What a day, what a day to take to.....everything!
One two three four, tell me that you love me more.....five six nine or ten.....
That is what I sing when I need to step back and breathe. Like when people tell you to count to ten before you say anything else so you can think about what may have almost come out of your mouth. Well, I like to sing, so I sing that instead.
Today there were plenty of opportunities to sing that song. But I didn't because those happenings deserved laughter instead. :)
Today I cooked my dinners for the rest of the week and am so excited to eat deliciousness all week!! But with that excitement came a whole lot of mess and burning things. I burned 1/2 my bacon and 1 batch of candied almonds.... :( I had a fabulous time picking out the burnt bacon though as well as chopping and mixing another batch of almonds which then brought me great pride when I took them out of the oven not 3 seconds too soon. If I hadn't failed the first time there's no way I would have appreciated the timing of the second batch. I don't think I'll do my cooking on Sunday next week though. It took up my entire Sabbath....not appreciated, Amelia.
In the middle of all my cooking I went to church, naturally, and had a most amazing time for multiple reasons. First of all, I'm the ward chorister and I get to choose the songs for each sacrament meeting. This has been a little disorganized since the semester began so I've just been choosing them the day of and today I was flipping through the hymn book before choir and quickly decided on a few. It's frustrating sometimes when I'm not given the topic the speakers have been assigned to and for the past few weeks the songs have been unrelated to the speakers' remarks.
Well, this week was a little different! We sang, "The Iron Rod" for the opening song and the first speaker spoke about the importance of the Book of Mormon and holding on to it, referencing it as "the iron rod" multiple times. Then, the last speaker talked about doing our best and if we are going astray the Lord will guide us back if we try to follow Him in the first place. The closing song was, "How Gentle God's Commands," which I thought went along very well. I'm not going to say that I did that because I most certainly did not. The Spirit was able to work through me to help the meeting be more uniform, thus having more impact on those listening. It was magnificent.
Second of all, I'm in the ward choir and we sang today. Kap, one of my FHE brothers, is the choir directors and he, along with the pianist, chose and arranged "All Creatures of Our God and King." The Spirit was so strong and the love Heavenly Father has for us was almost tangible. And it didn't go away for the rest of the meeting.
For relief society the spirit was so indescribable as well. The lesson was on repentance and the reality of the joy it brings. The girl who taught had had some life experiences that made repentance such a reality in her life. She's experienced it on a level I haven't, so her testimony of the Savior and of His sacrifice for her touched me. Then, to top it off, she had Kap come in and sing, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" at the end of the lesson. I was tearing up and trying very hard to not let them brim over. His voice was so beautiful and the words pierced me.
"Prone to wander, Lord I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it.
Seal it for they courts above.
Seal it for they courts above."
I'm so grateful he was willing to share what the Lord has blessed him with and to be humble enough to allow the Spirit to work so strongly through him.
Another thing that happened today: Haha......our hot water knob on our sink broke. Or something like that. I was doing the dishes and turned off the hot water. It was fine and dandy. 30 seconds later I turned it back on, then turned it off....just kidding. I turned the knob to the "off" position but the water stayed on.
"Hey Rachel, can you try to turn off the water?" I asked, thinking that I my weakling hands were to blame. But when she tried nothing happened. I immediate threw up my hands, chuckled a bit, and ran over to our FHE brothers' apartment to see if any of them were home and could assist us. Joe came over and turn off the hot water to the sink the best he could, leaving a little trickling of steaming water falling from the faucet. I called the emergency contact number for my apartment complex and the guy came over a few hours later and got it shut off completely. The maintenance guy is coming tomorrow to fix it for good. Until then, our sink has not hot water. One thing I was EXTREMELY grateful for: our sink wasn't clogged! If it had been we'd have been filling and hauling bowls of hot water from the sink to the bathtub to drain. But we didn't have to do that, thank goodness. :)
So! That is what happened today! What a DAY! Hahaha!!
