October 27 was our ward’s primary program. My presidency spent a lot of time preparing for and planning it. We created a question to ask each class and recorded the answers of the children. Their answers became their speaking parts in the program. We chose three children who had given very good talks in primary to give those talks in the program. I was really impressed by their simple truths and how their parents are helping them to apply gospel principles to their experiences.
Mark got his score back on his statistics test and he did very well! He was excited and I’m very proud of him! He is also figuring out how to use weather radar to track bird migration. I often tell him it’s fun being married to a scientist. 🙂
It snowed a few times this week and most days the temperature was below freezing. I don’t enjoy the cold, but at least it makes it feel like Thanksgiving and Christmas. In fact, it felt so much like those holidays Mark and I almost forgot Thursday was Halloween. We had intended to carve a pumpkin but every evening we were together we were so tired we just said “We’ll do it tomorrow.” Well that “tomorrow” never came, but I think the pumpkin will look nice on our porch as a Thanksgiving decoration to for a while still.
I did dress up like Elsa the day before Halloween to teach VIPKID. I rarely teach new students, but on Halloween I had 4 new students so I decided to not dress up for my first time with them. My students on Oct 30 liked my costume though! Frozen is a big deal in China so I hoped they would like it.
We had cleaning inspections this week too. They aren’t a big deal, but it does motivate me to do some deep cleaning. I was planning to be home with Flynn during the checks but then a pipe broke at Aggie Village and our water was going to be off all morning, so Flynn and I got to go hang out with my parents.
On Saturday Mark went pheasant hunting with his professor for a couple hours. They didn’t shoot anything, but he was happy he got to go. He had been looking forward to going hunting with his dad, but he has had too many demands to take off enough time to travel and hunt.
Our Story: The Bell Family 