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We watched our first session of conference Saturday morning. Watching conference with my family makes me so happy and then weepy, it’s just so beautiful and good. And even though we’re a week late, we still participated in the solemn assembly and sustained our new first presidency. 

Cannot wait to mug on those cheeks this week!

So on Friday we saved money by an at home haircut and on Saturday we saved money by having Matt change the oil in the Space Car. 

Delaney and I got to meet up with our friendies for Emma’s escape room birthday. We totally rocked that escape room in one of my personal best ever showings. I think the room was kind of easy, but we also worked well together and our skills complemented each other. Girl power!

They started us off by handcuffing us and locking us in 6 different cells and it was a little creepy, tbh. 

We were riding high on our victory!

We went to Crumbl and everyone picked a cookie and everyone but Delaney shared and taste tested everything. 

We visited outside at Crumbl because it was a lovely day and then went back to Darrow’s for presents and visiting. 

We got Emma a cake decorating kit and the girls had fun playing with frosting and decorators tips. 

We stayed and visited longer than we should have probably, but it was just lovely to spend time together. 

When we got home I finished up my Disney dinner. I had made the cookies and stuffed shells earlier in the day, so I just made Triton’s breadstick tridents and Under the Sea Elixir and then we were gtg. 

I loved the look of the seaweed, so pretty and festive!

Sand dollar cookie yumminess. 

Tritons tridents. 

And the pasta seashells were so good! I also remembered to serve a salad because if there’s one thing my Disney inspo lady doesn’t like, it’s veg. 

Still working on my layering drinks, but these are pretty’ish. 

We watched The Little Mermaid and I wanted to sing every song because I remember when Little Mermaid came out and we saw it in the theater and I love to sing even though I have a terrible voice. 🙃

We met our Area 70, Elder Baxter at our building at 11 so I could be set apart in my new calling. 

So I was extended a calling and accepted in my ward right after I was released in February. Then Bishop Wiest said nevermind. 🙃 He said there were some things in the works and I thought they were changing around presidencies and callings are like dominoes. 

Then Elder Baxter reached out to me like 6 weeks ago and set up a meeting. Then a day before our meeting, he asked to reschedule and I was like 😩. I was super antsy for about a week and then one day I was vacuuming and the spirit said just enjoy a tiny break and a calling will come, and after that I was fine waiting. 

So back to my new calling. I don’t want to say I was disappointed, but I was hoping for something different. I was really hoping this was an area relief society advisor calling, which doesn’t exist in the US yet, but hopefully someday will. But that was not it. 

My new calling is to be a North America Northeast Area Communications Specialist. If I was asked to choose the area of the church I know the very least about, I think it would be area communications. 🤣 So lots of room for growth and that’s cool. 

I was blessed with confidence to go forward and to share my experiences with my family and that will help bring them to Christ. That resonates with me because I’ve been intentionally sharing experiences serving with my family for a long time. I love those promises. 

And then I hit the ground running with a 12 o’clock meeting. I went into the Family History Center during our sacrament meeting for that. I had arranged with Bishop Wiest for Matt to take the sacrament to a family and I would go with him and be able to take the sacrament too, but then that didn’t work out so I’ll just wait till next week. Heavenly Father knows my heart, I’ll be ok. 

We did a yum box (Poland!), played games, and i shoveled a half plate of the shepherds pie I prepped ahead of time into my gullet before my second meeting of the day at 4. And after 2 meetings, I’m more confused than I was this morning. I’m the media specialist and I guess I’ll figure out what that means soon. 

We watched another session of conference this evening and I’m gearing up for a week with the bigs and the grands! I’m excited to see them and not excited to be gone from home, but that is life when people you love are scattered all around.