Normally that’s not so much to talk about. After all this is Seattle, but lets just say this tourist’s umbrella is getting a little bent out of shape as many times as we have had to use it as a snow scraper in February.
As you can see, our building’s little mascot is basking in the sunshine - just after a rain storm - just after a snow storm -which gave us enough of the white stuff to build him.
You might be pondering, “Do Senior Missionaries do things like build snowmen?” Answer: Absolutely! If done with Public Relations in mind.
What does “PR” have to do with a Seattle snowman? Well, you should have seen all the people just walking down the sidewalk who would glance up and smile at the CUTE snowman – which just so happened to be strategically placed just under the sign reading “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – Institute of Religion” - thank you very much.
Of course all good things must come to an end. Someone late in the day came by, and apparently didn’t believe in snowmen, because they SQUASHED him. Sorry Frosty, we simply did NOT know that atheists also deny the existence of snowmen.
Okay, just in case you think we didn’t have anything else to do this week besides build a snowman, this is what we did in a nutshell:
SATURDAY: Just after we wrote the last email, we ran off to have a “meet & greet” with a bunch of high school juniors and seniors who are checking out the institute as future U-DUB students. Of course, we fed them and afterwards the Institute had rented out Husky Football Stadium to play frisby games. The potential future students had a blast and let’s just say the faculty woke up Sunday morning a LITTLE sore.
SUNDAY: We talked in one of the University Wards. Deon Turley surprised us by being there to visit her daughter Carol. (Sorry Deon for having to listen to us twice in a very short period of time.)
MONDAY: We taught our classes and then the University wards had a “Tri-ward” film festival - which was really fun, and kept us going until about 10:00pm.
TUESDAY: Fairly normal teaching day and we finished up our teaching at around 9:00pm. Not all of the Church’s institute locations celebrate Mardi Gras, but the one in Seattle did. We only made crepes for the students in honor of Sister Thornton’s mission experience in France. When the students asked what Mardi Gras was she preferred to be a little vague.
WEDNESDAY: We taught in the morning and then we had another out-of-state wonderful visitor, Rex Barzee. Rex is a BYU Idaho professor (and Jenny’s nephew.) He dropped by with two of his students for an Institute looksie - His students are here on an internship finding trip. We really enjoyed his all-too-brief visit and we said our good-byes with the hopes of the Institute seeing him and even more students next year.
THURSDAY: We taught our last class of the week and then shopped until we dropped for the normal Friday Feast. That evening the Institute sponsored an on-campus forum to field questions from non-member U-Dub students which finished up about 10:00pm.
FRIDAY: The normal cooking and feasting with a western theme. We had barbequed beef and the fixin’s and root beer floats.
The feast was followed by a CES satellite training seminar with Elder Cook. The faculty then went out to dinner as a group.
AND there you have it. Another week has FLOWN by. That pretty much takes us up to this very moment where we are typing out this email.
Whew.
Elder “Mike” & Sister “Jenny” Thornton
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