It has been exactly 4 months since I last posted. Yeah, I'm a lazy bum. I haven't forgotten to post, I have just been busy. BYU's semester ended about 2 1/2 weeks ago, and I have never been so relieved to end a semester! It was a hard one, with more work than I had anticipated. But also many wonderful and fun things that I hadn't anticipated either. :-)
So now I'm back in sunny, warm Arizona, working at the Chick-fil-A I worked at during my Senior year of high school and up until I left for BYU. My boss Kim said she would love to have me come back and work whenever I can, so I took her up on that offer during Christmas break and am working there again for the summer. I can tell she and the other managers like me, because I get almost 40 hours a week, paid above minimum wage, and often give me more responsibilities than my coworkers. What good blessings to have such a great job with fantastic hours and pay, and to not have to go job hunting when I got back from school! I am so grateful.
My boss has also made me her personal babysitter. I have babysat for her a couple times in the last few days, and I'm actually waiting for her to pick me up right now to babysit for the rest of today. She has two cute little kids, a 2-year-old named Gabe, who loves basketball and watching Caillou on TV, and a 9-month-old named Brooklyn, who just loves being held and playing on my lap. Since Kim is my boss and makes my work schedule, she actually put babysitting on my work schedule for this week! It made me laugh when I saw "Call Kim" (about babysitting) instead of hours to work that day. I will work well over 40 hours this week, nearly 30 of them at Chick-fil-A and the rest playing with Kim's kids. I love it! :-)
Yesterday when Kim picked me up to babysit she mentioned a couple of my coworkers who have left on missions recently, and that she wishes they could have stayed because they are such great, hard workers. She is not LDS, so she doesn't quite understand how important missions are to young men. We started talking about the Church, and I was quite surprised how many questions she had! We talked all the way to her house, and in the evening we talked again all the way back to drop me off at my house. When we drove by the Gilbert Temple construction site she asked if there was any way non-members can go inside the Temple. I got very excited, and told her about the Open House before the Dedication, and that anyone, LDS or not, can go inside and see how beautiful it is. She seemed excited too, so I will make sure I let her know when the Open House will be. It was great talking to her about the Church! And kind of ironic, because the lesson in Relief Society the day before was about Missionary work, and in Sunday School we talked about sharing the Light of Christ. I was so grateful to be able to share my testimony and what I know about the Church to my boss, and that she seems interested. She said she is very open to other faiths, and since there are so many LDS people working at our Chick-fil-A she has many good examples of Latter-Day Saints.
I'll try to be better with updating my blog during the summer, since I'll have more time than I did during the school year. But at least I finally got around to it :-P
