Scorching the World

I've thought many times about certain people from my past who affected my life in a lasting way who I'd really like to go back to and smack. I will probably add to this post as I continue to think of more. First, there's the doctor who did the ear piercings for me, Tanya, and Tami. Every time I put on a pair of earrings, I want to go back and smack the man. It happened when ear piercings were first becoming popular, and little booths were just starting up in the malls. That little pierce gun was just invented, and I wasn't sure how it well worked or if it was safe, etc. So I did what every good person is supposed to do, I went to the ultimate source of all things physical. I asked my doctor. He, being a typical doctor who knows best in all things physical, told me those things are probably not entirely sanitary or safe, and if I really wanted pierced ears, he would be willing to do it in the office where it would be much more safe and sanitary. How magnanimous. So I too...

This year California had a ballot measure for people to decide whether the definition of marriage should be changed to include gay couples instead of just being a union of a man and woman. We have had much discussion on this topic in our family, but I think Mike gave the most clear and concise answer in the following: Quoting Demi Bushman demibushman@gmail.com >: > What about the people like my customer/friend Aline who in her own words, > "fell in love with a person who just happened to be a women" or the > professor at UVSC who said she fell in love and didn't check the anatomy for > approval. > Aline doesn't consider that she was living a lie in her previous marriage. > She had a bad marriage and now she is happier. But she has told me she > doesn't think she is happier, because she is with a women, she is happier > because she is in a good relationship. > What about those people? > Where do they fit in? Or what about my friend ...

This year was an election year. Elections years are always a pain. The candidates boast and brag about themselves and they criticize and evilize their opponents. There are annoying ads on TV and radio all the time. Everyone contradicts each other - each trying to make sure you know that they are the ones who are really telling the truth. There was a black man running, and at first a white lady, and a Mormon. You couldn't get more opposites in the same race. Everyone in the US (actually in the world) hated the one they didn't love. There were heated discussions on TV and in neighborhoods and in families. It is always annoying, but this year it was extremely turbulent. It always goes on for many months. This year they started 22 months before the election. Then there were also the issues - the propositions. Should the government create a law so that the food producers treat their animals nicely before killing them for us to eat? In the end, most people said yes. The biggest iss...

I have a very sore throat. It hurts to swallow. My head hurts, but not like a headache, more like a sore throat ache. My neck hurts - I guess swollen glands. Its been all week, and every day I think I'm getting better, but then I'm really not. I'm tired of this. I've been thinking of lots of other things I'm tired of. I'm tired of working so hard to be thinner. I'm tired of being the fat one in the family. I have to focus constantly on not overeating. I'm tired of having to brush my teeth all the time. I'd like to take a vacation from that. and from flossing. I'm tired of having to make sure I exercise every day. I'm tired of worrying about my cholesterol and blood pressure. Other people I know don't exercise and they don't worry about cholesterol and blood pressure. and of worrying about getting my visiting teaching done every month. and of staying on a budget and watching the pennies so closely. and of focusing on drinking plenty of...

Normal TSH is 0.2 - 5.5 5/28/05 TSH tested 4.3 5/2008 TSH tested 6 10/18/08 TSH tested 11.1 Symptoms all this year - feeling anxious and stressed even tho I'm not stressed about anything; heart pain even in the middle of the night; inability to sleep even when exhausted; feeling like I need to go run and never stop even tho I'm too tired to make myself do it. Started taking Levothroid on 10/27/08. 12/9/08 TSH tested 4.7 1/28/09 TSH tested 8 for the past - well, long time, I've still been having chest pain, to the point that it wakes me up at night. I finally emailed the dr and he told me to get lab tests and then get an appointment. Apparently it was getting better, and then started to climb again. So I saw the dr today, and he said I still have low thyroid, and the reason my heart hurts and I have anxiety issues isn't connected to the thyroid. He did double the thyroid meds, and also he did an ekg, which was normal. 2/9/09 Now he set me up for a 24 urine collection tes...

Disclaimer: I realize my life is most interesting to me. I never expect any posterity to take any real interest in stuff like this, but I like to record for my own memory. In other words, this isn't meant to be interesting to anyone but me. I just need to record what Tom and I did this weekend. On Thursday, I had planned to go to the Church during mutual so I could practice the organ, but Tanya called with a better offer. I went to her Ward's once-a-year Christmas crafts enrichment. That is always so fun, but since she is in Nursery, she didn't know about any of the crafts in time for me to sign up to do anything. So I spent the evening following her around and helping her with her crafts. It was still pretty fun even tho I feel guilty for not practicing the organ. How can I expect to be blessed if I don't.... etc. I left in time to get home before Tom. He had gone to the Bay Area for the 3rd time this week and was supposed to be home about 9:30. Course things always ta...

