we like games

Well, Wayne jumped the gun and already posted some things about last week. Oh well, makes my job easier, right?  The big news of the week is that Wayne got the job at the MTC that he wanted so much. Yay! You can read about it here. He started on Thursday, and since it is close to campus, it will be much easier for him to get in a few hours here and there throughout the week. You would think his class schedule would be pretty regular, but it’s not. It’s nice to have a semi-flexible work schedule as well. It’s also nice to have a job doing something you like doing.

We also somehow hiked up a good chunk of a mountain on Monday. Silly us. And thus we were sore until Thursday. I took the elevator on occasion because I felt sorry for myself.  You can read about our hiking adventures here.
I think we found some people in our new ward who like games. Yay. Our landlords went out and bought Fluxx after playing with us. We converted yet another family to one of our favorite games. Muhahaha. And we had another couple over on Wednesday for some games. We got to play Carcassonne with them! Games are fun. It was funny though, because I had a mad scramble to finish homework for all three of my classes Wednesday before people came over. I didn’t plan too well I guess.

Most of the rest of the week was classes and homework. There was a graduate student social in there somewhere…we went but weren’t very social. We just wanted the free meal. And to listen to them call out winning raffle ticket numbers again. We didn’t win. [oh, man were their hotdogs nasty. -wayne]

Oh I almost forgot! I got a new bike. We couldn’t quite figure out how to bring the free bike I got in Seattle with, so I watched for posts on the freecycle website for a bike, and the girl who posted one picked me! I think it’s because I told her that purple is my favorite color, and that’s the color of her old bike.  We went for a good bike ride yesterday, but not a long one because I got a flat and the seat is like a rock. But hey, it was free right? And now we can both ride at the same time…fun fun fun.

[I went to a MTC employee fireside this afternoon hosted by Elder Scott and Elder Ballard. It was a very personal meeting with them where they discussed missionary work and our personal connection to missionaries and training missionaries. (This is definitely a perk of this new job.) One of the most interesting comments of the evening was during Elder Ballard's talk. He started by saying that we should know how much they love us, but that it was his job to make sure we never forget the importance of our job. Something he said which really impacted me, and I could feel that most of the room felt the same way, was the insight he gave us into the work ethic of the apostles. He talked about the work that President Hinckley does and how he never stops even though he's 95. Then Elder Ballard talked about himself as a 77 year old, as a worn down old man he sometimes wonders how he is going to do all the work he has in front of him. And everything begins to weigh him down, knowing that he's more mortal than the rest of us. Then, he thinks of the atonement. It is then that he feels the strength beyond his own flow through himself. He focuses on the amazing physical struggle of the Lord and that gets him excited to do more, to be more. Thought I'd share. -wayne]

Karl and Angela will be here soon to play, so I should say good-bye…
Have a good week!

Becca and Wayne