On Thursday someone had called
Roland’s phone to see if I would offer the closing prayer at the end of today’s
sacrament meeting. I didn’t know how my
throat what be, but as it has started healing, I decided I would go to Church
and stay for at least sacrament meeting but might not stay for Relief
Society. Jenna made other arrangements
for getting a ride home.
Sacrement meting was really
good! The first speaker expanded on Elder
Uchtdorf’s talk “Our Great Adventure”(here) in which he compares the hobbit
creatures to each of us. For those who
have seen or read “The Hobbit” the parallels may have been easily
understood. I’m not really big fan of
fantasy and felt somewhat lost with Elder Uchtdorf’s talk which evidently our sacrament
speaker had also and provided some more in depth detail to make more sense out
of the talk that some of us just didn’t understand the first time around.
The concluding speaker was our new
bishop – a newly called bishop who was just sustained a high priest two weeks
ago. I have LOVED every talk he has
given. Today was no exceptions. He reminisced a few quotes and conference and
spending time with the family. He just
does it with such awesome enthusiasm that it just made everyone smile.
The Spiritual exceptions happened during
the sacramental and concluding hymn. I
found it ironic that the first hymn “In Remembrance of Thy Suffering” had the
word suffer in it as it seemed suffering to listen to the congregation
struggling to sing it as though it was the first time each member had seen that
particular piece of music. Granted, it
isn’t sung as regularly as some of the other sacrament hymnals that are in the
book, but I know I have sung it before.
But the congregations very unsync efforts pretty much butchered the
song.
The closing hymn didn’t sound as
bad, but it was quite obvious that they both needed work and a professional choir
we are not. I gave the closing prayer and returned home. My plans were to kick back and drink some
herbal tea. Instead I am writing a post
and drinking something terrible that should work like medicine because the
taste is like medicine.
Roland had purchased a box of
vanilla protein shakes a while back figuring they might work as a substitute
for milk in my lunches. There is no substitute for milk! I had told him that. I had told him not to purchase the protein drinks but he gets a bee in his bonnet
and forgets conversations. I love him
for thinking of me. But come on. It’s something you drink when you don’t have
time for a meal – not with a meal.
When I am not hungry but feel the
need to eat, I will break on out but not enjoy it though the vanilla protein is
better than the chocolate – which I can only drink when I mix it with actual
chocolate milk (that is really milk) and so my drink is always twice the size
of the intent. Roland absolutely hates the vanilla. Again, I told him not to purchase them in the
first place.
Anyway I am supposed to drink warm
liquids – not that a warm protein drink is on the agenda, but I thought I’d try
it figuring it would taste worse than refrigerated or room temperature. Boy, did it ever! What sane person does Not Love the taste of
chalk? My mouth is now on death row. When
it cooled off, I added some honey to it.
That seemed to help. But it hasn’t
gotten rid of the yucchy residue build up on my tongue.
And that concludes this post. Now for kicking back and perhaps having the
tea I should have had in the first place.
