids let me know they had fun, that helped. After school we finished some choreography to a fun number with a small group of kids, that helped also.

I am really ready for Monday to be here, that's not something I say very often.

Tomorrow is 12 weeks. Monday is the next sonogram. OK, how do you spell that? Anyway.... we'll get to hear the heartbeat again, have a measurement. I'm to the point where that will be a very good thing. Man, the kid is currently bubble-wrapped and I am freaking out for it's safety. I am going to be a complete basket case before the tyke actually gets here, not to mention out in the sharp, jagged and perilous world.

My bro's wife is currently going through a rough pregnancy. I'll mess the facts up, but basically gall stones they can't treat until after the birth is the newest thing. I am so thankful for Kristen's health. She hasn't been very sick. She gets queezey, gets tired out, but overall I am very thankful.

I taught Elder's Quorum Sunday. I feel it is my personal mission to bring honesty back to lessons. So many times presenters just present instead of sharing a part of themselves. I don't have a huge testimony over what was covered. I do over most things, and therefore this topic falls under the "the church is true" category and I have a testimony of it by default. But I can't claim very many personal experiences with it. And I said so during my lesson, and went on from there. Being that honest kind of took some people back and let us have a great and honest conversation that included some wonderful testimonies from the rest of the group. No one was trying to preach, I wasn't trying to convince, and I wasn't wasting my or their time trying to fake it.

I might give myself a sprained shoulder patting myself on the back, but that was hard to do. I come across as pretty abbrassive to many people. Many times I am so honest that it throws people off, especially when my "honesty" might not have been exactly what they were hoping for. So you might think that standing in front of a group of my peers and saying it like it is might be something I am used to doing.

Not so much.

I wont open myself up like that if I can avoid it, the darn calling put me on the spot. If I hadn't been teaching I would've just kept my mouth shut. It ended up being good I think, there was a good spirit. Some people came up after and said thanks and stuff, that always feels nice.

Can you believe it's only Thursday? Come onnnnnnnn MondayMondayMonday.