Break/Start of School

At the beginning of my first week of Christmas Break, I predicted that this break would be a significant time of my life. There happened to be a few huge things changing all in the same week. On the first Saturday, My dad told me that we were moving to my grandparents' house for an indefinite period of time. This was totally unexpected for me. That's one thing. Another thing was the move to the new building. Though it's been heavily anticipated by just about all of us in this branch, it's still sentimentally difficult. We poured their lives into that building and made it our own for at least 15 years. That's another thing that changed. Those must have been the only two big things that changed, because I can't seem to remember the other things. Nevertheless, things have changed during this break. I sort of expected to be affected by it with more than just a slight feeling of sadness. I don't know exactly what I was expecting. It's possible that in my sadness I made a bigger deal out of the whole thing than I should have. Overall, I would say that this break has been really good in some ways, but also quite annoying. Although I've enjoyed the numerous trips to the new building for various reasons, it's still going to take some getting used to. My grandparents' house actually turns out to be nicer than our own house, mostly due to the fact that it's about 47 years newer than our own house.

I typically begin to feel a bit unrested if I go more than a couple weeks without a community meeting or a men's group. I've been feeling like this pretty much the whole break. We recently had our first CM in the new building. It wasn't a whole normal CM because the circle wasn't finished....by circle, I mean auditorium. In the last building, we called the auditorium the circle because it was basically a circle. I'm never gonna get away from that one. The auditorium will always be known as the circle to me. Anyway. We had a few songs in the circle and then had time for people to eat dinner and tour the building.

Tomorrow is all school orientation, and in 7 hours and 15 minutes, I have to leave for a short chamber singers rehearsal before school. Maybe I should go to bed.

God bless!