There were only three kids in my class today, usually there are at least five. I'd been promising them a breakfast lesson ever since they requested it over a month ago, so today I brought cinnamon rolls and orange juice. Too bad our visitor was fasting. The kids loved it though. Our lesson was about inviting others to come unto Christ.
Chris's lesson was about Doctrine and Covenants 104, self reliance. He had an object lesson that had people buzzing afterward.
A few weeks ago, he and Jordan had been working on something in the backyard and left a wrench on the driveway. It got rained on and neglected. Ultimately, they were not very good stewards of their tool. They had both probably walked past it several times and skipped the opportunity to preserve its usefulness.
Since he had the rusted wrench, he took it to show in class. He also brought another wrench in good condition AND a third wrench that was "gold-plated." (It was actually spray painted gold, but for the sake of the analogy we're calling it gold-plated.) The point was that something that may not seem to be of high value, can be very useful and valuable if it's taken care of, but if you put too much value on it, it becomes just as useless as the one that was neglected (assuming that you wouldn't actually want to use the gold-plated wrench on any of your projects that might make it less shiny).
From what I heard, everyone liked the lesson.
Jemma was the spotlight in Primary and both Chris and I forgot to go in and watch her talk about all her favorite things. We felt bad, but she assured us that it was fine.
The Priest Quorum presidency spoke in Sacrament Meeting, which meant that it was Jon D., Jordan and Bishop Jones. Jon opened his talk with his experience getting home late after Homecoming last night and how his dad went easy on him because he was apologetic and didn't argue. Jordan then got up and admitted that he hadn't dealt with his parents yet after his late night last night. I know from his texts that it was sometime between 1:30 and 2am.
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It was raining when we got out of church. We walked home in the rain and, since it was cold and wet outside and we're just getting used to our new 9am church schedule (we've been meeting at 10am for years), we all crashed this afternoon and napped. Jemma didn't actually sleep, but she was watching some of her favorite shows while Jordan, Chris and I zonked out. Later Chris mentioned the irony that he'd just taught a lesson about the importance of not being idle.
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A few months ago Chris and Jemma planted a small garden in the side yard. The plants all got enormous, but didn't produce much more than a bunch of green tomatoes. It's been so cold lately that I figured the tomatoes were past the point of ripening, but yesterday we went out and found these beautiful red tomatoes! And a handful of deliciously tart blackberries.
This one tomato could win a prize at the state fair if there was a category for medium-sized, perfectly-shaped-almost-like-a-pumpkin tomatoes.
I made a good old-fashioned casserole for dinner because it seemed like a great thing to have on a cold and rainy fall Sunday and I set the table and finally used the bottle I bought last month in New York for water. I knew the bottle wouldn't be appreciated by all, and I was right, but I love it nonetheless.
Why do I love the bottle? Because it's just like the bottles they place on the tables at restaurants in NY, in case you need to top off your water. Also because I got it at Fishs Eddy, a great little shop in the Flatiron District. And, of course, because it's beautifully practical!
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris
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Wow, the Meacham clan dominated the time block that day!
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