My dear brethren of the priesthood, though we are from many nations, we are, as Paul said, of "one Lord, one faith, one baptism."
But the strength of the faith within each of us is developed individually, not as a group.
For example, think of the faith of a boy, about eight years of age, who was facing an emergency operation for acute appendicitis.
As he lay on the operating table, he looked up at the surgeon and said, "Doctor, before you begin to operate, will you pray for me?"
The surgeon looked at the boy in amazement and said, "Why, I can't pray for you."
Then the little fellow said, "If you won't pray for me, please wait while I pray for myself."
There on the operating table, the boy got on his knees, folded his hands, and began to pray.
He said: "Heavenly Father, I am only a little orphan boy.
I am awful sick, and these doctors are going to operate.
Will you please help them that they will do it right?
Heavenly Father, if you will make me well, I will be a good boy.
Thank you for making me well."
He then lay on his back, looked up at the tear-filled eyes of the doctors and nurses, and said, "Now I am ready."
His physical recovery was complete, and his spiritual power was developing.
-Russell M. Nelson -Personal Priesthood Responsibilities -October 2003 General Conference
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Returning to a Forest Fire
I always return to work with some trepidation.
Because when I'm gone for long periods of time...it always seems like something drastically changes, or something goes majorly wrong.
So I spend the first day back from vacation figuratively putting out the fires in the store.
*exhales*
Normally it's small things. Like a broken lock, or a sick animal or something.
But today's return to work?
Was like trying to put out a forest fire.
There was so much new and so much wrong/broken that...well I really wanted to turn around and head right back to the East Coast.
a) We have a new dress code at work now. We can wear blue or black jeans with our work shirts.
b) Half of our hamster wheels got replaced because a customer apparently complained that our wheels were 'too rusty' so a good half dozen or so plastic wheels were written off to replace them.
c) Our backrooms had further been reorganized so I wasted a lot of time hunting down items I needed.
d) I couldn't find our bucket of dirt used for the reptile bedding changes ANYWHERE. …….I later found it in the fridge of all places. O.o *shakes head*
e) Our goldfish cooling system had officially been deemed broken (it was getting so hot in the tanks that the goldfish were jumping out of the water) and the machine had been replaced the day before.
f) The bird door lock once again broke (I expected this to happen, it always breaks when I take long vacas), but I couldn't fix it because one of the key components to the lock had vanished.
g) We finally found the missing connector piece to the gravel vacuum so for the first time in like a month we could finally gravel vacuum our tanks.
h) I hit my elbow, while working with said gravel vacuum, hard enough that its still sore.
i) The hinge to one of our reptile cage/locks broke
j) The bottom of our Tortoise tank has come loose....so we need to find a way to fix it...or get it replaced.
k) One of my coworkers has been banned by the head manager from working with the birds. -Because they had a bad allergic reaction to the bedding we use for the birds.
l) We can't use the radios for anything but Customer related conversations now. So if you have to ask your coworker a work/task related question you're supposed to go find them and ask them in person...instead of using the radios. (Such a stupid rule.)
m) Our birds in our back rooms hadn't been put out onto the floor (even though all of them could have come out like a week ago. *exhales*)
n) The whiteboard in our back room that we use to communicate to each other has been taken down....because too much unnecessary communication was taking place. (now how are we supposed to let our coworkers know things?? *shakes head* Let's just add to our communication problems)
o) Our District Manager decided to visit AGAIN. Soo there was all that stress too.
Like....can you see why I wanted to go back on vacation?
Because that is ALOT of issues after me being gone just a week.
*exhales*
Hopefully tomorrow's work shift is better. Because if it's another crazy day like this...I dunno how well I'll be able to handle it.
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Because when I'm gone for long periods of time...it always seems like something drastically changes, or something goes majorly wrong.
So I spend the first day back from vacation figuratively putting out the fires in the store.
*exhales*
Normally it's small things. Like a broken lock, or a sick animal or something.
But today's return to work?
Was like trying to put out a forest fire.
