No Talking Necessary

Ever since we moved into the ward we are currently in, I have adopted one of the yw.  I was called as the yw president close to year after we moved in.  I would have to do some serious thinking to figure it out - Celeste and I tried today and we couldn't pin it down exactly.  She knew she toward the end of being a beehive and I knew that my Emma had only been old enough to be in yw for a month or so before I got called.  We also tried to figure out when we started the lunch tradition.  Anyway, a few times a year I take her out to lunch and she tells me all about everything that is going on in her life and I offer advice, she refers to them as therapy sessions :)

Well, she graduated high school and is moving away.  We decided to end our tradition - not officially, but who knows- with the restaurant that we started the tradition with.  There is an Asian place and a burger place that we go to most of the time, so we hadn't been to this restaurant in a long time.  

There was a little screen sitting on our table that was never there before.  It had all kinds of games on it.  We decided to play.  We rocked the trivia game and Celeste was doing a pretty bang up job on the marble game.  What happened though?  We hardly talked except for the game stuff.  What is this world coming to?  We did talk all the way there and home and did more talking when the food came, but still?  Can you imagine being on a date and not only contending with cell phones, but table top entertainment as well?  How is this generation ever going to find someone to marry?

The super cool thing about this entertainment device is that it allows you to pay your bill by yourself whenever you want.  No more flagging down your waiter.  Sweet.  We just paid and left whenever we wanted.  

I'm going to miss our little therapy sessions.  I'm also going to have to find a new yw to adopt.  The tricky thing is that they have to want to adopt you as well, or it just won't work.  Even when I wasn't officially in a calling in yw we still went out and I talked to her frequently.  She is the one that comes to me and tells me when it's time to go to lunch again.  It is something she wants and needs in her life.  Even though I'm in yw again and a counselor over the Mia Maids, I haven't adopted anyone yet.  I'm just waiting to be needed.  I've loved learning about waiting and seeing how it applies to so many different areas of life.  I started studying light and brightness yesterday and that is a fun topic as well.  Good stuff.  

Best wishes to my dear sweet friend and adopted daughter as she travels new roads.