On Sunday our ward was approved to meet in one group if there was less than 150 people. There’s been a spike in the number of COVID cases here so Mark and I decided to watch the meeting from home on Zoom. It worked really well-they used Zoom for the meeting and turned it off at the end to do the sacrament. Then we were able to do the sacrament on our own at home. It’s great to see how technology has been so helpful this year! We got a new bishopric on Sunday. I’ll miss working with Bishop Christensen and Brother Loveland (who was over primary), but I’m excited to work with the new Bishopric too! The previous first counselor became the Bishop and I’m sure he’ll be great!
Mark keeps trekking along through school. His “species distribution and habitat modeling” class has been especially challenging. He’s also been contacting the professors on his committee to see what they would like to test him on in his oral comprehensive exams. They each gave him a lot of reading assignments to prepare, so he has a lot to study on top of his regular school work.
Mark went hunting with his main professor, Mike Conover. They didn’t get anything, but Mark had a good time and hopes they can go again!
There wasn’t anything too exciting for me this week! I’m just keeping busy with work, housework, and my calling! My presidency met this week to discuss calling new people. We have one more baptism in our primary this year which will probably happen the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It’s fun to see these kids growing up and to be so excited to be baptized! Now that Mark and I have been in the ward almost four years we’ve seen a lot of changes in the kids here!
General Conference was amazing! We love how perfect the messages are for everything going on this year. We’re grateful for President Nelson’s messages of optimism and hope in the future. We also learned about loving others and building unity among many other spot-on messages.
Mark made us onion rings to munch on during conference with the biggest onion I’ve ever seen!
A couple favorite 2020 jokes:
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