Holy cow! In the time I've been blogging (hee hee, something I never thought I would do) I've never actually looked at my blog, so I never knew all this time that other people are actually reading what I write and making comments! How nice to come in and find that there have been comments! Wow, I feel so - read . I guess I better try to be more interesting.

Today before Church, my friend was laughing and said she just saw a little girl from the primary who was wearing a really lovely little dress and carrying a pair of pink cowboy boots. She said, "I guess you're never too young for cute, uncomfortable shoes."

I spent the whole last week at Trina's while her whole family was camping in Big Basin. Why would I do that? I asked myself that very question many times during the week. Something possessed me to volunteer to rip out her carpet and finish her wood floor for her while they were all gone for the week. She has wanted it done for many years, and if it didn't get done this year before the summer ended, it wouldn't get done until after her baby that is due in February is old enough to entertain himself while she took on a massive project. And there was always the problem of her not really ever having time, and how do you keep a while family off the floor while it smells really bad and dries - and where do they all go? How can she pull out all the furniture with a family of 7 living there? So I convinced her that there was no way than for me to do it while they were all away at a school family camp. Then, as long as I was ripping out carpet and varnishing the wood, I might as...

This is a favorite quote that I don't want to forget: It will not be enough for us to know the words are true or even to understand them plainly. We must obey, or the conviction of the truth will fade and the meaning will become obscure. Henry Eyring

I got this from Elesa's blog. (http://elesahag.blogspot.com) And I like it. Here is the assignment: I must list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 current goals, 3 current obsessions, and 3 random facts about myself. 3 Joys 1. When I can actually play a hymn on the organ. 2. Driving my Miata with the top down 3. Playing on the computer. 3 Fears 1. Car wrecks. 2. Falling down or up stairs. 3. Short fingernails. 3 Current Goals 1. Learn to play anything on the organ. 2. Use the pedals on the organ. 3. Make my hands and feet work at the same time on the right notes all at once. 3 Current Obsessions 1. Sifting out my house. 2. Getting exercise. 3. Interior design. 3 Random Facts about Me 1. I can say the alphabet backwards. It rhymes! 2. I love interior design. 3. I'm taking piano/organ lessons for the first time in my life! Thanks Elesa!

Ever since I got called earlier this year to play organ in Sacrament meeting, I've been REALLY struggling to learn how to play single hymns, and the progress seems so painful and also painfully slow. It really takes at least a week to learn a single hymn, so the idea of learning enough hymns to be the organist seems eons away, if even that soon. When I was at Stake Conference last Sunday, I saw Jill Webb and I knew she teaches piano and organ, so on the spur of the moment decided to ask her what she charges. Doesn't hurt to ask, right? Well, she immediately said she would give me the reduced rate that she gives some people who have been taking lessons from her for so long that they are on the old rates. It was a great rate, so we set up my first lesson for today, Friday, at 1:30pm. Tom tried several times to get me to postpone it a week, but I wanted the lesson so bad, i wouldn't budge on it. I was really nervous going, and the first few minutes that I played for her, I mes...

I have decided that I want to be associated with certain things and places and that I SERIOUSLY don't want to be associated with other things and places. If I have a clean house, I do want to be credited for it. I want to be associated with a clean house. I want to be part of a clean house. It makes me feel taller somehow. I don't want to be associated with cockroaches, mice, grime, or lice. Ewww. Been there, done that. So along this line, I decided there are places I don't want to go because I don't want to be associated with them; like that would define who I am. I'm thinking of fast food places like McDonalds and even worse - the Chubby Hubby. I can't eat there no matter how good their hamburgers are. But the place I do want to be associated with is Trader Joe's. Ever time I go there I feel better about myself. Not just because I'm buying food that is healthier and grown in politically correct conditions, but because most of the people who shop there ...

