Getting Ready for Idaho
After school got out I thought life would be less stressful. Boy was I dreaming!
I wanted to work full time at the cabinet shop to earn money, I thought I would be at the shop and have a little time to relax, My boss thought I would be more valuable installing. I was released from scouts and young men’s, again I thought i could relax a little, then i was called to be the assistant ward clerk over fiances. Though it will get easier, and i wouldn’t trade this calling for anything I have no time to relax. I had some crazy lady ask me if i was going to write reimbursement checks the Sunday i was asked to take the calling. Some people need to think before opening there mouths.
Jennifer has been left with the job of preparing for Idaho. She seems to be as busy as i am with Emily and her church stuff. To top it all off we went to Navoo for her family reunion last weekend, about a 16 hour drive from Dothan, we road with her mom and dad, her brother and his wife and 6 month old baby, and we had Emily all in a big van. Every one was great and it went well it was just to long of a trip for just one full day at navoo.
Now I’m at youth conference in Troy Alabama as a chaperon and won’t get back until Saturday. Monday and Tuesday I will be a leader for scout camp and we leave for Idaho on Thursday.
I cant Waite to get to Idaho and have fun and get a brake from the rat race here.
Sixteen hours in a car with the in-laws, a baby, and a one-and-a-half-year-old? Somebody pass me a gun!!!!
No offence meant to your family in that last comment Jennifer. I’ve never met them. I’m just going by my own experience.
LOL…I can attest to the fact that Jennifer’s family is really nice. Her Dad, Dan, and I drove about that out to the Keys and I was impressed with how accomodating, relaxed, and just plain nice Jennifer’s Dad was even though the trip was half business as well. It was one of the best trips I’ve been on. We ate dinner at a place that serves up Southern food with everyone in her family (I think it was everyone anyway.) and they were all really good people and it was easy to fit right in.
I also felt the same way about your in-laws Kerry. I think it is probably different regardless of who you are if you live around them all the time, but I really had a good time meeting Michael’s family as well.
Come to think of it, it might just be me. I have basically lived with Caren’s parents near every weekend for the last 1.5 years and I still think the world of them. They are very easy to get along with and having a lot in common (family history) with her Mom certainly doesn’t hurt anything.
Anyway, enough of my rambling, off to wander Barrow some more. Looking forward to seeing you guys in a couple of weeks Dan and Jennifer. I’ve got another grand adventure brewing that I’ll have to talk to you about. I may need a place to stay, but not sure yet.
Are you driving to Idaho or flying and staying a long time?
flying
I forgot to comment on your new calling. Congratulations and welcome to the brotherhood of the clerks. That is the calling that I have been given most often. The saying goes, once a clerk, always a clerk. I would have to agree. It is by far my favorite calling in the church. Teaching sunbeams really isn’t that bad, but that isn’t my calling. I’m just there to smack them around while Caren teaches. I have loved being clerk every time clear back to when I was a clerk in the same bishopric as Dad. Dad and I would make pop and candy bar runs. Actually, I think it was I who was making the runs during sacrament meeting and stashing it behind the curtain in the clerks office so we had something to munch on while we counted the money. Then Bishop Sagers, threatened to take away my temple recommend for not attending sacrament meeting. I don’t think that put a stop to the coke runs though.
My next favorite time being a clerk was the most recent one when I was clerk under Bishop Hughett here in Moscow. The stake people had a serious case of stick-up-the-butt-itis. The audits had to be somber affairs and none of them could even smile for some stupid reason. I changed that pretty quick though. During one audit, about $20 was unaccounted for. The moron started to lauch into his usual tyrade about how evil I am for losing the lords money. I told him, I didn’t lose it, that is what paid for this taco bell I’m eating right now. Hook line and sinker. He looked like he was about to report me to the prophet himself, but I’m not real good at holding a straight face. After that we got along really well. Those were fun times. Now I don’t really have a calling because I never attend my ward and supposedly you can’t transfer your records to a ward in which you don’t live. Technically I think I’m a ward family history consultant, but the family history center is officially useless anymore since they got rid of ancestry.com. Well, that was my long version because I’m sitting here killing time waiting for a plane.
The short version is that I really like the calling you have and good luck with it.
Alright Dan, we need to hear more about your rat race, I know you are back from vacation.