I didn’t post anything last night because I had a ton of things to do. We wrapped up Honors Week with the Spider’s honor. We went ahead and allowed David to teach it even though he has not finished his school work yet. He did make a strong effort all week, so we decided to reward that. He needs to continue the strong effort so he can participate in the upcoming Pathfinder activities. We have two campouts in September, and I know he will not want to miss those.
Nine people earned the Spiders honor, and I didn’t get home until after 9:00pm. Then I had to finish writing my sermon, which I delivered today. I heard a lot of positive comments on it, and will post an MP3 of it as soon as I can remember. We don’t have an internet connection at the church, so I will have to remember to either burn it to CD or bring a thumb drive. Knowing me, that might take a while.
Once I had finished writing my sermon, I had to get ready for Sabbath School. I punted a bit on that though. The Juniors have been working on model sanctuaries, so I decided they could spend a lot of time on that. I also only covered one chapter of “Spotted Boy and the Comanches” instead of two.
The other thing I had to do was put the honor insignia together so I could hand it out during the church service. We had a short awards ceremony after the Children’s Story. Once I got to church I found that two more people completed the requirements for their honors. One finished Communications, and another finished her last spider illustration. I was expecting this, so I brought all the extra patches. I do need to put in another order soon because turnout for some honors exceeded my initial order.
Once church started, we had several announcements to make. I guess the announcements took 15 minutes, but they were all important. Then we watched a slide presentation on the Vacation Bible School our church ran at a member’s house all week (VBS was in the morning, Honors Week was in the evening). Between all the announcements, the slide show, the awards ceremony, and all the OTHER things we have in our church service, I finally go the pulpit at 11:55. So I kept the sermon a bit on the short side.
When we got home, I was pretty wiped out. I ate some lunch and took a nap.