Let me start by saying that these are rules I have discovered about Tom, not rules he has ever stated. #1 and most important: Always put off till tomorrow anything you can. This is because he is Mexican. The song, "Manana" is his theme song. #2 No surface should be clear or empty. Counters, shelves and tops of things are for putting things on. The reason for this rule is #3. #3 Always put things where they can be seen. If it can't be seen, it probably is lost forever or has ceased to exist. #4 There is no reason to close cabinet doors or drawers or doors. Again, this is because of #3. #5 A nap precedes all things in the priorities of life. #6 (This one defines his character more than anything else) Never take any situation too seriously. There is always room for humor. #7 (Thanks for reminding me, Becky) EVERY car is more interesting that ANY person, place, event, or scheduled event. EVERY fact and detail about ANY car is easy to remember, but EVERY other date or "im...

Every time I've lost weight, I have had a balanced, happy mindset that made it easy to eat right for an extended period of time. I kept it up for almost a year once. But I seem to lose that mindset eventually and then I gain weight back and can't remember how that mindset felt. That has happened enough times that I promised myself that the next time I found it, I would write it down so I could go back and remember, and get it back again. Well, right now I have it, so I decided to write it down for future reference. It started with Tom's diet that he has been forced to adopt by his Naturopath doctor. He is only allowed to eat vegetables, meat, nuts, and seeds. No sugars, no grains, no dairy, and no fruit (and no potatoes or corn). I decided I would do the diet with him to support him, and to make it easier - less temptation for him than if we have the forbidden foods around. So with the exception of fruits, I am doing this diet. I have lost about 6 pounds. Not a lot, but I f...

Well, some people use their blog as a place to rant. I am not that kind of person. I don't rant, but I sure have something I want to complain loud and long about. I am so tired of stores with gimmicks. Why can't stores just exist to sell things. If they want more customers, then they should have better things, or at least less expensive things. But they think to sell things, they have to make customers have a CARD . Stores love to make people carry a card with the name of their store on it. Then, and only then, will they give that customer the privilege of buying something for less than Full Rip-Off Price. They practically ask you when you check out whether you "have your card with you or would like to pay Full Rip-Off Price?" . I'm tired of it. My purse weighs 20 lbs because of all the cards I have to carry to not pay Full Rip-Off Prices. I have a card for almost every grocery store chain, office supply stores, home improvement stores, and warehouse type stores....

I have a very special thing to share. I'm not sure I can communicate the depths of how this affected me in email, but I'm gonna try. There is a guy in our Stake who is just really neat. He is in charge of the Welfare vineyard for our area, is serving in his Bishopric, and is an excellent teacher. Even tho he looks very ordinary, and doesn't look or sound unusual in any way, he is just a really great man. Anyway, he is at camp every year, and all the best classes or devotionals they have, always have him involved. I told about the Faith Walk, and he was the one who told about putting nails in the cross. He has a way of communicating that really touches the soul. ANYWAY, that whole preface is to help explain the meaning of this experience. He was teaching a devotional to my group of girls, and the topic was respect. He talked about them respecting themselves, their parents, and other adults. It was a 1 hour class, and good stuff. I took copious notes. After the closing prayer...

So I have been planning for the last year to clean the garage. It has become more and more of a disaster since Tom started working on the rental, and storing building stuff and tools in it. We currently have 2 sinks, 3 cabinets and an air conditioner out there. Every time he finished a day of working out there, he would put all his tools and stuff in a box in the garage. The other problem is that people always donate STUFF to our ward and Tom hangs on to it until someone in our ward is in need. Currently we have a large dining set, a clothes dryer, and bunches of other stuff. Anyway, it was almost impossible to walk out there, and every week when I needed to mow the lawn, I had to do major re-arranging to get the lawn mowers out. I was waiting till after I retired to get to it, then I was waiting for it to get warm enough to be able to stand to be out there, then it got hot all of a sudden, and I had to wait for it to cool off. Finally this week it was just right, so I spent Wednesday...

I came to a realization today. I've always been unhappy with myself in regards to the things that make me unhappy. Let me explain. I love being retired and love being to focus on the many projects that I've saved up, but I find that whenever I spend a whole day all by myself working on things, I end up depressed. I ask myself, am I basically a depressed person? Am I not able to be happy all by myself? Can't I entertain myself? I guess not. I always get sad and depressed and angry when I'm left alone too long. I've always thought there must be something really wrong with my personality if I don't even like being with me. But tonight I realized that I'm just a social person. I like being around other people. I like joking and feeling validated. I like discussing interesting topics. I like being entertained by children. I'm not a big talker in groups and don't want to be the center of attention, but I like being with people. I think that was the main t...

