Saturday, Snow, and Dreams that come true!

Saturday's work project was installing shelves to hold the TV and the VCR.  We lowered the shelf that Joseph and Joshua installed and then added another for the VCR.

Esther holding it for Dad

Dad has a level eye, but Esther also used a level to check and he was right on!

We also moved the piano a little, with a lot of effort, away from the corner so the phone cord could fit on the side.  In the process of moving it, we opened the top and had fun looking at the hammers that hit the strings.

We had some snow on Saturday and Dad and James shoveled the driveway, later in the afternoon.  There were a few flakes falling in the early evening, but it didn't seem like much.  

My Dream

I woke up very early (4:18 a.m.) Sunday morning with a dream that was both scary and comforting.  I dreamed that Dad was some kind of witness in a crime and had to testify.  I was waiting for him in a hallway.  He finally came out and we rushed to church.  As we walked in, the Sacrament meeting was over and everyone was going to class.  "I don't even know if I was sustained!" I thought.  "I missed taking the sacrament!" I lamented. "And I don't even know everyone's names!"  Then President Nicholes held out his arm and said, "It's okay Sister Erickson, it will all work out."  as he walked me to Relief Society.

I shared my dream with Dad and we both thought it was kind of random.  I was being sustained Sunday for a new calling as 1st counselor in Relief Society.  I never did go

 back to sleep and just got up to study and prepare for the day.  

We had our family scriptures and breakfast.  James had to leave early for a deacon's quorum presidency meeting.  A few minutes before his ride came, we looked outside and there was a TON of snow.

Dad began shoveling away, but then both Marion and Rob offered the use of a tractor, and so, pressed for time, Dad used that

Dad came in to shower at 8:50.  Even though he hurried, it wasn't fast enough and I started to panic a little.  We made it just as the last of the ward business was being announced, the re-organization of the Teacher's Quorum.  I had missed being sustained.  I wasn't even sure who was in my presidency, although I had a hunch about the other counselor.  We did make it in time for the sacrament, so that was a great blessing.  

I knew who the president would be, Marcia Bahr, the bishop told me that much when he extended the call.  Kathy Robinson, is the second counselor and Sandra Izatt is the secretary.  I'm still getting to know who all the sisters are in the ward.  But I feel so graciously blessed by some of the association I've recently had with each of these sisters.  Dad and I went to visit Marcia before Christmas and dropped off a small gift for her.  She has been widowed just a little over a year.  I ran into Sandra when I was visiting teaching, as she dropped by to bring a Christmas goodie to the sister I was visiting, and I got to know a little about her then.  Then Kathy Robinson came over to give John some items her son who goes to BYU-I had forgotten so John could take them and we got to visit with Kathy and her husband, James, and daughter, Alex.  Marcia is also a temple worker in Rexburg.  The last Saturday we came, on the 9th, Dad and I were planning to do initiatory while Esther and James did baptisms.  Marcia is an initiatory coordinator.  I saw her when I came in.  She was busy, but I still tapped her on the shoulder and said hi.  Because of the wait, Dad and I ended up doing sealings, which was a marvelous session.  Marcia told me yesterday that she had been praying about me as a counselor and then when she saw me that day in the temple, it confirmed it for her.  

Heavenly Father's ways are so marvelous and miraculous!

Dad, Esther, and James did some more shoveling for Grandpa and around our place too, while I had a meeting.  James and Dad rode the snowmobile home.  Esther drove the pick-up.  James took the snowmobile back to Grandpa's and hung out there while Dad, Esther and I rushed to make it to a New Beginnings program at the church.  Rushing from shoveling snow to making it on time to church seemed to be the theme of the day!