We had quite the Sabbath day adventure today. It started out with our van battery being dead. It's not like we could just take another car because the van is the only vehicle that can transport me. So dad had to jump it. The first machine he used was dead. So he got another one out of the other car and come to find out he had left it on so it was also dead. :-( Therefore we had to jump it using Juliet's truck. Thankfully the third time was the charm. We went the shortcut and were only about five minutes late to church.
Then, third hour sitting in Relief Society the teacher had just started a beautiful lesson on Christmas. Just a couple minutes into her lesson the fire alarm goes off and we all had to evacuate the building. It was a chilly day today and everyone was getting cold standing outside. Firetrucks came to disarm the alarms and I guess check the building out for possible fire. At this point there was only about 15 minutes left of church and we didn't figure we would be going back to finish the lesson so we just left.
I don't know the outcome but two Wards were affected. The other ward in our building was not even halfway through Sacrament meeting. It will be interesting to find out more details on what happened and what may have caused the alarm to go off. Speculation was a child. But who knows. In all my years of attending church weekly, I don't recall a fire alarm ever going off and having to evacuate. There's a first time for everything.
So, Lucy (Lucifer) really tried hard to thwart my Sabbath day today. But despite his best efforts, I made it to church and was able to partake of the sacrament. Went to Sunday school and part of Relief Society. :-) And the van started right up to bring us home after church.
Now let's hope we don't have any problems with our Family Home Evening/family dinner tonight. We are planning on watching the First Presidency devotional tonight at five o'clock as our family home evening lesson. I wouldn't put it past ol' Lucy to throw another wrench into our Sabbath day activities. We'll see.
Despite whatever Lucy throws at me, I know I am stronger than him and will always emerge victorious! He may win the battle sometimes but he will never win the fight! Not against this tough gal! :-)
That's my two cents.
We had some unexpected happenings also to try and ruin our Sabbath- I turned to Mercedes and told her in times like these we just have to say, "Not today Satan, not today!" (She's the one who originally showed me that saying on a cross-stitch)
ReplyDeleteSorry about the dead battery. That is crazy that the fire alarm went off during church. Never had that happen. Too bad the lady didn't get to finish her nice lesson she put so much time in preparing. At least Family Home Evening went pretty smoothly. :)