This is the last: Dean Hughes: Life isn't a competition to have the most stuff, better hair, skinnier, who won football, 1st in line, etc. The essence of the gospel is how we treat each other. We need to be more patient. He said when he realized the above 2 sentences, he set a goal to be more patient and focus on treating others the way he should. So whenever he feels himself starting to become irritated and impatient, he tells himself, "Dean, thisis one of those moments." And he realized he can choose how to react to the situation. He told of a situation where his car was in the shop, and they called to say it was done and ready to pick up, so he went there and went to the correct desk, and the woman at the desk looked very stressed, and her desk was just covered with papers, scattered all over, not in neat piles, but just tons of papers all over. He told her who he was and she started looking for his papers and keys. She couldn't find either one, and he began to fee...

Emily Watts (she has written a book called Take 2 chocolates and call me in the morning. She spoke on Mother-Guilt. She said she was in the hospital a while back and got brave and looked at the chart when the nurse stepped out. It said, This is a cheerful, positive, well informed and educated overweight white female. She said you should never look at charts that doctors write. She had been having severe pain, and went to the doctor and he decided it was a kidney infection, so she went on drugs, and it went away, but came back. They did the treatment about 4 times, when the doctor finally said he decided it wasn't an infection, but lower back pain, so he sent her to a physical therapist. She said she hates anything that has the word Exercise in it, so she really didn't want to go, but finally had to for the pain. The 14 year old doctor (she said all professionals now look 14) explained to her that there are muscles in and around your waist, stomach, etc., called the core muscle...

Michael Wilcox: From the song, Tell me the stories of Jesus- one verse says, Tell me in accents of wonder - He said that is how we should teach the gospel and tell about Jesus - with accents of wonder so children (everyone) can see and understand the magnificence of Him and His life. He talked about the temple, and that it is a river that gives life - life to marriages, life to families, to individuals with problems, life for healing body and soul. Isaiah 1 says the temple is a shadow in the day (from the heat of scorching trials), a refuge (protection from tentations) and a cover from the rain and storms of the world. Come home to the temple for rest and protection and to be strengthened. He also talked about who is the real you. When you see someone get angry in a tough situation, you tend to say, now the real you comes out. But he said the real me or you is not us at our worst. The real me or you is me at my best or you at your best. That is the real you. He said the soul of the mot...

Kenneth Cope (I don't think I sent this last time) He sang songs, and said that through his congs what he was trying to communicate is that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us passionately and WILL NOT stop in trying to reclaim us and make us theirs. He said the disturbers of peach are guilt and contention. He said the message of the gospel and the scriptures is to teach us to be as happy and God means us to be. He (or someone else) said that it is like we are trying to build ourselves a nice little house. We have the house plans and we know we can be happy in that house. So we work diligently to get that house built,but someone keeps coming along and knocking down walls, or crashing in the ceiling and re-shaping the house. What we can't see is that He is building us a mansion where He knows we will be truly happy in the mansion. But we feel that things are working against us as we see our little happy house being broken, so we fight against it, and try to control our own ...

Mary Ellen Edmunds: She told of a guy she knows who was traveling on the freeway in Utah, and there was a new freeway being built, but wasn't opened yet. He said he knew that it was all up and good, but they just hadn't painted lines on it yet. So he drove past the sign that said "Road not completed." and got way down the road when he found that the overpass had not been completed. So he made a U-turn and drove back. When he got to the place where he saw the sign, he saw painted on the back of the sign, "I told you, dummy." She said God does allow U-turns. It is Satan's plan to trap us with no hope of coming back. She asked if anyone had ever heard of anyone in the scriptures who had pleaded for mercy and not received it? No, there is not one. Contention, anger, negativity are all caused by pride. she said how can we become peacemakers? We can cultivate an attitude of optimism. The Devil - Good ole what's is 'no face' (because he doesn't...

I am planning to go to the Women's conference at BYU in May. It is something I've wanted to do for years, but couldn't because I was working. It is always on Thu and Fri. But this year I get to go, so I went online to book the flight. I looked at lots of different sites, and found the cheapest one, and booked it. I had put in the dates many times, but when the tickets finally were finalized and printed, I had the wrong return date. The site says all over the place that there are no refunds and changed, but I called them anyway, and found out that it would cost $100 to change it. I decided not to have them change it, and just bought a new return flight for an extra $85. Darn, heck and all those bad words. It is painful to be stupid.

