Elder's Quorum activity

 

Our Elder's Quorum borrowed the Wheelhouse's track and hosted a pinewood derby.  It was so fun.  Jer, Sam and Seth spent all week making new cars. And we pulled out our old cars to race as well.  Seth's Batmobile won "most realistic". Jer's was "most aerodynamic" and Ada's won "most creative". 

Evelyn and I ditched out of the race early to go practice our organ piece for our Easter program.  Anna had her flute in the car, so we played a few songs together and taught her the basics of the organ.  Evelyn had so much fun learning about the stops, pedals and registrations.  It was fun to have her sitting by me during the meeting.

Organ helper

Occasionally the kids help me practice the organ. This week it was this cute reader. He read and sang along with the music. Them he wanted to play with the registrations.... super cute.

Helping mom practice

Practice buddy

Home teaching

Here is an example of how doing your home teaching can bless your life.

Jer Home Teaches a family in our ward that has 5 little kids including one little boy that recently received the priesthood. The kids and I go with him often because Jer's partner is usually out of town for his job. Ada likes to play with their kids even though the one closest to her age is either 5 months old or 4 years old...
So on Sunday I got up to play the closing hymn on the organ and Jer was feeding a bottle to the baby so neither of us saw that Ada had followed me up to the organ until I had gotten there... I can't play with Ada there for several reasons... mostly because she turns the page before the end of the song and I lose the music. I didn't want to cause a huge delay or a fuss by walking her back down into the audience just for her to throw a fit... Parker... the boy that had just gotten into the priesthood quorums was the bishop's helper and was sitting next to him on the stand. I saw him and asked Ada if she wanted to sit with Parker... to my surprise she did. He held her on his lap and then for a little while after the meeting so that I could play postlude. Thank goodness that she was familiar enough with him that she was willing to do that!