TMM Teaching Matters 1.21.19
One of the highlights of this last week was teaching primary in the Laredo 1st Ward yesterday. Jim and I taught seven girls from Come, Follow Me. I had over-prepared (20 minutes is NOT long!) but began by showing pictures on my iPad and having the girls tell what they knew from Luke 2 and Matthew 2. I really do not think I knew much at their age. Five of these seven could tell the whole scripture story, including Gabriel, Elizabeth, Simeon, Zacharias, the wisemen, the angels, the shepherds, and details that I learned in studying the lesson! Amazing families=amazing kids. These little girls were excited about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jim and I are still talking about this experience. I am not sure our seminary or institute students could have done so well. Impressive! It also taught us that the Come, Follow Me changes in curriculum and schedule are surely divine.
We traveled to San Antonio for Laredo Stake’s very first temple day. Our session was packed, and that meant several people (even though you do have to have appointments in SA) could not fit in the endowment session and ended up doing sealings and other assignments. They were not able to do the work for family names, though, because the temple was so busy with scheduled work. Being part of the new changes in the endowment was exciting and interesting. If you have not been, get to the temple as soon as you can and do an endowment session. The trip was wonderful (we love road trips!) and certainly worth the six hours of driving. We had actually planned to go to the temple the week before, but had forgotten our temple clothes. We rescheduled because the temple was so busy, and they have very few temple clothes available. It is always inspiring to be at the temple with these good, faithful saints we have come to love.
Missionary transfer day is tomorrow, which means that we will be making waffles for our new group on Wednesday. This is a fun tradition, passed down to us from the Scholes. It gives us a chance to meet the new missionaries and find out a little about them. We like to find connections, especially with those who are from Idaho and Utah. The old Coach Flanagan looks for those who ran track or cross country or love debate!
Our institute class was fabulous this week. The students prepared and then taught each other D&C 76, the three degrees of glory. It was inspiring and well-done. It was also a reminder to us that it is best if we can keep our mouths shut and let students learn from each other. That is VERY hard for two old talkers to do, but it is so much more effective for learning!
We had today off (with most of the country) for MLK holiday. We took the opportunity to rest and relax and didn’t even leave the apartment, even though temperatures were perfect in the mid-70s. Sometimes we just need a day like that. We did still have lots to do because we have a seminary lesson every day and a double institute lesson once a week.
Russell M. Nelson is truly a living prophet! We are amazed at the revelations that have come in the last year, and we are thankful to be serving a mission during this very special time in Laredo and all over the world as we prepare for Christ to come again to the earth! We love the Book of Mormon and other scriptures. We are thankful to be studying the New Testament together. We love the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
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