On Monday, I had the opportunity to meet some of my virtual string students in person for the first time! I started teaching Jackson (bass), Audrey (violin) and Savannah (cello) Steele over a year ago when Jackson met Erik Lucas (my student since our mission) through a north Phoenix youth orchestra. The whole family came to Missouri for Bible quiz competitions - the three youngest were in Branson for their competition and the oldest three - my students - got to compete in St. Charles! They were able to break away and come to our house for lunch on Monday and we had a great visit. Such a nice family.
And, TALL! You can see how tall in this photo. (Jackson, Audrey, me, Savannah)
After they left, I caught a very quick nap and then was joined by my friend, Karen Brandt and we went to the Goodwill Outlet. She had never been and I was needing more t-shirts for another rug. We both found lots of stuff we could use. I was so worn out after a full morning of preparing food for the Steele family and an afternoon of standing on my feet that all I felt like doing that evening was to watch A Man Called Otto again!
Tuesday we were in the temple as patrons in the morning and in the evening, Steve and I went to the church for temple recommend interviews and I worked on choir music while waiting for Steve. Wednesday we shopped for groceries and stayed indoors the rest of the day because it was SO HOT! While Steve was at youth activities in the evening, I cut out zippered bags to sew (for Happy Hookers) and watched Wedding Season - a cute, fluffy RomCom. Thursday morning was Silver Sneakers yoga and more excessive heat. I had to resume watering the yard. We watched The Zookeeper's Wife that evening. Friday we were temple patrons again. Steven was to have joined us but he caught Covid and, even though the Paxlovid was greatly helping, he wisely decided to not come to St. Louis. In the afternoon, I worked on choir music again (getting geared up for fall and Christmas) and made a three bean salad and a strawberry pie (pie making contest) for a ward Pioneer Day activity on Saturday.
Saturday we were at the temple AGAIN - as baptistry workers. In the afternoon there was an outdoor wedding reception for a friend in the ward. I am sure when they planned everything, they didn't count on an excessive heat warning during the celebration from 1:00 - 3:00. Later in the day, there was a planned ward Pioneer Day activity at the same park but, thankfully, the night before, it was wisely moved to the church meetinghouse. Happily, at the wedding reception, we were in the shade of a pavilion but it was still HOT! We gave Sam Carpintero and Emily Hughes a ride to both events. And, they hung out at our house in between since there was just a two hour gap between the two activities. We watched Encanto because Emily had never seen it.
Sam (sitting) Emily ( standing)
Tim and Cinnamon
Steve chatting with Elder Houle (a senior missionary) at the start of the ward Pioneer Day event at the church.
The ward party ended up being very well attended and it was SO good that it was moved indoors because, instead of the high temperatures of earlier in the day, we had a wild and crazy thunderstorm that dropped an inch of rain and blew over many trees throughout the city. I am happy to report that my mother's strawberry pie recipe won "Best Fruit Pie".
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