3.15.2015

Ok keagan news first! He got his drivers permit and started drivers ed! We made it in and out of the department  of licensing in record time! 15 mins! The person who took his picture  said, kind of a smirk, not a smile. Well,  that is normal  for him. 

I took him to the empty church parking  lot for his first  try to drive. Oh my goodness!  A little  scary..and  funny. 2 things he said. I was trying to not laugh too hard. I told him to check the mirror to see if he could see.  I asked him if he could see.. and he said, see what... myself? Bhahaha (and the funny thing was that he was totally  serious)

And then he kept using his left foot to brake. I kept telling  him, no left  foot.! He said, then why do you have a left foot? He was really getting  grumpy  about it...

He tried out for the choir and made it. We decided it's pretty  much his calling.. There's few males, lots of girls and they wear bow ties. Lol

I have been subbing at the schools a lot. I'm really enjoying it.  I do a variety  of things - recess duty, helping in the preschools, reading and math groups and kindergarten  helper. Two stories  from those jobs..

I w as  recess  duty and the 5th graders were out. There was a couple holding hands and walking behind the play structure  so maybe no one could see them. All the elementary  schools have a strict no pda policy.  I walked right up to them and that startled  them and then asked them what the rules  were.  After I told another duty.. they kind of got a talking to. It  was kind if funny..and kind of sad. It starts way too early!

The other one made my day! For my calling, we've been doing the sharing times in the other wards. I was at Lydia hawk and had just been  to the ward where the kids there would go. A little  girl came walking (more like prancing) down  the hall, stopped, and said to me, hey, I know  you! You were at my church yesterday!  So sweet.

I got to go out with our missionaries  this week  to a lesson. The lady was very sweet and strong catholic.  When the elder gave her the baptism challenge,  she said, if I can be both. Huh? We really didn't  know how to answer her. She said she believes  the BoM to be true, but her Catholic  church has lots of truths, too. She said if she had to give up the Catholic  church, she wouldn't do it.  So, we'll see. It was a good experience  for me, though.

There is also another lady  in our ward that has been  a member  for a couple of years. She doesn't  have much knowledge of the church.  She came over and we visited  for a couple of hours. She had some questions  like, how do I know what to read or how do I read my scriptures? I was able to give her some suggestions  and show her ideas on the gospel  library  app. It was a good visit.

Now we are getting  ready to go to one of those awesome  missionary  musical firesides.

Love  you all,  I keep  you in my prayers! Today I got to say the opening  prayer in sacrament mtg and I had to think, ok which  of "my missionaries " are in the ward? Which names do I say? It felt strange not including Lauren, Brooklyn, Hayden, and Logan!

Have a great week!

Love,  

Sister  Shoop