What did I get myself into......
I have decided to get myself super involved with church. Since I have no family down here there is a need to get out of my comfort zone and make some new friends (We don't want Kathryn and Bryan to get sick of us). In my new ward I've started going to playgroup every Thursday which has been great meeting lots of fun young moms.
Now it's time to expand. Sunday I signed up for everything possible. First, enrichment night. We are making a Thanksgiving feast probably so us young moms will know what to do. I am excited and this might prove helpful in case it's just Darrin and I this year. Also I signed up to feed the missionaries, which also is a first. Now that we have Colby I want to feed the missionaries as much as possible. When Colby decides to go on a mission my hope is he will get fed meals often. Positive thinking!
The next sign up sheet was for Halloween. So, I signed up for desert. After church I told Darrin about the desert when he informed me that he signed us up for the a Chili cook off that just happened to be for the same meal. He wants to make it super spicy, he thinks that is what will win the cook off. I informed him that he must be able to eat a whole bowl with out gulping down Mountain Dew.
That is when I realized I might have taken on way to much. But no, Silly me, I signed up to call 10 pages of residents and ask how they are voting on Prop 8. This has now moved way out of my comfort zone. Tonight was the first night of calling. My first page and a half all were voting No to Prop 8. I have no idea how other people's call lists are going but my results made me so sad and mad at everyone who is voting NO. Pray for me that I will be able to talk some sense into these people.
So in the end, I think that I may have bitten off more than I can chew. I hope that everything turns out okay. Pray for me!
You're awesome Clarissa! Spencer says to "keep going, it's a really good thing you're doing". We'll keep ya in our prayers! I think it's cute you are feeding the missionaries in honor of Colby.
You go girl!!! That's the spirit! I'm impressed with the calling sign up you did. That's out of MY comfort zone too. But playgroups are so fun, and I'm glad you're going to one. I never learned how to make Thanksgiving Dinner either until we moved to Topeka for Matt's first job-- similar to your situation. It's fun to get together with another couple in your situation (no family around) and do it together -- then it's a little less overwhelming, and you have 2 familiy's worth of pots/pans/etc to cook with. (just starting out, we didn't have everything we needed to cook a whole T-giving dinner). We try to feed the missionaries once a month. I want my girls to have a similar experience -- seeing the missionaries, and knowing what they do. They always leave a great message and add a nice spirit when they're here.
Good Luck, and I'm excited for you.
ps : making hot spicey chili sounds like Matt -- no surprise with that one coming from Darrin too.
That is awesome, I am so impressed. Calling people about proposition 8, that would be way out of my comfort zone, that is so great you are doing that and cooking everything. Your so great. I need to get more involved.
It's great that you're getting involved. It makes things so much better. We hosted a chili cook-off last year for the ward and I hate to say it, but the winner's chili was pretty spicy. Good luck Darrin.
Wow! That's impressive . . . you are motivating me to get my act together :) It always feels good to accomplish a lot.