Frozen yogurt, heaven and hell, badminton, medicine, and more!

Teunis and Krista went for a walk instead, to the grocery store - I declined on account of the rain. I figured I'd do my laundry after Awana too. They came back later, and we talked about tomatoes / politics / pumpkin pie filling / hiking NOT being a good idea tomorrow / Korean rice / fish / dried fruit, Asians being cheap / T&T and local buying / Canadian beef / Chinese markets / allergies / homeopathic medicine / British and Dutch stuff / Prince Charles / acupuncture. Called Steph to bug her for a brief while since she was at work - she said hi to Teunis, haha. Maybe she'll see him at church one of these weeks! When Krista left, Teunis was telling me about his new tablet which he could use for calligraphy and general drawing on his mini laptop - it actually looks pretty good! Henry called a few minutes later, so I was on my way out to meet him. We talked about the chilly day, MissionsFest (he didn't go), and crazy traffic on the way to church.

At church, we said hi to Uncle Joel before going into the fellowship hall. From there, it was the usual Awana simmer-down craziness... I said hi to Sophia, Olivia, Anne, Maxine, Joshua, Chrystal, Golden, Daniel, Stanley, Margaret, Alan, Stella, and a bunch of others. Told Golden and Chrystal about my week - you bet it's a good thing that my visitor enjoys cooking for us both! Auntie Rebecca gave me a $5 Tim Horton's gift card that she forgot to give me around the holidays: with my not being there for six weeks, I'm unsurprised! Golden said that he had a craving for frozen yogurt - of course he's not going to go all the way to Timothy's in Steveston just to get some, but I told him about it anyway. It might be a bit tough to get some in stores this time of year, however!

Later, I watched Ian and Sean kick a couple of balls around while listening to Henry / Sabrina / Billy / Mike / Victor / Margaret / Cynthia / Mary / William / Stanley talk about Henry's girlfriend (SFU), William's D7 camera from Burnaby North, cool guitars, the Chinese New Year fun fair next week, bowling at Brentwood for the older kids, and more. Reigan told us that he has to give his mom a Valentine's Day card... "or maybe that's Mother's Day!" His older sister Jinny was looking at videos on Martin's phone, haha. After about 40 minutes, Ada finally showed up to drive us home - Ian had badminton at 8:30, he said. He also returned my MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / INTRIGUE book to me, saying he hadn't read it - that's totally fine!

It was a mostly silent ride for about half of the way home, then Ian noticed that his brother was crying, so let us know. Sean had questions about whether strangers were bad people (not necessarily - you do need to be careful), heaven and hell (you aren't going to hell if you believe in Jesus - no need to worry then!), the criminals with Jesus at the cross, judgement in the Old Testament vs. the New Testament, and more. (remember: all answers appropriate for age / religion / condition) Ian just said that he'd figured out how long the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt by doing some simple math involving Moses' age and such - his mom and I would never have thought of that! Interesting car ride, as usual... got home, made dinner, and did laundry while throwing stuff away. Also called Mom to see if she had a (preferably) metal ladle - she did, so I should be getting one tomorrow. No more using cups as scoops for food as Teunis had to do a few nights ago!