So lately (meaning for about the past year) my R eye has been watering. It just sort of always has a little extra water in it, and if I don't wipe it, a tear drop will run down my cheek. It is a little annoying, but whatever. So Tom and I had gone to lunch yesterday, and afterwards, I was waiting outside while he went to the bathroom. It was a beautiful day and I was just standing there, looking at the fountain. Then a woman came up to me, and was a bit hesitant about what she was going to say. I got the feeling she was going to ask for money or something. Then she said, "I was just wondering if you are ok." I'm sure I looked stunned, and she said, "I saw you standing there, and wiping your eye, and thought maybe, well, I just wanted to know if you were ok." I couldn't believe it. I assured her I was fine, and thanked her for her thoughtfulness. I am constantly amazed at the kindness of other people who do things way above and beyond anything I would thi...

Tanya and I went to a special conference for women sponsored by Deseret Book. It was great! Here are notes from it: Ardeth Kapp: The world is a stage and each must play his part. Then she told about a presentation she went to of Little Annie, and after the play, when everyone was applauding the little star, she suddenly looked over to the side in the audience and yelled "Grandpa!" and headed over to him. The whole audience parted to allow her through, and when she reached him, he wrapped his arms around her like giant parenthesis. MEE (Mary Ellen Edmonds) said she imagined him saying to her, great job, honey. You did a great job. She said there are hosts of people applauding us on the other side of the veil - those who went before us and those yet to come are rooting for us and cheering for us. she talked about the things that bring us joy. she went to stay with her grandchildren while her daughter in law was in the hospital having a baby. After the baby arrived home, the loo...

Tonight is the final night for the Stake Youth Musical. It has been a lot of work because I was in charge of stage management (controlling the kids who change scenes), set design, building, & painting (and repair), and the Powerpoint presentation (that's the one that took the most time!) I think everything turned out really good. I only wish people in my ward spoke English so they would want to bring their kids to it. I'm both glad/relieved and sad that it is finally over. I have gotten in the habit of watching in Sacrament meeting to see whether the Gospel Doctrine teacher is there. If not, I read the lesson more closely in case I get asked to teach it. The first couple of times that the teacher didn't show up, I volunteered because I study lit(well actually I read it once, if lucky). I really do try to print out each lesson in English so I can see if I can follow the real teacher's class. It doesn't help much, but I get a better idea what he is supposed to be ...

I'm helping with the Stake Musical as stage manager. For some reason stage manager includes set design and building, so I spent a few weeks painting and building some of the scenery and putting together all the props. Here are some pictures of some of the scenery. The wavy trunks of the trees is because we had to piece 2 pieces of cardboard to paint on, and we taped them with duct tape. It obviously doesn't hold very well. I volunteered to do the powerpoint presentation to go with the musical, and that was a lot of fun. It is about 300 pictures, and I've spent many weeks on it, but I think it will add a lot to the presentation, and it was fun for me and that's what really matters. Way too many kids want to be back stage. Most of the boys would rather be back there than to sing, so I'm managing about 10 kids and trying to keep them under control. They tend to get wild and talk and play, but when it is time to change scenes, they all work hard and do what they are sup...

On Monday, Tom had to work in Fremont, so I went with him to the Bay Area. He had a bunch of errands to run on the way, so we got there in early afternoon, then went to Trina's and spent a couple more hours on his work getting him ready to go to the parks. He took a couple kids to help him pass out fliers, and while he was gone, Trina and I got to work on a couple of her projects and go to a couple fabric stores. His company sprang for a motel, so we went there as soon as possible to get our money's worth, but I had agreed to baby sit for Tami the next morning, so we didn't get much sleep. The room was too hot, and I was too tired to get up and do anything about it, but the bed was SO comfortable and wonderful. I left at 6 the next morning to get to Tami's and got there in time for her to give instructions and take off for work. I laid down and went back to sleep for a little while until the kids started getting up. We had breakfast and then I took Draven and Nina to ar...

While Tom and I were at our anniversary dinner on Fri night, we spent the time thinking back over the past 39 years. It was pretty fun, so I decided to post some. When we got married, we lived in Provo. We were both starving students so it was the typical life in a tiny basement apartment that leaked when it rained. I was desperately anxious to have a family but it took 6 agonizing weeks to get pregnant. I was afraid I was infertile and really suffered from month to month. (Which in reality was only from 1 month to the next.) I can laugh at it now, but at the time it seemed forever. Little did I know how fertile I really was! Tom worked, and eventually, I got a job doing electronic assembly, which was the 2nd to worse job of my life. I didn't last long, because when I got pregnant, working through those magnifying glasses made me very nauseated. Anyway, we had lots of fun in our little basement apartment. We were so broke that I remember my weekly food budget was $5. Milk took 1/5...

