Terry and I went to the temple yesterday. It was so calming. I love when we've gone to the temple. I always feel so renewed after. But it is always such a rigmarole to get there. Where are the kids going to be? Does someone need to get a ride somewhere? Do I need to have dinner made before I go? Do we need to hurry back or be leisure? Our temple is about an hour and a half away, not that big of a deal. We go to the Tri-cities often for sports events, or shopping. I'm so grateful that it is so close now. I can still remember when our temple was in Cardston, Alberta, which I think is about eight hours away. We would travel all day and spend the night, then do our baptisms (this was when I was a teenager) then spend the night and drive home the next day. When I was about 15, we got the Seattle temple, which was so much better, but still an all day affair. Now we are only a little over an hour away, to a city that we are very familiar with. It's all good
Our time in the temple was good, and since we didn't have to hurry back, we went out to eat, to spend some time together discussing what needs to be discussed (children issues). It was so nice, to have a really relaxing dinner out. We went to Olive Garden, one of my favorites. You will all be amazed and proud to hear that I ordered something different than fettuccine alfredo. Amazing. While we were there, Tyson called and told us about how things were going for him. Things are finally falling into place for him. Isn't that miraculous, how when you are on the right path, things just happen. He is experiencing a little of that now. I'm very happy for him. We have been trying really hard to stay out of his business and let him figure it out for himself, and he is trying really hard to not rely on us to make the decisions. Good for him! He is growing up.
After dinner we went and bought Terry his birthday present. I didn't trust myself to get what he wanted so I waited until he could he come and pick it out. I also scored, while he was getting his present, the movie "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". I LOVE that movie! All that dancing. So awesome. He also got the CD Shawn Colvin. So somewhere in Bloggityville, I read someone say how much they loved this CD and I told him about it, and now we are listening to it all the time. What a circle-go-round! Funny.
On the way home, we talked about his relatively new calling as the Young Men's President. This calling is such a responsibility with our young men, they are such a diverse group. As the discussion evolved, we talked about how when you are called to a calling, you are called to serve, and to learn to love your "constituents" that you are responsible for. We talked about some of the people who are really good at it, and some who think they are good at it, and then this thought struck me, that really that is our calling in life. Our calling here on Earth is to love unconditionally everyone around us and then to serve them. Oh, I'm so bad at that. I do not love everyone unconditionally. I have some great examples of that too, in my life. I can think of two women in my life who are truly this way, all the time. I have the great honor of being friends with them. Something to think about and to work on. Hmm.
So now, I must go and do some things around the house. I have a whole Saturday that I don't have anything else to do but be in the house! What are you doing today?
