A Day of Rest :)

Well I just love Sundays so much! I have made it a goal this semester to not do any homework on Sunday. Best. Plan. Ever! My Sunday evenings have always been filled with stress because of homework that is due the next morning. That is not the way a Sunday should be spent. So it won't be anymore (hopefully). It really makes the day so much more enjoyable knowing that I am free to do whatever I want. Even when I have those assignments that aren't due soon but would be good to work on when I have free time; I don't even let myself think about them on Sunday. So nice! Church was good today....minus that I had to speak in sacrament meeting. I was terrified. I've never loved public speaking, but I can handle it and it's gotten easier as I've gotten older. I almost didn't dislike speaking whenever I was a youth speaker in my home ward. Partly because I only had to talk for 5 minutes. Partly because I could talk about whatever I want. Partly because everyone in that ward knows me so well, that one talk won't change their impression of me. Partly because those wonderful people are pretty easy to entertain/make laugh. And partly because all the old people love you no matter what you say, and all the little kids don't listen. None of those things are true in a student ward....which equals not fun. I got through it though and hopefully won't have to do it again for a long long time. After church it was my turn to cook for "house dinner." We trade off every week who cooks Sunday dinner at our house. I made pasta with my mom's homemade spaghetti sauce. I have always loved that stuff so I thought it could be a good idea. Everyone else seemed to like it too so that was wonderful. (Also, yesterday I made banana bread that everyone seemed to like. I love when that happens.) The rest of the evening was spent writing in my journal, reading for institute, talking to my family, writing a letter or two (I haven't actually gotten to that part yet) and, obviously, blogging. Wow, is that really all I did today? Where did my day go? Oh well, it's Sunday so that's allowed. Well, I better get to those letters if I want to finish them tonight by a reasonable hour. Good thing I don't have class until 10 tomorrow. And Painting is cancelled! It will be a wonderful Monday. Happy Sabbath! (That's what everyone says here. I kinda like it. It's like a holiday every week!)

P.S. Imari and I played tennis yesterday! It was the first time in a very long time for both of us so we weren't expecting much. We weren't too incredible, but we surprised ourselves. We had some good volleys and I hit a couple of good shots. We planning on playing a lot more often now. I'm so excited. Even though I didn't do a wonderful job, it felt soooo good to play again! I love that game!