Full Sunday

The busy weekend is now done, and we survived! Coughing continues mostly unabated here. My talk in Sacrament meeting on gratitude and optimism (with lots of good stories) went quite well, though the clock on the wall wasn't working so I had to try to guess when to stop. Then my Sunday School lesson on continuing revelation in the church got a fair amount of participation and good comments from a number of people. Dee taught during third hour in Relief Society and said she got a lot of good participation also. Then we came home for lunch and a blessed bit of down time, with me catching up on some paperwork.

In the evening we went to the Institute to watch the recorded Face-to-Face broadcast from last week with Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard. About a dozen kids came, including three BYU students here on a quick two week break; they attended our ward and I gave them the Institute address, which was two blocks from their hotel. We had one room listening in English and one in Italian.

Ugo brought rolls and the rest of the porchetta, so afterwards we had sandwiches and finished off the dessert leftovers from Friday night. I didn't get to watch the broadcast because we were preparing food in the kitchen the whole time.

When we arrived, the place was still dirty from Friday night, with four big bags of trash not taken out. The cleaning service we use hadn't been there yesterday as they are supposed to do. They have not been doing a good job, so we may need to hire somebody else. They apologized when we called to complain, but this isn't the first time.

This next week promises to be a lot less hectic than last week, which will be a welcome change, but it has been wonderful.