Today in seminary we were talking about the children of Israel. It just so happens that they needed to learn a lesson so God sent fiery serpents (poisonous snakes) down to their land. As you probably know, being bit by a poisonous snake is not exactly...awesome. So Moses's (grrr!) (*see previous post) people went to him and asked if he could do anything to help them live when they were bitten by the snakes. Moses went to God and asked him what he could do for his people. The Lord then instructed Moses to make a stick with the head of a snake on it. This stick would heal those people who had been bitten if they would just look at it. Seems simple, right? You get bitten by a snake, you look up at the stick, and you are healed. Well for whatever reason some of the people didn't believe it would work and refused to just LOOK at the stick. They probably thought it was too simple. Or that it wouldn't heal them. But indeed it did! Looking as they had been instructed was what would keep the infected people from dying.
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Brother Johnson (my excellent teacher) talked to us about how we can relate to this story. The way to get rid of the "venom of the snakes" or the evils of the world is just to simply "look" to Christ. Simple, correct? But IS it? I think often we read these stories from so long ago in the Bible and think, "Duh. Why would people be so dumb?" because everything that happened to them was literal. We don't think to relate it to us in a spiritual sort of way. When I read this story I kind of thought to myself, "what simple things am I refusing to do that are very simple and could perhaps save my life?" Today's lesson was quite thought-provoking. Anyway, I'm very thankful that I have such a wonderful place to learn the Gospel. Seminary is my favorite :)
I have a feeling that this is going to be a supppper long post. Awesome! Chantel needs something to do while she's off work and her poor little sisters are a school "learning".
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After school got out I came home and my mom was here! She's usually not home when I get home because she works like, all the time. Anyway, every 4 months my mom and her secretaries have to clean all of the toys and wash the dress-up clothes and the paint smocks from all the classrooms. The person who washes the smocks gets paid like 70 dollars to do so...and that's usually me! :)
So my mom and I talked and decided today was the day to wash! I drove over to Challenger and picked up the smocks. Then I went to Smith's to get 2 rolls of quarters. Hahahaha. So I went over to the customer service desk and I felt so stupid. All I knew is that I had 20 dollars that needed to be turned into quarters :P I walked up to the lady and she kindly gave me what I needed and then I left. Little did I know that it is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to turn left on to redwood road without a light. So I sat and waited and waited and waited until I became so impatient that I just zoomed over into the middle lane and waited until I could pull into traffic. That was extremely scary. I hate driving. And I'm certainly not good at it! haha! :) So thankfully I finally made it to the laundromat...in one piece :)
I pulled into the parking lot and helped my mom unload her car and we began washing. So then my mom decided she needed to go to the D.I. to drop off some donations. Since it's right across the street I thought, okay she'll be back soon, right? WRONG! I was left to die all by myself in the ghetto-est laundromat this side of Mississippi. I had to manage like 30598million loads of laundry all by myself and try to find enough dryers for all of them while trying to stay alive and not look like an idiot. Plus, I know absolutely NOTHING about laundromat etiquette. Is that even a real thing? I suppose so because some lady that had like 15 kids kept giving me dirty looks cause I guess I was just doing something that was completely NOT okay with manners of a laundromat. What. Ever.
Thankfully a nice lady was like, "here you can use this rolly cart to help you!" and I am eternally grateful for that woman for saving my laundry life! haha :)
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| Needless to say- It was NOTHING like this. |
Anyway my mom never came back. And it was starting to get dark. And there was like a rotation of laundry people so I wasn't there with too many familiar faces. D: My last load was finally dry at about 5:45 so I was able to get the heck out of that dang place and go wash my hands!
But then I remembered... I had to drive home. BOO. So I again about killed myself turning left on to some unknown road and had a cop behind me for like 17 hours. I was just praying I wouldn't do anything wrong and get arrested and end up in jail just cause I was trying to make a few bucks washing some kid's painting outfit.
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| note: these children do NOT have the luxury of a paint smock |
All I know is one of these students BETTER end up a famous artist or I'ma be REAL mad. hahaha just kidding. Kind of.
All in all it's been a pretty lamely exciting day.
Hannah is sooo much more stretchy than me. And she can actually focus while we do yoga in aerobics. I just look at my watch and try to make the class go by faster. :)
Tomorrow is my Christmas band concert. Pretty freaking excited!! We have rehearsal allll day which means no English for Kara!! *snaps from Eva
Adieu.
Kitty time. :)
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