First, WE MOVED! Yep, we moved out of Provo (finally!) and moved to Highland, UT. Highland is about 20 minutes north of Provo. We actually moved in to Christopher's grandmother's basement. It took us about a month or so to clean it up and fix it up, but it is now homey and cozy! I would like to give a HUGE shout out to my parents-in-law for helping us out so much with that. There were quite a few things that needed repair, so Christopher and Paul were our trusty handy men! They did a wonderful job. Neener and I did a lot of cleaning and painting! I honestly was very skeptical at the beginning of this journey, but I must say that it has turned out to be a huge blessing. I think that it looks really great, I get to decorate how I wish, and we are saving A LOT of money by living there. I also want to give a big shout out to those of you who helped us move: Whitney, Griffin, Emily, Ben, Neener, Paul, and our cute nephews for entertaining us the whole time.
Neener actually had a great idea to surprise Christopher! The Saturday that we moved, Christopher had drill for the National Guard. Neener thought it would be nice to surprise Christopher by everyone moving our stuff while he was at drill, that way we wouldn't have to do the moving late at night or on a Sunday. So, after Christopher left for drill I hurried as fast as I could to pack our whole apartment up into boxes or whatever I could put things in. By the time the troops got there, I had about half of the apartment packed! I was so stressed out. So, why the men were carrying things down to the cars, the ladies helped me to finish packing. It worked out very nicely. Once Paul's truck, Emily's van, Whitney's car, and my car were all full we made our trip down to Grandma's. We unloaded everything into the house, and I immediately started putting things where I wanted them to go. The boys had to make another trip back to Provo to get some bigger furniture, so the girls and I stayed at Grandma's and put things away to make room for the furniture that was coming. When I picked Christopher up I told him we had to go to Grandma's because I had left some things there. He was not happy about that because he was tired and just wanted to go home. Little did he know he was going home! When he saw what everyone did he was so happy and extremely grateful. The look on his face was priceless.
Another part of the reason for moving there was because Christopher's grandma needed someone there who could help her out with some things. Christopher and I have found true joy serving his Grandma, and I think it has brought us closer together as husband and wife. Also, I think Christopher loves being around his Grandma all the time!
Second, I am done with my second to last semester of college! This past semester I had my practicum experience, which is like a mini student teaching. I was assigned to a school (which was luckily 5 minutes away from our place in Highland) and a grade to help teach at 3 days a week. The elementary school I was assigned to was called Deerfield Elementary School, and I was in a first grade classroom. My mentor teacher's name was Miss Jones. Let me just tell you, I LOVED THIS EXPERIENCE! Even though I was petrified to teach my first few lessons and had to be there at 7:30 in the morning, I grew to love those kids, become great friends with my mentor teacher, and become comfortable and confident in my abilities as a teacher! My next step is student teaching in the Fall. Then, I GRADUATE in December...the end is near!
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Third, I've become an aunt to two more nieces! Two of Christopher's sisters, Amy and Emily, had baby girls! They are SO cute. Also, my sister Whitney is preggers! She is having a baby girl in September! YAY!
Fourth, Christopher had some military training recently called Warrior Leader Course or WLC. Luckily he did not need to go very far for it, it was just at Camp Williams here in Utah which is about 20 minutes from our house. We thought he was going to have to stay there every night for 3 weeks, but since he lives close by they let him come home for the night if he wanted to (which made me very happy). As explained on the U.S. Army website, " WLC, formarly call Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC), is the first leadership course Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) attend. WLC is a month-long coiurse that teaches Specialists and Corporals the basic skills to lead small groups of Soldiers. This course is hard hitting and intensive with emphasis on leadership skills and prepares Soldiers to advance to the rank of Sergeant." Yea, that does not sound funat all, and according to Christopher it wasn't. But, I think he learned a lot. As it says in the description, WLC is for Specialists and Corporals, but Christopher was selected to go as a Private! How cool is that! He was 1 of 2 Privates out of everyone that was tehre. He has obviously impressed his Sergeants in his battalion.
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While he was there, he had many missionary opportunities because many of the other soldiers were from all over the country. He made one very good friend named Christopher Vo, who they just called Vo. He is from CA and was a good friend to Christopher. Christopher started sharing some of our church beliefs with Vo, and he could not believe we live the way we do! (For example: no alcohol, no sexual relations before marriage, 3 hours of church every Sunday, etc.) Vo was interested and wanted to know more. Christopher gave him a Book of Mormon and Vo said he would read it. We also invites him to come to church with us. Funny thing is, that next Sunday was General Conference weekend and we had tickets to the Conference Center. So, we took Vo to General Conference with us at the Conference Center. It was awesome. I think he really felt the Spirit there because he wanted to meet with the missionaries when he returned home. How awesome is that!
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The next training Christopher has is for the whole month of June. This time it is not so close by, it is in GERMANY! So jealous he gets to go to Germany. He is going for a joint training operation with soldiers from the US, Germany, and some other country. He will be leaving at the end of May and returning at the end of June. I am going to miss him SO MUCH but I am very excited for the opportunity he is getting.
Well, that is all for now folks! We love you all! Stay classy.
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