Friday 3/7 I finished a painting on the wall of the master bath. I'm pretty happy with it. At first it was a little chueco, but Tom told me what was wrong, and I fixed it. He says that's what makes us a team. Anyway, I mowed part of the back yard, and practiced piano and finally started on updating my photo albums. Not a very exciting day. At 6, we went to Black Angus to finally celebrate our anniversary dinner with the coupons Kim gave us. Great food, but I always get sick when I eat late at night. We got home at 8:30. Too late and too full, even tho I ate less that half what they served. I woke up that night at about midnight with a headache level 4, so I got up and took 1 Tylenol pm, thinking that would be enough for a "not killer" headache. But at 1am when I was still in pain I got up and took another. After that I slept great. But when I had to drag myself out of bed at 7, I felt awful. My stomach hurt and I was so groggy. I couldn't face breakfast, so i jus...

While Tom and I have been working on the rental in Tranquillity, our kids have helped us now and then. Marc and Alissa came and helped lay tile and did some other things and it made a huge difference. Phil has come 2 times and is also a huge help. Trina and Tanya also went out there and helped lay tile. But the most amazing thing is that everyone but Tanya had to drive 2 1/2 hours each way for the privilege of working on our rental for several hours. Amazing. Great kids! Another amazing thing is that there are many members of our ward who cheerfully volunteer to do things for us. There have been times when I have come home from work and found a strange car in the driveway, and a member of the ward in the backyard working really hard. There are members who have "adopted" our grape plants, and come over several times a year to prune or do other things so we get a better crop. One family came over and spent the whole day mowing, trimming, weeding, and edging our yard. They wor...

I can't call this daily scorching if I don't scorch daily, so here is installment #2. Today I woke up at 3 with a headache, and never managed to get back to sleep. I finally got up at 5 and took a shower. Then I helped Tom in the office a little, had breakfast (leftovers from IHOP from yesterday) and then went to run errands. I decided there should be a law that every store in the world should open at the same time. I needed to go to several stores, and planned them out in order of farthest to closest, and saving the grocery store for last. But because they haven't created said law, when I got to the 1st one, I found that it did open for 1 1/2 hours, so I went to the 2nd, then 3rd, then back to the 1st, then finished with the groceries. It probably added 1/2 hour to the errands, and a bit more gas, but what the heck. I'm retired. I have lots of time. Can't do anything about the gas, tho. They ought to make a law. When I got home, 1. I dug out the lawnmower out of th...

I've decided I really need to make this more into a journal and write much more often. So here is todays post. Yesterday, we went to the temple first thing in the morning. We decided to fast for our financial situation, and for our kids. It was a wonderful experience. I love going to the happiest place on earth. Then we went out to breakfast at IHOP and had enough food for breakfast today, too. I've been working on the sets for the stake musical this week, painting and building flats. I'm really sore today because I had to do them on the driveway, and all that getting up and down is hard for this old lady. But for better or worse, they are done - mostly cause I'm too tired to work on them any more. I had the rehearsal at night, and it went pretty good, but there are things I have to fix before the next rehearsal. Mostly I'm grateful I didn't have to get up and go to work after going to bed late again, and having a 3am headache again. Tom has worked till 11pm 3 ...

At Stake Conference in September, 2007, our Stake Presidency gave our stake a challenge. Actually, I think the challenge was given throughout our whole temple district, but this is what it was. The Bishop of each ward was to choose 2 people to go to the temple 10 times during the month. After the month, they would be the first to bear their testimonies at the next testimony meeting and tell of their experience. Then the Bishop would call a new couple to do it for a month, and report at the next testimony meeting. Since Tom is Bishop, he called a couple to do it in October, then thought we should have one of the first opportunities to do it, so we got November 2007. It was really not easy to fit in that many temple trips in a month. It required going 2 times a week for 2 weeks, and 3 times a week for 2 weeks. With all the other things we have going on, we really had to plan and schedule and make it work, but President Boswell did it before telling us to, so we figured if he could, we co...