AFCU

This month has been crazy busy, but lots of fun.  The biggest change of the month is probably that I got a job as a teller at America First Credit Union.  I had training last week, and have been at my branch for about 5 days now.  I still ask tons of questions everyday, but things are going pretty well.  The most eventful thing that has happened at work was when I set off the burglary alarm my very first day…basically I was swinging back and forth on my chair, and my finger went right into the button not to push.  My supervisor had to run around like crazy calling and telling people it was a false alarm… Good times.  At least it was still my first day so I can use that as an excuse, right?

But anyway, I really love the company I'm working for.  They have great core values and have everything structured really well in order to learn things quickly and be successful.  I'm also learning all kinds of financial things about credit and different types of accounts, so that'll help John and I start out on the right foot I'm hoping.  Having this job also means I'm getting PAID Yay, Finally!!!  I am sad I'm not doing a therapy job right now.  Some weird miscommunications happened between my old supervisor and I, so nothing really happened with the job I was hoping to get.  But to be honest part of me has always kind of wanted to be a teller... probably because I get paid to take holidays off, but I really like doing customer service jobs and having an awesome sense of teamwork with my staff.  Anyway, we'll see how long this goes.   It's nice because they have great benefits, so hopefully I can do this until a music therapy job becomes available or something.  We'll see :)  

Other than that, John has been busy working really hard.  Along with his CNA job, this last week he helped his dad rip off the roof, and has sunburns to prove it.  His favorite is probably the burn on his back between his shirt and his pants.  I say “favorite” because it’s the one that hurts him the most.  He really is amazing.  Last weekend when it was supposed to be the "end of the world" we celebrated by going up the canyon with some of my friends and roasting hotdogs and smores.  It was an ideal way to spend the evening, especially because the weather was so nice!  It's been so raining these past couple weeks, but I don't mind, I love the rain. 

My sister Debbie had her baby last week as well.  His name is Lance Andrew and he came about 3 weeks early.  When he was born he didn’t want to take any breaths, so they put him on the oxygen machine for his first 24 hours or so.  (I don’t know a lot of the specifics.)  He is still in the NICU right now, but they’re hopeful to be able to bring him home this coming week. 

My sister's baby

Just another week...

So the big news at our place is I passed my Music Therapy test last week!  It was pretty exciting :)  John also finished his last week of classes and now only has a couple finals to take.  So after about Wednesday, it's basically summer for us.   
     Other than school stuff and normal work, John and I have been doing some odd jobs for some of my siblings.  For the past couple weeks we were trying to sell my brothers iPhone on KSL, and after some creepy phone calls and bad offers, we finally got a decent price for it from a buyer who was willing to pay cash!  We also moved a bed from one of my brother's houses to another brother's house.  We thought the move wouldn't be a big deal seeing as we could just use John's dad's truck.  However once we got over to my first brother's house we realized that the bed they wanted us to move was Queen size with a giant head and foot board...  So with the shell on the back of John's truck, that wasn't going to happen.  My sister-in-law actually ended up calling some guy in her ward and we borrowed his truck for the move.  John and my brother tied everything down with an extension cord, and some other random rope, which made me pretty nervous about driving 70 on the freeway...  John said I was just super paranoid, but in my mind I just envisioned us hitting a bump, having the big head and foot boards slide out the side of the truck, and crash landing on some old guy's brand new mercedes.  But no worries, nothing that traumatic happened, and we delivered the bed safely.   
     On Saturday we had a training for This is the Place.  John and I have just agreed to help with treks and youth group stuff so that hopefully we can get most of our income from normal jobs.  At the meeting it was kind of fun because John and I knew everyone in the room from the trek crew last year and the Christmas choir.  So basically it was more of a reunion for us rather than a training.  
     This coming Sunday John and I have been asked to speak in church.  We were hoping that because it's Mothers Day that there had been a mistake in the assignment.  However after clarifying things again with the 1st counselor, we're still on.  Because of work, John hasn't been able to attend the full length of church on Sundays, but because we're speaking, he's getting work off! It'll be so nice to have him there the entire time.  I also got a new calling in the ward... it's actually a really random one.  Basically they want me to be an "on the spot" substitute teacher for the Primary.  I guess they've been having issues with the teachers not finding subs when they are unable to come to church, so we'll see how that goes. 


Sorry no pictures this week :(