JESUS WANTS ME FOR A SUNBEAM

A week ago Saturday I received the "dreaded phone call."

Caller: "Sister Jordan?"
Me: "Yes, this is she."
Caller: "The Bishop would like to meet with you tomorrow morning at 9:50, can you make it?"

Ugghhh! Not only did this call wake me up, but all of the possibilities for a new calling started going through my mind. There are some doosies that I want to try and stay away from. I will not mention any of them by name in fear of that coming back to bite me later.
I retired from the singles ward scene and had been at a home ward now for 3 months. I was called to do the RS Newsletter once a month. A great calling, might I add. I suppose it is like life on a mission. When you have a companion that you really get along well with, you only get to be companions for one, maybe two months. My newsletter calling was too good to last for more than 2 months.
Okay, so enough of the suspense.......I was called to be the Primary Secretary.
I am really excited. I have never served in the primary before. I can't wait to get to know all of the children. We have an interesting situation where our primary is combined with the primary of another ward, so I will be keeping track of the kids from 2 different wards. I am going to have to brush up on my primary songs and learn some new ones. It has been a LONG time since I was in primary last.

GENERAL CONFERENCE ON STEROIDS

Two weeks ago I decided to take the whole week off of work to attend "BYU Education Week" with my mom.

We were staying with my aunt & uncle at their "get-away" in Saratoga Springs. Not only did we learn alot, but we had a lot of fun.

I LOVE general conference, it always motivates me and makes me excited to "be a little better," and to step it up a notch. Education Week was like general conference on steroids . . . . lasting 5 days instead of just 2.

Although motivating, these opportunities are always humbling. They remind me of how much I don't know and how much better I can do. I am always jealous of those who are basically paid to study the scriptures (seminary, institute, religion teachers, etc.) How do they know sooo much? I guess if I were to study and teach about the scriptures the amount of time that I spent at work, I would know a lot more!!

I think that everyone knows certain teachers that they enjoy the most because of a particular teaching style. I have always love S. Michael Wilcox. I made sure that I went to all of his classes. The first day he taught a 3 part class on parables. It was fabulous. I am very left-brained and seem to struggle with interpreting symbolism. It always makes sense when someone explains it to me, but I never would have come up with that on my own. If I do try to interpret the symbolism, how am I to know if I am correct? Math always made sense to me, because 2+2 will always be 4.

Then on Friday he taught a 2 part class on Friday on "The Contributions of C.S. Lewis to Chirstianity." Bro. Wilcox did his Ph.d dissertation on C.S. Lewis. I loved the class, but now I feel like I want to read all of C.S. Lewis's books. As if the list of books I want to read isn't long enough already.

Now general conference is in one month. How lucky am I??

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Last night two of my friends, Lori & Amy, set me up. When I met up with them they introduced us and I must say that it truly was "love at first sight . . . . . . . . he had me at hello."

Amy: "Trisha this is IKEA. IKEA this is Trisha"

That place is fabulous!!! I don't know if they have a wedding registry, but I am going to register there even if they don't. I figure if people think I am registered there only to discover there is no registry, they can just purchase anything IKEA or a gift certificate and I will love it.
If you have never experienced this "mecca* of retail treasures" I highly recommend it. The only disappointment came when I went to purchase a twist cone as we were leaving and I discovered that they only have vanilla. I thought the Swedes were known for their chocolate?? Nobody is perfect, so I guess I shouldn't expect that in a date.

I am hoping there will a 2nd, 3rd, 4th date, etc. and that this might be the beginning of beautiful friendship.

*Mecca = any place that many people visit or hope to visit (as defined by dictionary.com)

Can we say "SPORADIC?"

Now you know how my journal feels. There is some serious neglect for a month or so, and then I try to play catch up. So here goes with the "Catch-up" attempt.

IDAHO HAS MORE THAN JUST POTATOES

Thursday night my mom and I took off and headed north. In December my sister, Angela, and her family moved to Idaho Falls. I had not been up there to visit her yet so my mom and I were going up to spend the weekend.

They have a brand new, beautiful home and 3 of the cutest kids ever. We had a really good time except for the fact that Angela and Dallin were not feeling well most of the time.

My mom and I got there late Thursday night. Friday we packed picnic lunches and went over to the falls (which I just learned are actually a hydroelectric power generator) by the temple. There are grassy areas and picnic tables all around the falls. After lunch we got to have snowcones. Tigersblood is my favorite. YUM!! (It reminds me riding my bike with my dad and sisters over to the Shopko parking lot in Sandy for snowcones). After lunch we went to feed the canadian geese. The kids loved that but we all ended up with duck poop all over our shoes.

Saturday my mom and I took Dallin and Jesika to the Tautphaus Zoo where we saw the baby penguins, watched an Animal Encounters show "around the world in 20 minutes where they told us about a lot of animals from around the world. After the show, the kids were able to touch the different animals and have their pictures taken. Then we went to lunch at McDonald's and then went back to our hotel to take the kids swimming.

Sunday I went to church with Tom and Jesika while my mom stayed home with Angela, Dallin and Bridger. Then our little Idahoan adventure came to an end and it is back to life in the real world.