I’ve heard it said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions – meaning if a person doesn’t act upon the thoughts he or she has the purpose is unfulfilled. For three to four weeks the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint Western Region representatives have been asked to call those that they preside over for ministering assignments call those that they minister to in order to learn how long it would take for everyone in the area to be contacted. We were given a heads up that we would be making calls on Saturday for a mock earthquake drill which would go into effect that morning. All of the calls were to be made within a two hour frame beginning at 8:00.
My plan was to offer a fervent prayer before I started calling each of my
sisters as I have not had much success at finding many who will answer the
phone – especially on a Saturday morning.
No time is a good time and there is no way an earthquake can be
scheduled so that everyone could be notified by email. Chances are high that we will be without
internet during an earthquake, possibly without electrical power or cell phone
reception. Ward members would have to be
contacted another way.
On Thursday I remembered the mock earthquake
would be taking place for Saturday morning.
I hadn’t set a reminder. I hadn’t
checked my email on Friday. It did
appear that the RS pres had tried contacting my phone on Friday night but I was
unable to return her call. I had
forgotten about the mock drill.
On Saturday morning Jenna had turned on a “scary”
movie to add to her “31 days of Halloween” that she has attempted each
year. Roland had started out watching
with us but seemed to have disappeared for a while. When he finally returned
had said he had gotten hold of five of his families. Earthquake drill!!!! Oh, no!
I scolded myself for not having remembered and started calling those
sisters I have saved to my phone – without having said a prayer before I
started. Of course not a whole lot of
sisters had answered their phones. I
left messages with most of them – though I predicted it would be in vain.
I had told Jenna that I would drive her and
another young woman to the dollar store so that they could pick out items for
the upcoming activities scheduled for tomorrow and the following week. As I was headed in that direction anyway I
decided to check on two sisters that I hadn’t gotten a hold of. I pulled into one sister’s driveway sat there
while talking on the phone with three different sisters. By the time I got to the young woman’s house
I had received two more phone calls indicating that we were out of time. What??? It was barely 9:30. But apparently they had changed the time from
8:00 to an earlier time. I must say I
was quite flustered before 10:00.
Roland has a yard project going that should
have been finished but is still in the works.
I don’t know if I was out there with him when he accidently cut the
cable. So on Saturday we were without
cable which was not big deal for Jenna and me personally – but losing the
internet was a big deal. Roland would
need it for work Monday and Jenna would need it for school. Jenna asked if she could just stay at the
church after seminary in order to do her schooling. Richard thought he could join her by bringing
his work to the church if it came to that.
The earliest the cable company can come is on Thursday. I currently really don’t need the internet –
though I learned there are times in which I can/will miss out by not having it.
On Sunday
Roland was able to get a temporary fix for reception until the cable company
can get here. I was going to remain
offline until a more permanent fix. Only
I was asked to post something to the Relief Society page. I had messages and checked them but not my
notifications. I remained offline
yesterday and today Jenna asked for assistance with a question on migrating
ancestors and needed to make a connection to find a story that isn’t much of a
story after all. I decided I would go
ahead and post to my blog instead of waiting the six days as planned. More to
come.
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