On Wednesday we had dinner with the McAllisters. Stephanie McAllister was the kind person who let me teach on Sunday even though she had prepared a lesson. It was so fun getting to know her and her husband, Tanner. He seemed like a genius to us. He could talk about everything and even knew about Ira Lipman’s father!! When he talked about that subject, I started wondering if he had a photogenic memory. It was impressive.
It thundered, lightning, and hailed throughout dinner. The hail was HUGE.
Then Abe and I ran out in the hail to our car after dinner so we could go to the stake center and do our stake temple recommend interviews.
One funny thing Mary said today was, “Why do the grown-ups get to feast and the kids starve?” I thought that was hilarious because I feel like the kids eat all day long, and also her melodramatic way of describing our evening situation tickled me. I basically fed the kids corn and bacon and sent them to bed because we were rushing to get dinner on the table before the McAllisters arrived. I figured I wasn’t starving them because, as I said, the kids eat all day long. But, according to Mary, I guess they actually just starved.