Making Some Changes

Contradictory to our title today...

The big change mentioned in the title is that I'm going to start posting in the morning instead of the evening. That way I'm much more likely to post.

Yesterday had the makings of a busy day, but it wasn't. It could have been hectic, but it wasn't. Just the way I like it. I love days where I get a lot done in a little amount of time. When I woke up, I laid in bed for a while and worked on mission related things that I could do from the comfort of my own bed. I filled out forms, checked my mission email, etc. I got a call around 11 from my dear mother asking if I would be willing to help a struggling student in her 4th grade class with long division. Now, I haven't done math for 3 years now, but I figured I'd give it a shot. Lucky for me, I could still remember how to do long division and I kinda helped the kid, Austin, understand his math better. I had a hard time making eye contact with him since he looks like a 4th grade version of Kevin Malone:

As I mentioned before, I have had a lot of extra work lately down at the school. I guess the sweepers down there haven't had a willing substitute sweeper in quite a while so they've had no choice but to show up to work no matter what. Now that they have a reliable sub that does a decent job, they're all taking the day off to their heart's content, thus piling the work on me. I shouldn't complain because I really do need the money, but 5 1/2 hours like I had yesterday is the equivalent to cleaning half of the classrooms in the school. Not my favorite. My boss left early which I took as an invitation to do the same. So, I cleaned quickly doing the best speed job I had in me, and was done by about 6.

When I went home, I went to the ward young men's basketball game. Benjamin gets pretty good playing time and is actually a very impressive ball handler. He was spinning around people and breaking a few ankles, he even drained some pretty impressive shots! Why is he not on the school basketball team? Lack of discipline. He gets out there and looks like he's running out of control! When he gets the ball and starts running he gets the funniest panicked grin on his face; we call it the "Benjamin Face". This is the closest face to his that I could find:

It's something to that effect. He also never practices. His idea of practicing is going out and shooting for 20 minutes maybe once a week. No one, I repeat, NO ONE can get good at anything practicing that little. If he had the discipline to go practice hard every day, he would be really, really good.

That's all I really have to report for today. Big plans tonight so I should have some good stuff tomorrow. Maybe.

AMS