Hello family!
Sorry we dropped the ball on sending out an update last week. Here's what's new in our lives:
First, Maddie and James Empey (who were renting out the basement for the last year) just moved out yesterday. We posted the basement for rent on Facebook groups about a week ago and have spent the last week responding to tons of messages about it and giving people tours. Most of the people who came by were a little quirky and we were starting to get nervous about finding someone as awesome as the last two couples that have lived down there since we moved upstairs, but then this really nice couple came by and seemed really interested. Their names are Karla and Tyrell. We were already thinking they would be a good fit when we found out that Karla actually served in Logan and Christi's mission! They had great things to say about her, so that pretty much sealed the deal. Cheryl offered them the apartment and they accepted and are excited to start moving in soon!
Nathan took his first final yesterday and said it sucked, but he probably got like 100% because that's what usually happens. He has 4 more finals to take between Monday and Thursday this week, and then he is DONE! Well, for a couple of weeks at least. :) This has been one of his hardest semesters yet. During the last couple of weeks, we have barely seen each other because he has had a million group projects that kept him on campus well into the night. I am really proud of how hard he has worked and how well he has done. Nathan's a champ!
Amy is trying to survive the craziness that is teaching elementary school in December. It is very exciting, but students also seem to have forgotten every procedure that they ever learned and drive her nuts some days. She took a Drama class at BYU and her teacher shared a readers' theater script with her for the classic Charles Dickens story, A Christmas Carol. Her class is going to perform it for the other classes and the students' parents, with costumes, props and everything. The kids are stoked about it! That has been really fun.
YM and YW are also keeping us pretty busy. Amy is really excited because she and the other leaders met together and created a plan for how to restructure the classes and class presidencies. We asked the bishop to call several new women in as advisors, which will be such a blessing. The YW had a big activity this last Friday night where we rode the frontrunner up to Salt Lake to see the lights on Temple Square and eat dinner at the Nauvoo Cafe. A couple of weeks before, the YW expressed interest in doing something to help homeless people, so one of our activities this month was shopping for and putting together care packages for homeless people with snacks, hand warmers, socks, etc. We took those with us to Salt Lake and gave them out to people that we passed. We had a series of mishaps befall us on the train ride back (it was jam-packed, the power went out for like 15 minutes, a high school kid asked for 4 of the young women's phone numbers, and we didn't get home until after midnight), but we had a fun time and now have a great story to tell. :)
I honestly can't remember when we sent our last update so if this is a repeat just disregard it. My school took a fun field trip to see a BYU women's basketball game and Nathan met us there. My students kept staring at him and then looking away like they were all sneaky. My school also sponsored a family night at Classic Skating in Orem, so Nathan and I went and saw several of my students there. I'll send some pictures of both of those events (one of them shows Nathan and I on the big screen with one of my students dancing like a madman right in front of us, lol).
A while ago, Nathan got contacted by someone in the Religion department because they wanted to spotlight a painting he made for his Foundations of the Restoration class in an exhibit at the JSB. They invited us to the event and Nathan, along with the other student artists, had to give a 3-minute talk about his painting. We also ate a lot of cream puffs while we were there. ;)
One of Amy's team teachers at Larsen is named Katie Howard, and her husband Jason works in a virtual reality company called The Void. They have their headquarters in Lindon, which is where they test out their new VR experiences before they release them. They invited us along with the other two teachers on Amy's team, their husbands, & the student teacher who's been working with one of our team, and her husband. We had such a fun time with them and got to go through a cool Avengers-themed VR experience.
We also went and threw hatchets with some of Nathan's friends from his program, which was fun. It was a massive group date. See pictures below.
I think that's all from us! A week from today, we will be flying out to West Virginia to spend Christmas with Amy's sister Carolyn and brother Rob. Amy is very close to both of them yet doesn't get to see them very often, so it is a great blessing to be with them for the holiday.
We send our love to all of you this Christmas!
Nathan and Amy
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