This week everyone is talking about going to back to school. Mountain Home students, as well as college students returned to campus today.
I, on the other hand have the week off. It is my official summer vacation. So far, I am in the process of doing nothing. I don't believe that will last very long. I tend to prefer keeping busy.
As a child I remember spending a lot of time out side. We would play in the irrigation ditches or find other means of keeping cool.
The summer I turned 16 was the beginning of working summers for mee. That summer I babysat. By the next summer I was working at McDonalds. The following summer I was working at Godfather's Pizza and giving away free food samples at Albertson's. Of all the random summer jobs I have had there is one I will take with mee always.
During my junior year of college I became friends with Jeremy and his twin Jesse. Somehow an interesting fact came up. Their dad had the contract for the finishing carpentry work on the Spokane Washington Temple.
I asked Jeremy if he thought his dad would let me work with them. Jeremy said I needed to call and ask him. That was all it took, I had to ask myself. $6.50 plus room and board, I had a jod for the summer.
I once had someone tell mee I did get paid enough. It wasn't about the money. It was about the job. I got to help build a temple to the Most High God.
Prior to the dedication of the Spokane Washington Temple the Pullman Washington Stake was in the Seattle Washington Temple District. It was a 6 hour trip. I remember some of those trips well.
After the Friday Night Activity we piled on a bus about midnight. I believe we would get to the temple around 6 or 6:30 am. We would them complete one or two sessions, eat, and head home. We would get to Moscow again about 6pm Saturday night.
With the dedication of the Spokane Washington Temple our trips only took 6 hours. One and a half hours there, session, food, one and a half hours back.
What a blessing the temple is to the Intermountain Northwest. And I helped build it.
That's awesome Malinda! That would be a really cool experience. Hope your week of vacation goes well:)
ReplyDeleteWow, I didn't know this. That is so cool. And we were right there the whole time, from the groundbreaking to the dedication. Actually, the groundbreaking was an "invitation only" event, so we didn't go to that. But we were sitting in the front lobby area of the temple during the dedication. That was our Stake Center right next door. Has John told you about the night shift he had -- doing security on the temple grounds? It was just one night, but still interesting. Thanks for sharing! Good to see you back!
ReplyDeleteI remember that while it was being built Dan and I went down to see it and I think that we even saw you there. We also got to paint a piece of trim in one of the rooms. We also had commented and how even though it wasn't dedicated and it was still being built that we could feel the spirit that was already there. It will always be a special temple to us because we got to "work" on it even though it was just a small piece of trim.
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention it, I too remember that. I believe it was in one of the small rooms off of the baptistery.
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