whew...

...you can't imagine how happy i am that this day is over.  i had to teach relief society.  i've never taught in this ward, i guess they only trust me to teach primary age children.  i was nervous.  i think it went well because i got a lot of compliments, but i'll never be able to teach again because i told all the personal stories i've ever had, so i'm out of material. 

sam gave the most awesome talk in sacrament meeting.  good thing we have the best talk-writer-helper in the world at our house.  most of the ideas were sam's, but he had a little help from craig.  he talked about missions.  it really was a good talk.

craig had to teach my primary lesson for me and he said the kids were good.  that's a rip off because they aren't usually good for me.  i have the two rowdiest boys in the primary, one of them is named parry.

oh, and evan is still doing great.  he even says his japanese is coming along.  he sent a picture of the nagoya-jo today.  jo means castle.  he took the picture from the top of the marriott where someone took them for dinner.  he hasn't actually been able to visit the jo though because it's not in his area.  i hope he goes somewhere next where there is lots of sight-seeing.