November 7, 2008
First of all, happy daylight savings time! Now we all get to go to work and school before the sun comes up and get home after it has gone down.
The weather here has been really nice as we transition into the “rainy” season. The leaves on the trees have turned beautiful colors and have since fallen off and blanket our cars and sidewalks. On Halloween I meant to go outside and take a picture of a neat looking tree that had turned the brightest red color, but changed my mind so that the trick-or-treaters wouldn’t know we were home.
Speaking of Halloween, it was a really fun holiday. Lesley and I were both able to dress up for work and school. I dressed up as an old man in a really old and ugly polyester suit with a cane and white hair. Lesley was a goddess from Greek mythology. I told her that being a newlywed doesn’t automatically make her the goddess of love. But she looked hot and I looked old.
We were invited to a Halloween party hosted by some friends from the ward including Devan, a fellow Philly missionary, and his wife Paige. There were a bunch of young newlywed couples like Lesley and I in attendance. We had food, talked, and watched a scary movie. I don’t remember the name of the movie but it took place in some Asian country and involved a little boy who hid in his closet and murdered hospice workers when they took care of grandma. Yeah, I thought the movie was pretty lame.
On Sunday I was called and set apart as……..drum roll please……..a primary teacher. Bro. Smith and I will be team teaching the CTR 8 class. There are about 4 girls and a couple rowdy boys, but nothing I can’t handle. (Considering I used to be one of the little brats that primary teachers dreaded teaching) Lesley has yet to receive a calling. We’re praying for genealogy worker
A couple weeks ago we got a gym membership at Ballys. I didn’t want to get a membership unless there was a pool. My brother Chanse got me into swimming when I got home from my mission and since then it has been my favorite cardio and I fully believe it is the best exercise out there. I go in the mornings before work and Lesley has joined me on many occasions. It seems like I am lifting weights with a lot of brothas (“na’ mean”) and swimming with a lot of old Asians. At least I won’t get fat like a lot of newly married men. I have to work out because Lesley is such a good cook.
Speaking of the dear wife, Lesley has had midterms the last couple weeks. So she’s been studying like crazy every free second she has, and has been pulling off really good grades. I can’t wait till they are done so we can go out and do something fun. Lesley’s car is in the shop getting a valve fixed. Getting cars fixed really bites. But good thing my work is within longboarding distance if we ever get desperate. I just hope we don’t have any more car issues because I don’t want to have to have a car funeral.
