My patience failed yesterday while trying to upload photos from the move/roadtrip via dial-up. We're getting cable next week, so the photojournalism will have to wait until we are thus equipped.
We left LA Thursday, spent nights in La Cruces and San Antonio, and pulled up into our driveway Saturday afternoon just in time to meet the brigade of church folks who came to help unload.
After 6 weeks of rain & neglect, our yard was seriously overgrown. Didn't get before pictures. One of the fellows who helped move us ran home to get his extra lawnmower and proceeded to mow the grass/weeds down to a respectable level again.
The same fellow and his wife dropped by Sunday with a full KFC chicken dinner. We also had visits from another church couple (bearing lemons from their yard) and our home teacher who came by to return the spare keys & garage door opener. It's been a damn warm welcome so far.
They even have a stake choir which meets at the church building 2 blocks from our house. And I'm looking forward to asking all the crazy questions that only a newcomer can get away with--like why they have deacons barring the chapel doors once the sacrament song starts?
Oh, and the cat is tearing around the house (and skidding on the tile floors) like he's always lived here.
Well, there's a lot of unpacking that awaits. Must get the guestroom shipshape, as our first houseguest, Angela, arrives tomorrow. Will you be next?
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Congratulations on arriving, even if the lawn looks like crap.
Good luck with the unpacking, and enjoy settling in!
That "barring the chapel doors" thing has apparently spread. I encountered it for the very first time a couple of years back in a ward in Sandy, UT; now I'm hearing about it and seeing it everywhere. A draconian overreation that has become popular because it makes the bishopric look like they're "tough on noise," or an innovative response that's being widely imitated because sacrament meeting irreverance really has gotten out of hand? I really don't know.
Hmmm. When I was growing up the teachers (not the deacons, who were of course passing the sacrament) always stood guard at the chapel doors, but only during the actual passing of the sacrament. It was still okay to come in during the hymn. I haven't noticed any like practice in my current ward, but then I haven't been looking.
Hi Russell!
I'd ask/complain to the bishop, but we don't have one. He moved 2 weeks ago and they haven't replaced him yet.
I do hope the inflexible Nazi Mormon guy Mike encountered in a different ward (who's now attending ours) isn't in the running. According to this guy, young men and couples who don't serve missions are faithless and selfish.
I wanted to cite my Dialogue article on why I didn't serve a mission and point out that sometimes God says no or that there may be valid reasons or circumstances that prevent people from serving missions.
Only I was too boiling mad at the guy to be able to speak constructively.(I haven't been that mad at a boneheaded Mormon guy since college).
So I gave him a nickname that I only dare use around Mike.
Angela was our first houseguest after moving as well (though she broght the family to see us) - that girl gets around! Glad you made it to TX, and hope the adjustment only gets sweeter and that it includes lots of yummy scones.
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