In other news, Saturday was a busy, busy day! I got to meet my best-friend-in-law's parents, and since Ty was at work that morning, Eric and his family took me out for breakfast! haha Loved it! Thanks Eric!
Saturday night Salt Lake hosted the SuperCross (dirt-bike thingy) at the U of U stadium. Tyler and I were on our way to a breakin competition when I looked in the sky and saw this!!!!!!
I totally felt as though I had stepped out of real life and into a Harry Potter novel!!! It was soooo dark at first, this haunting black ring in the sky-just like the Dark Mark. It was sooooo creepy.In honor of the break dancing 2-on-2 competition, we decided to just have fun and go wild. Well, since Ty had to cut his hair for Sunday services, we did this instead!
hahahaha I loved every minute of it. I wanted both sides to go symmetrically, but Ty said he didn't care since he would be wearing a hat most of the night. love it. especially since he came home and cut his hair, which is lucky he did because today at church we got a big surprise!
So, right now, this is where we have church. Not in some gargantuian building, but in the University of Utah hospital. We're still on assignment here in the Medical Branch, and every week another amazing experience lies in front of us.Last week we had the opportunity to visit the rehab ward and talk with some of the patients there. The elderly people there are so funny-they'll beat us to Sacrament meeting most of the time, then tell you when you come back around to visit their neighbour that someone needs the elders, or so and so needs to take the sacrament, and it didn't ever really matter if you were already going there :) So fun. One person in particular was just the sweetest person in the world. This person wasn't elderly; this person in particular was of a similar age to me, and blind. This sweet, sweet, dear person would smile every time I put my hand on them, so excited to receive the sacrament. The family was there today and the love was so palpable. The patient would laugh and you would have thought angels were singing as the parents would love and tease. It was so touching.
In that same room is another patient, who faithfully watches the Conference talks each Sunday. As we prepared to offer the sacrament to her today, we realized that we didn't have our prayer card, which is a printed card that holds the sacrament prayers (since you're carring tons of stuff with you, they laminated this little card-so helpful!). Scriptures were lent (since we don't carry ours haha, go figure-we are Mormon), and offered to us so that we could finish our work. Oh the blessings of one patient to another.
The funniest part of today was early this morning...Tyler and I walked into the Hope Chapel, only to find our Stake Presidency's 1st counselor waiting to talk to us. Dread filled my heart-we thought we were going to be called back to our family ward and, don't get us wrong, but the Medical Branch is home now. So, out we marched into a hallway in the hospital, and pulled a few chairs together, and President Smith extended calls to each of us. Tyler was called to be in the Bishopbric/Branch Presidency-seriously, I feel like its the same. Anyway, the Branch Presidency consists of two senior gentlemen, and a young elder. Tyler will now serve with the Branch President and his other counselor, and they are such fun men! As his counterpart, I was called into the Relief Society Presidency, as the 2nd counselor, which is funny, because here's what happened:
President Smith: "Krista, we would like to extend to you a call as the 2nd counselor in the Branch Relief Society Presidency."
Me (blank look on face): "We have a Relief Society?"
President Smith (laughing): "Its not a regular RS, and you'll be working directly with Sis. Smith and Sis. Stotich."
Me (contemplating....): "We have a RS? Are you sure I can accept a call I never knew existed?"
Either way, they extended our call for 8 months, which is AWESOME and I now get two callings. 2nd counselor in the RS Presidency (which is hilarious because I loathe RS sometimes-but this is different = no fluff), and then guess what else?! After our services and wrap up meetings had concluded, the Branch President approached me, and because they had released a specific couple today from the branch...guess what my next calling is:
You have got to be kidding me. Tyler can already hear my dad laughing in his head. How ironic - my mom got the same call a few weeks ago, and since neither one of us knows how, I decided to tease her just a little. Welp, here goes nothing!Hope your week was spectacular! Tyler and I laughed and played the whole weekend and we hope that yours was filled with just as much joy!!!
