GROWTH IS UNCOMFORTABLE

It has been said that “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” (Daniel J. Boorstin, 1914-2004, Am. Historian)

Enjoying the San Diego weather and loving who we serve with is the easy part of our mission.  The challenge is the sharp learning curve we have had with learning all the mechanics of running the historical site smoothly.  From learning new computer programs, to learning the events we have responsibility in or for, to meeting new people and remembering who they are and what they do, etc., our brains feel like they might explode, and we drop into bed weary each night and hope we can sleep. Gratefully, there is some balance.  Along with the mental growth our hearts are being enlarged to include an abundance of new and wonderful human beings who make it all worth it.  

Both Stan and I are good at organizing so despite the fact that we feel discombobulated most of the time, the need to feel and be organized each day is a driving factor keeping us going.  Recently, while putting away some brochures, Stan found a quiet space that needed organizing, and it became not just a job to be done put was actually a comfort task because he knew he knew how to do it and could do it. 

"Organize yourselves; prepare every needful things; and establish a house, 

even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, 

a house of glory, a houses of order, a house of God" (D&C 88:119).