Sunday with the Contehs

Sunday August 5^th:

I went to Church with the Contehs today. During Sacrament, I sat with Alice and her friends. Since it was fast and testimony meeting, there were no speakers. They were all very nice and shockingly most of fairly short. The one that stood out to me was given by an elderly gentleman who talked about how we all can lose the ability to hear the Holy Ghost when we’re surrounded by the loud sounds of life. He said that it is important to put in our hearing aids and help them stay in good shape by doing the small little things of saying prayers, scripture reading, listening to the prophet, and so on.

In Sunday school I sat with Elliot, Aly and Jo’s eldest son, and his friends John and Jamie. They were very fun and silly to sit with.  We were on lesson 30 (still in Alma. I think it was up to chapter 41) and we talked about why there are so many war chapters in the Book of Mormon and the Nephites’ attitude when they went into battle.

In Relief Society, the Young Women were visiting so I got to sit with Jo. The lesson was on Gordon B Hinckley’s talk from 1980 about Joseph Smith’s testimony of Christ.

After church, there was a meeting about the road show they are doing in September. It is not competitive and the them is “Once upon a time… and they lived happily ever after.” The director suggested the idea of everyone being scarecrows and the storyline possibly being about missionaries. Mainly the point of the meeting was to find out how many people would be willing to help and find out the theme so people could start brainstorming for the next meeting. Don’t know why exactly, you would want to know this. But if you have random free time it can be fun to come up with story lines and songs. Just for fun, you know ;)

When we all got back, I met Beth (the eldest child in the Conteh family) and her friend Matt. We all got changed and waited for the gold-medal tennis match. It was a good match, one set was SUPER intense because the scores kept changing from 40 all to Advantage for what felt like forever. When Andy Murray won the match point, Jo and Alice jumped in their seats and we all cheered when he won! Though I do have to admit that this match wasn’t was intense to watch as the previous match, but it was really cool to watch Andy Murray win.