Sunday, 9 November 2014, 2:24pm
Church ended at 1, choir practice just now and while I am charged with energy I am going to write.
Pinocchio went with us down to the golf course pond today. He was fascinated with all the other dogs jumping in and out of the water and shaking themselves off. I went to a place where the bank was low enough that I knew he could climb out but not matter his fascination he didn't quite dare to jump down and touch the water. The heels of my boots were tall enough to keep my feet dry so I sat on the shore and eventually got impatient enough to pick him up and set him in less than and inch depth. He sniffed around and then climbed out. Good enough for a 9 week old puppy. I'm curious about how the future will progress. It is so fun to see a new world through a puppies eyes.
I was emotionally uncomfortable as I lay in bed before reading the New Testament last night. Time to ponder and figure out where it was coming from. I had gone to Iceberg with Gravr Morgan and Bynn. Two guys who also index and family research at the FRL. We have seen each other for weeks and months and Grave is quite friendly and we had joked and talked and sat together for his dinner/snack break. I invited him to the singles BoM class held at 7 on Thursday nights. Erin, one of the teachers had written and email reminding us to bring a friend so I invited. Grave eventually made up his mind to go and he enjoyed it and was impressed with the family-and-learning feeling he felt while there. I had warned him that I participate. He topped me/trumped me by saying he mantras before church with "keep your mouth shut", over and over again.
We ate at Pizza factory afterwards. (He ate, I visited) I had explained my allergies. So we had more than two hours together that night and another last night. At the FRL as he tells me about this cute girl and that as they come in and work I feel distinctly uncomfortable. This is a man who believes he had a vision in his 30's and owns every collectible LDS book he can get his hands on. He quotes the Journal of Discourses, Hugh Nibley and Cleon Skousen. As I have tried to follow up on some of those quotes he isn't sure where they are. He flirts with every age girl he can and encouraged me to go help a sister with long eyelashes with Italian as the FRL closed Friday night. "Italians are naturally well equipped" he said at my demure.
I compared the way I feel around he and Bynn with the way I feel with Jerry Burgie and Justin Salmon and it is low class. I don't lust after the women and comment on anything worth looking at. : (
It is so foreign to me. Before my mission I trained myself to look only at their faces on BYU campus. That ended after my mission. And there are women in the ward who I admire for their beauty and I even tell them on occasion. On the day I had to walk home because my bike had been hit, I had daringly whispered in Sister Witwer's ear as she helped ladies on both sides of her, "You sure are fun to look at. You are so pretty." and she had responded, you sure are nice in a big loud voice. I floated home on that long long walk in my sandals having left after giving that compliment.
I even had Sister Gyneth Thompson deliver my phone number to the Indexing Chairman because I didn't dare a couple of months ago. btw, I sat by her this week and repeated the story to the I C this week. She explained how driven she is. She indexes 10K names a month! She focuses on that and perceives nothing else around her. I reassured her that is good and she contested.
Grave thought Amy the elementary school teacher, who answers all the hard BoM questions in our class, was a real prize. He wanted to know everyone's background and how much baggage they had. In fact he made a huge joke about how the prettiest ones at the church singles dances are the ones with the most baggage, so they can't even fit through a door. : (
btw, when I asked Gyneth if she had delivered my note to IC she started looking around at here stuff and said, I don't think so, I think I have it around here somewhere. . . So funny and so cute. She doesn't even remember.
So here I thought healthy, spiritual, testimony filled people would be found at the Family Research Library, my experience with Grave and Bynn is proving, not so. I can't quite understand it yet. Still processing. They were ripping on Sister Carlson last night. Bynn can't stand how she nit picks and contests everything with her husband and Grave had her react very strongly to his touching her as he walked by. He was a little chagrined at labeling her a b i t c h during our meal and visit at Iceberg.
I don't quite get it. How can people (Grave) feel so chosen and worthy and righteous and spiritually sensitive, and yet be so crass?
6:04 continued
Wonder of wonder, miracles of miracles, ScottS and JackieS interrupted me to play with Pinocchio and mothers. They were here for at least two hours. Jackie got her license on her 16th birthday. She did not delay. She is a Laurel now. Can you imagine playing with an old man's dogs for two hours? She loves her dog Aurora and walks her all the time since she doesn't want her to be bored. So cute. Scott came out of his shell. If you are willing to listen he is willing to talk. So fun. He knows all disney movies by heart. He has read Diary of a Whimpy Kid 6 times and knows which volume every situation/story took place in. He is proud of being able to quote all the Disney movies. I watched Aladin a couple of time last night in Honor of Robin Williams. VHS
Onward and upward. I'm tired.
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