Sunday

Ah. Those poor kids that camped. It rained almost the whole night. Now, before you start feeling too sorry for them, they knew that the weather forecast predicted rain, but you should pity them a lot because every single girl was against one of the walls and so they all got soaked.  We were nice and warm in our beds.

Sunday we went to a single’s ward in St. George.  It was kind of fun to pick what time we wanted to go, instead of basically any other principle.  We choose 11:00, the college student’s wildest dream time (except for 10:20, which I feel privileged to have experienced).  Our favorite part was when this girl came into Sunday School and made the following announcement. 

Course, like half the class was from our group, so it makes sense that she didn’t know everyone.  She was announcing a games night she was hosting at her house that night. She wrote the address down on the whiteboard, and I turned around and saw Josh D., Jeff, and Kaitlan all writing it down while Kate was signaling for someone to write it down.  Typical.  Of course we were going to go to a games night for a ward we weren’t in…

After church we went to the St. George temple.  I love this temple so much.  I just love everything to do with church history so I can’t help but love this temple.

We all did a really good job remembering our church clothes, except for Josh D. and Jeff forgetting their shoes.  Jeff was so embarrassed and he probably did look funnier than Josh, as Jeff was wearing an entire suit, complete with cuff links, while wearing tennis shoes.

   We spent some time at the St. George visitor’s center.  We were really lucky about the weather- it was great the whole day. Those poor people who camped…  I really recognized one of the sister missionaries who was there, and we couldn’t figure out how we knew each other.  She kept saying that it was probably that we were in the same ward but that she didn’t really remember any of the wards that she was in, but I wanted to tell her that I pretty much knew everyone who has ever been in my wards.
Turns out I was wrong though.  We finally figured it out- she was in my ward. Embarrassing. Fortunately she said that she went to the Pacific Islander ward most of the time, so I had some sort of an excuse.

We ate dinner with Kate and her extended family that night.  Kate and her brother pretty much made the whole meal while we played with their kids.  The dinner was delicious.  Kate is such a great cook.  Afterwards, us single peoples did dishes and put all the food away.  We sang some primary songs to entertain ourselves.  The picture below looks like we’re all talking but I think at this point we were singing the EFY medley or whatever that is called.

After dinner, we went over to the girl’s house for games.  I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but everyone who wrote down the address wrote it down differently.  Fortunately we remembered that it was a “pink house by the football field” so we found it eventually.  We played a few games, but of course we took over pretty quick because we all have humongous personalities to begin with and that ward was pretty passive.  We really truly tried not to take over though, I promise. 

One of the games was”In the Manner of the Adverb,” a game where one person tries to guess the chosen adverb by having people act out different scenarios “in the manner of the adverb.”  It was like pulling teeth.  This is how the choosing of adverbs went:

Josh D.: Ambidextrously!
Kaitlan: Sadistically!
Kate: Robotically!
Chrissy: Victoriously!

Everyone else: Alright, so… meanly?

Needless to say, every round was over super fast because the chosen adverbs were excruciatingly easy.  The acting was like pulling teeth too.  When Josh D. was up, the word was “sadly” and he asked one of the girls to ask some boy out in the manner of the adverb and she said she couldn’t do it.  Then he asked if she would play the guitar, and she said she couldn’t do that either. 

It was a long game.  And so was the next one, even though we tried to stay out of it and let them do their own thing.  Eventually we decided that we just didn’t have fun the same way as everyone else, so we decided it would be best for everyone if we just left.

We found this sign in the middle of the road on the way home.

Then we went to bed, still laughing at the adverb choices.  This is Kate, Kaitlan and I all sleeping in the same bed, which we did for three nights.  Good thing Kate doesn’t mind being in the middle!  The boys slept on the couches/ recliners.