Tag: Savannah
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Crucial conversations
Yesterday Laura and I had an intense conversation where we had to work very hard to understand each other and be understood. By the end it was very good but it was a crucible before that. Today we had a similar kind of conversation with Savannah where she didn’t want to participate or act like…
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Taking Savannah to the Temple
We went to the temple this morning with Savannah for her twelfth birthday. She’s been looking forward for a long time to going to the temple and I think she came away underwhelmed. The activities in the temple, especially baptisms for the dead are fairly pedestrian in form. I felt really good being able to…
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22 November 2009
Today was our first “normal” Sunday (meaning new normal) since I was set apart. We are still working on the timing of getting everyone to church, but we’ll get there. Abby Moore spoke in Sacrament meeting – another good talk from a past Sunday School student. Spencer Nelson taught Gospel Doctrine – last week I…
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29 October 2009
Not sure what to say about today – I had an enjoyable breakfast with Laura before scriptures and leaving for work. When I got home we went to Valley View Elementary to see a snow fort that Savannah was excited about playing in from school – it was fairly impressive. Afterward we had dinner and…
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18 September 2009
Today was a very full day. I was up at 4:45 easily after falling asleep early last night. I was out the door by 6:35 and at work by 7:00 am. That was good because I had to leave soon afternoon to get to Savannah’s class for her book presentation. Unfortunately the presentation was canceled…