On Tuesday Abe had to do the stake finance audit and I wanted to attend my friend Jill’s training on emotional health, so we got our neighbor to babysit our kids at the last minute before we both ran out the door to church.
Jill did a wonderful job training us all to feel our feelings and sort between what is circumstance and what is a thought. Sometimes we confuse our opinions for circumstance. For example: “When someone compliments me, I feel good.” That is a thought, but it seems so true that at first you might think it’s just a circumstance. But, in fact, we can choose how we think about EVERYTHING, and how we think determines how we feel. So somebody else’s compliments don’t necessarily translate into a good feeling–it’s just how we think about those compliments that determines our feeling.
The audit went well for Abe, except for the hilarious fact that the only check without a receipt was one he had written to himself for the Father and Son’s campout, for over $200! Thankfully all he has to do is find the receipt, which he has, and turn that over. But we thought it was pretty funny that on the audited the only detail that was majorly wrong was him writing a check to himself without a bishop’s signature or receipt. Now all of our financial problems, Abe jokes, are solved. He can just write himself checks from the church and voila! Haha.