Sami's World

Friday started out as any normal day.   I had decided to have the children do their Saturday chores on Friday so we could spend Saturday doing more family oriented things (like go car shopping).   In the late morning I recieved the first phone call.   I’m in charge of arranging cannery dates for our ward.   I had all the volunteers lined up and confirmed.   Three cancelled by noon and one more by 3pm.   Since we had to be there by 7 I had lots of fancy foot work to do.   I found two babysitters, a youth for our older kids and a mom for Afton.   Scott, Jaime and I headed off with the hopes that the last sister would still show up.   Not only did she show up but she brought her husband and adult daughter.   We ended up having enough helping hands and got the work done.   I now have the fun job of dropping off all the food storage to the various families.   I don’t mind though, that gives me the chance to say hi and socialize a little.

Saturday morning Scott was suppose to go fishing with Joey.   However, Joey was sick all week and cancelled.   So we went to clean the church instead.   But we got there and it had already been cleaned.   So we left and, since we were all dressed anyway, went car shopping.   The end result…..new cars are too expensive!   We fell in love with one van in particular, but way out of our financial league.   We spent the afternoon playing with the kids, cleaning, napping and enjoying time as a family.   While I was reading in the January issue of the Ensign I came across an article about a new feature on the providentliving.org website.   It is entitled “Peace in Your Hearts”.   The objective of this 5 lesson course is to help people get out of debt and manage their money better.   Since I am the new provident living leader in our ward, I thought I should check it out.   It was amazing.   I learned that being out of debt is more than just living within your means, it’s living below your means so that you have some for a rainy day.   Anyway, I went through the “course” in about an hour.   It could and should take much longer than that, but I wanted to get a feel for what it was.   It was amazing and Scott and I learned a lot.

Today, Sunday, we went to Stake conference.   It was broadcast from Northern California.   It was broadcast to 63 stakes and translated into 10 different languages.   Elder Uchdorf called us the united nations of the church.   It was a great conference with lots of great advice and counsel.   One that spoke loud and clear to me was about setting goals.   Constantly setting and achieving goals and reevaluating your goals and your progress.   It was a great talk.   We spent the afternoon napping, cleaning and planning our summer camping trip.   We are going in the middle of August to a place on the Sacramento River.   It’s suppose to be the best fishing spot in California.   I guess we’ll find out.   It should be fun, our camping trips always are, even when I was 8 months pregnant!!   :0)

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