There was so much new and so much wrong/broken that...well I really wanted to turn around and head right back to the East Coast.
a) We have a new dress code at work now. We can wear blue or black jeans with our work shirts.
b) Half of our hamster wheels got replaced because a customer apparently complained that our wheels were 'too rusty' so a good half dozen or so plastic wheels were written off to replace them.
c) Our backrooms had further been reorganized so I wasted a lot of time hunting down items I needed.
d) I couldn't find our bucket of dirt used for the reptile bedding changes ANYWHERE. …….I later found it in the fridge of all places. O.o *shakes head*
e) Our goldfish cooling system had officially been deemed broken (it was getting so hot in the tanks that the goldfish were jumping out of the water) and the machine had been replaced the day before.
f) The bird door lock once again broke (I expected this to happen, it always breaks when I take long vacas), but I couldn't fix it because one of the key components to the lock had vanished.
g) We finally found the missing connector piece to the gravel vacuum so for the first time in like a month we could finally gravel vacuum our tanks.
h) I hit my elbow, while working with said gravel vacuum, hard enough that its still sore.
i) The hinge to one of our reptile cage/locks broke
j) The bottom of our Tortoise tank has come loose....so we need to find a way to fix it...or get it replaced.
k) One of my coworkers has been banned by the head manager from working with the birds. -Because they had a bad allergic reaction to the bedding we use for the birds.
l) We can't use the radios for anything but Customer related conversations now. So if you have to ask your coworker a work/task related question you're supposed to go find them and ask them in person...instead of using the radios. (Such a stupid rule.)
m) Our birds in our back rooms hadn't been put out onto the floor (even though all of them could have come out like a week ago. *exhales*)
n) The whiteboard in our back room that we use to communicate to each other has been taken down....because too much unnecessary communication was taking place. (now how are we supposed to let our coworkers know things?? *shakes head* Let's just add to our communication problems)
o) Our District Manager decided to visit AGAIN. Soo there was all that stress too.
Like....can you see why I wanted to go back on vacation?
Because that is ALOT of issues after me being gone just a week.
*exhales*
Hopefully tomorrow's work shift is better. Because if it's another crazy day like this...I dunno how well I'll be able to handle it.
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Another Security Check
Once more I had to venture through security to get to the airport.
But this time I was better prepared.
Because now I knew better.
I wasn't sure if the food would still be checked, but if it was....I might as well put it with my heat packs.
That way when the security guys opened my bag to check the heatpacks they could also check the food at the same time and hopefully it would mean one of my two bags would not need to be checked this time.
I had it all ready.
Liquids separated.
Food and heatpacks together.
And as I reached the conveyor belt to put all my things on.
The airport dude working that part of the line was like "All food, liquids, shoes and laptops in separate containers."
O.o
Oh?
So I pulled out my shoes and the liquids I had, and reached into the my bag -luckily I had my food on top when I opened my suitcase so I wouldn't have to dig- and plopped the whole confection into the tray.
-Which impressed the dude behind me lol. He was like "Wow! I didn't know we could bring snacks!!"
….like yah? Because uhmmm….you can get hungry on those long flights.
>.>
Which reminds me....I saw a dude eating a casserole dish full of green beans in the security line.....I wonder if he finished that before he hit the check point.... huh.....but like....why eat it there while standing in line?? *shakes head* So weird.
In any case.
With all the stated items on the tray.
I sent my things through the x-ray machine.
Still expecting them to pull out my heat packs to check them again.
Nope.
O.o
No issue whatsoever.
My things went through without needing to be pulled aside.
O.o
*shakes head*
It's so interesting what does and doesn't set off the 'alarms' within each airport and with each person.
Because my home airport the dude seemed to pull aside every other bag.
But in this east coast airport....I barely saw any being pulled to the side.....
So weird.
But hey! Less of a hassle for me so woot!! :D
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
But this time I was better prepared.
Because now I knew better.
I wasn't sure if the food would still be checked, but if it was....I might as well put it with my heat packs.
That way when the security guys opened my bag to check the heatpacks they could also check the food at the same time and hopefully it would mean one of my two bags would not need to be checked this time.
I had it all ready.
Liquids separated.
Food and heatpacks together.
And as I reached the conveyor belt to put all my things on.
The airport dude working that part of the line was like "All food, liquids, shoes and laptops in separate containers."
O.o
Oh?
So I pulled out my shoes and the liquids I had, and reached into the my bag -luckily I had my food on top when I opened my suitcase so I wouldn't have to dig- and plopped the whole confection into the tray.
