Weird Car Day

Today I had three different, three very random and strange things happen to me while I was in my car. I am not sure if this is even blog worthy, but I got a kick out of it!

ONE: I was cleaning out my car today. I was kneeling on the ground picking up trash on the floor when I look up and a cat is right in front of me looking back. He had somehow jumped into my car without my seeing and was just sitting on the arm rest in between the driver and passenger seats. It gave me quite a shock! Definitely was not expecting that one! He was way cute too. He refused to get out of my car and I eventually had to pick him up and shoo him on his way. He didn’t leave though. Just sat right next to my legs as I finished my work. I think this may be the same cat that follows Emily around so I guess we have adopted a new friend.

TWO: I went to the hockey game with my cousin and when I went to drive her home I parked in her parking lot and we ended up talking for about three hours in the car. As we were sitting there talking my car all of a sudden starts violently shaking. I look back and these three or four random boys just ran up to my car and started shaking it. Kylie and I think that they probably thought we were a guy and girl finishing our Friday night date off by making out or something, and decided it would be funny to interrupt us. Sorry to disappoint boys, but not only are we both girls, we are also cousins! It was so random and so so so funny!

THREE: As Kylie and I are still sitting in my car talking, this girl opens my door, sits down, and says “sorry I was running late guys.” She puts down the pillow and blanket she is holding, put on her seatbelt, and when she finally looks up says “Oh. Wrong car. Someone somewhere in this parking lot is waiting for me.” She then takes off her seatbelt and picks up her stuff and gets out. She says sorry as she closes the door. As soon as the door shuts Kylie and I look at each other and just start cracking up. Poor girl. She must have been so embarrassed! Sure was a good laugh for us though! Ha ha people are so funny!

I Never Saw This One Coming....

I got a church calling today. My eyes filled with tears when the bishop told me. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. I do not believe I have ever felt quite so inadequate in my whole entire life.

I guess I got what I deserved though. I was sitting by the bishops office, waiting for my turn. My super nice roommate Emily was kind enough to wait with me. All month long I felt like it was being hinted at that I was going to be a Relief Society Visiting Teacher Supervisor, a calling which I had already been twice two years in a row..... which I never had the best attitude about in the first place. Emily and I were talking about it, and I became my bitter, sour self just thinking about how much I disliked that calling. I believe my exact words were "Here this calling is for the less important people that we don't actually want interacting with other people. But everyone has to have a calling I guess.... so I guess we will give this one to you." Yeah. That was my attitude about that calling. But you know what happens when you have a bad attitude about a calling? You get a far worse calling. In other words, you get what you deserve!

Today I was called to be a Relief Society TEACHER!!!!

AHHHHHHHHH!

When my bishop told me, I just sat there, completely stunned, with my eyes full of tears. He asked if I was okay, or if I was totally scared senseless. I told him I was scared senseless. He offered words of encouragement and a teaching book that he said would help. He then asked me again if I would accept this calling. I said I would in a weak stuttery kind of voice.

When I went out into the hall and started walking to my car with Emily it was all I could do to keep from crying. I came home, went in my room, and let the tears fall. I want my mommy! But she is at church and I guess I can't cry to her until later in the day.

I don't know why I am so emotional about this. Never before has a calling hit me with such a force of inadequacy and the feeling that I just can't do this. That they must have made a mistake. They've got the wrong girl!

Hopefully I am just in a state of shock and will feel differently about things tomorrow..... but.... I doubt it. =(

The Labyrinth of FHE

Non grid system streets. Sigh. What a mess. Tonight we were having FHE at a bishoprics home in River Heights. Where is River Heights? Heck if I know?! Well, apparently River Heights is a hop skip and a jump away from Logan. Like literally, I could probably walk out my front door, and see some of that city. Cache Valley has so many unknown cities within it. Like Hyde Park. Who knew that was there? Anyway back to River Heights. Me and my roommate Emily had no idea where that was. Maybe we are naive. Maybe we are pathetic. I do not know. But we were having the hardest time. Our FHE pa had given us directions and had even called us as we were getting more and more lost and gave us more directions. Maybe he was bad at giving directions. Maybe we are bad at following his directions. But we were hopelessly lost. Some of the streets had numbers, some just had names. Most had dead ends. When it reached the half hour mark of trying, we had hit our frustration point. We agreed to not go, because we were embarassingly late, but try to keep finding it so that we didn't run into the same problem the next time we went to his house. We ended up not trying, but just driving aimlessly around wherever our hearts desired. We drove up and down one main road a dozen or so times. Taking different turns off of it, but always ending back on it again. Somehow. Finally, we decided to turn down the first turn on the main road. Why didn't we think of that one before? We were driving down that road for a bit, when the same road decided to change names. It changed from a name, to a number. Lo and behold! The name it decided to change to was the road we needed to be on! WE FOUND IT!!! And it only took ONE WHOLE HOUR! As we passed the house we could see into the front room where everyone was gathered. They were saying the closing prayer. Ha! We timed that perfectly. We turned around, and easily, way too easily, found our way home. As we were approaching our turn to go to our apartment, a pizza delivery car passed us. "Mmmm. Pizza sounds good." I said. We turned to each other, gave one another that pizza longing look, and drove right by that road to home and on to Little Ceasers. As we pigged out Emily introduced me to the movie "The Labyrinth" to honour our little trip through the "River Heights Maze". What a weird, bizarre, and totally hilarious show! And how amazing that tonight, a seemingly ordinary night, produced such a marvelous adventure! Now all I have to worry about is what I am going to say when I see my pa next.... Well Brett, I am dumb and cannot follow directions. Fortunately, we finally did find the house, but decided to not go in but get pizza instead! Hmmm... I wonder how he will take it? =)