Early to Bed ...

I went in for my annual physical earlier this month. I asked Dr. Ahn to prescribe to me some kind of sleep aid to help "reset my body clock" in the hopes that I'll be able to fall asleep earlier and have more restful and uninterrupted sleep. My goal most every night is to get to bed right after the weather on the late evening news and wake up at about 6:00 in the morning. Of course, as in all best laid plans ...

Last Sunday, which was the first Sunday the Pioneer 25th Ward met at 8:00 a.m., I slept through my alarm at 6:00 a.m., but I did get up by 7:00 a.m. and was able to make it just as the congregation sang the last verse of the opening hymn ... not too bad. This morning, I woke up thinking, "Gee, that was a nice restful sleep!", but when I looked at the clock, it was 9:00 a.m.!!! I rushed to get ready and got to church in time for Relief Society. The Temple Prep teacher didn't show up too teach the class again, so apparently the young adults just went in and joined the regular Sunday School class. I feel bad for not being there. At least I'm not the only one who missed the alarm ... Sister Van Tiellen also overslept and missed sacrament meeting. Is it a companionship thing? :0) I need to make some changes in my habits ... the most important is that I need make sure that I'm home by 10:00 p.m. on Saturday nights ... at least for the next four months while the ward meets at 8:00 a.m.

We had Welfare Meeting after church and Bishop Angilau formally instructed me to teach Gospel Doctrine material to the young adults. I've never taught Gospel Doctrine before. The "doctrine" part really freaks me out, but I'm sure with enough preparation I'll be okay. I hope Brother Machon won't take offense when half of his class disappears to come to mine. I've asked for a member of the bishopric to notify him ... we'll see if that happens this week.

Changes

Well, next Sunday the Pioneer 25th Ward will start meeting at 8:00 a.m. I'll be lying if I said that I'm excited about getting up that early. But wait, there are other changes. Bishop Angilau came into our Sunday School class on Sunday, and he thinks that we'd be better off in attendance if we have a seperate Young Adult Sunday School and no longer combine with the Temple Preparation class. I actually think that it's a good idea, but that would mean I would have to have my lesson ready before I am at church at 8:00 a.m. in the morning. Ugh! Well, I hope those who have been avoiding coming to Temple Preparation class will now be coming to my class at 9:00 a.m. ... I hope ...

We've not had a teacher for the Temple Preparation class for about three weeks. I've thought about going to the Distribution Center to purchase a manual for the class, but I occurred to me that on Sunday that I'm just not willing to rob the person who was called to that calling of his blessings to teach about temples. So, in many ways, Bishop Angilau's instruction to seperate our classes again was an answer to my prayers.