2008 December: Robertson

Hello Everyone,

Time to think about everything that happened in the month of December. What hasn’t happened? At the start of the month, I was in full swing with school. I had several teaching demonstrations and end of course projects due. Somehow I got through all of them. My biggest teaching demonstration was done in front of two highly critical faculty members. Both gave me more or less glowing reviews. Somehow in all of the months and weeks of stress and being running here and yon, I was able to pull through with straight As my first semester. Yay! That was a huge relief. It lets me know that I do have what it takes in some degree at least to do well in this field. I have made some good friends among the students and the faculty. Now we’ll see how the next three semesters go. I will need to take at least two more semesters with one extra class than a normal full time student in order to graduate when I want to plus from here on out I will also have my teaching load to think about. Now the fun part begins.

Right after school got out I recuperated for a day or two and then we got ready for Christmas. Between shopping and decorating and baking, it kept us busy. I also went out with the missionaries a few times at the beginning of the month to be a third person so they could visit some single women t teach. It was nice to be back in missionary mode. While I was feeling the missionary spirit and the spirit of the season, I gave a Book of Mormon to a fellow student in the grad program here. She accepted it and promised that she would read it, but told me to remember that she was Christian. Interesting experience. I will have to see what she thought of it after break if she had a chance to read any of it.

Morgan enjoyed spending time with her family for Christmas. We went and spent the majority of Christmas break with her family. While there, she was able to go out to lunch a few times with family and cousins. It was nice to be around family for the Holidays. Too bad that it isn’t possible to be with both sides of the family at the same time. We are looking forward to Christmas in Rexburg next year. We had a big New Year’s Eve party at Morgan’s parent’s house where we played games and put the girls to bed early (they slept right through the party and the night with no real screaming).

A few times during the break, I drove back to Winona in order to help people move. The first time, I helped a family move out of the branch – they are moving to Utah (like Utah needs another Mormon family moving in – we need them here). Then I helped the branch president move his family into a new house since he was kicked out of his apartment a couple of weeks ago. So spending two days of moving furniture in snow and ice did a number on my knees and shoulder (back came out fine – lift with the knees, not with the back). I was able to join the infirmary of Morgan and the girls who all came down with colds. There a plenty of sniffles and snotty gross-out moments right now. The joys of two year olds (in a few weeks). Other than that we have just been preparing for all the changes that come with the New Year with school and church. I think that about covers our month pretty well. We hope that you all are doing well. God’s blessing be upon all of you.

Love,

The Robertsons
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