Preaching day

Sunday June 21, 2009

As I ate breakfast this morning, I learned that Jeff was not going to be joining us for church today. He had gotten sick and was coughing a lot.

Rosemary and I went to church. Worship was really good. We learned about changing our perspective on life. Instead of looking at all the negative, we should look more to the positive. During tea time, I attempted to interview people, but they thought my four questions were difficult. I didn’t get as many responses as I wanted, but I did get some. I guess I am going to have to work a lot harder in the next couple of Sundays to get all those together because I need them for the time capsule.

I went to second church as well. After that service, I enjoyed conversing with some of the members. I set another dinner date for this Friday with a family from the church. It will be fun!

We went home for lunch and ate ham and pea soup with crumpets. Crumpets are so good! I then laid down to read, but I ended up falling asleep for an hour. It sure did feel good to sleep!

I then got up and read the book “ The Last Lecture” for about an hour and a half. It’s a very good book, but in a way its sad knowing that the author is going to die. The book makes me think about my life and how I choose to live it.

Rosemary brought me to church again for the evening service. I sang with the praise band, which consists of a piano and some singers. Rachael, one of the student ministers, played the bass guitar.

My sermon went pretty well. I was nervous at the beginning and so I think I spoke really fast, but I eventually calmed myself down and spoke slower. There was a man there named Tom who is in his 90s. He told me that he was going to come just to hear me speak. After the service he came up to me and said that he wasn’t sure he got a lot out of my sermon, but that he really enjoyed just listening to my accent! He also told me that if my boyfriend didn’t hurry up and propose, then he would do it himself! He is really fond of me and always talks to me about Jake. Old men are so much fun!! They make me smile.

On the way home, Rosemary said that she needed to change the air conditioning to prepare for the tip. I didn’t know what that meant. Would you? So I asked her and she said that the tip is basically the same as what we call the trash dump.

For dinner I had left over sausage and apple and onion mixture. It was frozen, don’t get scared. A cool British detective show was on tonight so I watched that with Jeff and Rosemary while eating scones and drinking coffee. It was a good day. Now I need to start thinking about what I am going to preach on next Sunday. The verse is Mark 5:21-43. Look it up! An easy way to do that if your Bible is not handy is to go to www.biblegateway.com.