Our First Church Experience in Rifle

Last night I decided I really wanted to go to church. I didn't know where it was but Kevin said if I got up early with him he would show me where to go and I could take him to work and have the van to go to church. We hadn't been to church since the beginning of March because the kids were sick for about two months and Kevin got his new job and ....excuses, excuses.... I will get on to my story.

The day started like this: Kevin got a call to go into work right before we left to see where the church was so he couldn't go with to find it. I almost said never mind we will wait until next week, but I didn't. I told Kevin I would google the address and put it into my VZ Navigator. I love today's technology. The kids and I got home and I made breakfast. I put Cheltzi and Dominik into their room and put the gate up so they couldn't get out. Because I was going to take a shower, but my skirt and shirt were in the garage so I went down and got them. I went to go back into the house and it was LOCKED!! I checked my pocket no keys. I opened the garage door and checked the van. (I am not very good at parking in the garage.) No key in the van. Well the manager to the Town homes lives right next door. No big deal I will just go over and ask if she can get a key for me and let me in. Apparently it was a very big deal because When the manager's boyfriend came to the door he swung it opened and said, "It's 7:30 in the "dang" morning what the "heck" do you want (Edited for content)?" I paused for a minute. This was NOT the greeting I expected. I said, "I locked myself out of my house and my kids are in there alone." He said, "Oh well that's a different story." He he closed the door and left. I started balling. I went and stood in front of my door and cried. A minute later he came and said something to me that wasn't the apology that I wanted. I ignored him because I didn't want to scream at him. The manager came and started ranting about drunks waking her up at all hours of the night. My first thought was do I look like a drunk? I probably did at that point because my eyes were all red and puffy. She unlocked my door I said thank you and that was the end of that. Except I was still really upset. Who wants to get swore at, at 7:30 in the morning. I just wanted to get my church clothes on and take my family to church. Anyways, I called Kevin and cried to him. He is very upset. I actually told him that I want to move. We will have to see what happens tomorrow when he talks to the lady.

Luckily the kids were okay. Nik was trying to eat Cheltzi's eggs. Not really a big deal I don't think. He doesn't seem to be affected by them. I don't know if there is a specific age that you can give eggs to kids. I'm glad he didn't choke though.

The rest of the day went pretty good. I found the church without any trouble. The moment I saw the church I started crying. I was so happy to see something familiar. And I was still quite emotional from the event that happened earlier. We were about 20 minutes late. When we got to church the sacrament was being passed so we just sat in the foyer. They opened the doors and we went in. There weren't any open seats. So we walked across the back of the chapel to the other Foyer. Yes I felt silly. During sacrament meeting I noticed a guy sitting with his wife and son he looked REALLY familiar. I just kept glancing at him because I just knew who he was. But at the same time thinking no it can't be. After sacrament I took Cheltzi potty before she went to nursery. A lady came up and asked if I needed help I was trying to wash my hands, Cheltzi's hands, and her foot because Nik refluxed while Cheltzi was going potty and nastiness got all over her. The lady took Dominik and I got Cheltzi cleaned up, I took her to nursery, and went to Sunday School. The same guy was there. This time he kind of smiled and nodded. When the role came around I immediately flipped to the back to write my name and since the guy I thought I knew last name started with a Y I looked to see if it was possibly him. And it was. How crazy is that. He went to Bear River and was in my graduating class. We weren't really friends, but it was weird to me that he would happen to be in our new ward.

I loved church and I hope that I get to know the member's of our new ward I will grow to love all of them to. I am so happy I made the decision to go today. I know that Satan was really working on me trying to get me to not go, but I did and I feel that my Heavenly Father has blessed me for that decision.

I know this was a really long post especially for me, but I wanted to share my day with everyone that reads this blog. This day has really helped my testimony grow.