-Which impressed the dude behind me lol. He was like "Wow! I didn't know we could bring snacks!!"
….like yah? Because uhmmm….you can get hungry on those long flights.
>.>
Which reminds me....I saw a dude eating a casserole dish full of green beans in the security line.....I wonder if he finished that before he hit the check point.... huh.....but like....why eat it there while standing in line?? *shakes head* So weird.
In any case.
With all the stated items on the tray.
I sent my things through the x-ray machine.
Still expecting them to pull out my heat packs to check them again.
Nope.
O.o
No issue whatsoever.
My things went through without needing to be pulled aside.
O.o
*shakes head*
It's so interesting what does and doesn't set off the 'alarms' within each airport and with each person.
Because my home airport the dude seemed to pull aside every other bag.
But in this east coast airport....I barely saw any being pulled to the side.....
So weird.
But hey! Less of a hassle for me so woot!! :D
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Monday, June 25, 2018
So am I Interacting or Not?
I'm not always one to socialize.
Especially when it involves interacting with strangers.
-At least outside of a work environment.
So I was a bit....anxious? I suppose? That my friends wanted to have me meet a guy while I was out visiting them.
But I was given enough advanced notice that I was mentally able to prepare to meet this random dude and spend the evening with him and my friends with dinner and berry picking and such.
Only...
It didn't quite turned out as we all expected it to go?
Like you kinda expect the guy to interact with the girl a bit, even if it was just basically a 'meet and greet' sort of deal.
But nope.
He basically ignored me the entire time.
Instead choosing to focus on talking with my guy friend.
And was sure to mention at least six times that he's quite happy being single.
*shakes head*
Well okay then.
But it was....frustrating really.
Because I had mentally prepared to have to talk to this guy for like the entire week.
And the only conversations I had with him were ones I instigated and be ignored otherwise because the dude blabbered on like a never ending chatterbox.
*exhales*
Meh.
At least my guy friend made a friend that evening XD lol.
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Especially when it involves interacting with strangers.
-At least outside of a work environment.
So I was a bit....anxious? I suppose? That my friends wanted to have me meet a guy while I was out visiting them.
But I was given enough advanced notice that I was mentally able to prepare to meet this random dude and spend the evening with him and my friends with dinner and berry picking and such.
Only...
It didn't quite turned out as we all expected it to go?
Like you kinda expect the guy to interact with the girl a bit, even if it was just basically a 'meet and greet' sort of deal.
But nope.
He basically ignored me the entire time.
Instead choosing to focus on talking with my guy friend.
And was sure to mention at least six times that he's quite happy being single.
*shakes head*
Well okay then.
But it was....frustrating really.
Because I had mentally prepared to have to talk to this guy for like the entire week.
And the only conversations I had with him were ones I instigated and be ignored otherwise because the dude blabbered on like a never ending chatterbox.
*exhales*
Meh.
At least my guy friend made a friend that evening XD lol.
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Ring a Ding Ding
Security systems are cool.
Because like they protect your stuff and announce things and such.
Like the place I'm staying at right now?
Totally alarmed up to the rooftops lol.
And very noisy about letting you know about it too.
You can't open a window or a door to the outside anywhere in the house without there being a chime that sounds off and a voice that goes "Garage Door open." "Kitchen Window Open." etc.
Handy.
Kinda annoying.
But handy because you know whenever anyone is coming into the house.
Part of this security system though.
Includes a sensor at the entrance to the driveway.
That goes off whenever anyone passes through it.
As the driveway is rather long (yay country driveways)
Long enough that you can't see the road from the house.
So the sensor was installed to give the people in the house notice that someone is coming up their driveway.
Pretty handy really.
Except....
The device is soo sensitive that a bird passing through it can set it off.
And being out in the country...there are herds of deer and squirrels and who knows what other creatures that too can set off the alarm.
So when the alarm goes off....
You have no idea if it's an actual visitor or an animal crossing through the boundary.
Which really makes me think if I were to ever install that sort of system.
I would have a camera down there.
Taking video.
So when I hear the alarm go off, and don't see a car driving up the driveway....
I can check and see if it was an animal that made the sensor go off or not.
Because really....
