Happy Holiday greetings! We just wanted to give you a quick update on what we’re up to.
Jason just finished another semester at BYU. He’s planning on graduating in another year and a half in Marriage, Family, and Human Development and possibly pursuing a career working for CES as a seminary or institute teacher or director. He stopped teaching at the MTC near the beginning of the semester but will start working part-time again starting Christmas break in the behavioral coding lab on campus for the Flourishing Families project. He was also just sustained as the ward clerk in our ward and has been busy with meetings and tithing settlement the past few weeks.
I am finishing the first semester of a master’s degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology. I really enjoy the classes and the professors so far. I had the opportunity to teach Educational Psychology to Elementary Education majors this last semester and will teach it again next semester along with another class called Instructional Technology for Elementary Education majors that I will teach as part of an internship. I was just released from being the sacrament meeting pianist and Relief Society instructor and called as the Primary President in our married student ward. Fortunately the Primary consists of two children: one in nursery and one in Sunbeams!
Aside from school and church we are enjoying our little apartment a few blocks from campus. We just finished taking a Country Dance class together and Jason survived it, although there were a few times I wondered if he would. ☺ On good days he even admits that he likes it. Really, I just think he doesn’t like the test aspect of it because every once in a while he will suddenly declare that he feels like dancing and we’ll try to waltz or two-step in our small front room for a few minutes.
I think we’ll both be relieved to switch to volleyball this next semester. Jason is definitely an athlete and is naturally good at most sports he plays. I’m not a terrible racquetball player but there is no competition between the two of us until I started making him play left-handed, and even then he still plays a decent game! We’re planning on playing in a doubles racquetball tournament in February and possibly on an inner-tube water polo team. It will be a busy but fun winter semester!
