Tuesday's take

It happened again, and I really should know better, but I had a perfect idea for my blog tonight and got excited when I fired up the tablet and got caught up in snippets on Facebook or other apps that just fire at you in different Snippets of what look like interesting videos and soon not only have I forgotten what I was going to write about but I also wasted good time that I could be doing something else like getting ready for bed. Why am I so weak?

It's Tuesday so I went into assist meeting today. We hardly had any names to process which is okay. I mean it would be better to have a lot of names to make me feel like I'd gotten something done but for me it's just the tension of getting up getting ready and going into the city for the meeting. We always do a lot of chatter before we really start the meeting. I think we waste a lot of time but that's just me however the concept of tithing settlement came up. Tithing settlement is an LDS concept it's where you go in and meet with the bishop for an interview at the beginning or end of every year and one of the items you discuss is have you paid a full tithe or 10% of all your earnings for that year. It's really kind of a brutal process at least I used to think it was I still do actually. I don't quite remember why but we went as a family or at least the we boys and my dad went. And I remember feeling embarrassed for my dad as he would squirm and reiterate his earnings over the year to the bishop. My dad didn't think it was a bad deal at least I don't think he did it never really verbalized it if he did did. He just figured it was one part of being a Mormon and it was time to settle up. You had to go to settlement because if you didn't you didn't get a recommend for that year, a temple recommend and that's important to the run of the mill dedicated Mormon who wants to do the temple work or feels he has to do the temple work. I don't know it was a challenging half hour or longer measurement of time. Or maybe it just felt longer because we had the piece together all the paperwork my dad would put together for the meeting in front of the bishop so the bishop could go over and make sure that everything was a okay. Sure disturbs me to think about this now. I'm just glad I don't have to go through anything like this or put my kids through anything like this.

The cold weather is coming back and that's good matter of fact there's even a chance for snow in the next couple of days. Snow coming down to the valley floor. I doubt we will get as much as the weatherman talks about we seldom do and luckily, for me, the snow is not going to last as long as it usually does because a warm front looks like it's coming down on the heels of this cold storm. Each day now we get closer and closer to Spring and that's a good feeling…