Daylight Savings Masquerade

Two Sunday's ago, our bishop challenged the members of our ward to not only be on time to sacrament meeting, but to be 10 minutes early. Last Sunday I was out of town in Cedar City (more info in another blog will be forthcoming...) so Jer was on his own for church. Because he is amazing, humble, and obedient, he took the bishop's challenge and got to church 10 minutes early. When I got home from Cedar City Jer told me all about his Sunday experience. It was incredible. The Spirit was so strong for him. So, we talked about how important it was for us as a couple to get to church 10 minutes early. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. I am the monkey that throws a wrench into the machinery.

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Jer summed it up today by saying something to the effect of, "No matter how much time you are given, you are always ready 5 minutes after that. If you have 10 minutes to get ready, you are ready in 15. Then, when you are given 15 minutes to get ready, you are ready in 20. It's an interesting thing that I've noticed in the last 2.5 years of being married to you."

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This morning, as we got up at 8:30-ish (church being at 10:30), I knew that being early to church was important to Jer and important for us. Jer asked if we could be ready to go by 10:10am so we could get to church by 10:20am. I agreed and we began getting ready for church.

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At 9:00am we began preparing our Sunday School lesson. I told Jer that we needed to finish by 9:45am so I could finish getting ready for church. At 9:45am I began finishing my getting ready for church tasks. Normally we are ready to go either at 10:30am or only a few minutes before. This morning, I was ready at 10:18am. Not 10:10am but better than 10:30am. We knelt down to pray. After the prayer Jer asked, "Can we be ready to go by 10:10am?" I just stared at him, completely unaware of what he meant. I was a little hurt too because I felt like he was criticizing me. I had really tried to be ready on time! Suddenly, Jer laughed and said, "Can we be ready by 10:10? It's daylight savings time so we have about 50 minutes to go."

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What a stinker!