Ok so this will be my first attempt at writing on the blog. Leesa has tried to encourage me a few times to do it and I have tried to stay away from it just because I don't feel like I really know what to say or write. But my mother-in-law left a message for Leesa that told her she has missed reading our blog. So I thought I would take it upon myself to write one so the pressure was off Leesa for now.
So why is Leesa so busy that she can't update our Blog? Well she is student teaching at Blackfoot High School!!!! Yay for Leesa. She is almost done with her Bachelor's from BYU-I. She has been with her cooperating teacher for about 3 weeks now and is really starting to love teaching. She used to always say that she never really wanted to be a teacher, but now that she has been getting classroom experience in a High School she has started to changer her mind. She did luck out in her placement to not have to teach much sewing. This was something that she was fearing quite a bit. The biggest challenge for her right now is doing Culinary Arts and writing her lesson plans. She spends hours on the computer outlining, creating, and perfecting her lesson plans. This is the one thing that she has not been enjoying, but she has been making many sacrifices (ignoring me) to get them done.
So there really isn't much more going on in our lives. We moved in to my parents home to try to save some money while we are transitioning. It has really been a big help, but it is harder than we thought going from a two bedroom apartment down to a single bedroom for us and all of our stuff packed in boxes in their garage. We tend to spend a lot of time to ourselves hiding out in our room. But it is nice to still have our own space.
Since we are living back with my parents we are now back in my old home ward. This is also a little weird going from a married student ward to our first family ward. Back in Rexburg Leesa was in the nursery and I didn't really have a calling, but that isn't the case now. We were called last week and set apart this week as Sunday School teachers for the 14 and 15 year olds. They were pretty unruly when we taught them today, but it will get better as time goes on. It is just odd teaching teenagers when there weren't any in our ward for over 2 years. But it is going to be a great blessing to the two of us.
Well I am not sure of what else to really blog about right now. There isn't much going on for me. I am just waiting to leave on March 6th for San Antonio, and from there I will head to Missouri for more training. Right now I am working at McDonald's in Blackfoot until I ship out for 5 months.
Hopefully this doesn't seem like I am rambling on, but that kind of happens when nothing has been posted for 3 months.
