Life just does not get any better than that now does it?
Well, despite all that was going on in Utah, Friday came and went in Seattle without a single “Howdy” from any buckaroo & roo-ette! In fact, the “Insty,” (what we have fondly named “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint’s Seattle Institute of Religion Building”) was closed in commemoration of the day. So, no red wagons, no creamsicles, nothing. We spent most of the day at the temple, hopefully doing some good for those of our honored pioneer past.
Yet, despite the Friday pioneer let down, this week has been a little busier than most other week this month. The reason being, the Director AND the Full-time Instructor, AND the Institute Secretary were ALL gone this week (– AND they will be gone all next week as well.) That left just us two missionaries in charge.
We know, you are probably thinking – “What? Leave that Thornton couple in charge of the Insty? Are they Crazy? Do they know what Mike is capable of doing to a room in 30 minutes or less?”
Well, we did promise not to use any open flames or fireworks. But hey, that still left us a lot of wiggle room.
So, since we need to raise a few funds for an upcoming Institute party, we made a “slight” change to the building by temporarily changing it this:
We figured by turning the Institute into a Hostile, we could cook and provide room and board to enough students so we could really help out the budget. But, alas, as it turned out, most of the students seemed to have disappeared this week. So we took back down the sign. (And yes, we are just KIDDING. This is just a building along the freeway going to our apartment. The Institute is still safe and sound – despite leaving us in charge.)
However, the reason this week was a tad more busy, was because we had to teach early-morning seminary while everyone was gone. Since we have never taught seminary, (and I am not sure Mike EVER attended seminary – but somehow he did manage to graduate) we were a little bit nervous. But, it turned out to be quite fun. The class topic this term is “Mission-prep.” And since we just happened to be “Missionaries,” it wasn’t too big of a stretch. The ½ dozen students were actually quite attentive - at least a lot more attentive than we were at their age. So it was really fun, and we are looking forward to teaching them again next week.
In our other classes, we had a few more new students show up at our Tuesday night class. It is always exciting to see new faces. However, our Wednesday night class suffered some temporary casualties. There was apparently a conflicting “going away” party for some of the interns returning to Provo. We can’t believe they would skip out on our class for some FUN party (Actually, we were just miffed that we weren’t invited.) But all in all, it was a good teaching week with the additional classes we are substituting for – at least until everybody gets back.
And last, one of the biggest surprises we had this week, was one we found underneath the bridge that goes across Lake Union;
This is the “underneath” portion of one end of the bridge. The “Surprise” is when you turn around to find:
You got it, there is a BIG troll under that bridge! (And, yes, that is Katie and me. We actually took this picture when Katie visited us earlier this month and we just wanted to share it with you. So now is better than never, , ,)
We can’t believe the next time we write it will be August! Where is this summer going? We hope your summer is going well for all of you too!
Love,
Elder “Mike” & Sister “Jenny” Thornton
P.S. We received a few emails wanting copies of the 38 points we talked about in our last email on the “Family Proclamation.” We will try to email a copy of the Proclamation with the numbered points sometime in the near future. Thanks for all your input! Yes, we are also going to try to put all these emails into a blog. Thanks again for all your wonderful support!
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