Encouragement

Last night after work I drove home in my new car (!!) and as I was coming up our walkway to our condo John called my cell to tell me his parents were a couple exits away and wanted to take us to Cracker Barrell for dinner. I thought that sounded like fun even though I was on-call and knew I'd worry about the phone the whole time.

But CB is only a couple exits away so I agreed to go. I had about ten minutes to get out of my work clothes and at least set up my computer so it would be ready for me to work on when I got home. I ran around like a mad woman and managed to do that. Then, as if on cue, my on-call phone rings. I panicked of course. It turned out to be a fairly easy one, though and I did that within a couple minutes. I ran into the bathroom to brush my teeth and as I was doing that, my regular cell phone rang.

I picked it up and said hello and the man on the other side asked for Jessie. I said "speaking" and he said, "Hi, this is so-and-so" and to my silence added, "from the kingdom hall".

It was one of the Elders from my new hall calling to check up on me since I missed so much time due to surgery. Granted, I had sent them a letter saying why I had been gone for a couple months and such. But hey, Elders are busy, and even if he called after a reminder, he still called. We talked for a couple minutes and I firmly resolved to trek out to the Kingdom Hall on Sunday morning and then it was time to run downstairs to meet John's parents for dinner. We had a lovely time and I was high off of my phone call for the rest of the night.