So my wife and I are at the ward "social" on Friday and the bishop comes up to me. He told me that they had the stake bishopric welfare council (all the bishops in the stake meet together) a couple days earlier and the topic of emergency preparedness was the focus of the meeting. One of the bishops asked if any of them had an emergency response plan for thier ward. My bishop started to raise his hand to say that he did (I wrote the plan as part of my calling in the previous ward and had given him a copy for our ward) when my former bishop spoke up and said he had a great ward plan (from me) and begin to go on and on about what a great job I had done in my calling, how hard I had worked on it, the work that I had done in the ward before the boundary change (the lesson I go and give) and on and on building me up to the other bishops. When he was done explaining all the things I had done, one of the members of our ward that was also in the meeting and who has had my presentation chimed in and talked about what a great lesson I had and how it was full of really good information. The other bishops got excited about all this and asked my current bishop if he would ask me if I would be willing to train all of thier emergency preparedness specialists once they had them called. I had already been approached about doing that from my previous bishop, but told my bishop that I would be happy to train all of them. He said they would pick a date and tell me what exactly they want me to teach. I was very flattered by the comments and request.
I'd like to hear one of the trainings, too. I wonder if I could get you to visit for a Preparedness Fair or something that we have? We just had ours a month or so ago, unfortunately...
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
It's always good to be recognized for doing a great job. And I like that little fluttery feeling when someone compliments me on something that I know I did a good job.
So congrats to mirk for being the preparedness gorilla known by many!
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Training? What is this training that you speak of?
Way to go Mirk. My former pres. thought I was a bit of center, my new one listened to my advice and now has a water filtration system, Katadyn Combi.
Though I am not called as the emergency person, I am going to use all the plans from ZC and put something together as ours in basically non-existant.
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Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
Hey, LM, maybe we could get contributions together and pay for Mirk to fly out and stay in a motel room for a night to teach preparedness specialists in our region.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
What, you mean you don't want to be a Tony Robbins level superstar? If only I could get the people in my region motivated enough to do a lecture like that, I'd give it. My wife is already trying to convince the RS president to let her give canning lessons (pickles, stuff like that) for enrichment. All they do here usually is scrapbooking. And I do mean *all*.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
I scrapbook AND have requested some classes on canning. So I guess that places me in the middle somewhere. (And I've been asked to teach a class on bread next month, which I'm excited about.)
Congratulations, mirk. I know you're not doing it for the "fame", but it's still nice to be recognized.
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They might not look it, but bunnies can really take care of themselves.
Cocobeem wrote: You can travel to speaking engagements in your black helicopter... painted with "DESOLATION IS MY HOBBY!" on the side.
Don't you mean gospel hobby?
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
