Boring and then not so boring

I like Kara haven't posted this week because nothing was going on and then Thursday night hit and I haven't had time since then to post. Thursday at 4:15 p.m. I was at work when we several cars pulled into the station and the people informed us that the road had just been closed. In the next four hours I did not sit down once but just ran the cash register as fast as I could. Our parking lot became so full that trucks were parking on the sides of the road. At first some tried to make it north by going on the old highway but there was soon an accident on it which closed that road. I had called Dad as soon as we heard of the closure and he said they had just told him to go home to try and make it before the roads were all closed but he didn't make it so took the old road home and made it as far as McCammon where he was stopped because of the accidents and spent until 8:30. The buses couldn't get through and it took until almost 8:00 to get all the school kids home. They would send a bus out following a snowplow to get the kids home. They even made kids like Jared who had driven to school stay because of the conditions. It wasn't because of more snow but because the wind was blowing so badly that trucks were blown over and the total whiteout conditions. We ended up getting the church and the school open for people to go to which eased the crowding somewhat at the station. Needless to say we had a very good night money wise at work. It was great to hear how people pulled food together to feed the people at the church.

On Friday I was going to write about all the excitement but the tower for our internet was so iced over that we had no service for most of the day so I just did tax stuff until it came back but by then it was almost time to go to our seminary class.

Our class was on Pride this week and what a great lesson. We used the talk given by Pres. Benson back in 1989. Everyone of us should read and study that talk over and over to help us be mindful of the things that can be our downfall. Some of the things that he listed as caused by pride are: disobedience, selfishness, coveting, contention, unrighteous dominion, divorse spouse abuse, enmity and so forth. It really gave me something to think about and this week as our assignment we are supposed to keep a journal of the times we feel we have let our pride get the better of us. One of the quotes from the talk said "God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble or we can be compelled to be humble." Also "Pride is the great stumbling block to Zion." At first it was easy to think of the things others are doing wrong but then to realize some of the shortcomings that I have in this area gave me reason to think. We will do the other half of the lesson on Friday so I am not going to SLC until Saturday morning now.

Saturday we left about 10:00 for Idaho Falls and the funeral of Aunt Glenna who was the last of the 17 children born to William and Fannie Fullmer. It was a good day visiting with cousins that we have know and some that Dad hadn't seen in a long time. After the luncheon we went and did a session at the IF temple. It was a good day and we couldn't even be sad at the funeral because Aunt Glenna was 90. We could only be sad for those left behind.

Today was a good day because we had such good speakers in Sacrament meeting speaking on the Priesthood and the calling of a new Prophet and then being able to go to the Rexburg Temple dedication. It was a very fulfilling day. "My cup runneth over"