When that alarm goes off at 1 AM in the morning.
You can't really help but wonder....is it animal...or is it human?
*exhales*
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Because like they protect your stuff and announce things and such.
Like the place I'm staying at right now?
Totally alarmed up to the rooftops lol.
And very noisy about letting you know about it too.
You can't open a window or a door to the outside anywhere in the house without there being a chime that sounds off and a voice that goes "Garage Door open." "Kitchen Window Open." etc.
Handy.
Kinda annoying.
But handy because you know whenever anyone is coming into the house.
Part of this security system though.
Includes a sensor at the entrance to the driveway.
That goes off whenever anyone passes through it.
As the driveway is rather long (yay country driveways)
Long enough that you can't see the road from the house.
So the sensor was installed to give the people in the house notice that someone is coming up their driveway.
Pretty handy really.
Except....
The device is soo sensitive that a bird passing through it can set it off.
And being out in the country...there are herds of deer and squirrels and who knows what other creatures that too can set off the alarm.
So when the alarm goes off....
You have no idea if it's an actual visitor or an animal crossing through the boundary.
Which really makes me think if I were to ever install that sort of system.
I would have a camera down there.
Taking video.
So when I hear the alarm go off, and don't see a car driving up the driveway....
I can check and see if it was an animal that made the sensor go off or not.
Because really....
When that alarm goes off at 1 AM in the morning.
You can't really help but wonder....is it animal...or is it human?
*exhales*
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Directionless
One thing about being on the east coast....is a distinct lack of mountains to be able to orient myself by.
Though with my area, it's not as bad as there are 'mountains' here.
...More like hills really but people insist they're mountains.
So while they're in sight I can use them to help me tell directions.
But otherwise....I have no idea which way is North or West etc.
Especially since it's been cloudy here, meaning I don't even have access to the sun to try and help myself out. lol.
So it caught me off guard a bit when one of my friends was suddenly like "Quick, Sarnic! Which way do I go?!"
O.o
Uh. Like I Have no clue dude? Because I don't LIVE here like you do?
Lol.
Especially because we were heading to a theatre. Which I'd never been to before.
But while we were out and about yesterday the same friend had given me a verbal tour as we were going to grab Wendy's.
So I was like. Okay. I just gotta get us to Wendy's and go from there.
Which ended up with me being like "Okay...so we turn left here....and at this part where we get on the freeway it's like a.....right?"
Ended up being a again.
But yah. ^^;;
Lol I ended up giving some other verbal directions like "You said the theatre was 2 exits past the one we took right?"
But also things like "Oh you said soandso works here! And this is where we'd go if we were going to Wendy's."
And he was rather surprised lol.
Like....I do listen to people. Haha. ^^;; Even if I'm not fully paying attention, I do try and keep in mind things that are stated. Even if I didn't expect to need to use it in the future.
Lol.
We did make it to the theatre alright, because my friend does know the way. XD lol.
That didn't stop me from genuinely believing for a moment that he didn't know where we were going though lol. I was pulling up the googlemaps and everything before my brain kicked in and remembered that he'd mentioned the theatre was like two exits away so therefore....he had to know where he was going. ^^;;
Ah.
Gotta love trying to find places in a new area. ^^;;
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Though with my area, it's not as bad as there are 'mountains' here.
...More like hills really but people insist they're mountains.
So while they're in sight I can use them to help me tell directions.
But otherwise....I have no idea which way is North or West etc.
Especially since it's been cloudy here, meaning I don't even have access to the sun to try and help myself out. lol.
So it caught me off guard a bit when one of my friends was suddenly like "Quick, Sarnic! Which way do I go?!"
O.o
Uh. Like I Have no clue dude? Because I don't LIVE here like you do?
Lol.
Especially because we were heading to a theatre. Which I'd never been to before.
But while we were out and about yesterday the same friend had given me a verbal tour as we were going to grab Wendy's.
So I was like. Okay. I just gotta get us to Wendy's and go from there.
Which ended up with me being like "Okay...so we turn left here....and at this part where we get on the freeway it's like a.....right?"
Ended up being a again.
But yah. ^^;;
Lol I ended up giving some other verbal directions like "You said the theatre was 2 exits past the one we took right?"