That is what I sing when I need to step back and breathe. Like when people tell you to count to ten before you say anything else so you can think about what may have almost come out of your mouth. Well, I like to sing, so I sing that instead.
Today there were plenty of opportunities to sing that song. But I didn't because those happenings deserved laughter instead. :)
Today I cooked my dinners for the rest of the week and am so excited to eat deliciousness all week!! But with that excitement came a whole lot of mess and burning things. I burned 1/2 my bacon and 1 batch of candied almonds.... :( I had a fabulous time picking out the burnt bacon though as well as chopping and mixing another batch of almonds which then brought me great pride when I took them out of the oven not 3 seconds too soon. If I hadn't failed the first time there's no way I would have appreciated the timing of the second batch. I don't think I'll do my cooking on Sunday next week though. It took up my entire Sabbath....not appreciated, Amelia.
In the middle of all my cooking I went to church, naturally, and had a most amazing time for multiple reasons. First of all, I'm the ward chorister and I get to choose the songs for each sacrament meeting. This has been a little disorganized since the semester began so I've just been choosing them the day of and today I was flipping through the hymn book before choir and quickly decided on a few. It's frustrating sometimes when I'm not given the topic the speakers have been assigned to and for the past few weeks the songs have been unrelated to the speakers' remarks.
Well, this week was a little different! We sang, "The Iron Rod" for the opening song and the first speaker spoke about the importance of the Book of Mormon and holding on to it, referencing it as "the iron rod" multiple times. Then, the last speaker talked about doing our best and if we are going astray the Lord will guide us back if we try to follow Him in the first place. The closing song was, "How Gentle God's Commands," which I thought went along very well. I'm not going to say that I did that because I most certainly did not. The Spirit was able to work through me to help the meeting be more uniform, thus having more impact on those listening. It was magnificent.
Second of all, I'm in the ward choir and we sang today. Kap, one of my FHE brothers, is the choir directors and he, along with the pianist, chose and arranged "All Creatures of Our God and King." The Spirit was so strong and the love Heavenly Father has for us was almost tangible. And it didn't go away for the rest of the meeting.
For relief society the spirit was so indescribable as well. The lesson was on repentance and the reality of the joy it brings. The girl who taught had had some life experiences that made repentance such a reality in her life. She's experienced it on a level I haven't, so her testimony of the Savior and of His sacrifice for her touched me. Then, to top it off, she had Kap come in and sing, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" at the end of the lesson. I was tearing up and trying very hard to not let them brim over. His voice was so beautiful and the words pierced me.
"Prone to wander, Lord I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it.
Seal it for they courts above.
Seal it for they courts above."
I'm so grateful he was willing to share what the Lord has blessed him with and to be humble enough to allow the Spirit to work so strongly through him.
Another thing that happened today: Haha......our hot water knob on our sink broke. Or something like that. I was doing the dishes and turned off the hot water. It was fine and dandy. 30 seconds later I turned it back on, then turned it off....just kidding. I turned the knob to the "off" position but the water stayed on.
"Hey Rachel, can you try to turn off the water?" I asked, thinking that I my weakling hands were to blame. But when she tried nothing happened. I immediate threw up my hands, chuckled a bit, and ran over to our FHE brothers' apartment to see if any of them were home and could assist us. Joe came over and turn off the hot water to the sink the best he could, leaving a little trickling of steaming water falling from the faucet. I called the emergency contact number for my apartment complex and the guy came over a few hours later and got it shut off completely. The maintenance guy is coming tomorrow to fix it for good. Until then, our sink has not hot water. One thing I was EXTREMELY grateful for: our sink wasn't clogged! If it had been we'd have been filling and hauling bowls of hot water from the sink to the bathtub to drain. But we didn't have to do that, thank goodness. :)
So! That is what happened today! What a DAY! Hahaha!!
What a day! Glad you had some great experiences to mix in with the mishaps. :D
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