Am I Crazy?

Do you ever wonder why you do things?

Well, I did something today that was pretty hard to do. I have been feeling a lot of anxiety this week about a particular dating situation, and decided that anxiety usually means it isn't such a good situation, or it just isn't right.  I am sad that I made that decision, but would rather not be filled with anxiety about it.

The question is--is that anxiety coming from me or from the Lord telling me it just isn't right?

Ugh...such a girl. Ha!

Oh, Crap.

After spending about 3 hours on my blog, I ruined it.  RUINED IT.....I have to start all over! DANG IT!! ugh...get me off this computer....And it was just ONE LITTLE CLICK!! ....

President Uchtdorf, Welcome to Los Hermanos!

So the other day at work, on Monday, I was off and just waiting for who knows what, and I happened to be standing at the host desk reluctantly as a couple of women started to come into the building.  I looked down at the hosting paper and looked up, asking them how many.  I looked down as I wrote the number 4, and looked up again, and about a foot in front of my face stood President Uchtdorf, the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of my Church!!! The thought came to my mind...I just saw you on TV yesterday.  Your picture is on my WALL.  Uchtdorf.  President. Whoa..... I am sure my blanched face gave me away, as I looked down and I said, very shyly, "Okay...um...right this way."

I led President Uchtdorf down the aisles as I asked him, his wife and his daughter how their day was and if they would prefer a booth or a table.  His wife, brightly and smiling, asked "Oh! Can we have a table out there in that pretty area?"  We walked towards the doorway to the Garden Room, and President Uchtdorf spoke in German to his wife, pointed to a table right in the middle and asked if they could take that one.  Then he had second thoughts, as there were many people in the room, most of which were probably LDS and probably recognized him, and then he asked me very kindly if he could take a booth in a separate aisle away from the Garden Room. I led them to the booth and in my drunken stupor kept bumping into him.  I tried placing their menus and silverware and that's when I kept running into him as they were trying to sit down at the same time. Haha....When finally they were seated, I looked at them all, smiled, looked at President Uchtdorf, smiled at him, and he smiled right back.  I felt like he looked right into my soul, and at that moment I felt like I was doing alright, because I could look at a Prophet in the eye and feel as though I was in the temple, and I could with confidence feel comfortable in his presence.  What a great feeling!  And then I told them their server would be with them in just a few minutes.

And that is my experience meeting and having the opportunity to very briefly and in a very small way serve a very great servant of the Lord.  For the record, our manager didn't make him pay for his meal, and she thanked him for a talk he gave awhile back, and he thanked her and his server profusely, and gave our manager a big hug as she began tearing up as what he said meant a lot to her.

Come to Los Hermanos, you never know who might show up!

To the Sisters

To anyone that didn't get the chance to see Saturday morning conference--and maybe you did get to see it--Sister Beck gave a great talk to the ladies. I think that we all need to listen to it, take it in, and implement it.

A couple of things really stood out. For one, she basically said that we don't need to sit around feeling under appreciated for what we do--to suck it up and quit being babies that need patted on the back for everything we do. Ha! Loved it! She said some other things of prime importance as well, like keeping faithful and especially doing those things that will allow us to be in tune with the revelation that we desperately need as we put forth our labors in our homes and in the world around us on a day-to-day basis. Get to work, ladies, keep your priorities in order (namely, your families) and stop feeling sorry for yourselves! ;) I love it! Thank you Sister Beck!

I think that as we remember to keep our focus on what we are supposed to be doing, to keep our priorities in the right order, we will experience great joy because we won't be so focused on ourselves. It is refreshing to get correction, as oftentimes I watch our faithful Priesthood holders taking it like a man as they get corrected in nearly every conference talk directed towards them.