But also things like "Oh you said soandso works here! And this is where we'd go if we were going to Wendy's."
And he was rather surprised lol.
Like....I do listen to people. Haha. ^^;; Even if I'm not fully paying attention, I do try and keep in mind things that are stated. Even if I didn't expect to need to use it in the future.
Lol.
We did make it to the theatre alright, because my friend does know the way. XD lol.
That didn't stop me from genuinely believing for a moment that he didn't know where we were going though lol. I was pulling up the googlemaps and everything before my brain kicked in and remembered that he'd mentioned the theatre was like two exits away so therefore....he had to know where he was going. ^^;;
Ah.
Gotta love trying to find places in a new area. ^^;;
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Friday, June 22, 2018
Songs
Soo....
Last night.
We went to a Carnival.
Which is always a slightly weird experience going to those....since I usually go pretty rarely. lol. It's probably been at least 5 or 6 years since the last carnival I've gone to.
The main reason why we went to this one though was a) to get funnel cakes.
-Which now I know what those look like and they were totally different than what I was expecting. lol.
But also b) because my friends had discovered that a band called "Amish Outlaws" was playing that night at the carnival. And after listening to some of their music online, they wanted to check them out in person.
Lol they're a pretty fun and laid back group.
Wanting to interact with the audience and get them dancing and such.
We were encouraged to sing along, stand up, dance, wave our hands, clap, etc.
Which, me being shy.
I didn't stand up and dance or anything. Just kinda danced in place while sitting.
And I was singing along to the words of the songs and such.
Managing to avoid getting noticed by them....
Until they started singing Under the Sea from Little Mermaid.
Because like, how can you not sing to that song?!
So I started singing to it....
And that's when one of the group noticed me.
And he was like "You know all the words to the song and you're just sitting there?! Come up to the front and dance!"
Ha.
No.
For one. I don't like being in front of a bunch of strangers like that.
Two. It was a bunch of kids under the age of 12 up there currently.
No way would I be joining them. That would just be weird.
So I just grinned, shook my head, and refused to go up. ^^;;
But it does bring to mind another time a Little Mermaid Song brought guys attention to me.
Back while I was still in college, my ward had a talent show.
One I participated in.
And there was a quartet of guys who were singing songs for their talent.
They pulled me forward for one of them, and began to sing "Kiss the Girl" from Little Mermaid.
….yah, I didn't let them kiss me.
But it is interesting that both songs were related to the Little Mermaid.
>.>
So weird.
But hey.
I had fun both times. ^^;;
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Last night.
We went to a Carnival.
Which is always a slightly weird experience going to those....since I usually go pretty rarely. lol. It's probably been at least 5 or 6 years since the last carnival I've gone to.
The main reason why we went to this one though was a) to get funnel cakes.
-Which now I know what those look like and they were totally different than what I was expecting. lol.
But also b) because my friends had discovered that a band called "Amish Outlaws" was playing that night at the carnival. And after listening to some of their music online, they wanted to check them out in person.
Lol they're a pretty fun and laid back group.
Wanting to interact with the audience and get them dancing and such.
We were encouraged to sing along, stand up, dance, wave our hands, clap, etc.
Which, me being shy.
I didn't stand up and dance or anything. Just kinda danced in place while sitting.
And I was singing along to the words of the songs and such.
Managing to avoid getting noticed by them....
Until they started singing Under the Sea from Little Mermaid.
Because like, how can you not sing to that song?!
So I started singing to it....
And that's when one of the group noticed me.
And he was like "You know all the words to the song and you're just sitting there?! Come up to the front and dance!"
Ha.
No.
For one. I don't like being in front of a bunch of strangers like that.
Two. It was a bunch of kids under the age of 12 up there currently.
No way would I be joining them. That would just be weird.
So I just grinned, shook my head, and refused to go up. ^^;;
But it does bring to mind another time a Little Mermaid Song brought guys attention to me.
Back while I was still in college, my ward had a talent show.
One I participated in.
And there was a quartet of guys who were singing songs for their talent.
They pulled me forward for one of them, and began to sing "Kiss the Girl" from Little Mermaid.
….yah, I didn't let them kiss me.
But it is interesting that both songs were related to the Little Mermaid.
>.>
So weird.
But hey.
I had fun both times. ^^;;
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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