This week was SO busy. Mark is getting in a good groove with his classes. He spends a lot of time in his office doing homework or writing his dissertation. He also helped take his professor’s class spotlighting one night.
BYU-Idaho started on Monday! I have fifty students this semester, which is more than I’ve ever had. I’m also contracted to do 100 hours of grading for EnglishConnect3 this semester. Between reading introduction posts from my students, grading the first assignment, a Zoom meeting with a student, grading EnglishConnect3, teaching VIPKID, and working for webaim, I barely had any free time this week! Mark was so awesome to help a little extra with the housework when I was barely keeping up.
I think it’s going to be a good semester though! I have a lot of great students and am already seeing miracles. I have two students who “just happened to pick the same group,” but they live in the same city and were able to make a special connection over a similar life experience they have. I love when things like that happen!
My primary presidency and I also had a quick Zoom meeting to finalize the primary program. We have written a question for every class and on Sunday, we will pull the kids out of singing time and ask them to answer the question. That will be their speaking part for the program. I love helping put the primary program together! It’s so fun hearing the kids’ responses and songs!
We were able to meet up with some of my friends from Florida this week! The Winks were in the Jacksonville YSA branch- my very first area. They recently moved to Utah. They let me know they would be in Logan for the day so we made plans to meet them at Aggie Ice Cream. It was so fun to catch up! I got to meet their son and they got to meet Mark! I hope we can see them again soon!
Fall has never been my favorite season-I don’t really care about the big fall holidays and I don’t like the cold! But I’m working to embrace all things fall this year! I decided to start off by trying a new pumpkin recipe! I’ve never made a roll cake before, but this pumpkin roll cake turned out great! We’re also making a bucket list of the things we want to do this fall! It’s going to be so fun!
We also were able to pick apples from a family friend’s orchard this week. We dehydrated them so we’ll have some yummy snacks this winter (if we don’t eat them before then)!
Our Story: The Bell Family 