We attended our first stake conference in our new area. It. Was. A. Disaster.
First of all, I got home around nine pm the night before and we had to leave our house by 6:30 am to make it to the stake center on time the next morning (Benjy gets home from work at 6:30 so that is tough). Well during the night, the power went off and stayed off! Benjy got home and I was still sacked out. So he woke me up and we got ready crazy fast in the dark. We shared one flash light between us and had to shower, get dressed, and groomed in the dark (it was pouring buckets outside so there was no sunlight). Needless to say, I am just proud my top matched my skirt when we left, forget the fact that my hair looked like a haystack and I was wearing no make up. We also had no milk in the house and were low on food anyways because I got back after the store (I had spent the week at my parents house) had closed the night before. We finally left the house and were starving because we couldn't cook anything and there was no milk for the stinking cereal. We ended up breaking down and bought breakfast at McDonald's in Hawthorne (i know, tisk, tisk). We made to stake conference late but we made it. It's okay that we were late though because they went WAY over at the end. By this point, Benjy is exhausted (he had worked a 12hr grave yard so he had been up since 4 the day before), I looked like death warmed over, and Rees had smashed food all over himself so we had had it. Unfortunately, we needed to have the Stake Presidency sign our temple recommends so we waited around the extra hour for that. By the time we headed home, Rees had screamed the whole 3 hour drive.
I think we complained away all of our blessings that day.
Now that it is all over, I kinda think it is funny but I was totally ready to kill someone that day. Isn't it funny that when ever your trying to attend things like the temple, a conference, or even just church EVERYTHING goes wrong? I figure those are the times you really need to be there. We are making a temple trip in two weeks. Better start praying for us now folks. Our track record lately shows that we need to weight the scales more in our favor.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
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you know, i'm just so impressed that you even went after all that. a lot of people wouldn't even try!
Your awesome! We are the slackers that did not even try :) And we have no excuse.... Did I mention your awesome?
Yeah, I am also impressed that you kept going. Way to go! Bad things always happen to us when we plan to attend the temple. It is frustrating but a little comical after we overcome. Good luck with your temple trip.
haha....I don't think I've ever seen you look like death warmed over :)
We went to the temple a few weeks back and I about stood up and yelled at some old man because he was taking too long and I was SOOO HOT and going to pass out if I didn't get out of there and undressed NOW!!!! Needless to say I told Nick that was the last time we were going to the temple while I was still preggo!!
We did go back and everyone froze while I felt perfect. The Lord does bless us for our efforts :) It's just hard to remember when you're sweating buckets and some 100 yr old geezer is taking 20 minutes to dress!!
I hear ya! Brian and I went to the temple the other night and it ended up being the most frustrating experience. At least be made it though. (They did have to hold the session for us.) So embarrassing.
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