I meant to turn in my assignment
before my assessment, but I somehow had allowed myself to become frazzled and
instead of submitting the assignment I clicked my assessment and started the
quiz.
Once the quiz starts, there is no
turning back, there are no retakes. Most
tests are timed. I had less than two hours.
And though it is open book, the e-book appears on just one third of the
screen and I have to control plus each page I am on in order to view something
bigger. As I had explained in my last
post, it is very time consuming. And
while I thought I knew the answers to some of the questions, there were a few
that had stumped me.
It took all of two hours and I
started marking answers just to have them answered but still hadn't checked on
whether they were correct. Time ran out
before I was able to find them all - plus I knew I had a luncheon to attend. I should have waited until this morning to
take the assessment! I doubt I would
have gotten a much different score however - but perhaps I would have had a few
more right. I don't guess I'll ever know
for certain.
I had misunderstood the meeting time,
for I thought I was assisting with cleaning the church before going out to eat.
I have not assisted with cleaning a church building since I lived in Utah. It is quite different here as it is a smaller
building and only one ward meets there.
In Utah the cleaning was always done on Saturday - sometimes by
different families, sometimes by organization.
The ward I had attended in Kearns split the work in half with one family
cleaning the chapel and the other the
rest of the building. In West Valley the
chapel made about a third of the work (bigger building and three wards)
This ward is cleaned on
Thursdays. A couple alternates weeks
with two sisters - or at least that is how it has been. But health issues have complicated matters
and so there have been requests made for others to volunteer their time. Aurelia had started at 10:00. On the average, I am not even available on
Thursdays until noon - so I was not there when the workload started.
Aurelia had invited me to lunch
because she wanted me to meet with one of the sisters that she visits
teach. We met at the restaurant that
serves Mexican food before returning to the church. They had the majority of it cleaned
already. I was asked to dust and wipe
down the kitchen and doorknobs.
The "dusting" reminded me
of dusting in the temple. One has to
have a recommend to clean in the temple.
I haven't done it often. Maybe
three times in West Jordan. It seems
like it was a very long time ago. A white
cloth will remain white by the end of the night. I used a blue micro cloth at the church
yesterday. I did finally manage to find
some dust on the piano used in the Relief Society room. All the dust I had gathered yesterday
amounted to less than the size of a fingerprint.
One tiny piece of glitter sparkled
over the piano keys. I was excited that
there was only one. I saw glitter ALL of
the time when I was cleaning in West Valley. I don't think there was any week I
cleaned that I didn't see glitter. So
finding only one glitter speck was really quite refreshing. I think if they assign workers - even more so
specific jobs (that's what they had done in my mom's ward; my nephew and niece had been assigned to
clean the blackboards; someone else was assigned vacuuming and so forth) also I
think they might get a better turn out on a Saturday than a Thursday. Cleaning on a weekday just seems weird to
me.
Then again, my mom's ward had
several hindered people who were/are active.
Those that attend this ward may already have multiple callings. I do.
I did not return to the house until
just before 4:00. Today I've been managing
online billing, account balances and other information required for
credit. Jenna will be home in one hour
and though I have accomplished a lot, I still need my breather. Tomorrow we'll be going shopping for a car. Dang! I feel so overwhelmed with missing hours.
